you ever deal with a beaver before? they are good and bad. good because yes, they build damns, bad because they cause more land slides further up the water way. the way these people did it, is something the beavers don't do. Also beavers do more damage ripping up their areas than this project.
Something somewhat similar was put into place by a farmer here in the Great Southern Land. The need to keep land hydrated is a constant problem here, on the driest continent on Earth, until Peter Andrews came up with a home grown solution on his own land. What followed was government interference, disputes with neighbours and family members and, finally, being practically pushed off the property by a foreign mining company! Despite all of this, the proof of Peter's pudding was in the eating and the aerial shots of his once farmland show he was right on the money the whole time. ua-cam.com/video/-4OBcRHX1Bc/v-deo.html
You've gotta also consider the fact that humans like to live in relatively controlled and predictable environments. Not to mention the fact that they often see that locations fit for ponds are so flat that they are often deemed suitable for housing developments. In the town that I live in, I've witnessed multiple instances where local ponds were buried for the sake of adding an expensive housing development to expand the local suburb while eliminating an "unsightly" wetland. That same city, years later is now complaining of wells running dry.
@@darklordmenet See that is the problem, people see anything that changes our static land as bad. But nature doesn't stay static and is constantly changing and thus any animal like a beaver causing constant changes in the land we see as bad... But in reality it's just causing things to change and that is what you don't like because it affects you. Yet we'll happily change entire ecosystems to suit our needs, like in Florida they are constantly backfilling swamps and wetlands just to make more land to build on and are now some how shocked that sink holes are forming all over the place as all the blocked off water seeps and springs are washing out the soil steadily from under them.
I wish I had more money. My dream "job" would be buying land, spending 2-3 years constructing swales and ponds and planting native trees, then leasing it out to permaculture folks
We want to do something similar as well. We want to buy desert land and then turn it green with a permaculture homestead. We, like you, are lacking money for the land. Trying to get there with our UA-cam channel.
Every place has grazing and wastelands available, we can practice whatever for free, no need to buy a parched land, If you still feel to do so, you can impact a lot of people you can invest here in my country, India, via some NGOs or individual projects. ✌🏾
What a great worthy dream. I do this for a living. I don’t buy land. Opportunities like this exist. I just have not seen any paid jobs any where. It is so easy to start if you are in the right place.
WOW! I'm studying environmental engineering, I love permaculture and in the future I want to regenerate the ecosystems like you! Here in Italy we have beautiful landscapes but the wild vegetation is very very low (and we are reducing it every year). The water management is horrible: hydrogeological instability, desertification and massive rainfall damages are the main problems that we have. I think that a systemic change in agricultural methods (from "traditional" agriculture to permaculture) and a sane water management like yours can bring back to life our mistreated country! Lot of love from Italy ❤️
The problem everywhere seems to be ignorance by the majority of population of the principles of Permaculture . Traditional modern agriculture is what has cobtributed to topsoil degradation The climate change denier mentality and the emphasis on large scale monoculture without thought for regeneration of degradated soil and ecosystems just for short term profit is the main issue. Unless you can persuade the vùuùast majority of people to change lifestyle abd demand powers that be then we will struggle to survive in the future
@@gategi10: Denying global warming doesn’t go hand in hand with managing water badly. I’m all for learning from the beaver and storing water naturally so forests & farms can benefit. The lust for quick profits by raping the earth preceded the Industrial Revolution by centuries.
Ciao, in che zona d’Italia sei? Hai poi iniziato a realizzare questi progetti? Io sono nella provincia di Roma e sto cercando qualcuno che possa realizzare un laghetto in permacultura sul mio terreno avendo effettivamente idea di cosa stia facendo. Fammi sapere se ti occupi di questi progetti e potresti occuparti di realizzare il mio. Grazie.
