I remember my grandparents' telling stories of settling in the area of Fulton County Ohio. They told about the swamps and how they had to lay boards down for the wagons, so they wouldn't sink into the mud. This would have been in the 1800's.
Btw, the active soil layer that was measured to be between 18-27in of active top soil.. we'd get radish's the size of baseballs and turnips the size of basket balls.
We’ve learned since that time what swamps and wetlands are needed for. This should have been made a national reserve and preserved like the Everglades.
There’s some parks that are slowly buying back land and restoring it in Bowling Green (south of Toledo). A few years ago I was apart of a project where we collected grass seeds to plant them in another part of the park. I’m sure there’s others trying to do the same.
Back then there was still malaria in North America all the way up into Canada along with regular outbreaks of yellow fever so swampy places were a lot more of a health hazard.
The Everglades are pretty much toast... How much sea-level rise is it going to take to inundate them. However, we can do something for those areas that can be saved.
People talk about saving the Amazon forest but the forests of the Midwest that are now farmland was once a great forest also.Wish I could have seen seen it.
The primeval forest that stretched from Maine to Florida is a forest of old growth trees that is now almost completely GONE. Only a few stands of limited numbers remain, if any. The tallest White Pine ever cut down in Pennsylvania was 220’ tall from the forest floor to the top of the canopy, that’s nearly the size of a Giant Sequoia. What a great tragedy the loss of that forest is for humanity.
I’m from the 260 in eastern Allen County, Indiana. Thank you NW for teaching me things that my home state hasn’t………??? There’s a small handful of us here in Allen County trying to spread awareness, but information sources are scarce. My French ancestors settled just east of New Haven, IN along the Old Lincoln Hwy route. The farmland is still in our family owned by my 3rd cousins, and I’m sharing this history with them too. Thank you,Ohio!
I live in central Illinois. After the construction of the Erie Canal these men knew how to dig and they put tiles in. This is some of the richest farmland and it was the last settled because it was too wet to settle. Native American tribes did not stay long in this area due to the malarial conditions. Before settlement our area was tallgrass prairie. Then there came families like the Ingels and Wilders. Changed forever. Taking the long view, this whole area had a shallow sea that covered the midwest. This suits me fine.
Todd Crail is awesome. He was my boyfriends Professor at UT. Even as an accounting major, my boyfriend was obsessed with his Bio class that centered around NW Ohio. This area is lucky to have a guy like Professor Crail
That was really nicely put together I wish you went a little deeper into why the swamps was important and what is being done to return some of the wetlands to nature
I grew up in Wood county. I remember every time we had a wet spring how our yard and all the fields would almost revert back to a swamp with how well and long it retained water.
I think there's coming a day when field runoff via drainage tiles are going to have to be treated via a series of retention ponds before they are released in creeks/rivers/ditches/etc. My local lake has a serious alge bloom in July/August, and they tell us to keep our pets away from it.......yet geese swim in it, lol. They did some watershed improvemnets, but there are several hog operations upstream of the creek that feeds into it. Wetlands help prevent these things from happening, and sponge up all the bad stuff.
i found it fascinating, and I am also surprised I didn't know, as I live in central Ohio. I have lived out here for 30 years I have seen many woods and fields tiled out and houses built on ground that was once too wet to be passable for me as a hiker. I have often thought how moving an areas water, making it convenient for humans, is usually very bad for the environment.
Studied my family history in early Ohio and especially Crawford County and read an account of people traveling there to harvest the wild cranberries. I asked my Daddy - he's 90 and still living in Ohio - and he said he remembers the cranberry bogs. What happened? He said they were all drained and filled in.
Cranberries dont grow in water. The bogs are flooded specifically to harvest. They flood the field and the berries float to the surface and then are sucked into a truck. Then the field is drained for growing.
I heard or read a story about the Black Swamp s it was in the 1800s. A couple of men were canoeing there when one of them saw a hat floating a few feet away. It looked like a good hat, so he paddled closer to retrieve it. As he lifted it, he was astonished to see a man's head jutting up from the water. "Are you all right?' he asked the man. "Well, I could do with a lift for a few miles." The paddler told him to reach up and the pair would help him into the canoe. The swamped fellow said he really appreciated the help, then asked "Do you think there's room for my horse, too?"
What people don't know is that the majority of Northern Ohio was really quicksand. In Cleveland, Ohio what's known as Tower City, along with the area of downtown Cleveland was nothing but quicksand. Tower City was once known as Terminal Tower, built and completed in 1926 was a pit of quicksand that had to be filled in in order to start construction. There's a lot more history involved with that building which was the first of its kind in the country. At that time, The Terminal Tower was the tallest building in the world. The Empire State Building followed in 1934. The history of Northern Ohio is strong. By the way the movie King Kong was made just to bring tenets into the new office complex that was empty until the movie came out.
Just going off what I know without doing the internet search first to back it up, but as a farmer who looked for land in the Cleveland area some years ago, the only sandy area in pretty much all of northeast Ohio at least is around Madison, tons of nurseries there, the rest is all clay. The challenge of the construction of the terminal tower wasn't sand, but rock. It would have been easy to sink pilings deep in clay/stone aggregate, but the reason the Cuyahoga never eroded the high ground next to it which became downtown is because it is a spar of solid rock, which was very difficult to drill into at the time. Just curious what you base your knowledge on? I'm currently living in the Toledo area, and it's all clay here, too, by the way. Wetlands/marshes don't exist on sand, the drainage is too good, only on clay.
@@JeffreyGoddin I stand corrected. Where I got my information came from the many construction works in the area from bygone years of the past spinning tall tails. You know something Sir, I really appreciate your feed back on the comment. God bless you Sir, and thanks! Peace!
If you drive around Wood County, Ohio in the rural areas, look at the huge drainage ditches along nearly every road. They weren't dug for no reason. They will swallow a vehicle unfortunate enough to leave the road. Even today, much of the timber stands left are trees that like "wet feet".
I live in Paulding County NW Ohio, we have ditches literally everywhere. This place would still be the black swamp had the water not been tamed by this effort, it's kind of incredible. I once read a book about a white man who'd been captured by natives as a boy and described camping where the auglaize river meets the maumee (modern day kingsbury park in Defiance) and he said he didn't sleep for 3 days bc the mosquitoes were so thick. Incredible.
I was kinda excited about the black swamp title, til he didn't cover any history on the Black Swamp. It's where I grew-up. The Black Swamp had it's purpose... Too many engineers, too little brains or appreciation of nature without seeking to modify it.
I live on Rondeau Bay, across the lake in Ontario. We had the same natural infrastructures most of which are gone, for the sane reasons. The International Joint Comission and the Nature Conservancy provide International coordination to restore some of Erie's wetland habitats, but that alone isn't enough. We need to protect what remains by law.
They drained the wet lands at Wright Paterson Air Force Base, killing all of the Massasauga Rattlesnakes remaining in a known population in S W Ohio. @GOOGLE your spell checkers are just little terrorist bitches / boy or girl... when they want to be
Rodney Caupp if I may ask, when was this drainage? Like what year? I’m a big history goof and just love the past. If I had a time machine I’d go back in time to when Ohio was nothing bud woods and part of the great black swamp. To me, it would be so so peaceful
Twenty miles west of toledo? Lol not a chance. Lake Erie stops in the the city of Oregon area, several miles before the boarder of toledo. The Maumee River is the only part of the lake that flows southwest along Toledo. The river is few hundred miles long. Not to correct you but you can find shells along the shores of almost every single natural water source.
@@mysticmuppet research? LOL. I live in toledo dum-dum. And toledo does not extend that far north. Regardless what it may look like on your little Google maps. Lake Erie turns into Maumee Bay before it reaches toledo. Learn some geography.
@@fivepoint5sicks it does now sure but your missing the point that at one point in time all the great lakes were bigger, and yes you can find shells from the lake west of Toledo. Just because it's smaller now does not mean that was always the case.
I boat the Maumee river and live surrounded by the tiffin river the blooms were bad we definitely need to not let people like A. Wheeler ever be in charge of the EPA, deregulation isn't a good thing !
