I love the idea of using this to train our military helicopter pilots and crew. As an aircrewman, I barely took part of training exercises that benefited the local community. It was a great moral boost and a change of pace to take on jobs that help the people we protect.
It also gives the servicemen a chance to physically observe and feel proud of the positive environmental impact they're having. Also, thank you for your service.
BRUH! THEY DID THAT IN THE 40's?!?! I saw footage of Fish and Game Wardens stowing beaver into crates and literally parachuting them like amazon drone deliveries. Wild stuff. Your comment lined up perfectly with my UA-cam rabbit hole.
As a person who comes from maine, aka “The Land Of The Pine.” I can say that it’s actually very good to send to farms because they’re actually very very good for farm animals such as goats. But this is also a very good use too.
Pine trees are useless to cattle, since of a pregnant cow eats Pine needles, it'll do spontaneous abortions. Believe me, I've seen it happen with my old boss' cattle, it is not pretty.
When I see stuff like this I’m so proud of the way that people contribute to help the world but it also makes me think that like many years from now people are going to be so confused when they dig up the land to try to learn about their past like we do now about our past.
@@YouCanChangeYourWorldToday duh? I don’t live in some backwood shthole with underfunded schools. We don’t talk gibberish like “land in your lakes”. If the lake is drying up, we just say it’s drying up. Midwestern peasant
Wow, I didn’t know that so many ppl throw away their trees. When I think of waste on Christmas, I just think of wrapping paper and food scraps! This was very informative! 👌🏻🎄
Farm equipment to grow trees. Trucks to move trees to market. Small percentage re-used. Garbage trucks haul trees away (extra loads). Cranes and dump trucks to prepare and ship trees to coast. (Extra loads). Then, the most carbon, helicopter to distribute trees. Happy Gigantic Virtue Signaling, everybody!!
@@OnlySlightyRadioactive I agree, but I'm pointing out the irony of using so much fossil fuel to repair the damage caused by burning fossil fuel. (Global warming)
@@outlawbillionairez9780 I hear you, I agree too. The helicopter part particularly seems not so well thought out but perhaps they had a good idea then found there was no easy way to get the tress where they need to be and kinda just hand waved away the massive fuel consumption of a helicopter flying all day for weeks or more at a time.
@@OnlySlightyRadioactive A Chinook helicopter uses 400 gallons of fuel per hour. Small helicopter uses around 20/ hr, so I hope they worked fast!! BTW, here in Oregon, much of tree harvesting in general is done with helicopter. 😕
Louisianian here. I am so surprised that I haven't seen this before! Much respect for these hard workers. This is a wonderful idea! I hope that more things can be done to stop the shrinking coastline. It worries me each Summer when hurricane season hits.
It was talked about green house gas being released with the trees going to land fills, however no matter how those trees decompose they will release the same gas. Also the helicopters are burning fossil fuel to place the trees and nothing was said about that. So let's keep it real this has nothing to do with "global warming " but everything to do with the restoration of the wetlands, which is a worthwhile project by itself.
i think the point was more that sending them to a landfill to decompose is net negative because they're releasing greenhouse gasses while doing nothing positive in the mean time where as used to rebuild wetlands, sure they may be releasing some greenhouse gasses, but they're also rebuilding the ecosystem it's also important to consider the different types of decay, in the landfill you mostly only get bacteria breaking things down, the landfill shifts too much for anything else to take hold, but bacteria do tend to release methane a lot, in being used to rebuild wetlands you can have bugs eating them [worms, termites, carpenter ants, etc], some animals might eat them though i don't know that there are any in new orleans that would eat trees, you might have fungus breaking them down, mosses, molds, algae, once sediment builds up you have larger plants digging their roots in and slowly breaking them down, these methods produce much less greenhouse gasses
not exactly, in the wilderness there's more microbes and insects/fungi etc to eat the trees to decompose them. That's better than a very gradual rot, which releases more methane. Same goes for food scraps, if you bury them they're way better for the environment and create a fair bit of soil.
A well cared for re-useable tree will last decades. No pine needles on the floor. No pests in the house. I don't have to waste gas driving out to get a tree every year. My tree is only shipped to the store once. If I used a live tree, energy would be spent every year to get it to me and then more to carry it away. There are downsides of live trees as well.