This is really interesting. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska and my Dad was actively involved in soil and water conservation. He terraced our hills to control and retain water. There were peach trees around the bottom terrace. We had a big pond that was also a lot of fun, besides holding the water to percolate above the corn and alfalfa fields. We swam in there as kids (? Eeewww) had a little fishing boat, and in winter it was an awesome skating rink at the bottom of the hill. Many wonderful memories of all the town kids coming out to sled dow our hill, which Dad would use his farm equipment to sculpt snow into toboggan runs ending on the iced-over pond and we'd have contests who could get the farthest across the pond.
Peter Andrews in Australia described how important it is to slow the water down as it moves over the surface. It makes a massive difference. I'm even mounding and channeling my little garden's surface so the water can get down much deeper. Great video!
Thank you. This provides a foundation for what i hve been intuitively trying to do. Now i can move forward more intentionally. On another note, please never show someone down in an excavation without at least warning the viewer that they can't just go doen into them without also considering the safety of the situation. The point isn't whether or not that particular situation was safe, it is that we enthusiastic amateurs may think ALL excavations are safe. They're not.
Warning labels on everything you touch and do. More people die tripping when walking than in car accidents. Maybe we should each day read safe walking manuals before getting up. Personal responsibility
@@lifeliver9000 personal responsiblity is made much easier when you are educated on dangers - hence the warning labels - no one is born knowing everything and as much as people say "its just common sense" common sense still has to be learned
@@DazBochiz common sense is when standing in a hole make sure it’s unlikely to fall in on you. Safety first means every hole you stand in needs to be shored up and safety equipment in place. Two different things
This is a cool project, and encouraging for the future. However, DON'T STAND IN A TRENCH WITHOUT SHORING!!!!! Even the most stable-seeming trenches can collapse without warning, causing instant death or rendering it impossible to rescue the victim before asphyxiation. :( But the rest of the video is great!
I was actually worried for him in that trench. I thought this guy has a lot to share with the world still. I really hope he lives long enough to do so.
Underrated comment right here. As someone who digs a lot of holes with excavators, my spidy senses were going bananas when he was standing in the trench.
check your local laws!!! had a guy put a pond in his yard with out getting the permits for it.....yea....$8,000 fine....it's great for the water shed and all, but you really need to make sure you are allowed to have it.
This will be good in Romania where my grandfather lives, in summer the stream near his house is dead...wich was going strong all year around years ago...
I would be interested to see how the land handles these ponds and what kind, if any, of erosion occurs in 5 or 10 years time. Please post videos that follow up on this work that shares your successes and failures so other people can learn from this style of habitat restoration.
Manzanita friends! Thank you for proving that we can make a huge difference. I used to work watershed restoration in Eugene, that whole part of the Willamette is proving that water health is our health. Love this video!
Oh my god, I am so happy I watched this video. This is exactly the information I've been wondering about for almost a year, & now I know what information I'll need to find out. Thank you guys SO MUCH!
Wow, amazing work!!! I truly hope that more people/organizations listen to your outcomes! I have no doubt it has already done so much good for the surrounding area! You have inspired me to rethink my farm, and possibly put in a few more pounds! Thank you for everything you are doing to save the forests and the waterways!!!
I am so impressed with your work and commitment to regeneration. I lived in Eugene for over a decade and watched the land around there, Springfield and Cottage Grove get drier and drier. Heartbreaking. In those early years of my focus on stewardship I was in an “understand the damage” mindset, didn’t get the concept of active stewardship (yet). More of a look how the forestry industry is mismanaging the land, do something about it focus(I mean, come on, Douglas Fir requires so much water!) At this point I want to be the one doing something and am. I have a very small bit of property 1/2 an acre smack in the middle of town. 1/2 of that is 200-300 year old cedar and spruce on a very steep west-facing hillside… 19% slope riddled with underground springs and rated as one of the highest dangerous erosion hills in the county. Right now I’m focused on restoring microorganisms in the soil and slowly filling the outflow points of a natural trench on either edge of the property to capture, hold and slow runoff. Observing what happens this October will help me to decide where smaller downslope swales/ponds could be situated. At my age/condition it’s going to be slow going but I am committed to helping this little bit of land recover. Thank you for sharing this, it was informative and helps my thought process and planning.
