Episode 183: Landscape Restoration - Letting Nature Do the Work with Bill Zeedyk скачать в хорошем качестве

Episode 183: Landscape Restoration - Letting Nature Do the Work with Bill Zeedyk

This podcast is a collaboration between Quivira Coalition and Mary-Charlotte Domandi of Radio Cafe. Bill Zeedyk restores landscapes — streams, wetlands, even rural roads — by using simple, low-tech tools and letting nature do most of the work. The result is healthy, lush desert ecosystems. He’s the subject of a new documentary, Thinking Like Water. Bill Zeedyk is a living legend. A wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service for 34 years, he began a new chapter in his life after his retirement in 1990. Since then he’s been restoring watersheds, waterways, and wetlands here in the desert southwest using low-tech methods that allow the natural flow of water to bring the system back into balance. Zeedyk and his work are the subject of a new five-part documentary by filmmaker Renea Roberts, called Thinking Like Water, which premiered at the Santa Fe International Film Festival last year. It will be available for streaming through the end of January. You can become a monthly supporter of Down to Earth through Patreon! Support us for as little as $3/month!   / downtoearthplanettoplate   TIMELINE 3’11 Bill Zeedyk’s background 4’20 how Renea Roberts started making her film, Thinking Like Water, about Zeedyk’s work 5’25 what is a “desert wetland”? 6’20 how land gets damaged 6’47 overgrazing vs. good grazing 7’31 the long-term damage of wagon wheels on the landscape 8’21 a river is actually much wider than it looks 9’12 when a stream or wetland goes dry, the surrounding pasture gets drier, but people are restoring them because they’re so much more productive 10’34 Two sayings to live by: “the river has much time; we’re the ones in a darn hurry” and “once it stops getting worse, it starts getting better.” 11’41 how to slow down the water going across a landscape so that it can infiltrate into the soil 12’29 the one-rock dam 13’22 one rock dams catch the sediment, which raises the stream bed 14’45 once all the one-rock dams are full, you put in a second layer 15’53 the more damaged the stream is, the faster the restoration 16’47 project in Arizona where they literally filled in a deeply incised channel ten feet in 20 years, and increased the length of the channel through inducing meandering 17’32 when vegetation moves in it catches even more sediment 18’17 learning process for Renea as filmmaker 19’23 the importance of catching sediment right after a wildfire, which helps to rebuild the system 20’18 Renea “Zeedyk-ed” her own land 21’00 you learn the lesson more deeply if you make mistakes 21’46 the importance of storing upstream wetlands, which feed tributaries and in turn rivers 22’39 the importance of knowing what the source of the water is in the headwater area–that helps determine the restoration treatments 23’57 making multiple visits to a landscape 26’01 not calling things “good” or “bad” ideas gives more room for creativity and novel ideas 27’04 the Albuquerque Wildlife Federation and their extensive volunteer work in restoring landscapes 27’29 AWF founded over a century ago by Aldo Leopold 28’53 building community and the importance of getting out of the house and onto the land 29’47 “institutionalizing” the work in state agencies 30’43 using these techniques in other states 31’34 the variation in rainfall in different parts of the same state–so many different ecological zones 32’39 it’s not just about how much water falls on the land, but how much it permeates in 33’47 vegetation coming back once the land is restored–the seeds are there, you don’t have to re-seed 35’03 showing the film for the first time at the Santa Fe Film Festival–sold out showings over five episodes 37’26 dealing with people’s different reactions to the work 40’29 Bill’s techniques are expanding, and his structures have become called Zeedyks, and to make them has become a verb 42’41 fixing roads, using beavers, urban water catchment and diversion, and “pull don’t push” 44’31 people Bill has collaborated with to advance the work