That varies depending on lot of factors, but a recent article by the guardian cited some data that on average in the UK, the plastic tree had to be used 10 times for the carbon footprint to be better than buying a regular tree.
Best to not have a tree at all. However, the plastic tree is definitely better. The people in this video don’t know what they are talking about, trees absorb carbon dioxide… until they are dead, at which point it all gets released back no matter what you do compost, landfill, etc. You then have the added methane emissions associated with a landfill if you send it there. Compost, biomass plant or methane generator landfill are the ways to go if u do have a real tree. Plastic only has emissions once during its production, and assuming it doesn’t get into the environment has no waste since it theoretically last forever.
Yeah uh.... how much fuel are those helicopters, boats, and transport vehicles using? "Green" is rarely green. Electric cars for example. Wind farms for example. But people just *"feel"* like it's doing good for the environment because some dumb liberal slapped the word "green" on a failing program at taxpayer's expenses. Most of it is a giant scam.
@@whiskeyrebellion4390 ah yes. Because gas furnaces and gas powered vehicles somehow magically dont have any economic impact in their creation. Going green isnt a switch, it doesnt happen magically overnight. It is a slow creeping progression of getting better than what we had before, just like every other technology we use.
Great video but I just want to add that the gasses are given off however they break down, landfill, in the garden, in the bayou, it’s all the same. They can obviously be better used than just throwing them in landfill though and that’s the point.
One important thing to note though. When organic material (like trees and yard waste) breakdown without oxygen (like it's at the bottom of a landfill) it creates methane, a very potent greenhouse gas.
They are using this as a training simulator too. I can’t imagine them just free falling a crate of delicate supplies in a war area. I think they are practicing how to lower the helicopter safely and hover above the land steadily all while “delivering supplies”. That’s just what I think from the clips I saw here though! They could be training any number of things by doing this work.
Now for this to be scaled my suggestion is that the inland states that borders these states with wetlands that are eroding,,, need to start donating there old Christmas trees also,,, keep up the environmental efforts 👌 💪 🙂
Maybe theres a way to ship other dead pine trees on boats or something there to help. The trees would have to be checked but at least we could speed up the process. I dont use real trees on christmas but a lot of people do.
Well now they finally started doing something about it. Years ago they could have just tied a bunch of old tires together. But no, the fancy corp of engineers tried everything but what would have worked, to grow the mangroves back.
Old tires degrading would release harmful substances to the environment. Tires dumped in the ocean in florida for the purpose of restoring coral reefs were found to be degrading and releasing micro particles that harm the environment. Theyre picking it up right now (they dumped millions)
Um, Marilyn, tires are bad for the environment. Nothing grows on them. They leech a lot of toxic stuff into their environment. They are bad, not good. I get it though. You are lazy and just want an excuse to dump your garbage anywhere you can.
Great idea, but 200 acres ? Well is a start. What I am thinking is how Holland and Germany do reclaim land using trees is more efficient, basically creating a chessboard pattern 50m×50m those than created pools are very effective.
NOLA was not built above the sea.the levees hold water up around the city. the original city was a few thousand people on top of a hill which was above
I think this is a great idea and that you need to expand to receive more trees. I think it would be a great idea to get shredded wood/woodchips from many places that have to shred wood for their products and have them deliver it to you as a way to get rid of the left over materials.
I'll do my part to help and yeet every christmas tree I see into one of the local waterways, they all feed into the mississippi eventually so you'll just have too keep your eyes peeled and drag them out when they get there. No shipping costs though, I'm saving so much gas
How do the trees produce greenhouse gasses in a landfill but not on the bayou? I don't quite understand. That's two different ways to biodegrade. But in a landfill it's worse? How?
It’s cause the water traps the gasses under it which plants and other things in the waters process but when in a landfill the gases go into the atmosphere!!!