I put in a pond about 10 years ago very much similar to this one. Aside from keeping moisture in the soil around and downstream of the pond, the wildlife abounds! Numerous amphibian species, frogs, turtles, snakes, wood ducks, blue herons, green herons, bats, martins, of course the deer use it.
Wonderful!! Just Wonderful!!! I was one if those kid's too! It broke my heart to see the destruction of our beautiful nature. It's so very inspiring to see people restore the land. Bless you all!!!
I am so doing this tomorrow! I live in Michigan and I am so anxious to start gardening!! Just got two different types of poppies! :) I can't wait! Thanks for the video.
The guy at the beginning is one of the coolest cats I have ever seen. He realizes the irony of his job and his life. Embraces it, and does the right thing for the world. What a cool cat
Very good vid. Water needs to be treated with respect. The earth does this naturally and humans seem to naturally smite it. Water is treated like a unwanted pest scared out of town left salty and damaged. Water should be a welcome friend that we wish will stay forever:] I have learned to keep my good friend water around my property and it has been a blessing of abundance. Ty for your knowledge keep it up. One love
Thanks for the wonderful ideas. I begin my masters in September which involves watershed response to a changing climate and how we can help mitigate adverse effects, etc. Thoroughly enjoyed every second of this. I will have to look more in depth at your content!
I like this hydrating the land to optimise the natural landscape away from human made earlier practices that were detrimental to these optimum processes.
I was watching the video and thought, "Damn, this sounds like what's happening in Oregon". Then I looked at the description. This video especially hits home after our wildfire season last year. I'm glad to see there are people thinking critically about land use.
Good work! But at 8:17 he stands in an unshored 8ft trench, very dangerous. Does he want to get buried alive. 4ft is the deepest trench to stand in without shoring or benching or a 45° slope
When I saw the fig tree at 16:14 my heart jumped. I thought that part of Oregon was a 7 or lower. 8b? Good to live by the ocean and her energy storing capability.
Wow, incredible work. Very nerd but extremely useful. I think many countries must put some initiatives like that in action in order to avoid desertification.
As someone that lives in a place that gets over 4" of rain every month it is a little hard to relate. I usually have the other problem. How do I get this water outta here? 😁 I do find it fantastic that instead of using government to try to restrict someone else's property rights they just take the issue into their own hands. Problem solved. Bravo, well done. Enjoyed the video.
Great video! Where I live in Louisiana is very similar to this landscape just without all the elevation. The pine forests were clear cut and left dense clay soil that is hard to work with. I started with a little swale around my garden and it channels water through the soil by way of crawfish holes 😆
Keep trees from growing on the dam. Old roots will poke through, and when the trees die, you will get piping of water through the dam, which will ruin the dam.
Hey love the Teal Colors themed but also consider building a treehouse over just a house that tears down the forest. Trees should be building blocks no tearing blocks. It can be funky and swirlyio just needs a bit of adjusting imagination and blueprinting and there we go and inventive you might get more followers because your not just helping humanity but your helping the World. We are not only making channels grow but It inspire others to experiment and UA-cam Channels will grow when we choose to help the world 2 ways in one stone. Building a tree house and putting gardens in it. It can maybe make new species
Imagine how cheap and easy it would be to scale this up. We could pay these volunteers with a tiny sliver of the federal budget, and it would be explosive for their operation.
This is great ... it should be happening all over the country ... who is going to pay for it. Who is being paid for doing what. I'd love to work doing something like this.
This is sooooo amazing and it makes me happy! Good job! If we ALL did a little something it would make a big difference. i'm going to take inspiration from this.
