How to Prevent Erosion (687)
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2022
- Past actions, including inappropriate logging techniques, can affect timber value and soil quality. See several great illustrations about erosion and the importance of soil health with tips on how to prevent erosion as well as how to repair and properly create roads.
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When we toured the west end of Jay and Jenny’s property, it was almost like we stepped into the southwest United States.
Much of this area was bare. The soil had not been protected by vegetation - either on top of the soil nor roots beneath to help hold soil in place.
This bare soil, especially the top few inches, has been baked crispy by the sun, causing it be void of soil life - microbes, earthworms, etc.
Our management practices for producing timber, crops, meat, or wildlife need to focus on producing and protecting healthy soil. That’s what The Release Process does. It’s simple techniques that releases the soil’s potential to provide all the nutrients plants and animals need and produces clean water and air while insuring there’s no erosion.
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The quality of the soil is everything, Living Web Farms is a great channel to learn EVERYTHING about living soil.
Soil health certainly impacts the quantity of forage health. Fortunately, soil health is relatively easily improved! My place was an extremely overgrazed cattle ranch that's now a very productive wildlife property!
Look up erosion and permaculture. You will get your green fields plus add water to your field. It is amazing. I am working and doing that now. Take care and good video.
Understanding how things work and how they must be to get the best result is how i learn!! Thank you for this explanation. I now completely understand my front yard erosion and am excited to plan some landscaping and planting!!
I honestly can say I WISH when I was a student at Oklahoma State University, I would have had a soils professor, who would have taught class in the way you lay out the concepts, I understand lots of chemistry is needed to be taught in class, but since 95% of the students in those classes where some form of natural resource ecology management majors including myself with the emphasis on wildlife law. We would have not just done the minimum to get the grade, but actually learned. Thank you for your time Dr. Woods!
Chris - Thanks for the kind words!
Anxious to see updates on this disaster. Thanks for the videos.
Steven - Jay and Jenny are already at work!
Great content, I so wish more landowners and managers practiced the type of management that you've shown here and throughout your career. Thank you.
Me too! Thanks for the kind and encouraging words!
That is some CRAZY erosion!!!
Very sad!
This looks like some good evidence for Creation when it comes to the arguement over "Millions of years". I can't say that I had seen a rock on a dirt pedestal like that before. Great job Grant and the GrowingDeer team.
Thanks! Arrowhead hunters look for arrowheads on top of pedestals in disced fields after a rain - which seems cool but that's how much erosion occurs in disced fields.
Episode 482 is a dip of the toe in the pond of BBDs. Looking forward to more information on this, as logging companies seem to know absolutely nothing about this (or it costs them too much to care). Thanks Dr. Grant.
Ghillie - It is and thanks!
Thanks Mr. Woods, Episodes 686 and 687 nailed it! This is exactly what is happening at our lease in Louisiana. Now the tricky part will be convincing the timber company to take steps towards improving the habitat.
I agree with you!
How are you fixing the barren landscape? Hard compressed soil is current state. They need vegetation, so in this unique case do they have to till to give new seeds a chance to propagate?
Thank you. Wondering the same thing.
Eric - The land is too rough to use a no till. They will broadcast seeds multiple times before gentle rains. Each time some seeds will germinate and the roots will "till" the soil and reduce erosion. Living plants are the best medicine. It's not in Jay and Jenny's budget to bring in heavy equipment - but seed is very inexpensive!
Thank you for taking the time to respond. Much appreciated!
how can you accomplish the no disking method on a smaller scale like say 1/2 acre to 1 acre plots without a crimper and no till drill
John - We use herbicide and or Rx fire to remove the duff and prepare a good seedbed. This leaves the roots and soil in place. Leaving the soil in place without adding compaction is a huge part of improving the soil's health. The nitrogen will volitize in the fire but remember, there's about 35,000 tons of nitrogen above each acre in the air. The phosphorus and potassium and other nutrients will stay on the site. Then broadcast seed on the plot just before a good rain - hopefully a 1/2" or more.
Great video!
Thanks Mikai!
Keep going Doc. The next 5 yrs, the next Farmbill, etc I believe, are extra critical to the movement.
Grant, you've talked at length about how to prevent soil erosion. This vid begs the question of just what type of preparation would be required to restore this badly damaged, eroded "moonscape" soil? Seems it would have to be leveled in order to restore it back to productive soil. What are your thoughts?
Beach Bum - if the area is to be a native vegetation areas, the seed, moisture, and sun are the key ingredients. Growing plants with undisturbed soil do wonders to health! If the area is to be converted into a food plot, then certainly some dirt needs to be moved. Heavy equipment compacts soil, and almost always leads to more erosion. If heavy equipment is used, it will be need to be planted just before the first rain and hope that it's not a downpour.
so how did you fix the 6 foot deep wash outs
Arron - That's a work in progress and Jay and Jenny will use planted and native plants. The roots will allow water to infiltrate into the land versus causing more erosion.
So did you give them some idea of how to repair that loading deck?
Yes! It will be a nice Hidey Hole hunting plot!
@@GrowingDeerTV I guess they’ll have to have a ton of dozer work done to fix those canyons. Man, when we were kids we would have had a BLAST in that spot!!!
Would you ever allow some one to come out and hang out with you and you show them around and what y'all do to get such pretty food plots hand on.
Matthew - We are hosting a Field Event March 25th and 26th! For more information, checkout: www.growingdeer.tv/field-day/ We have year long interns that learn everything we do, and some folks that live locally help us as a way to learn.
Could you please consider making a video on how you would bring an area such as the moonscape back into productive habit.
Bill - Restoring "moonscapes" is always best accomplished by planted. Heavy equipment may be necessary pending on the condition of the area and the landowner's objectives. However, the real restoration will be the result of plants, sun, and water. These are the same tools used to restore or reclaim strip-mined areas.
Thoughts on strip discing as it relates to what you are talking about in the video vs setting back succession.
Daniel - I'm not sure what you mean? Are you suggesting to strip disk in the pines?
@@GrowingDeerTV Sorry. Not in pines, this is more of managing fields for succession. Obviously fire is #1, but many recommend strip disking to set back succession for new growth of forbs grasses etc. My question is if someone does strip disking for this purpose, are they sacrificing soil health due to the disc/soil disturbance?
Did they ever filled in the gullies or is that not feasible? If not, what can be done to those to keep them from expanding or getting deeper?
They will plant and allow native vegetation to grow and the roots and dead vegetation will catch the sediment and fill the gully over time. They will also attempt to divert the water before it gets in the gully and builds up steam.
The state has beat management practices that have to be followed by the logger.
Anyone that wants to complain about a logger can have the state get the logger to fix any problems right after they happen. Don’t give logging a bad name.
It’s then on the landowner to maintain or not to maintain their land then after. This landowner did a terrible job(not the present land owner)
Loggers will be held liable if the landowner want them to be, the state will make it happen. But only if it’s brought to the attention within a certain time frame not years
Collegeguy - Most states do have Best Management Practices (BMPs) and some rules. However, if you are in the field, you know these aren't always practiced. I know many loggers that do great work! This one took the best and left a mess.
Never pay more than $800 an acre for logged land. If you do you got screwed.
You don't get black soil in desert locations. It's all clay.
Most of the southern states lost about 17" of black stop soil during the cotton farming days when erosion was the norm. Fortunately, there are much better farming practices now!