A tree grows by converting the elements in its environment into material. They absorb carbon dioxide from the air, as part of the process, and combined with all the other steps, creates the tree itself. All those fibres and cells the tree is made of are comprised of carbon and other things, so when it biodegrades in a landfill, instead of being turned into more material it turns back to gas. If it were degrading due to other organisms in a natural environment, it could turn into material that comprise soil and fertilizer. I think thats how it works, recalling what i still remember
Just wondering about the trees that don't make it. Here's a thought for the city of, New Orleans. Give people an incentive so, that every tree gets to rebuild the coastline. Just a thought.
Emissions from organic materials should not be accounted to emissions as such... That how bioenergy industry operates. When it decays naturally it provides nutrition and microenvironment that actually reduces overall emissions.
0:50 rubbish. Stuff in the landfill doesn't break down. THAT is the problem with most stuff. Unless you light your landfills on fire, the trees you dump there would not break down. They are wonderful carbon sinks.
It's called NAWOLINZZZ! Come get my tree I'm to lazy to get rid of my 🎄 I'm in AZ!🤣 Also wouldn't this benefit the beavers that are invasive down there?
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I love the idea of using this to train our military helicopter pilots and crew. As an aircrewman, I barely took part of training exercises that benefited the local community. It was a great moral boost and a change of pace to take on jobs that help the people we protect.
It also gives the servicemen a chance to physically observe and feel proud of the positive environmental impact they're having. Also, thank you for your service.
I'm surprised they dont use the husks from coconuts to replace all the fibers mined off the marshlands.
You lie.
HELIKOPTER HELIKOPTER
this is genius
I love the trees falling out of their harness just as the refuge manager explains how important it is that they don't fall out
Started looking for this comment soon as i seen it lmao
This is a great idea. Almost as good as parachuting beavers to rebuild wetlands.
😂😭😂😭 that would be awesome!!!
Great idea lol😅
BRUH! THEY DID THAT IN THE 40's?!?! I saw footage of Fish and Game Wardens stowing beaver into crates and literally parachuting them like amazon drone deliveries. Wild stuff. Your comment lined up perfectly with my UA-cam rabbit hole.
That sounds cooler, they should give it a shot, who knows and it works.
@@ShaudaySmith like Amazon drone deliveries 😭😭😭
As a person who comes from maine, aka “The Land Of The Pine.” I can say that it’s actually very good to send to farms because they’re actually very very good for farm animals such as goats. But this is also a very good use too.
Goats would eat rocks if you taped leaves to them lol
Pine trees are useless to cattle, since of a pregnant cow eats Pine needles, it'll do spontaneous abortions. Believe me, I've seen it happen with my old boss' cattle, it is not pretty.
When I see stuff like this I’m so proud of the way that people contribute to help the world but it also makes me think that like many years from now people are going to be so confused when they dig up the land to try to learn about their past like we do now about our past.
It’s so crazy that, here in Colorado, us seeing more and more land in our lakes is as disastrous as people in New Orleans seeing more and more water.
What do you mean by more land in your lakes?
@@johnbrown8570 drying up maybe? Duhh
@@YouCanChangeYourWorldToday duh? I don’t live in some backwood shthole with underfunded schools. We don’t talk gibberish like “land in your lakes”. If the lake is drying up, we just say it’s drying up. Midwestern peasant
Wow, I didn’t know that so many ppl throw away their trees. When I think of waste on Christmas, I just think of wrapping paper and food scraps! This was very informative! 👌🏻🎄
Farm equipment to grow trees.
Trucks to move trees to market. Small percentage re-used. Garbage trucks haul trees away (extra loads). Cranes and dump trucks to prepare and ship trees to coast. (Extra loads). Then, the most carbon, helicopter to distribute trees. Happy Gigantic Virtue Signaling, everybody!!
If it’s working it’s at least doing something useful with them though.
@@OnlySlightyRadioactive I agree, but I'm pointing out the irony of using so much fossil fuel to repair the damage caused by burning fossil fuel. (Global warming)
@@outlawbillionairez9780 I hear you, I agree too. The helicopter part particularly seems not so well thought out but perhaps they had a good idea then found there was no easy way to get the tress where they need to be and kinda just hand waved away the massive fuel consumption of a helicopter flying all day for weeks or more at a time.