No till for life. I have a 15 acre farm I purchased this winter. I will be farming using organic, no till, methods. Cover crop, em1, bokashi, organic ammendmends like kelp and bone meal. Fish bones and heads. Etc. Liquid fertilizers need to die.
Im putting in an H2Ohio wetland on my property outside of Bowling Green and would like some ideas on what native plants to use as well as native woody plants.
Sweetshrub or carolina allspice was my favorite new shrub this year. Asclepias incarnata as well as lobelia Cardinalis, and so many grasses have been incredibly helpful natives. Salvia coccinea (not hybrids only cultivars) and cosmos sulphurous are annuals that self seed and encourage the summer swells of biodiversity.
There are so many wonderful native plants here in our region! If you come to the 577 foundation in perrysburg there are some horticultural and botany experts who can guide you to find a nice set of plants to add to your property. I’ve found a lot of park rangers out at Magee, Metzger and Howard’s marsh willing to have informative conversations about the plants they allow to thrive vs ones they remove. I ask a LOT of questions and am always amazed by how many folks have a wealth of information they’re happy to share. Good luck on your wetland journey!
Repair her when we was kids you could still swim up by Volmers in the Maumee, now you wouldn't dare. Now I wouldn't take my grandkids to Maumee Bay even. But it's these factories too glad we've started cleaning Toledo Port up, we need the plants and trees that filter, how about some Cypress and northern coffee trees you removed all them put them back. You can balance it out with the right plants and wild life. Water is Life.
It's not factories, it's the silt and fertilizer runoff from farm fields. Now you even have large commercial farms pouring animal waste onto fields that leaches into the water systems. All this is allowed because they are the political secread cow that can do no wrong.
This had no information on the black swamp itself. It mainly talked about how to make the water system better. The US army corps of engineers messed a ton up, by raising lake Erie levels. If you get out of Lucas, and Wood counties. And went to ottawa county. Namely Oak Harbor which is where I am from and still live, we are struggling with the raised water levels to supposedly help the waterways. Our roads on the Portage and little Portage rivers, and crane creek, and muddy creek are almost constantly flooded, that isn't an exaggerated statement either. Their solution, was to mail a letter to people in the flood plains to sell their 200 year old farms to these people in Toledo. So they can make it better for Toledoans. Or to stilt our houses. Literally they threw it in our faces, and said get better flood insurance. They held this meeting for all of us flood plain farmers at a local high school, and told us the best solution was to sell our homes so they could demolish it, and turn it into their habitat for these native plants.
They said the same thing to us on the Tiffin/Bean Creek area of Fulton. Farmers up stream and farmers down stream got protections but any farms between, which was just my parents, couldnt. Why? And I quote them at the meeting, "Well the water has to go somewhere and the hunting grounds are right next to you anyway." We were livid. Still are in fact.
@@christopherrenn8137 Same type of folks promoting the Solar BS, throughout Ohio. Much of the power from such is being pumped out of State, they neglect to tell folks that. Green and Environmental propaganda is being used to push a for profit sociopolitical agenda focused on dismanteling the working class. If it's all sold off, no liniage, everything is for rent via corporate ownership. Going back to the Company Store on Company Land, living in Company Housing.
@@bf6159 I actually agree with Farmers being able to "farm" solar in the area. Jumping from Solar farms to Company Stores and Company Land is a bit much. Kinda like how people would say "they dont want a factory -xyz in the area" or even further back when farmers would say they "didnt want Poles on there land because they didnt need Electricity". We still put poles up because it was for the greater good, or so we thought. We have to confront the C02 issue now or our grandkids will pay. that is not a joke, i have seen with my own eyes and have the photo's. I used to shovel snow in october just to go trick or treating and now we are lucky to see in in december if at all. We need to to fix this and we need to do it yesterday.
I remember going to oak openings as a kid, it reeked of sulfur and forget drinking the water. I remember how nasty the Cuyahoga River was before it caught on fire. Most of the Black swamp was turned into very fertile farmland
I grew up nearby Oak Openings and went there many times in all seasons during the 1960's-70's. I drank the water from those old hand operated well pumps and yes, it was very sulfur smelling. Interestingly, we lived 5 miles away and had the sweetest, cleanest tasting water coming out of our well.
Northeast Ohio (Ashtabula and Trumbull counties) are also swampy land.... Thankfully I do not have a basement, so not a big issue unless I have to walk in the backyard during the period between Halloween and June.... or if I have to dig a hole.
My family moved to Ohio from Connecticut after the purchase of the "Western Reserve" I think it was called. I'm not sure if someone bought the land and just wanted to get people to move there or if it was simply taken from the Native Americans. Maybe the Natives didn't even want it. But my dad found a document that shows the area my family relocated to described as "worthless swampland." This was closer to Cleveland than it was to Toledo.
As a native of the area my understanding of the Western Reserve was the promise to people in Connecticut who fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. In exchange for their service they were promised lands in Ohio through the Western Reserve. The idea was that at that time, the ability for expansion was greater in Ohio than Connecticut, and the climate was similar meaning that little adaptations for life for those residents would be needed. This is why in parts of Northeast Ohio the houses are very similar to New England/ Connecticut. Chagrin Falls is a specific town that you can view on Google Streetview to see these homes.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first book, Little House in the Big Woods tells how they headed west in a wagon across a frozen lake. The following day they heard a huge crack as the lake began its spring thaw.
@@inharmonywithearth9982 truer words, Harmony, truer words... It makes me sick to my stomach to thing about all the evil deeds that are continuing to happen. Good point about the word invasive. It's so obvious , but I never looked at it that way before. Stay Savvy.
I am from Bedford county Virginia worked in Fremont Ohio as a boilermaker the soil was black as could be made me think very pretty place to live thank you
Not mentioned was the incredible malaria epidemic that plagued early settlers (yes, malaria in northern Ohio!), killing great numbers and necessitating the import of quinine from South American cinchona bark. Visionaries did the unimaginable, trenching with manpower and mules, to drain a fetid and hostile wasteland and benefit their families and posterity. Beneath the blackwater was some of the most fertile soil made available. Of course, when man changes his environment to his benefit, it is criticized. When beavers reroute the hydrology and topography of entire floodplains, it's seen as wholly natural and celebrated. And, as admitted in the video, there would still be nutrient runoff (and concomitant algal blooms) if farms reverted to swampland, from decaying vegetation. The difference is that what is valuable to our species - an important agricultural resource - would be lost. And, whatever the problem we face, the only sure way to make it worse and permanent is to put government on the job.
(as to the water crisis) It didn't help the city of Maumee ( next door to Toledo) was dumping raw sewage for many years, illegally way over any acceptable limit into lake Erie..... Cost to fix, on the taxpayer of course. Side note born and raised here and it's amazing how people can't tolerate the humidity which is often swamp like, lol. ❤️NWO
Army core of engineers rerouted the Louisiana waterways to accommodate big shipping business, they called it the Mr Go, that's why KATRINA wiped out many AREAS that once were protected by WETLANDS...GREED AND STUPIDITY CAUSED SUCH DESTRUCTION
How about harvesting the runoff nutrients into a very eco-friendly compost/fertilizer because there’s a fertilizer shortage. The lake doesn’t need that material. The fields need that material, and we need the fields. If you reclaim land for swamp, you will reduce food supplies.
The lack of common sense in Agricultural is staggering... I AM AN AGRONOMIST... I was introduced to Organic Agricultural in 1985... My OSU profs were totally against it.. Why... Big Ag funding... This is not hard... A majority of the people on this report are clueless... M Kaptur God help us...
2:58 I live like 2 minutes from this park. It was once a family farm and now it is a public park. You can see all the old equipment and there is a school house on the back of the property. They turned a field into a wetland.
