I’m on 1/4 acre and the result has been brilliant

Emotional for me too

The key is the animal impact (grazing) to keep the soil healthy and reduce fuel loads. Without that you just get the grass growth and increasing fuel loads. It’s hard to graze urban areas especially in an organised way. I used to work for a LG in catchment management. Urban areas have their own challenges, but I agree, some of these thing could be applied eg engaging floodplains, slowing waters, creating wetlands ,leaving space for water and a less of a focus on hard infrastructure.

@ingebuchanan see my comment above re what I do in Melbourne. You are right on the money

You lucky buggers have the beaver. Here, they need to re plant the trees, to then grow old and die in place

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Sorry mate, but overall, you're completely wrong. Other countries have been doing this for decades, if not for thousands of years. And all without Landcare advising them to do so. The new green wall of Africa is 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,775 km (4,831 mi) long. China has restored 154,000 square miles (400,000 square km) or eroded desert in the Loesse Plateau. China has planted forest covering more than 500,000 square kilometers (increasing tree cover from 12% to 18%) - the largest artificial forest in the world. The Paani Water Foundation in India have cut 7.006 km of continuous contour trenches (CCTs), built 4420 km of deep CCTs, built 14,960 km of compartment bunding and 3,989 km of nala stream deepening and widening. Australians could do a hell of a lot more. And the countries I mentioned don't have a fraction of the resources, wealth and earthmoving machinery per capita that Australian farmers do. Most 'farmers' including feed lots and very large cattle stations are very late to the game and totally abysmal overall, although this small video is promising and heartening(well done and huge respect to the farmers involved). In Queensland during 2018-19 alone, farmers and cattle graziers destroyed around 680,000 hectares of forest(chain dragged and bulldozed). If Queensland was a country, it would have been the ninth highest forest destroying nation globally in 2019, just above China.

That's the amazing thing isn't it?

I only have an acre so I might not be scalable but we get free unlimited arborist mulch from the arborists I’ve made friends with. It’s amazing how much an acre can change with a few hundred cubic yards of mulch

Letting the native trees and grasses grow works very well. Acacias and a bunch of native groundcovers fix nitrogen and will establish faster than introduced plants in these kind of soils.

I think they are emotional. People who have been through drought, flood and hardship who are now taking an alternative approach to bring back life and biodiversity, are really feeling positive about restoring their land.

You might be referring to sun damaged eyes… pretty common across Queensland.

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Their slowing the flash rains instead of just going like a river ,,,water around for days instead of hours and water tables can raise a little each year

They say that if you live long enough, you’ll see just about everything. That old adage about history repeating itself, is to dam true. And sure as egg’s Australian Red Cross wasn’t wrong about holding onto money given to victims of summer fire-storms a few years back. Saying we will need the money for when the next floods come, which didn’t require a crystal ball. If they had a crystal ball they would have known that they were wrong about keeping the money. Which was specifically given for immediate help. But what frustrates the hell out of me, commonsense tells us it’s either feast or famine, drought or floods. It also tells us that building massive dams and infrastructure is money & time consuming. By building deep water containment storage with augmented pipelines. This way individual States and Private land holders can utilise labour and the fabricated means to a quick and efficient reliable solution. With conservation the name of the game. We waste at our own peril. At present farmers are screaming out for ways to help water retention in their soil. So what’s happening to society’s green waste & recycled carbon and maybe there are areas where certain plastics could be used to assist the water holding capacity in areas with out threatening existing water catchment’s

Australia is "down under".

This part of Queensland is very flat. There really isn’t any higher ground so that this would work. The whole area is actually seasonal wetlands that create enormous shallow areas of water during rain events and then dry out. However the environment has been so badly damaged and the natural water cycles changed it no longer functions the way it has for millennia. These agriculturalists are trying to redress the problem. Kudos to these amazing individuals

Because it costs money to have and run an excavator...and most farmers are maxed out owning a tractor, harvester and milking set-up. The work here is very impressive. Saying the obvious, when you are in brittle landscapes an excavator could be the number one priority to help slow down, spread and sink water. It also could provide higher ground for livestock in a heavy rain event. I think it's important to re-establish the seed bank in the soils by purposely collecting seeds and planting them in pockets because Australia had many edible plants like orchids and root vegetables eaten by first Australians which have virtually disappeared. It's not enough to wait for the land to heal itself. How one moves livestock through the landscape is also important so that areas are not over grazed by grasses and other edible plants being grazed too frequently. Since cattle, sheep, goats and chickens are not native to Australia, I don't think it hurts the landscape to have non native trees and bushes that are edible by these animals in designated areas out of the wetlands areas. If we have watering places for livestock, I also think it's important to have watering places for native animals in expansive native bush and scrub lands. Many native plants edible by native animals need to be replanted, because a few straggling gums doesn't cut it. With the regeneration, the growth of more plants, it's important to think about how fire could flow through the landscape so that it can be channeled, burn less of an area and do the least damage to wildlife. In other words, it's important to have a mixture of woodlands, wetlands, scrub and pastures/meadows with a huge variety of plants in each.

There were barely any living trees left on this drought ridden land. The trees were dying due to drought. Large plains of dead trees, absolutely stripped soils and dry land; terrible. They are just using the dead wood. Many Australian tree seeds/grasses etc will lie dormant for years waiting for water to regenerate. All the farmers are doing is slowing down the water run off to allow this natural process to happen. The land will regenerate with some water. Farmers are using the resources they have available to do that.