@@OnlySlightyRadioactive A Chinook helicopter uses 400 gallons of fuel per hour. Small helicopter uses around 20/ hr, so I hope they worked fast!!
BTW, here in Oregon, much of tree harvesting in general is done with helicopter. 😕
@@outlawbillionairez9780 wow I didn’t know that, that’s pretty crazy.
Louisianian here. I am so surprised that I haven't seen this before! Much respect for these hard workers. This is a wonderful idea! I hope that more things can be done to stop the shrinking coastline. It worries me each Summer when hurricane season hits.
It was talked about green house gas being released with the trees going to land fills, however no matter how those trees decompose they will release the same gas. Also the helicopters are burning fossil fuel to place the trees and nothing was said about that. So let's keep it real this has nothing to do with "global warming " but everything to do with the restoration of the wetlands, which is a worthwhile project by itself.
i think the point was more that sending them to a landfill to decompose is net negative because they're releasing greenhouse gasses while doing nothing positive in the mean time
where as used to rebuild wetlands, sure they may be releasing some greenhouse gasses, but they're also rebuilding the ecosystem
it's also important to consider the different types of decay, in the landfill you mostly only get bacteria breaking things down, the landfill shifts too much for anything else to take hold, but bacteria do tend to release methane a lot, in being used to rebuild wetlands you can have bugs eating them [worms, termites, carpenter ants, etc], some animals might eat them though i don't know that there are any in new orleans that would eat trees, you might have fungus breaking them down, mosses, molds, algae, once sediment builds up you have larger plants digging their roots in and slowly breaking them down, these methods produce much less greenhouse gasses
not exactly, in the wilderness there's more microbes and insects/fungi etc to eat the trees to decompose them. That's better than a very gradual rot, which releases more methane. Same goes for food scraps, if you bury them they're way better for the environment and create a fair bit of soil.
I wonder after how many uses a reusable plastic tree is better than buying a new tree each year.
A well cared for re-useable tree will last decades. No pine needles on the floor. No pests in the house. I don't have to waste gas driving out to get a tree every year. My tree is only shipped to the store once. If I used a live tree, energy would be spent every year to get it to me and then more to carry it away. There are downsides of live trees as well.
That varies depending on lot of factors, but a recent article by the guardian cited some data that on average in the UK, the plastic tree had to be used 10 times for the carbon footprint to be better than buying a regular tree.
Except when they do get thrown out they last forever
Best to not have a tree at all. However, the plastic tree is definitely better. The people in this video don’t know what they are talking about, trees absorb carbon dioxide… until they are dead, at which point it all gets released back no matter what you do compost, landfill, etc. You then have the added methane emissions associated with a landfill if you send it there. Compost, biomass plant or methane generator landfill are the ways to go if u do have a real tree. Plastic only has emissions once during its production, and assuming it doesn’t get into the environment has no waste since it theoretically last forever.
@@gopackgo4036 except you know for sure there’s people who buy a new tree every few years
Who the hell discards a Christmas tree with decorations and lights?
Rich.people who buy new ones every year!
I've lived in New Orleans my whole life and I never knew they did this
It's a nice change to see humans actually doing sumthing positive to our environment.
Yeah uh.... how much fuel are those helicopters, boats, and transport vehicles using? "Green" is rarely green. Electric cars for example. Wind farms for example. But people just *"feel"* like it's doing good for the environment because some dumb liberal slapped the word "green" on a failing program at taxpayer's expenses. Most of it is a giant scam.
We’ve been doing things like this for a while. Many just don’t come to fruition
Those helos would have been flying training missions either way, this at least gives them something productive to do
@@whiskeyrebellion4390 them: we don’t talk bout that
@@whiskeyrebellion4390 ah yes. Because gas furnaces and gas powered vehicles somehow magically dont have any economic impact in their creation.
Going green isnt a switch, it doesnt happen magically overnight. It is a slow creeping progression of getting better than what we had before, just like every other technology we use.
Great video but I just want to add that the gasses are given off however they break down, landfill, in the garden, in the bayou, it’s all the same. They can obviously be better used than just throwing them in landfill though and that’s the point.
One important thing to note though. When organic material (like trees and yard waste) breakdown without oxygen (like it's at the bottom of a landfill) it creates methane, a very potent greenhouse gas.