I’m born and raised in what’s left of the remnants of the black swamp. I love this land and it hurts my heart how much of the natural habitat hasn’t been protected. Industry along the Maumee river still has permission to dump their waste and poison the water. Yes it’s less poisonous waste than it was decades ago but it’s still a huge part of the problem . The warnings not to eat more than a few fish from the Maumee river still apply to this day. I’m not anti-industry, anti-ag or anti-capitalism but big money has kept the industries from really cleaning up their act. They would rather push the envelope and then after the damage has been done, pay a fine and ask the tax payer to help clean up the mess.... and if it’s too massive a task than it becomes a superfund site and in the end the people pay the cost in their health and wealth. Love and respect our awesome Marcy Kaptur whose always been an amazing advocate for Ohioans , our resources and our lands. Be well ✌️✊😇
Yeah, Ohio River is so polluted that you can't even eat fish out of it, especially not catfish, due to the massive amounts of led that's on the riverbed that gets eaten by bottom feeders, and those bottom feeders get eaten by other fish so almost all the fish in there are filled with toxic levels of lead.
There's an Italian comic book called Zagor set in Ohio's Great Black Swamp in the early 1800s. Let's just say the authors didn't expend much more effort than getting the name of the swamp right to ensure historical accuracy.
Ohio has an important role to play in the landscape of many things on this Earth, as it has been stated in this video. Thank you to everyone who has acknowledge this blessing, because we cannot survive without a water source!💦💞👣💥
Johny Appleseed got his start here in Ohio. Now the New World Order forbids agriculture outside of their control. Ohio Strawberries .........gone with the wind. Frogs in farm ponds... no no no. Shallow Skeeter breeder pits next to the mall growing algae's from hell. Y E S ...!
How you know there in Ohio… the sky’s gray. Little fact ohio during October to about march every day the sky is gray, we got a hand full of days where it clears but 95 percent the winter it’s gray.
Lake eerie has been the most polluted of the Great Lakes for my entire life. I hope you’re all enjoying “the pleasure” of continuing that rich history. Ps. I’m getting old now.
The previous comments have only reinforced my belief that north coast Ohioans are ignoramuses. Wetlands are scientifically proven to improve water quality in the great lakes basin. But sure, let's continue to pour raw sewage and farm runoff right in to lake erie...and instead we'll nitpick details as to how thick the prehistoric glacial ice was.
This ^^^^^^, along with all the city wastewater and treatment plants that expel into the Maumee. I farm, and many of my friends farm, we are taking a large hit for being blamed on the algae, but in reality, with the H2Ohio programs and other conservation practices like cover cropping and no till, the water being expelled from our fields are less of fertilizers now than they ever been. I would or am not afraid to drink the water that comes out of one of my field tile or outlet, its that CLEAN ! Commercial Fertilizer costs are huge, most well managed farms will not over fertilize because of the COSTS to be profitable, in fact with GPS and variable rate application, I have spots in certain fields that require NO fertilizers. The same can be said of pesticides, we all have to have a license to apply fertilizers and agricultural pesticides per State of Ohio and we go thru constant training and meetings. There is also research ongoing about sulphur ( acid rain ) from the power plants, ever since the scrubbers have been installed per EPA, there is so much less acid rain ( sulphur ) in the black swamp area which resisted algae, now.... that sulphur is gone, and we are seeing more algae in our woods. People need to realize, that this while thing is one large puzzle and there are many -many pieces to the puzzle....not just the farmers. Another thing the video does not mention...clearing of the swamp is how we got our roads and infrastructure built. The wood was made into lumber, dynamite and horses removed the stumps of HUGE trees, oaks, walnuts and elm. Then from digging of ditches, the spoil of the ditch digging piled on one side of the ditch, and made for high ridges that roads could be made on top of. The draining of the swamp allowed production of some of the best soils in the world for crop production, depending on subsoil .
@@hf-lz2qw VERY well said! To your point of city waste water contributing to algae blooms, ag is being 'blamed' because fed dept of ag has funds. Farmers have to have manure management plans, fert plans etc, small cities can apply for dept of ag grant or loans to update older waste water treatment plants. Farmers take the Heat, municipalities get funds. As explained to me by a county commisioner in the watershed of Lake St Mary's.
Okay, the Cuyahoga was NOT THE ONLY river to catch fire, but because of the creation of the EPA it was the last major river fire (accidents still happen from a specific cause today). I don't think we can fully stop the agriculture impact on our hydrologic systems, but we can mitigate and reduce the occurrence of adverse events. 👽🗿👽🗿👽
She says we gone to the Moon Shia gullible one 😂😂😂😂😂😂that little venture was filmed at Gatti's Warehouse Studio in the Hollywood Foothills beside of a few clips in the Arizona desert LOL
If you take a bowl fill it with ice and pour water in it and let it melt the bowl does not overflow just like earth you can look at land marks from around the world from thousands of years ago ago and the water level is still the same
Lived in findlay, fostoria, tiffin, arcadia, value, vanburen, worked at hoyt ville, as a combat engneer. Stationed out of LIma ohio. Know of the land well. Sgt williams cod 983 rd LIma. Ohio
Talk to a scientist from University of Toledo recently I know they’re still having the same problem. Why not put the swamp back at this point I drive Ohio 2 every day I ran into them at the friendship right before you get to Toledo
Urban development! Clearing land for housing developments, drive down Roachton rd in Perrysburg, used to be all farm land now one ugly house after another and all have to have beautiful lawns, yea! allot of fertilizer all running into the Maumee river. Small creeks like Crane and Cedar creek all jammed up with dead Ash trees and erosion washing the banks out making the creek wider and wider. When there is just two inches of rain the creeks are backed up and flooding. The state and counties claim they have no money to maintain the creeks but look at the millions of tax payers dollars that goes to the Metro Parks paying for the geese and the frogs and birds to play. And the millions of our local tax dollars spent so the bird watchers can come from all over to watch the birds for free for a week. Also how Scott Carpenter of the Metro Parks brags how all the trails are cleaned and plowed and all the employees are on a plow when the streets of Toledo dont get plowed and people are complaining about it, there is your tax dollars at work Toledo, funding the Metro Parks with all new equipment, vehicles, clothing, gas/fuel just so people can play. Put your money where it counts and does good for productive living.
Everything is mismanaged . The average human does not care. They want to get McDonald's and then throw out the packaging a half mile away! It's sickening!
I agree. So many don't seem to care about where they throw their trash. I'm old enough to remember when there were signs saying Keep America clean, don't litter.
@@Less1leg2 it is what it is. But people are payed to lie these days. They had to stop dumping the sludge in the ocean because it was killing to much ocean life. They had big boats with a hatch in the bottom that would drop the sludge. So they needed a new place to go with the sludge. So they dry it out , put on rail cars and sell it to idiot farmers for fertilizer. As you can guess there’s everything else in it as well. So that’s what’s going into the Great Lakes.
How are you going to stop farmers from over fertilizing? It's to their economic benefit to over fertilize. They have the political power to resist anything that costs them a penny. Farmers believe they are the stewards of 'the land'. They believe anything they do to improve crop yields is 'taking care of the land'. They don't care about anything either downstream or off their property. If Ohio has to completely re-engineer the Black Swamp drainage, you can bet the the farmers will politically resist, and not contribute a cent to the damage they've done and intend to continue to do.
I am a grain farmer, been for 40 years... I'm a 4th generation farmer . Most farmers are NOT over fertilizing because of A.) its WAY TOO EXPENSIVE ! and not profitable. B.) We have to have a pesticide and fertilizing application license to apply, so we have restrictions in place and are finable and held under EPA jurisdiction....we dont WANT to have to deal with EPA so we obey. C.) with GPS, variable rate technology, no till and cover cropping practices, the water that is expelled from field tile is safer now than it ever has been. D.) We live and raise our own lives, kids and livestock on this land...do you really think we want to "poison" our very own ?..NO ! ...Most of us want to pass our farms down to many more generations, just like our past families did ( heritage ). E.) The farm population has steadily decreased since the 1930's. The smaller family farms are gradually being taken over by larger farms or OUTSIDE investors that are buying farmland. THIS RIGHT HERE is your enemy ( these are your votes ). We can not politically resist, because WE are the ones out numbered. Used to be a small family farm was 40-80 acres of land, with livestock, family of 4 to 8 or more. Now...average size is around 800-1200 acres is run by a family of 4 on average. So......where did these extra people go over time ? off to town or city to work to make a living. Your comments of " They believe anything they do to improve crop yields is 'taking care of the land'. They don't care about anything either downstream or off their property " is false. I have been cover cropping and no tilling my farm land for over 25 years and have actually increased organic matter, and have less runoff of water into ditches, streams and rivers. I have GPS mapping and H2Ohio and County records to prove this, and I am not alone, all my family, friends , and neighbors from miles around are included. I actually have one field I rent from a landlord that does not have any patterned drain tile in it, I been using No Till and cover cropping the past 20 years and have actually increased yields with LESS chemicals and LESS pesticides. You need to come out and see for yourself, before making an accusation like that. I have some landlords I rent from from Chicago ( city ) and they have visited and rode with me in my equipment and see how I steward and try to improve their land. I want to be the best I can be, so that my kids and grand kids can farm some day....farm, hunt and fish. I encourage you to do more research and digging before you paint broad brush comments, and know the FACTS first hand.