First of all, let me echo the many compliments in the comments here. Great video! Now, onto the criticisms.😂 Most farmers and ranchers and timber forest owners are aware of best management practices, and abide willingly, so it is not a completely new idea. The idea of visualizing an entire floodplain and seeing ways to improve it are new to me, and I really like it. Next criticism. It's a lot of work! What I am getting at here is that eventually any pond is going to fill in with silt, further sealing it, and reducing the ponds contribution to the ground water. This means that, in the larger scheme of things, this is a continual effort that never ends, so there is an ongoing decadal labor that must be expended to maintain these ponds. I need an idea, and analysis, of what such annual costs are, in order to do a cost benefit analysis. Perhaps you could provide some guidance on this?
Suggest use of plants in the pond to keep the pond bed porous despite the silt build up. Also, use of plants can be used to slow down the water and cause it to pool rather than racing on by.
You use the word "most" too easily. I am aware of many farmers and loggers that don't know or care about a lot this stuff. Maybe the ones in your area are more aware, but far too many are not or simply do not care.
Large scale reintroduction of the beaver to the American west would be the cheapest way to increase ground water levels
There are beavers in Minnesota but unfortunately they are treated as pests. It's illegal but lots of beavers are killed by landowners.
you ever deal with a beaver before? they are good and bad. good because yes, they build damns, bad because they cause more land slides further up the water way. the way these people did it, is something the beavers don't do. Also beavers do more damage ripping up their areas than this project.
Something somewhat similar was put into place by a farmer here in the Great Southern Land. The need to keep land hydrated is a constant problem here, on the driest continent on Earth, until Peter Andrews came up with a home grown solution on his own land. What followed was government interference, disputes with neighbours and family members and, finally, being practically pushed off the property by a foreign mining company!
Despite all of this, the proof of Peter's pudding was in the eating and the aerial shots of his once farmland show he was right on the money the whole time.
ua-cam.com/video/-4OBcRHX1Bc/v-deo.html
You've gotta also consider the fact that humans like to live in relatively controlled and predictable environments. Not to mention the fact that they often see that locations fit for ponds are so flat that they are often deemed suitable for housing developments. In the town that I live in, I've witnessed multiple instances where local ponds were buried for the sake of adding an expensive housing development to expand the local suburb while eliminating an "unsightly" wetland. That same city, years later is now complaining of wells running dry.
@@darklordmenet See that is the problem, people see anything that changes our static land as bad. But nature doesn't stay static and is constantly changing and thus any animal like a beaver causing constant changes in the land we see as bad... But in reality it's just causing things to change and that is what you don't like because it affects you.
Yet we'll happily change entire ecosystems to suit our needs, like in Florida they are constantly backfilling swamps and wetlands just to make more land to build on and are now some how shocked that sink holes are forming all over the place as all the blocked off water seeps and springs are washing out the soil steadily from under them.
All Governments in the world should be implementing this way of living. Permaculture is the right way to restore our land and help our Planet.
But that would take away their power. People should just do it.
I wish I had more money. My dream "job" would be buying land, spending 2-3 years constructing swales and ponds and planting native trees, then leasing it out to permaculture folks
We want to do something similar as well. We want to buy desert land and then turn it green with a permaculture homestead. We, like you, are lacking money for the land. Trying to get there with our UA-cam channel.
@@mountaingardening I wish we could all contribute and buy desert land and do this to show others how this is good for the environment.
DO IT. AT ALL COSTS. SCALE. BREAK THROUGH YOUR SELF-IMPOSED LIMITATIONS.
Every place has grazing and wastelands available, we can practice whatever for free, no need to buy a parched land, If you still feel to do so, you can impact a lot of people you can invest here in my country, India, via some NGOs or individual projects. ✌🏾
What a great worthy dream. I do this for a living. I don’t buy land. Opportunities like this exist. I just have not seen any paid jobs any where. It is so easy to start if you are in the right place.
WOW!
I'm studying environmental engineering, I love permaculture and in the future I want to regenerate the ecosystems like you!
Here in Italy we have beautiful landscapes but the wild vegetation is very very low (and we are reducing it every year). The water management is horrible: hydrogeological instability, desertification and massive rainfall damages are the main problems that we have.
I think that a systemic change in agricultural methods (from "traditional" agriculture to permaculture) and a sane water management like yours can bring back to life our mistreated country!
