The beaver is a saviour in times of drought and times of flood, amazing creatures that need more recognition from the general public for doing infinitely more good than bad.
Great. Take ours. Here in downtown Columbus Ohio we have those little brown b@st@rds raising he11 and Wildlife boys out here all the time catching and releasing... it ain't happy time for anyone!
@@kirani111 Beavers aren't flooding forests, mountain meadows and prairies for the ecosystems "benefit". They are doing it for their own benefit. Prairie dogs don't care who flooded their town. They just know that their colony has just become extinct. It's like the great Pacific garbage patch. Did you know that it is its own ecosystem, complete with plants, marine and bird life? We altered the original ecosystem and created a new one. It is the same thing beavers do but you want to give them a pass and blame humans for doing the exact same thing.
49 year old Englishman here and just wanted to say. Amazing Lady, Amazing story and everyone who listened to her and helped with this Amazing transformation, your all Amazing people. So nice to see life being made. I could have watched this for hours.
This is miraculous. Don’t think that this is a story about only a mile or two of stream. Carol has done this with hundreds of miles of stream in Nevada!
Congratulations to the farmers, land managers and hunters for recreating and preserving that ecosystem. Keep up the great success! Greetings from Germany
@@SimSim-zf9if it's easy to have 20 20 vision in hindsight. I wonder sometimes how people hundreds of years from now will view the actions of people who live now. 🤔
Land managers, farmers and mostly hunters are people who contributes to ecosystem problems, farmers overuse the water and and these hunters endlessly killing wild animals just for recreation.
@@chrismckell5353 20:20 hindsight, for god's sake its the 21st century not the 1900's. These things were known over 50 years ago and we still continue to rape the land. These types of success stories are a drop in ocean. Also what do the hunters have to do with anything? They are only looking for a good supply of prey to rebound.
Esp the farmers. Either there was a massive pushback from them when the govt came in to “fix the problem”, or the problem they caused was so bad they didn’t care what anyone did to the stream. It’s sad they took and took from the land until it’s resources were gone instead of managing it as a resource all along.
Carol you deserve a medal. Not only for identifying what was causing the problem but then presenting your findings and getting the buy in from the people who, maybe inadvertently, contributed to the problem. Jon, you and you fellow ranchers are certainly a great bunch of people. Having the foresight to understand what Carol had identified and then picking it up and running with it. All in all a damn fine bunch of people making the land a much better and more sustainable. I hope lots of people use this as tale of how successful the outcome can be if people work together on a project. it may have taken a long time but I'm sure everyone felt the benefits from quite early on. Well done everyone involved, oh and a big shout out to Mr Beaver and his family for contributing also.👍
This is fabulous! I grew up during a time in the Great Basin where most of the drainages looked like the 1989 video and photos of Dixie Creek. I’m so happy to hear and watch this multi-interest group come together to restore something so precious in this dry country. Bless you all!
Very beatiful contrast between dry chaparral biome and riparian zone. I appreciate the people's will to make a world to be a better place and to restore damaged nature.
@@russellringland1399 nobody shoots Beaver. They won't come back until the habitat can support them. Beaver haven't been Hunted hard for 100 years. There are so many beavers in New England now, we don't know what to do with them all. It is just a matter of giving them space to live
The permaculture ethos for watershed management is "slow it, soak it, spread it" and maximize each drop's participation in life-rich interactions between the point where it first enters your land and the point where it finally leaves your land.
The permaculture ethos for watershed management is "slow it, soak it, spread it" and maximize each drop's participation in life-rich interactions between the point where it first enters your land and the point where it finally leaves your land.
It’s amazing how everything is dried up for miles expect the immediate basin around the creek reminds me of the same effect the Nile river does In the Sahara
You can start to imagine what would happen if you start to reverse the damage humans have done to all of these creeks, rivers, etc. You can create green spots and permanent water throughout dry areas, it cools, changes weather, creates more rain, and makes everything else more fertile... which again starts another cycle of life and growth.
Not being a grand ma nazi but watch auto correct. It's a pain cos it can replace a word with a completely different word (if you accidentally press a wrong key). In your case you ment "except" but autocorrect made it "expect", it seems.
And...man has managed to ruin the natural cycle of the Nile by building the Aswan Dam. Nature has been perfecting herself for millenia until humans came along, thought they knew better and destroyed the environment. .
We need a lot more of this. Great to see. Nature just needs a little support, then it makes a huge difference. Beavers are awesome, and they are just one of thousands or millions of creatures that exist to maintain a diverse and healthy ecosystem.
You're right about nature needing human support to thrive but most of the time its after the human themselves has degraded the land, ironic right? Nature was long here before us and actually were doing better without us! Although humans can have a pretty good role to play among other species in this planet instead of battling the thing that gave us life...
@@erfan4244 I think a lot of the ancient cultures have a better understanding of living with the land. We are a part of it yet we are encouraged to see ourselves as apart from it. I don't think this view benefits the world including most of us.
Things like this is why I want to take over my dads ranch, so I can focus on putting in beaver dam analogs and pushing wholistic management further than my dad did when he got the ball rolling
That sounds like a really worthwhile goal. Learn as much as you can now whilst working alongside him and one day when the time is right and he's ready to retire you'll be ready to take over the ranch and continue his work.
Fantastic. I'm an Aussie who has lived in arid areas and seen the effects of over grazing and poor land management. The simple strategy of slowing down the water flow (I wish we had beavers) and reducing the time stock feeds on the vegetation is so conducive to the health of our waterways and native ecosystems. Smaller paddocks and faster rotation of stock so that they don't over eat/stress the areas has shown to be both better for the land and better for profits. No matter how much we all wish we could make everything a National Park or protected land, the reality is most of it will be owned and operated as a business. Farmers and graziers have to make money to look after their families and survive just like the rest of us. Initiatives like this, tick all the boxes. Just because our forefathers did things in a certain way, it doesn't disrespect them to learn and adopt better methods when it ultimately benefits everyone. People, animals. plants and the water table. Again fantastic. It makes me feel good to see people making a real difference and caring for the land. Cheers from Australia.
