This makes me wonder what this land was like before it was drained. To the folks worried about the water being gone, it's not. The water is all still there, but it's been channelized and sent downstream (where it spills its banks and floods other areas seasonally). The time and effort put into draining the Great Black Swamp is astounding, yet all it would take to flood the entire northwest section of Ohio again, would be to fill in a couple of those ditches, and remove some of the tiles.
@@aaronlohr8477, geez even Hitler was Furious when they tried to get rid of mosquitoes at his wolflair because they wiped out his favorite frogs too. Many of the wetlands where farming never belonged are being restored as part of the America the beautiful project. You could always just move back to where your ancestors came from.
Interesting picture at 1:20. I have a 1/2 mile drain tile on my farm --some 2500 feet. Through the "high part", it is down about 14 feet. It was put in during the 1930s, and my dad says two men dug the entire thing with spades. It took them the whole summer. Can you imagine the backbreaking work that must have taken?
Wow, those men dug drainage holes by hand back then, amazing. Looks like the new people are just redirecting the water to another person's property, on my.
I am from flanders, which translates back to wetland, swamps and so on, but in the early middle ages this entire region was drained and turned to fertile farmland which is also what made flanders fields so dreary as the Belgians opened up the slews by they yser and artillery destroyed the ancient drainage systems, turning the entire battlefield into a muras in which countless thousands fell and sank sometimes whilst allive, never to be recovered. man can hold nature at bay but the truth is that everything we do and build is no less natural than what a beaver builds, and when we are removed from the equation and our constructs erode and dissapear so will these lands return to their previous natural state.
Things like that have always been controversial. The main difference now is that the people who call themselves “conservative” tend to be for development where as people who call themselves “progressive” tend to be against it (which is ironic because conservation is, as the name suggests, a conservative viewpoint where as development is a progressive one).
@@nimah.ensaniyat1964 don't try to make one group look worse than the other, people who identity as conservative or liberal are OFTEN an equal amount crazy/ignorant
I live surrounded by wetlands in southern NJ and I love them for the species biodiversity, waterfowl and animals, filtering properties, buffering from the Delaware River, the astonishing beauty, and because it keeps out more building off yet another housing f development, warehouse, or shopping center. Many major roads of NJ have great swaths of abandoned shopping centers and cracked parking lots. Leave our marshland alone and build another Pressboard Estates on one of them.
Oh, and I've lived inland, and in other, drier areas, and guess what? The mosquitoes are just as bad there as here. Unless you're in a desert ,mosquitoes will thrive.
"put the land back into farmland", what is that corn stocks there? tiling is a bad deal, lets pass the water on to the next person to deal with..hell no, enough is enough,, just look at the red river valley and devils lake.
Now I see why there aint no waterfowl anymore. Davis destroyed their habitat !
There's no more waterfowl? Are you sure?
This makes me wonder what this land was like before it was drained. To the folks worried about the water being gone, it's not. The water is all still there, but it's been channelized and sent downstream (where it spills its banks and floods other areas seasonally). The time and effort put into draining the Great Black Swamp is astounding, yet all it would take to flood the entire northwest section of Ohio again, would be to fill in a couple of those ditches, and remove some of the tiles.
If you are going to do this tell me so I can invest in malaria medication.
@@aaronlohr8477, geez even Hitler was Furious when they tried to get rid of mosquitoes at his wolflair because they wiped out his favorite frogs too.
Many of the wetlands where farming never belonged are being restored as part of the America the beautiful project. You could always just move back to where your ancestors came from.
Interesting picture at 1:20. I have a 1/2 mile drain tile on my farm --some 2500 feet. Through the "high part", it is down about 14 feet. It was put in during the 1930s, and my dad says two men dug the entire thing with spades. It took them the whole summer. Can you imagine the backbreaking work that must have taken?
Wow, those men dug drainage holes by hand back then, amazing. Looks like the new people are just redirecting the water to another person's property, on my.
I am from flanders, which translates back to wetland, swamps and so on, but in the early middle ages this entire region was drained and turned to fertile farmland
which is also what made flanders fields so dreary as the Belgians opened up the slews by they yser and artillery destroyed the ancient drainage systems, turning the entire battlefield into a muras in which countless thousands fell and sank sometimes whilst allive, never to be recovered.
man can hold nature at bay but the truth is that everything we do and build is no less natural than what a beaver builds, and when we are removed from the equation and our constructs erode and dissapear so will these lands return to their previous natural state.
like for JANE!!
All that destruction for some cattle and hog feed.
its in northwest ohio not northeast
Ecological destruction
Can you image try to drain wetlands for farm ground now. The environmentalists would scream bloody murder.
Things like that have always been controversial. The main difference now is that the people who call themselves “conservative” tend to be for development where as people who call themselves “progressive” tend to be against it (which is ironic because conservation is, as the name suggests, a conservative viewpoint where as development is a progressive one).
@@nimah.ensaniyat1964 don't try to make one group look worse than the other, people who identity as conservative or liberal are OFTEN an equal amount crazy/ignorant
Wetlands is an environmentalist euphemism for swamps, which are known to to breeding grounds for mosquitoes and parasites
I live surrounded by wetlands in southern NJ and I love them for the species biodiversity, waterfowl and animals, filtering properties, buffering from the Delaware River, the astonishing beauty, and because it keeps out more building off yet another housing f development, warehouse, or shopping center. Many major roads of NJ have great swaths of abandoned shopping centers and cracked parking lots. Leave our marshland alone and build another Pressboard Estates on one of them.
Oh, and I've lived inland, and in other, drier areas, and guess what? The mosquitoes are just as bad there as here. Unless you're in a desert ,mosquitoes will thrive.
"put the land back into farmland", what is that corn stocks there? tiling is a bad deal, lets pass the water on to the next person to deal with..hell no, enough is enough,, just look at the red river valley and devils lake.
LOL stfu, you eat food from farms just like the rest of us
VERY VERY POOR TECHNIQUE
How so?