Lot of love from Italy ❤️
@Nicolo come find us!
The problem everywhere seems to be ignorance by the majority of population of the principles of Permaculture . Traditional modern agriculture is what has cobtributed to topsoil degradation The climate change denier mentality and the emphasis on large scale monoculture without thought for regeneration of degradated soil and ecosystems just for short term profit is the main issue. Unless you can persuade the vùuùast majority of people to change lifestyle abd demand powers that be then we will struggle to survive in the future
@@gategi10: Denying global warming doesn’t go hand in hand with managing water badly. I’m all for learning from the beaver and storing water naturally so forests & farms can benefit.
The lust for quick profits by raping the earth preceded the Industrial Revolution by centuries.
If you ever find your way to Utah please feel free to come test your knowledge on our land! 😅
Ciao, in che zona d’Italia sei? Hai poi iniziato a realizzare questi progetti? Io sono nella provincia di Roma e sto cercando qualcuno che possa realizzare un laghetto in permacultura sul mio terreno avendo effettivamente idea di cosa stia facendo. Fammi sapere se ti occupi di questi progetti e potresti occuparti di realizzare il mio. Grazie.
This is really interesting. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska and my Dad was actively involved in soil and water conservation. He terraced our hills to control and retain water. There were peach trees around the bottom terrace. We had a big pond that was also a lot of fun, besides holding the water to percolate above the corn and alfalfa fields. We swam in there as kids (? Eeewww) had a little fishing boat, and in winter it was an awesome skating rink at the bottom of the hill. Many wonderful memories of all the town kids coming out to sled dow our hill, which Dad would use his farm equipment to sculpt snow into toboggan runs ending on the iced-over pond and we'd have contests who could get the farthest across the pond.
Sounds like you have/had a great dad. 🫶
I am from Nebraska, too! It would be cool to talk about your dad's farm.
Peter Andrews in Australia described how important it is to slow the water down as it moves over the surface. It makes a massive difference. I'm even mounding and channeling my little garden's surface so the water can get down much deeper. Great video!
Yes indeed... Lets rebuild the Darling with leaky weirs.
He was an amazing pioneer.
Thank you. This provides a foundation for what i hve been intuitively trying to do. Now i can move forward more intentionally.
On another note, please never show someone down in an excavation without at least warning the viewer that they can't just go doen into them without also considering the safety of the situation. The point isn't whether or not that particular situation was safe, it is that we enthusiastic amateurs may think ALL excavations are safe. They're not.
Good point. Thanks. I wonder if it is a bad indicator that some people are not aware of that type of danger.
I was not aware at all of such dangers, so I appreciate the warning comments.
Warning labels on everything you touch and do. More people die tripping when walking than in car accidents. Maybe we should each day read safe walking manuals before getting up. Personal responsibility
@@lifeliver9000 personal responsiblity is made much easier when you are educated on dangers - hence the warning labels - no one is born knowing everything and as much as people say "its just common sense" common sense still has to be learned
@@DazBochiz common sense is when standing in a hole make sure it’s unlikely to fall in on you. Safety first means every hole you stand in needs to be shored up and safety equipment in place. Two different things
This must be done by man all over the Earth's surface. This is what we are *_for._* Thankyou - seems so inadequate.
It is amazing to see how much food one small garden can produce
This is a cool project, and encouraging for the future. However, DON'T STAND IN A TRENCH WITHOUT SHORING!!!!! Even the most stable-seeming trenches can collapse without warning, causing instant death or rendering it impossible to rescue the victim before asphyxiation. :( But the rest of the video is great!
I was actually worried for him in that trench. I thought this guy has a lot to share with the world still. I really hope he lives long enough to do so.
My friend lost her dad this way. Agreed.
Underrated comment right here. As someone who digs a lot of holes with excavators, my spidy senses were going bananas when he was standing in the trench.
Wow, an important tip. That would be tragic. Construction can be very dangerous.
But that's almost straight clay?
