Reclamation - restoring disturbed lands

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We Built Fake Beaver Dams to Rewild this Dead River (yt.artemislena.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/reclamation@slrpnk.net

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[–] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very fair! I had friends working in Australia for some time but never visited, my loss. It really sounded interesting and different.

Ya, possibly. I would think that earlier people, as observant as they were, were building swales long ago in Persia or North Africa. Or SW USA. Or Australia.

[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not that I'm an expert or anything, but I don't know if Aus' First Nations harnessed water for agriculture like that. What they did do was make amazing fish traps and eel farms. The fact they could place rocks in a river for trapping purposes and have them not wash away, ever, blows my mind.

A big fallen Euc is all the swale you need. They are still visible in rivers and gullies, even though the forest is long gone around them.