@@hf-lz2qw No personal offense intended, but all the nitrates in western Lake Erie are definitely AG related. I know 'no till' was supposed to reduce erosion, but it put the fertilizer on the surface where it's easier to wash away. Regarding the passing of the family farm, that is totally technology related. Sure, there were a lot more farmers and farm families before the gasoline tractor too. How many men with mules would it take to farm your place? The bigger the ag equipment, the fewer farmers are needed. The exact same thing has happened to workers in manufacturing. The more tech, the fewer workers. I hesitate to tell you the day of the robot tractors are here. Can YOU afford a robot tractor? Wall Street definitely can. That's reality. Technology makes humans obsolete. Considering humans have been farming for 13,000 years, the family farm has a certain sacred air to it. Archer Daniels Midland, General Mills, and all the big food conglomerates don't care. My livelihood went away because of technology too.
@@georgepretnick4460 No Till does not put fertilizer on the surface !, look up what a no till coulter does and how it does it ! By law, we are not even allowed to spread fertilizer within 24 hrs of a rain event, as well as frozen ground ! same way with manure applications ! In regards to your amount of people to farm, you proved my point again...., tech and fewer workers, so that means LESS political power, because of less votes... like you mentioned in your 1st response accusing of and I quote your sentence : " political power to resist anything that costs them a penny", . I agree robotics are here to stay, because a lot of farmers can not get good help that wants to work or work in our conditions. Us farmers are actually requesting it from companies like Deere, Kinze, Ag Leader, CaseIH... Not sure on affordabilty of a robot tractor, but I have autosteer and mapping in my tractors and combine. The cost to have an autonomous tractor to pull a grain cart is already feasible today from Ag Leader , Deere and Kinze. Ag is the only industry where we dont get to set OUR price for our raised commodities. You live in a free country where food is pretty much plentiful and CHEAP, take a tour around the world and check how real things are.....and how things are about to get....it is not a pretty picture, its time for a LOT of people to wake up !!!! hunger is coming.....and fast, way-way too much regulation for the ones that are doing it correctly.
@@hf-lz2qw Beg pardon, I didn't mean family farmers had political clout. I meant big Ag conglomerates own the state legislatures. Artificial Intelligence (robots) will eventually remove all humans from manufacturing and farming. The African Americans and working class whites that migrated north after the end of the sharecropper and tenant farmer era worked the assembly lines around the Great Lakes. Now, technology and offshoring has rendered those people unneeded. That is why the northern cities have so much crime and underemployment. The farms and the assembly lines don't need them anymore..
All cities and communities need areas where water runoff can occur and congregate before making way to greater bodies of water. Generally, mother nature knows best and has already created the needed streams, gully's and swamps serving this purpose. It is important to build around these drainage systems in a way not to impede their ability to do their job in the name of "progress"'; progress without respect to the natural world.
MISINFORMATION ALERT!!! There was not 2 miles of ice on Ohio. The ice only got to that depth over Hudson Bay. The ice that was over NORTHERN Ohio wasnt more than 500 -600 feet. A far cry from 11,000.
This problem was man made from what I hear. Farmers over fertilizing on the fields surface knowing that a lot of it would end up in our great beautiful Great Lake as run off.
I delivered the Sandusky Register as a kid. Ohio was bulldozed 100 years ago during the late Industrial Revolution. Now that nearly all industry has left the state, it’s time to let Mother Nature have her way. The “good old days” of Ohio aren’t coming back.
I remember my grandparents' telling stories of settling in the area of Fulton County Ohio. They told about the swamps and how they had to lay boards down for the wagons, so they wouldn't sink into the mud. This would have been in the 1800's.
Btw, the active soil layer that was measured to be between 18-27in of active top soil.. we'd get radish's the size of baseballs and turnips the size of basket balls.
Happy 110 Birthday Bill !
There are a number of old routes named Plank Rd still to this day for an obvious reason
Yes, there are many old plank roads here in the Midwest!!!!
Coming from Nova Scotia I assume?
We’ve learned since that time what swamps and wetlands are needed for. This should have been made a national reserve and preserved like the Everglades.
There’s some parks that are slowly buying back land and restoring it in Bowling Green (south of Toledo). A few years ago I was apart of a project where we collected grass seeds to plant them in another part of the park. I’m sure there’s others trying to do the same.
There’s still a lot of low-lying areas untouched by agriculture and industry that look just like something you’d see in Georgia or Florida.
Back then there was still malaria in North America all the way up into Canada along with regular outbreaks of yellow fever so swampy places were a lot more of a health hazard.
The Everglades are pretty much toast... How much sea-level rise is it going to take to inundate them. However, we can do something for those areas that can be saved.
@@entitledbobcat winter garden in bowling green is fantastic!
People talk about saving the Amazon forest but the forests of the Midwest that are now farmland was once a great forest also.Wish I could have seen seen it.
The primeval forest that stretched from Maine to Florida is a forest of old growth trees that is now almost completely GONE. Only a few stands of limited numbers remain, if any. The tallest White Pine ever cut down in Pennsylvania was 220’ tall from the forest floor to the top of the canopy, that’s nearly the size of a Giant Sequoia. What a great tragedy the loss of that forest is for humanity.
@@headfullofacid8088 Yes the White Pines and the Chestnut trees would have been an amazing sight
Not in Ohio. There were large ‘seas’ of grassland with ‘islands’ of trees from the center to the northwest. The indians did a lot of burning
These faulks are truly about conservation and understanding that we have to balance our needs of society and nature. Love it.
I’m from the 260 in eastern Allen County, Indiana. Thank you NW for teaching me things that my home state hasn’t………??? There’s a small handful of us here in Allen County trying to spread awareness, but information sources are scarce. My French ancestors settled just east of New Haven, IN along the Old Lincoln Hwy route. The farmland is still in our family owned by my 3rd cousins, and I’m sharing this history with them too. Thank you,Ohio!
And no mention of the raw sewage and heavy metals discharged into Lake Erie from the very cities that line the shoreline.
Not anymore....
I live in central Illinois. After the construction of the Erie Canal these men knew how to dig and they put tiles in. This is some of the richest farmland and it was the last settled because it was too wet to settle. Native American tribes did not stay long in this area due to the malarial conditions. Before settlement our area was tallgrass prairie. Then there came families like the Ingels and Wilders. Changed forever. Taking the long view, this whole area had a shallow sea that covered the midwest. This suits me fine.
Congratulations they destroyed, countless ecosystems and poisoned there, descendants, drinking water
@@trevoncowen9198 Yes they did. All so you could eat a burger. You’d prefer living a shallow sea? Go for it.
Thank you for making a video on an issue relevant to where I live, it's interesting to see this topic discussed in this way!
Todd Crail is awesome. He was my boyfriends Professor at UT. Even as an accounting major, my boyfriend was obsessed with his Bio class that centered around NW Ohio. This area is lucky to have a guy like Professor Crail
419 born and raised, I agree with alot of comments saying some of our NW Ohio region should be preserved as the everglades in Florida are.
Oak openings and the other metro parks are getting bigger all the time luckily
This was good but lightly touched on all its supporting topics. It needed to go deeper on everything.