Brilliant, I just bought 4 1/2 acres and was wanting to have two ponds dug, this just confirms my idea! Thank you!
Awesome!
Make sure to put in some swales on contour, too, if the property is not well-watered year-round.
@@HickoryDickory86 I will have to research that now too, thanks!!
good luck 👍🏼 i want to buy land too
check your local laws!!! had a guy put a pond in his yard with out getting the permits for it.....yea....$8,000 fine....it's great for the water shed and all, but you really need to make sure you are allowed to have it.
Anybody else on an ecosystem spree!? Glad to see people do this, gives me hope for humanity. All we have to do now is figure out how to end wars
This will be good in Romania where my grandfather lives, in summer the stream near his house is dead...wich was going strong all year around years ago...
People eff everything up. It is Just what they do.
I would be interested to see how the land handles these ponds and what kind, if any, of erosion occurs in 5 or 10 years time. Please post videos that follow up on this work that shares your successes and failures so other people can learn from this style of habitat restoration.
Shut up
This is one of the best descriptions of a pond building process I have seen yet on youtube. Fantastic content and delivery!
Wonderful video! Abel and Tao are so well spoken about why this type of pond building can regenerate our watersheds. Thank you!
Beavers used to do this in the past.
Manzanita friends! Thank you for proving that we can make a huge difference. I used to work watershed restoration in Eugene, that whole part of the Willamette is proving that water health is our health. Love this video!
Soil builders of the world, unite and take over!
Healthy soil makes healthy plants, healthy plants make healthy food, healthy food makes healthy people, healthy people make healthy soil
@@DavidXRae
Mo rice - mo people
Mo People - mo poo
Mo poo - mo rice
@@MrDeicide1 heell yeah brother
@@DavidXRae
It's the Cilcle of Rife
This looks fun as hell! I did the same type of project with leaves and sticks in the street gutter when I was a child.
These are exactly the videos where I really feel UA-cam should have a ❤ button as well.
Oh my god, I am so happy I watched this video. This is exactly the information I've been wondering about for almost a year, & now I know what information I'll need to find out. Thank you guys SO MUCH!
Wow, amazing work!!! I truly hope that more people/organizations listen to your outcomes! I have no doubt it has already done so much good for the surrounding area! You have inspired me to rethink my farm, and possibly put in a few more pounds! Thank you for everything you are doing to save the forests and the waterways!!!
Great film.Very uplifting.
These are the people who should be running the show
Thank you so much for this education! I love it
Excellent work. I wonder how easy i would be for clear cutters to leave dams like this in place when they finish with an area
Astonishing work. Mother Nature teaches us wonders.
I am so impressed with your work and commitment to regeneration. I lived in Eugene for over a decade and watched the land around there, Springfield and Cottage Grove get drier and drier. Heartbreaking. In those early years of my focus on stewardship I was in an “understand the damage” mindset, didn’t get the concept of active stewardship (yet). More of a look how the forestry industry is mismanaging the land, do something about it focus(I mean, come on, Douglas Fir requires so much water!) At this point I want to be the one doing something and am. I have a very small bit of property 1/2 an acre smack in the middle of town. 1/2 of that is 200-300 year old cedar and spruce on a very steep west-facing hillside… 19% slope riddled with underground springs and rated as one of the highest dangerous erosion hills in the county. Right now I’m focused on restoring microorganisms in the soil and slowly filling the outflow points of a natural trench on either edge of the property to capture, hold and slow runoff. Observing what happens this October will help me to decide where smaller downslope swales/ponds could be situated. At my age/condition it’s going to be slow going but I am committed to helping this little bit of land recover. Thank you for sharing this, it was informative and helps my thought process and planning.
Dude, your grey clay is absolutely stunning! I had some nice blue clay in my earthworks, but I feel this grey one is the climax!
They sure our blessed!!
