the "science" is only telling them that Nature had it correct in the first place.

Oh, so mother nature needs a favor? Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys.

Yes! I'm very pleasantly surprised to hear that work like that is being done. These little things do add up over time and are manageable and beneficial for all of us

Don’t get too excited about this being a huge trend in the US. It’s an uphill battle with success measured in feet, not miles. Meanwhile land developers are converting vast swaths of wild land and agricultural land into impermeable concrete every single day. I’ve seen areas under development where water running off the bare soil turned ancient streams into orange slurries in which nothing could have survived.

Ahh yes, hopefully Germany can return to her former glory of the 1930’s.

@@AG-gy7qq Germany was great and powerful then, now it's just one of those countries being invaded by immigrants.

You guys smart and shall figure it out.

You make more money more quickly when you have more cropland. After that, it seens the newer land owners realized make more money more quickly when that cropland isn’t destroyed by increased flooding

Short vs long term perspective. And there are flaws in pretty much every economic system.

Here, Austell, Ga., we had historic floods in 2009. This was worse than any 100 year flood plain recorded. It was all directly caused by filling in a swampy wetland and building a railyard. Mother Nature does not like to be messed with. That low lying swampy area is now about 1/16 the size it was and hundreds of families paid for the inept planning with their homes and properties. Not to mention the damages done to commercial properties and the businesses. The city ended up demoing over 100 homes and I don't know how many the county had to deal with that were not inside the city. We live up on a little hill/rise, so we weren't effected, except being unable to get anywhere as the roads were impassable for almost a week.

@@randibgood The human hubris of thinking we can do anything never fails to backfire

Plus it could shield the crops when it's relevant

you will get the opposite effect from beavers in fact small lakes used for watermills contributed to the chance in Waterflow of creeks and rivers increasing sediment build up. beavers are fun but maybe more in place for a project where they demolish an old dam because you basically get the same situation ( a dam blocking water flow) and you can work with that instead of removing all the freaking sediment and just repeating the process but with a beaver dam.

Over many years, the beavers dam will create a wetland habitat like what is made here. Plants will find it and colonize until it becomes a forested stream. It won’t do what happened when we broke our dams.

@@koffiewolf beavers create wetlands which is what they are doing here.

Beavers would risk this flooding. They are amazing when you wanna create or maintain something bigger than a stream, but in this case it would likely cause more problems

@@koffiewolf That's not how beaver dams work.

Honestly, beavers literally flood places. Unless you're planning on growing rice it's not a solution next to farm fields. Also we can make plenty of our own dams, hell where I'm from small rivers are dammed by farmers all the time for that small hydro power

I mean we also make damns haha xd

I think you meant just bees there. I'm not even sure USA has native honey bees that are known or have any chance to compete for the name

Ponds are unfortunately part of the reason the landscape changed in the first place! We had thousands upon thousands of dams and erosion deposited tons of sediment into these ponds. When the dams were broken the stream created unnaturally high streambanks thru erosion. This was a part of the problem.

@@micah_lee we have solutions for it in the NL { took us 1000 years}

we call it boezems

I bet you are completely wrong, farmers are the ones cutting down the rain forests to make room for cattle and crops for cattle, i highly doubt they are the ones respecting the river banks and definitely not the forests. You've got it so backwards its ridiculous

Well, I don't know how much you really know about Brazil, but it seems that you really need to visit some Brazilian farms.

Add a few beaver dam analogs. Beaver will probably find it on their own.

They are psychics, gives them a place to dam and they'll come on their own. I'm not kidding.

@@RichterBelmont2235 The Devon Wildlife Trust gps tagged beaver on the River Otter. (A confusing name for a river to my American ear. Worse when you choose it as location to study U.K. beaver reintroduction.) The dispersing beaver went back and forth from headwaters to saltwater estuary. Of course these are short British rivers.

Too late it's already been turned into a hat for some tasteless clown on the upper East side

@@billsmith5109 Well that was confusing.

@@tas5622 that sentence sounds like a a mix of German and French and English 😜

In couldn't agree more. They would have done s better job, but in sure they eradicated them a while back bc were considered a problem 🤦🤦

Big animals are meant to be in habitats though. Imagine deer and buffalo.

@@micah_lee That kinda misses the point, it's not simple that horse and cows are bad it's how they are present that causes harm. Regulating their access to prevent bank erosion is essential. We see what happens even in the wild when animals damage rivers, elk in yellow stone were causing all kinds of damage until positive changes in the local ecosystem caused a change in their behavior.

After reading your statement, I find it quite humourous that you, of all people, would call horses and cows stupid. Ever heard a story about a pot and a kettle, except you're both.

That was what was thinking. HOWEVER... it may be too early to plant them. Mature trees to shade the water and help keep the temperatures down are needed. I am sure that this is being watched for just such a foray. It will be a pleasure to see in the not so distant future.....

@@davidbeckenbaugh9598 german originally? baugh a variant of bach right?

@@tas5622 Mostly Welsh with a lot of Swedish thrown and some assorted other genealogical contributions (like German) thrown in. America is like a 'melting pot', right? I still have a few cultures that have not added themselves too my background, but Japanese, Chinese, and Ghana have come into the family, and looks like Spanish and Pacific Islander will soon arrive. Honestly, my family is so diverse, I have to wonder about things an awful lot. Those mail order genealogical tests keep coming up with 'We do not think you originated on Earth....". I can never remember if 'Beckenbaugh' translates to 'big valley with little river' or 'little valley with big river' but it is something like that.

@@davidbeckenbaugh9598 So beautiful, people of certain kinds have such wonderful, distinctive names. Please protect it from mongrels who have sinister desires. Ta S curious because neighbors surname is Harbaugh, and thought it German--at least Wikipedia says it may be so. Pakka yor.

I've never met a beaver with an excavator ticket.. .

beavers taking hardworking american jobs, i say lets bomb them , dey took errrrrrr jooobbbss!!!!

@@M3rVsT4H I like how everyone here thinks building a damn somehow magically will turn a channel back into a river.

It's the same experts? I am sure the one today were not alive in the 40 and 50s.

That's literally every river in the world ever bro. Wat exactly is your complaint and what does an alternative look like?

Stupid logic. Beaver build damns, not river beds. Or would you wait for termites to break down your house before building a new one too? Undoing human damage and then letting take back from a neutral standpoint isn't bad

How do beavers fix 5' embankments.

Yeah no, we do not have time to let nature undo human design lmao. Have you not had a geography class? do you know how slow natural meandering is to appear and move??