That was really nicely put together I wish you went a little deeper into why the swamps was important and what is being done to return some of the wetlands to nature
I agree and then i noticed he only has 700 subscribers and was blown away at how good this was for such a small channel
I grew up in Wood county. I remember every time we had a wet spring how our yard and all the fields would almost revert back to a swamp with how well and long it retained water.
I think there's coming a day when field runoff via drainage tiles are going to have to be treated via a series of retention ponds before they are released in creeks/rivers/ditches/etc. My local lake has a serious alge bloom in July/August, and they tell us to keep our pets away from it.......yet geese swim in it, lol. They did some watershed improvemnets, but there are several hog operations upstream of the creek that feeds into it. Wetlands help prevent these things from happening, and sponge up all the bad stuff.
Great video. I made a similar one several months ago with a historical twist. Glad so many people are engaging with NW Ohio area history.
i found it fascinating, and I am also surprised I didn't know, as I live in central Ohio. I have lived out here for 30 years I have seen many woods and fields tiled out and houses built on ground that was once too wet to be passable for me as a hiker. I have often thought how moving an areas water, making it convenient for humans, is usually very bad for the environment.
Studied my family history in early Ohio and especially Crawford County and read an account of people traveling there to harvest the wild cranberries. I asked my Daddy - he's 90 and still living in Ohio - and he said he remembers the cranberry bogs. What happened? He said they were all drained and filled in.
I live in crawford, and never heard of this! Though there are a few places that are still wet lands, very small tho
Cranberries dont grow in water. The bogs are flooded specifically to harvest. They flood the field and the berries float to the surface and then are sucked into a truck. Then the field is drained for growing.
I heard or read a story about the Black Swamp s it was in the 1800s. A couple of men were canoeing there when one of them saw a hat floating a few feet away. It looked like a good hat, so he paddled closer to retrieve it. As he lifted it, he was astonished to see a man's head jutting up from the water. "Are you all right?' he asked the man. "Well, I could do with a lift for a few miles." The paddler told him to reach up and the pair would help him into the canoe. The swamped fellow said he really appreciated the help, then asked "Do you think there's room for my horse, too?"
What people don't know is that the majority of Northern Ohio was really quicksand. In Cleveland, Ohio what's known as Tower City, along with the area of downtown Cleveland was nothing but quicksand. Tower City was once known as Terminal Tower, built and completed in 1926 was a pit of quicksand that had to be filled in in order to start construction. There's a lot more history involved with that building which was the first of its kind in the country. At that time, The Terminal Tower was the tallest building in the world. The Empire State Building followed in 1934. The history of Northern Ohio is strong. By the way the movie King Kong was made just to bring tenets into the new office complex that was empty until the movie came out.
Just going off what I know without doing the internet search first to back it up, but as a farmer who looked for land in the Cleveland area some years ago, the only sandy area in pretty much all of northeast Ohio at least is around Madison, tons of nurseries there, the rest is all clay. The challenge of the construction of the terminal tower wasn't sand, but rock. It would have been easy to sink pilings deep in clay/stone aggregate, but the reason the Cuyahoga never eroded the high ground next to it which became downtown is because it is a spar of solid rock, which was very difficult to drill into at the time. Just curious what you base your knowledge on? I'm currently living in the Toledo area, and it's all clay here, too, by the way. Wetlands/marshes don't exist on sand, the drainage is too good, only on clay.
@@JeffreyGoddin I stand corrected. Where I got my information came from the many construction works in the area from bygone years of the past spinning tall tails. You know something Sir, I really appreciate your feed back on the comment. God bless you Sir, and thanks! Peace!
i put in a foundation ( near tower city) and found many raw diamonds in the sand, small but only good as a curiosity
East Cleveland looks really nice and safe these days. They making history there too.🤣
Something about N.W. Ohio for sure. So much.
If you drive around Wood County, Ohio in the rural areas, look at the huge drainage ditches along nearly every road. They weren't dug for no reason. They will swallow a vehicle unfortunate enough to leave the road.
Even today, much of the timber stands left are trees that like "wet feet".
Forget a car the ones near my house swallow a damn bus
I see it all the time I'm from Lucas county
419 in the house there are small area preserves were you can still see parts of swamp
I’m from Hamler-OH -plenty of places near me by Putnam County
Sand-town 419 🎉 lol
I live in Paulding County NW Ohio, we have ditches literally everywhere. This place would still be the black swamp had the water not been tamed by this effort, it's kind of incredible.
I once read a book about a white man who'd been captured by natives as a boy and described camping where the auglaize river meets the maumee (modern day kingsbury park in Defiance) and he said he didn't sleep for 3 days bc the mosquitoes were so thick.
Incredible.
I was kinda excited about the black swamp title, til he didn't cover any history on the Black Swamp. It's where I grew-up. The Black Swamp had it's purpose... Too many engineers, too little brains or appreciation of nature without seeking to modify it.
I live on Rondeau Bay, across the lake in Ontario.
We had the same natural infrastructures most of which are gone, for the sane reasons.
The International Joint Comission and the Nature Conservancy provide International coordination to restore some of Erie's wetland habitats, but that alone isn't enough. We need to protect what remains by law.
Mother Nature is constantly adjusting to keep a balance but we as a society tried to conquer nature instead learning how to adjust with her.
I remember watching them drain and ruin the wetlands as a child......The wetlands were beautiful
They drained the wet lands at Wright Paterson Air Force Base, killing all of the Massasauga Rattlesnakes remaining in a known population in S W Ohio. @GOOGLE your spell checkers are just little terrorist bitches / boy or girl... when they want to be
Rodney Caupp if I may ask, when was this drainage? Like what year? I’m a big history goof and just love the past. If I had a time machine I’d go back in time to when Ohio was nothing bud woods and part of the great black swamp. To me, it would be so so peaceful
At one time I-was told that Lake Erie’s shoreline was about twenty five miles West of Toledo and that you can still find shells from the lake there.
Twenty miles west of toledo? Lol not a chance. Lake Erie stops in the the city of Oregon area, several miles before the boarder of toledo. The Maumee River is the only part of the lake that flows southwest along Toledo. The river is few hundred miles long.
Not to correct you but you can find shells along the shores of almost every single natural water source.
@@fivepoint5sicks Including in a line of farm fields? Research bdtter.
It touches toledo on the northeast side.
@@mysticmuppet research? LOL. I live in toledo dum-dum. And toledo does not extend that far north. Regardless what it may look like on your little Google maps. Lake Erie turns into Maumee Bay before it reaches toledo. Learn some geography.
@@fivepoint5sicks it does now sure but your missing the point that at one point in time all the great lakes were bigger, and yes you can find shells from the lake west of Toledo. Just because it's smaller now does not mean that was always the case.
I boat the Maumee river and live surrounded by the tiffin river the blooms were bad we definitely need to not let people like A. Wheeler ever be in charge of the EPA, deregulation isn't a good thing !
This video has the vibe like it should have 500k subscribers
We need to go back to plowing a cover crop and not fertilizing
Its more likely roundup herbicide that is the problem
Smoraptor stop guessing
No till for life. I have a 15 acre farm I purchased this winter. I will be farming using organic, no till, methods. Cover crop, em1, bokashi, organic ammendmends like kelp and bone meal. Fish bones and heads. Etc.
Liquid fertilizers need to die.
@Galactic Wizard try to incorporate biochar
That would work if we only had 1 billion people on earth. Our population growth is because of synthetic fertilizer.
Im putting in an H2Ohio wetland on my property outside of Bowling Green and would like some ideas on what native plants to use as well as native woody plants.
Sweetshrub or carolina allspice was my favorite new shrub this year. Asclepias incarnata as well as lobelia Cardinalis, and so many grasses have been incredibly helpful natives. Salvia coccinea (not hybrids only cultivars) and cosmos sulphurous are annuals that self seed and encourage the summer swells of biodiversity.
There are so many wonderful native plants here in our region! If you come to the 577 foundation in perrysburg there are some horticultural and botany experts who can guide you to find a nice set of plants to add to your property. I’ve found a lot of park rangers out at Magee, Metzger and Howard’s marsh willing to have informative conversations about the plants they allow to thrive vs ones they remove.