This reminds me of the work that an Australian was doing to regenerate the land scape. Cool
Thank you so much for showing and explaining this work. I especially appreciate the calm, mater of fact way to speak. 💚🙏
I put in a pond about 10 years ago very much similar to this one. Aside from keeping moisture in the soil around and downstream of the pond, the wildlife abounds! Numerous amphibian species, frogs, turtles, snakes, wood ducks, blue herons, green herons, bats, martins, of course the deer use it.
Dude I love love love the old game inspiration. Sim City 2000 was the best rampage.. that was the greatest after school special.
Wonderful!! Just Wonderful!!! I was one if those kid's too! It broke my heart to see the destruction of our beautiful nature. It's so very inspiring to see people restore the land. Bless you all!!!
I am so doing this tomorrow! I live in Michigan and I am so anxious to start gardening!! Just got two different types of poppies! :) I can't wait! Thanks for the video.
The guy at the beginning is one of the coolest cats I have ever seen. He realizes the irony of his job and his life. Embraces it, and does the right thing for the world. What a cool cat
You have given me so much HOPE for our planet....keep inspiring us😉
YES! THIS IS THE INFORMATION I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A YEAR NOW! AMAZING VIDEO! THANK YOU FROM SE ASIA!
Very good vid. Water needs to be treated with respect. The earth does this naturally and humans seem to naturally smite it. Water is treated like a unwanted pest scared out of town left salty and damaged. Water should be a welcome friend that we wish will stay forever:] I have learned to keep my good friend water around my property and it has been a blessing of abundance. Ty for your knowledge keep it up. One love
Most concise, enjoyable to watch, thoughtful, interdisciplinary water harvesting video I've ever seen. Bravo! Thanks so much!
Man that clay is very good quality
Thank you Mr Grohl for your this brilliant video.
Great work making the planet a better place for everyone and everything.
Thank you for documenting this process. Well done!
Thanks for the wonderful ideas. I begin my masters in September which involves watershed response to a changing climate and how we can help mitigate adverse effects, etc. Thoroughly enjoyed every second of this. I will have to look more in depth at your content!
I like this hydrating the land to optimise the natural landscape away from human made earlier practices that were detrimental to these optimum processes.
Hell of a job. Also nice to see so many positive comments
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain where we currently construct a pond. Thank you for sharing this video
Glad it was helpful
Amazing work! Thanks for helping to save Mother Earth!
More people like you in the world. Absolutely beautiful 👌🏻✌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
I was watching the video and thought, "Damn, this sounds like what's happening in Oregon". Then I looked at the description. This video especially hits home after our wildfire season last year. I'm glad to see there are people thinking critically about land use.
Excellent production without politics! I've down some of this on my 13 acres, but you've inspired me to do much more!
Wow, I would love this for Southern California
Wow, really well done and informational!
The Climate is Changing and we need to make are environment more resilient.
Wow! Very interesting and gives me hope for the future.
Bring back the beavers and let them do their thing! Great video, thanks for sharing.
This is an incredible film, and a much-needed technology. Thank you for sharing!
I've been learning more and more this year about how water moves through soil and it's amazing how vegetation affects that and vice versa.
Good video the first 5 minutes or so really chalk up the situation quite accurately
Good work! But at 8:17 he stands in an unshored 8ft trench, very dangerous. Does he want to get buried alive. 4ft is the deepest trench to stand in without shoring or benching or a 45° slope
When I saw the fig tree at 16:14 my heart jumped. I thought that part of Oregon was a 7 or lower. 8b? Good to live by the ocean and her energy storing capability.
Great work by everyone!
Thank you for the project and for making this film. Inspiring!
I'm so happy he stated the fact climate change. Not global warming. Two totally different events.
I learned a lot here. Will check out your other videos.
Amazing work everybody!
Besides all of the measuring devices, that looks like fun.
thank you, this was really educational, and makes perfect sense especially now.
Wow, incredible work. Very nerd but extremely useful. I think many countries must put some initiatives like that in action in order to avoid desertification.
Love this. Thank you for the work.