@@rontropics26 yes good point, methane from anaerobic decomposition is worse from a global warming point of view.
Good idea but how much carbon is used by those helicopters?
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We need more projects like this!
It seems so unnecessary and inefficient that the harness drops with the trees, why not just make an easy release mechanism?
They are using this as a training simulator too. I can’t imagine them just free falling a crate of delicate supplies in a war area. I think they are practicing how to lower the helicopter safely and hover above the land steadily all while “delivering supplies”. That’s just what I think from the clips I saw here though! They could be training any number of things by doing this work.
That right their makes my heart very happy❤❤ to be a part of nature, such a beautiful feeling❤ thank you & I appreciate all of you, God Bless❤
This is awesome! Great idea whoever came up with this!
thats pretty cool
This is so surprising
Other countries can build hospitals in a matter of days. Americans take decades to repair the Brooklyn bridge. Just shows how efficient we are.
You'd have to cut corners to do that! I don't know about you but I want my home to last at least 20 years as oppossed to 2 years. Quality vs quantity!
@@j.fo.v5260 nothing built in America screams quality.
Cant beat nature. No matter how much you try
This is where conservation of wetlands is more important than environmentalism. Glad someone is actually doing something.
🙄🙄🙄. Clearly you don't have a idea what you talking about
Now for this to be scaled my suggestion is that the inland states that borders these states with wetlands that are eroding,,, need to start donating there old Christmas trees also,,, keep up the environmental efforts 👌 💪 🙂
I'm just here for Santa Croc 🤣 🎅 🐊 around the 3:50 mark
Great use of something that would have ended up in the landfill.
Maybe theres a way to ship other dead pine trees on boats or something there to help.
The trees would have to be checked but at least we could speed up the process.
I dont use real trees on christmas but a lot of people do.
1. it recycle trees (considered trash)
2. it help build wetlands
3. it help the pilots to practice flying.
what alot of nice things
4:19 "Its a drop in the bucket.." We need to buy more Christmas trees :D
This is beautiful!
Well now they finally started doing something about it. Years ago they could have just tied a bunch of old tires together. But no, the fancy corp of engineers tried everything but what would have worked, to grow the mangroves back.
For real the easiest and most natural way is to regrow the environment destroyed
Old tires are toxic and tend to destroy local environments
Old tires degrading would release harmful substances to the environment. Tires dumped in the ocean in florida for the purpose of restoring coral reefs were found to be degrading and releasing micro particles that harm the environment. Theyre picking it up right now (they dumped millions)
@@doom2avatar they knew that when they did it too.
Um, Marilyn, tires are bad for the environment. Nothing grows on them. They leech a lot of toxic stuff into their environment. They are bad, not good. I get it though. You are lazy and just want an excuse to dump your garbage anywhere you can.
Fantastic use of used Christmas Trees!!
Can use this system in the delta areas of California and Flordia for sure.
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Merry Christmas
video was cooler than expected
Nice video.
This is awesome!
That's pretty cool would love to come help one year
This is very nice!
Nice... Seems like they should take all the trees in the state... Or at least within 300 to 500 miles
ty for the info😇😇😇
Pretty cool
Need more solutions like this everywhere
This is terrific!!
From nature to nature; ground to ground. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👍🙏✅
Liked for getting straight to the point, even though i'm not going to watch the rest.
Great idea, but 200 acres ? Well is a start. What I am thinking is how Holland and Germany do reclaim land using trees is more efficient, basically creating a chessboard pattern 50m×50m those than created pools are very effective.
excellent. 10 star idea. good for wildlife too
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This series shows people trying the best to help the planet but we know is so little when we see the damage
The trees are a win-win. Now let's tackle the lose-lose plastic tons of Mardi Gras beads that get tossed every year.
We need to be sure trees arnt dropping out...as a bunch of trees fall out.
Stay off the highway in New Orleans during this part of the year!!
For some reason "used christmas trees" sounds funny
I'm Glade they mentioned the training... Bc those look like low hour pilots.
BRILLIANT!