I ask a LOT of questions and am always amazed by how many folks have a wealth of information they’re happy to share.
Good luck on your wetland journey!
BGSU has an agriculture dept, I would contact them!
I saw a cranberry comment from an old grandpa that lives there. Rice
Repair her when we was kids you could still swim up by Volmers in the Maumee, now you wouldn't dare. Now I wouldn't take my grandkids to Maumee Bay even. But it's these factories too glad we've started cleaning Toledo Port up, we need the plants and trees that filter, how about some Cypress and northern coffee trees you removed all them put them back. You can balance it out with the right plants and wild life. Water is Life.
It’s true, between both agricultural and industrial pollution we’ve really done a number on our watershed.
It's not factories, it's the silt and fertilizer runoff from farm fields. Now you even have large commercial farms pouring animal waste onto fields that leaches into the water systems. All this is allowed because they are the political secread cow that can do no wrong.
This had no information on the black swamp itself. It mainly talked about how to make the water system better. The US army corps of engineers messed a ton up, by raising lake Erie levels. If you get out of Lucas, and Wood counties. And went to ottawa county. Namely Oak Harbor which is where I am from and still live, we are struggling with the raised water levels to supposedly help the waterways. Our roads on the Portage and little Portage rivers, and crane creek, and muddy creek are almost constantly flooded, that isn't an exaggerated statement either. Their solution, was to mail a letter to people in the flood plains to sell their 200 year old farms to these people in Toledo. So they can make it better for Toledoans. Or to stilt our houses. Literally they threw it in our faces, and said get better flood insurance.
They held this meeting for all of us flood plain farmers at a local high school, and told us the best solution was to sell our homes so they could demolish it, and turn it into their habitat for these native plants.
Sounds like our corrupt guberment !
They said the same thing to us on the Tiffin/Bean Creek area of Fulton. Farmers up stream and farmers down stream got protections but any farms between, which was just my parents, couldnt. Why? And I quote them at the meeting, "Well the water has to go somewhere and the hunting grounds are right next to you anyway." We were livid. Still are in fact.
@@christopherrenn8137 Same type of folks promoting the Solar BS, throughout Ohio. Much of the power from such is being pumped out of State, they neglect to tell folks that. Green and Environmental propaganda is being used to push a for profit sociopolitical agenda focused on dismanteling the working class. If it's all sold off, no liniage, everything is for rent via corporate ownership. Going back to the Company Store on Company Land, living in Company Housing.
@@bf6159 I actually agree with Farmers being able to "farm" solar in the area. Jumping from Solar farms to Company Stores and Company Land is a bit much. Kinda like how people would say "they dont want a factory -xyz in the area" or even further back when farmers would say they "didnt want Poles on there land because they didnt need Electricity". We still put poles up because it was for the greater good, or so we thought. We have to confront the C02 issue now or our grandkids will pay. that is not a joke, i have seen with my own eyes and have the photo's. I used to shovel snow in october just to go trick or treating and now we are lucky to see in in december if at all. We need to to fix this and we need to do it yesterday.
I am so sorry you are going through this. I pray it worked out for you.
I remember going to oak openings as a kid, it reeked of sulfur and forget drinking the water. I remember how nasty the Cuyahoga River was before it caught on fire. Most of the Black swamp was turned into very fertile farmland
That sucked
Fertile is right ! I believe Wood Co. farmland has some of the highest yield per acre in the country.
I grew up nearby Oak Openings and went there many times in all seasons during the 1960's-70's. I drank the water from those old hand operated well pumps and yes, it was very sulfur smelling. Interestingly, we lived 5 miles away and had the sweetest, cleanest tasting water coming out of our well.
I found this looking for info on the area getting flooded again. It's been 100 years. Just seeking info. This was a good short film.
Northeast Ohio (Ashtabula and Trumbull counties) are also swampy land.... Thankfully I do not have a basement, so not a big issue unless I have to walk in the backyard during the period between Halloween and June.... or if I have to dig a hole.
My family moved to Ohio from Connecticut after the purchase of the "Western Reserve" I think it was called. I'm not sure if someone bought the land and just wanted to get people to move there or if it was simply taken from the Native Americans. Maybe the Natives didn't even want it. But my dad found a document that shows the area my family relocated to described as "worthless swampland." This was closer to Cleveland than it was to Toledo.
As a native of the area my understanding of the Western Reserve was the promise to people in Connecticut who fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. In exchange for their service they were promised lands in Ohio through the Western Reserve. The idea was that at that time, the ability for expansion was greater in Ohio than Connecticut, and the climate was similar meaning that little adaptations for life for those residents would be needed. This is why in parts of Northeast Ohio the houses are very similar to New England/ Connecticut. Chagrin Falls is a specific town that you can view on Google Streetview to see these homes.
@@connorpatton1919 Thank you for filling me in. I lived in Newton Falls which is by Warren and Youngstown. There's still a lot swamps around there.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first book, Little House in the Big Woods tells how they headed west in a wagon across a frozen lake. The following day they heard a huge crack as the lake began its spring thaw.
Great work. Thanks very much.
When they started talking about native vegetation then showed purple loostrief which is an invasive species sort of lost credibility.
It's not invasive thats the bull shit they peddle. I know for fack.
@@inharmonywithearth9982 thanks
@@inharmonywithearth9982 truer words, Harmony, truer words... It makes me sick to my stomach to thing about all the evil deeds that are continuing to happen. Good point about the word invasive. It's so obvious , but I never looked at it that way before. Stay Savvy.
I am from Bedford county Virginia worked in Fremont Ohio as a boilermaker the soil was black as could be made me think very pretty place to live thank you
Not mentioned was the incredible malaria epidemic that plagued early settlers (yes, malaria in northern Ohio!), killing great numbers and necessitating the import of quinine from South American cinchona bark.
Visionaries did the unimaginable, trenching with manpower and mules, to drain a fetid and hostile wasteland and benefit their families and posterity. Beneath the blackwater was some of the most fertile soil made available.
Of course, when man changes his environment to his benefit, it is criticized. When beavers reroute the hydrology and topography of entire floodplains, it's seen as wholly natural and celebrated.
And, as admitted in the video, there would still be nutrient runoff (and concomitant algal blooms) if farms reverted to swampland, from decaying vegetation. The difference is that what is valuable to our species - an important agricultural resource - would be lost.
And, whatever the problem we face, the only sure way to make it worse and permanent is to put government on the job.
(as to the water crisis) It didn't help the city of Maumee ( next door to Toledo) was dumping raw sewage for many years, illegally way over any acceptable limit into lake Erie..... Cost to fix, on the taxpayer of course. Side note born and raised here and it's amazing how people can't tolerate the humidity which is often swamp like, lol. ❤️NWO
ok, that was clear as mud.
NW Ohio. The blackest dirt ever. Many fond memories growing up in that region. The only thing blacker than the dirt was the nighttime sky.
Army core of engineers rerouted the Louisiana waterways to accommodate big shipping business, they called it the Mr Go, that's why KATRINA wiped out many AREAS that once were protected by WETLANDS...GREED AND STUPIDITY CAUSED SUCH DESTRUCTION
How about harvesting the runoff nutrients into a very eco-friendly compost/fertilizer because there’s a fertilizer shortage. The lake doesn’t need that material. The fields need that material, and we need the fields. If you reclaim land for swamp, you will reduce food supplies.
Great video. A little short.
The lack of common sense in Agricultural is staggering... I AM AN AGRONOMIST... I was introduced to Organic Agricultural in 1985... My OSU profs were totally against it.. Why... Big Ag funding...
This is not hard... A majority of the people on this report are clueless... M Kaptur God help us...
Common sense isn't so common anymore
The wetlands protect the fresh water. It's really refreshing to hear moderate takes on really important issues.
2:58 I live like 2 minutes from this park. It was once a family farm and now it is a public park. You can see all the old equipment and there is a school house on the back of the property. They turned a field into a wetland.
Ohio has a terrible track record when it come to polluting water ways!
Ohio a great track record of feeding the world. If you get hungry, it will be easier to find a workable solution.