I certainly hope someone shares this with the OWRD. They seem to be stuck in the 19th century when it comes to managing drainages.
this work is so important!!! i really hope this guy makes more videos! it’s a great educational peice and so relaxing
As someone that lives in a place that gets over 4" of rain every month it is a little hard to relate. I usually have the other problem. How do I get this water outta here? 😁 I do find it fantastic that instead of using government to try to restrict someone else's property rights they just take the issue into their own hands. Problem solved. Bravo, well done. Enjoyed the video.
Fantastic work , I, planning similar ponds now
Great video! Where I live in Louisiana is very similar to this landscape just without all the elevation. The pine forests were clear cut and left dense clay soil that is hard to work with. I started with a little swale around my garden and it channels water through the soil by way of crawfish holes 😆
Keep trees from growing on the dam. Old roots will poke through, and when the trees die, you will get piping of water through the dam, which will ruin the dam.
Lucky you. We have decomposing granite and the water disappears so quick. We are working on terraces and measured flow from tanks.
Similar dams are done very often in eastern Australia around Gippsland! Unfortunately it’s mostly to water cattle, but the principals are there!
Hey love the Teal Colors themed but also consider building a treehouse over just a house that tears down the forest. Trees should be building blocks no tearing blocks. It can be funky and swirlyio just needs a bit of adjusting imagination and blueprinting and there we go and inventive you might get more followers because your not just helping humanity but your helping the World. We are not only making channels grow but It inspire others to experiment and UA-cam Channels will grow when we choose to help the world 2 ways in one stone. Building a tree house and putting gardens in it. It can maybe make new species
Beautiful, Thank you for your efforts and sharing with all.
Truly beautiful stuff. Well explained and I look forward to seeing more graphics and results from these projects
Imagine how cheap and easy it would be to scale this up. We could pay these volunteers with a tiny sliver of the federal budget, and it would be explosive for their operation.
That's what the CCC and the WPA did during the 1930s and 40s.
Mining engineer here in Alberta Canada. Would love to implement permaculture design into mine reclamation here.
I love how the clay turned it white, so different
this is brilliant thank you for sharing your passion
This is great ... it should be happening all over the country ... who is going to pay for it. Who is being paid for doing what. I'd love to work doing something like this.
Build a time machine and go back to 1930s and 40s and work for the WPA or CCC.
This is awesome info!!! I would love to figure out how to hold water on a high, flat, sandy tract of land to provide the same benefits.
Inspiring stuff. Keep up the good work y'all!! Thank you for this!
Absolutely stunning work
Smart plan very well and execute the plan Teach and eat
Great job. I am going to measure my clients land and see how this could be done
7:25 A cliff can be both steep and flat at the same time. How about "steep to level"?
Great work , long may you continue
Ross NZ
This is sooooo amazing and it makes me happy! Good job! If we ALL did a little something it would make a big difference. i'm going to take inspiration from this.
Great job 👍🏽
Thanks to all beavers of the world
Thank you very much for sharing such valuable information, very good content
Very cool , inspired hit close to home . Thank you.
First of all, let me echo the many compliments in the comments here. Great video! Now, onto the criticisms.😂
Most farmers and ranchers and timber forest owners are aware of best management practices, and abide willingly, so it is not a completely new idea. The idea of visualizing an entire floodplain and seeing ways to improve it are new to me, and I really like it. Next criticism. It's a lot of work! What I am getting at here is that eventually any pond is going to fill in with silt, further sealing it, and reducing the ponds contribution to the ground water. This means that, in the larger scheme of things, this is a continual effort that never ends, so there is an ongoing decadal labor that must be expended to maintain these ponds. I need an idea, and analysis, of what such annual costs are, in order to do a cost benefit analysis. Perhaps you could provide some guidance on this?
Suggest use of plants in the pond to keep the pond bed porous despite the silt build up. Also, use of plants can be used to slow down the water and cause it to pool rather than racing on by.
You use the word "most" too easily. I am aware of many farmers and loggers that don't know or care about a lot this stuff. Maybe the ones in your area are more aware, but far too many are not or simply do not care.