NOLA was not built above the sea.the levees hold water up around the city. the original city was a few thousand people on top of a hill which was above
The original French Quarter.
I think this is a great idea and that you need to expand to receive more trees. I think it would be a great idea to get shredded wood/woodchips from many places that have to shred wood for their products and have them deliver it to you as a way to get rid of the left over materials.
That's dope.
Here in indian east coast
Mangroves are dealing with coastal recession..
It’s like me getting all 4 deluxos by myself in gta
I feel like there was so much more to learn in depth about this
Humans can never get the idea that sometimes nothing is better than something
It would be nice to see more state's doing this!
Awesome
I just saw a 4h club picking up Xmas trees with a monetary donation and then feeding the trees to goats.
Some places in Oregon do the same thing for river restorations
Really good job!!!
Now that's some real Christmas spirit, it's to bad that our government is unable to show the same resolve......
Nice!
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THIS IS SO AWESOME THAT THEY WOULD DO THIS FOR THE SAFETY ONE THIS STATE. THANK YOU.
Great way to restore wetlands
Yes I love it
Note the idiocy. Throwing them into the dump creates green house gases but putting them in the water somehow cancels it out completely.
So dumping my old trees on riversides isn’t so terrible. Gotcha lol
I'll do my part to help and yeet every christmas tree I see into one of the local waterways, they all feed into the mississippi eventually so you'll just have too keep your eyes peeled and drag them out when they get there. No shipping costs though, I'm saving so much gas
That's really neat but I bet a whole lot of them still have plastic ornaments and stuff forgotten on them.
Our family keeps the same tree for each year
Boutta get a boost
They should try tying these bundles with 100% cotton rope so instead of going in to remove the harnesses they could let them naturally breakdown.
The young man by the Xmas tree in the thumbnail, looks like Nicholas Hoult?
2:00 she cut her hand on the metal banding strap. 🙄
How do the trees produce greenhouse gasses in a landfill but not on the bayou? I don't quite understand. That's two different ways to biodegrade. But in a landfill it's worse? How?
If you think about the tree itself you are right
But those trees provide a rooting spot for new swamp plants to trap more carbon
Just my thoughts
It’s cause the water traps the gasses under it which plants and other things in the waters process but when in a landfill the gases go into the atmosphere!!!
@@INICK84 Some people are just brilliant. Thank you for helping me to understand that!
@@jkim3323 I never thought of it that way. Thank you!!
A tree grows by converting the elements in its environment into material. They absorb carbon dioxide from the air, as part of the process, and combined with all the other steps, creates the tree itself. All those fibres and cells the tree is made of are comprised of carbon and other things, so when it biodegrades in a landfill, instead of being turned into more material it turns back to gas. If it were degrading due to other organisms in a natural environment, it could turn into material that comprise soil and fertilizer.
I think thats how it works, recalling what i still remember
ask Denmark for help they have lots of practice in crazy coastal restoration.
I wonder if the pine oils Etc affect things.
Just wondering about the trees that don't make it. Here's a thought for the city of, New Orleans. Give people an incentive so, that every tree gets to rebuild the coastline. Just a thought.
Emissions from organic materials should not be accounted to emissions as such... That how bioenergy industry operates. When it decays naturally it provides nutrition and microenvironment that actually reduces overall emissions.
They should build houses on water like Paris
They can have that Christmas tree that’s been behind my garage for 6 years
Suggestion: Plant mangrove trees
Christmas trees make great fish nests
I'm gonna be that guy but..... Seems like alot of chains getting dropped in the water by the helicopters..... 😂😂
Good that the military is helping fight climate change as they should
Fighting climate change by flying helicopters?
0:50 rubbish. Stuff in the landfill doesn't break down. THAT is the problem with most stuff. Unless you light your landfills on fire, the trees you dump there would not break down. They are wonderful carbon sinks.
It's called NAWOLINZZZ!
Come get my tree I'm to lazy to get rid of my 🎄 I'm in AZ!🤣
Also wouldn't this benefit the beavers that are invasive down there?
Hurry up and wait, heard that too many times
I never bought 1 Christmas tree ever .I like tree when their alive.
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This is so cool! A great way to save our land! Thanks for doing your part😊