I’m born and raised in what’s left of the remnants of the black swamp. I love this land and it hurts my heart how much of the natural habitat hasn’t been protected.
Industry along the Maumee river still has permission to dump their waste and poison the water. Yes it’s less poisonous waste than it was decades ago but it’s still a huge part of the problem .
The warnings not to eat more than a few fish from the Maumee river still apply to this day. I’m not anti-industry, anti-ag or anti-capitalism but big money has kept the industries from really cleaning up their act. They would rather push the envelope and then after the damage has been done, pay a fine and ask the tax payer to help clean up the mess.... and if it’s too massive a task than it becomes a superfund site and in the end the people pay the cost in their health and wealth.
Love and respect our awesome Marcy Kaptur whose always been an amazing advocate for Ohioans , our resources and our lands.
Be well ✌️✊😇
Yeah, Ohio River is so polluted that you can't even eat fish out of it, especially not catfish, due to the massive amounts of led that's on the riverbed that gets eaten by bottom feeders, and those bottom feeders get eaten by other fish so almost all the fish in there are filled with toxic levels of lead.
I left Toledo in 1991.
Marcy Kaptur was in Congress then, and she's still there.
Term limits please.
She hasn’t done squat for that region - EV-ER.
Bob Latta and his father ,Delbert, have lived from the public trough for 47 years.
It didn't dri up it was drained.
Now it makes sense. The Mud Hens.
What about the city of Maumee dumping raw sewage into the river for decades?
Every single city along the lake has the same issue
I'm glad I watched this. Hopefully most that have it on their RUclips feed will do the same.
I drank the Toledo water in 2014. Back then i didnt drink water, let alone tap, but did so just to prove the water was fine and people are crazy.
Thanks!
There's an Italian comic book called Zagor set in Ohio's Great Black Swamp in the early 1800s. Let's just say the authors didn't expend much more effort than getting the name of the swamp right to ensure historical accuracy.
Ohio has an important role to play in the landscape of many things on this Earth, as it has been stated in this video. Thank you to everyone who has acknowledge this blessing, because we cannot survive without a water source!💦💞👣💥
Johny Appleseed got his start here in Ohio. Now the New World Order forbids agriculture outside of their control. Ohio Strawberries .........gone with the wind. Frogs in farm ponds... no no no. Shallow Skeeter breeder pits next to the mall growing algae's from hell. Y E S ...!
...........Just make sure it runs into the Long Lake
All of my high school friends have since moved out of Toledo. Job market is narrow there.
Great video
Don't forget about the tar blob in the lake too!
Tell us about the tar blob
@@elizabethrose8510 look it up, there is a blob in lake Erie near Cleveland, search Lake Erie tar blob
I know that there was a big boggy area inside the Buckeye Lake Music Amphitheater. We used to jump around on it when attending Rock Concerts there 💃💃😂
How you know there in Ohio… the sky’s gray. Little fact ohio during October to about march every day the sky is gray, we got a hand full of days where it clears but 95 percent the winter it’s gray.
I find it funny my weather app will say sunny. But it's just a lighter shade of gray outside. Good ol Toledo 😥
@@stevenclloyd lol right or says partly cloudy an it’s just gray 😂
Lake eerie has been the most polluted of the Great Lakes for my entire life. I hope you’re all enjoying “the pleasure” of continuing that rich history. Ps. I’m getting old now.
Farmers should look into switching their methods to no tilling. Not many realize how much erosion we cause tilling up the land every year.
The previous comments have only reinforced my belief that north coast Ohioans are ignoramuses. Wetlands are scientifically proven to improve water quality in the great lakes basin. But sure, let's continue to pour raw sewage and farm runoff right in to lake erie...and instead we'll nitpick details as to how thick the prehistoric glacial ice was.
Yep
Let’s not forget federally subsidized farm runoff to grow corn for our gas tanks and food for cows.
*Humanity messing things up as per usual...* 🤦🏻♀️
Great video but we also need to look at all the chemicals that are being applied by lawn care companies. Farming does a lot but look at everything.
This ^^^^^^, along with all the city wastewater and treatment plants that expel into the Maumee. I farm, and many of my friends farm, we are taking a large hit for being blamed on the algae, but in reality, with the H2Ohio programs and other conservation practices like cover cropping and no till, the water being expelled from our fields are less of fertilizers now than they ever been. I would or am not afraid to drink the water that comes out of one of my field tile or outlet, its that CLEAN ! Commercial Fertilizer costs are huge, most well managed farms will not over fertilize because of the COSTS to be profitable, in fact with GPS and variable rate application, I have spots in certain fields that require NO fertilizers. The same can be said of pesticides, we all have to have a license to apply fertilizers and agricultural pesticides per State of Ohio and we go thru constant training and meetings. There is also research ongoing about sulphur ( acid rain ) from the power plants, ever since the scrubbers have been installed per EPA, there is so much less acid rain ( sulphur ) in the black swamp area which resisted algae, now.... that sulphur is gone, and we are seeing more algae in our woods. People need to realize, that this while thing is one large puzzle and there are many -many pieces to the puzzle....not just the farmers. Another thing the video does not mention...clearing of the swamp is how we got our roads and infrastructure built. The wood was made into lumber, dynamite and horses removed the stumps of HUGE trees, oaks, walnuts and elm. Then from digging of ditches, the spoil of the ditch digging piled on one side of the ditch, and made for high ridges that roads could be made on top of. The draining of the swamp allowed production of some of the best soils in the world for crop production, depending on subsoil .
@@hf-lz2qw VERY well said! To your point of city waste water contributing to algae blooms, ag is being 'blamed' because fed dept of ag has funds. Farmers have to have manure management plans, fert plans etc, small cities can apply for dept of ag grant or loans to update older waste water treatment plants. Farmers take the Heat, municipalities get funds.
As explained to me by a county commisioner in the watershed of Lake St Mary's.
Sandusky in the house
Okay, the Cuyahoga was NOT THE ONLY river to catch fire, but because of the creation of the EPA it was the last major river fire (accidents still happen from a specific cause today). I don't think we can fully stop the agriculture impact on our hydrologic systems, but we can mitigate and reduce the occurrence of adverse events. 👽🗿👽🗿👽
She says we gone to the Moon Shia gullible one 😂😂😂😂😂😂that little venture was filmed at Gatti's Warehouse Studio in the Hollywood Foothills beside of a few clips in the Arizona desert LOL
If you take a bowl fill it with ice and pour water in it and let it melt the bowl does not overflow just like earth you can look at land marks from around the world from thousands of years ago ago and the water level is still the same
people don't know what happened yesterday. that is part of the problem with anything ever getting better.
Lived in findlay, fostoria, tiffin, arcadia, value, vanburen, worked at hoyt ville, as a combat engneer. Stationed out of LIma ohio. Know of the land well. Sgt williams cod 983 rd LIma. Ohio
Talk to a scientist from University of Toledo recently I know they’re still having the same problem. Why not put the swamp back at this point I drive Ohio 2 every day I ran into them at the friendship right before you get to Toledo
Urban development! Clearing land for housing developments, drive down Roachton rd in Perrysburg, used to be all farm land now one ugly house after another and all have to have beautiful lawns, yea! allot of fertilizer all running into the Maumee river. Small creeks like Crane and Cedar creek all jammed up with dead Ash trees and erosion washing the banks out making the creek wider and wider. When there is just two inches of rain the creeks are backed up and flooding. The state and counties claim they have no money to maintain the creeks but look at the millions of tax payers dollars that goes to the Metro Parks paying for the geese and the frogs and birds to play. And the millions of our local tax dollars spent so the bird watchers can come from all over to watch the birds for free for a week. Also how Scott Carpenter of the Metro Parks brags how all the trails are cleaned and plowed and all the employees are on a plow when the streets of Toledo dont get plowed and people are complaining about it, there is your tax dollars at work Toledo, funding the Metro Parks with all new equipment, vehicles, clothing, gas/fuel just so people can play. Put your money where it counts and does good for productive living.
Cedar creek was beautiful years back.
Never said what the problem was. Algae is nature's way of eating the nutrients that wash off. That's what was portrayed as the main issue. Why
Everything is mismanaged . The average human does not care. They want to get McDonald's and then throw out the packaging a half mile away! It's sickening!
I agree. So many don't seem to care about where they throw their trash. I'm old enough to remember when there were signs saying Keep America clean, don't litter.
Is that Bowen Nature Preserve at 7:18?
🤣 that one chick towards the end thinks people went to the moon over 50 years ago.
Bwaaaahhhaa
Wrong. These farmers apply New York City sludge on there fields . The spring rains wash this sewage to the rivers.
yer saying NYC turds aren't good enough
@@Less1leg2 it is what it is. But people are payed to lie these days. They had to stop dumping the sludge in the ocean because it was killing to much ocean life. They had big boats with a hatch in the bottom that would drop the sludge. So they needed a new place to go with the sludge. So they dry it out , put on rail cars and sell it to idiot farmers for fertilizer. As you can guess there’s everything else in it as well. So that’s what’s going into the Great Lakes.
@@farmerdude3578 yuck, human poop is so, so, polluted....
Lol.... I assume you're here to yank peoples chains. That's a good one.
@@alwesker3060 I wish I was.
For some reason I believe it was longer than 3 days with no water.
How are you going to stop farmers from over fertilizing? It's to their economic benefit to over fertilize. They have the political power to resist anything that costs them a penny. Farmers believe they are the stewards of 'the land'. They believe anything they do to improve crop yields is 'taking care of the land'. They don't care about anything either downstream or off their property. If Ohio has to completely re-engineer the Black Swamp drainage, you can bet the the farmers will politically resist, and not contribute a cent to the damage they've done and intend to continue to do.
I am a grain farmer, been for 40 years... I'm a 4th generation farmer . Most farmers are NOT over fertilizing because of A.) its WAY TOO EXPENSIVE ! and not profitable. B.) We have to have a pesticide and fertilizing application license to apply, so we have restrictions in place and are finable and held under EPA jurisdiction....we dont WANT to have to deal with EPA so we obey. C.) with GPS, variable rate technology, no till and cover cropping practices, the water that is expelled from field tile is safer now than it ever has been. D.) We live and raise our own lives, kids and livestock on this land...do you really think we want to "poison" our very own ?..NO ! ...Most of us want to pass our farms down to many more generations, just like our past families did ( heritage ). E.) The farm population has steadily decreased since the 1930's. The smaller family farms are gradually being taken over by larger farms or OUTSIDE investors that are buying farmland. THIS RIGHT HERE is your enemy ( these are your votes ). We can not politically resist, because WE are the ones out numbered. Used to be a small family farm was 40-80 acres of land, with livestock, family of 4 to 8 or more. Now...average size is around 800-1200 acres is run by a family of 4 on average. So......where did these extra people go over time ? off to town or city to work to make a living.
Your comments of " They believe anything they do to improve crop yields is 'taking care of the land'. They don't care about anything either downstream or off their property " is false. I have been cover cropping and no tilling my farm land for over 25 years and have actually increased organic matter, and have less runoff of water into ditches, streams and rivers. I have GPS mapping and H2Ohio and County records to prove this, and I am not alone, all my family, friends , and neighbors from miles around are included. I actually have one field I rent from a landlord that does not have any patterned drain tile in it, I been using No Till and cover cropping the past 20 years and have actually increased yields with LESS chemicals and LESS pesticides. You need to come out and see for yourself, before making an accusation like that. I have some landlords I rent from from Chicago ( city ) and they have visited and rode with me in my equipment and see how I steward and try to improve their land. I want to be the best I can be, so that my kids and grand kids can farm some day....farm, hunt and fish.
I encourage you to do more research and digging before you paint broad brush comments, and know the FACTS first hand.
@@hf-lz2qw No personal offense intended, but all the nitrates in western Lake Erie are definitely AG related. I know 'no till' was supposed to reduce erosion, but it put the fertilizer on the surface where it's easier to wash away.
Regarding the passing of the family farm, that is totally technology related. Sure, there were a lot more farmers and farm families before the gasoline tractor too. How many men with mules would it take to farm your place? The bigger the ag equipment, the fewer farmers are needed. The exact same thing has happened to workers in manufacturing. The more tech, the fewer workers. I hesitate to tell you the day of the robot tractors are here. Can YOU afford a robot tractor? Wall Street definitely can. That's reality. Technology makes humans obsolete. Considering humans have been farming for 13,000 years, the family farm has a certain sacred air to it. Archer Daniels Midland, General Mills, and all the big food conglomerates don't care. My livelihood went away because of technology too.
@@georgepretnick4460 No Till does not put fertilizer on the surface !, look up what a no till coulter does and how it does it ! By law, we are not even allowed to spread fertilizer within 24 hrs of a rain event, as well as frozen ground ! same way with manure applications ! In regards to your amount of people to farm, you proved my point again...., tech and fewer workers, so that means LESS political power, because of less votes... like you mentioned in your 1st response accusing of and I quote your sentence : " political power to resist anything that costs them a penny", . I agree robotics are here to stay, because a lot of farmers can not get good help that wants to work or work in our conditions. Us farmers are actually requesting it from companies like Deere, Kinze, Ag Leader, CaseIH... Not sure on affordabilty of a robot tractor, but I have autosteer and mapping in my tractors and combine. The cost to have an autonomous tractor to pull a grain cart is already feasible today from Ag Leader , Deere and Kinze. Ag is the only industry where we dont get to set OUR price for our raised commodities. You live in a free country where food is pretty much plentiful and CHEAP, take a tour around the world and check how real things are.....and how things are about to get....it is not a pretty picture, its time for a LOT of people to wake up !!!! hunger is coming.....and fast, way-way too much regulation for the ones that are doing it correctly.
@@hf-lz2qw Beg pardon, I didn't mean family farmers had political clout. I meant big Ag conglomerates own the state legislatures. Artificial Intelligence (robots) will eventually remove all humans from manufacturing and farming. The African Americans and working class whites that migrated north after the end of the sharecropper and tenant farmer era worked the assembly lines around the Great Lakes. Now, technology and offshoring has rendered those people unneeded. That is why the northern cities have so much crime and underemployment. The farms and the assembly lines don't need them anymore..
All cities and communities need areas where water runoff can occur and congregate before making way to greater bodies of water. Generally, mother nature knows best and has already created the needed streams, gully's and swamps serving this purpose. It is important to build around these drainage systems in a way not to impede their ability to do their job in the name of "progress"'; progress without respect to the natural world.
MISINFORMATION ALERT!!!
There was not 2 miles of ice on Ohio. The ice only got to that depth over Hudson Bay. The ice that was over NORTHERN Ohio wasnt more than 500 -600 feet. A far cry from 11,000.
I think you're correct. Had there been a two mile thick ice sheet. I think there would have been much more scarring of the land in glaciated Ohio.
When the first white men came to Ohio, Ohio was a triple canopy hardwood jungle with the exception of NW Ohio which was prairie.
Where one seed needed wet land another seed a great spot for a neighborhood
Well all of this no till makes the rain water drain off fast !
Home of the black feet tribe the grate black swamp in north Ohio history from Shawnee of Southern Ohio
I knew your video went wrong as soon as you had Marcy Kaptur talking in it lol that lady has know clue and does not care
Then you don't know Marcy, she is the best person in all of congress.
@ken8334 lol ok twit
does biochar use fit into this nutrient migration problem?
The black swamp was a horrible place? What a preposterous statement.
Stupid very stupid man
Most of SE Michigan was also a swamp everything on the borders of lake St Claire is land fill
This problem was man made from what I hear. Farmers over fertilizing on the fields surface knowing that a lot of it would end up in our great beautiful Great Lake as run off.
The background "sounds" over powers the voices of people talking.
I delivered the Sandusky Register as a kid. Ohio was bulldozed 100 years ago during the late Industrial Revolution. Now that nearly all industry has left the state, it’s time to let Mother Nature have her way. The “good old days” of Ohio aren’t coming back.
bring the BLACK SWAMP BACK
Let's not.
Grand lake st Mary's found this out the hard way..got rid of wetlands and built..lake died for couple years..on rebound now but..