If you import beavers, you need to import predators too, or they will make a mess like they are in South America. On a positive note, predators that eat beavers would also eat rabbits. ❤
that is blm land those farmers do not own the land we all do they graze dirt cheap and many destroy the rivers with there cows if they want to be on the land they need to do what these farmers did.
I remember & enjoyed the Australian Story of bringing back the creeks & sadly a millionaire philanthropist who devoted a lot for the cause dies young of cancer & touchingly wanted to be burried in a hand made basket like coffin. My respect
@@duotronic6451 man up to medieval times shaped the environment in ways that also increased biodiversity, similar to beavers. they created small open areas in the woods, etc. The problem is intensive agriculture and ranching which is still fairly recent history.
@@Maurazio "We" moved from being social (cooperation) to cultural (competition). "We" didn't get kicked out of Eden, we defiled it. The whole Earth was an "Eden" and could be again. Let us work to reconcile the needs and works of humankind with those of the Earth and all of its life.
As a Christian we humans after the fall into sin brought selfishness and lack of love of creation to humanity. We were meant to be the perfect caretakers for the planet as God's creation but after the fall we lost the ability to be perfect caretakers of the planet due to greed and selfishness.
it is nice to know there are ranchers out there that are genuinely interested in working with nature and not being so hyper focused on just cattle and that water in the desert is a good thing. I am southwestern New Mexico and this is definitely not the case.
Many places around the world have been doing this for hundreds if not thousands of years. It's modern, industrial farming that has tried to take shortcuts to save money. I live on a cattle farm in Scotland, our cows are regularly moved around, several times a year, and we have more water than we will ever need. It's not just about the water, it's feeding the soil and letting it recover. Too many people over the years have said "over grazing is the problem", but what they mean is land management is the problem. The waste from cattle etc is vital to the whole system.
@@wendyscott8425 I understand how that may sound, but let me make two things clear that might explain things. Firstly, the land is sound, it is not healing after years of abuse. It is well hydrated with regular rain, bordered by hedgerows and trees in a biodiverse landscape, and free from chemical "assistance", and has been for generations. This is not regenerative, this is stopping it going bad in the first place. Cattle do not graze anywhere near watercourses. Secondly, our herds are smaller and pastures are larger (on a per cow basis) than most US commercial ranches. Cattle do not march in a line like a cartoon fever dream lawn mower stripping the land bare, but are free to roam and frolick in a space that they do not come close to clearing before they are moved.
This story makes my heart sing! Thank you, Carol, and all the other unsung heroes who dedicate their lives to returning our land to the way Nature intended it to be. THANK YOU!! ❤❤❤
I used to fish for trout in Buffalo Spring I think, near Orovada, NV. You could step across it in most places but it had plenty of trout. Good to see people looking out for these places.
Up north here in Canada we have some pretty flat areas where beaver will flood huge areas, including homes, but in a valley, or rivers like that, they usually just make ponds like you have there, and then the water flows out of it. They don’t stop the river like people think, unless there’s no more input. People always used to break down the dams thinking they stop the water flow.p, but that’s impossible. If the flow stops, it’s because there is no water coming in, and consider yourself lucky the beaver made a reservoir
Beaver has been extinct in the UK since the mid-1500's. They've been reintroduced in several places since 2009. They're thriving. Everybody keep up the good work.
Wonderful story of habitat restoration, drought prevention, and controlling flash floods with the help of ranchers changing grazing practices, government and wildlife such as the beaver.
It is nice seeing positive stories that are at least tangentially related to climate change. I wish this video was bigger but I thank you for making it and thank the RUclips algorithm for recommending it to me!
Beautiful! Not too far from us. I’d love to see more streams restored in the arid west. I drive semi in the region for a living, and pass so many former stream beds that look like Dixie at the start of this restoration project…barren, dry, ghosts of themselves. Would absolutely love if every canyon and valley looked like Dixie does today! Great work everybody!
I watch the daily news and my heart despairs, seeing so little light shed on what truly threatens our future… the decimation of the miraculous balance of Nature. I find this video and my heart rejoices. Like Dixie Creek, it has been replenished and renewed. Just knowing there are others out there who understand and care, who are planting seeds of wisdom and compassion, replenishes my resolve and renews my strength to never give up. Thank you so very much!!!
So Great to see what Miracles can happen when People understand that Beavers are So Critical to our Healthy Streams and Creeks especially in Desert type landscapes! Thanks for the Video!
Waw ! You guys are showing a way of life i never knew existed. These actions are not being shown on tv or they might show one project. Lately i realize there's so many groups spread all over the world, often connected thru the internet... I want to be a part of that. I live in Belgium, we don't have these dry places but i sure like to join in the nearest dry region which is Spain. Than you for being an inspiration ❤
I was excited to learn about Dixie Creek, but at first couldn't concentrate because of the music. I came back to it and discovered the sound got better and softer.
I love stories like this! The best part is it's a true story! Sooo glad there's something beautiful like this happening. It's things like this that give me hope. Bless the streams! ❤️🏞️
It is a very impressive sight to see the rejuvenation of the creek. It is also a very well-made video. Good luck with enlarging the project. By the way, beavers are just coming back into the UK in a few places. You can check out the progress of "re-wilding" in the UK - and how the reintroduction of beavers is helping the process - at various places on RUclips.
In Australia we don't have beaver but to revive creeks we use bolders to slow the water down and create pools of water that soak in and revive to surrounding landscape. This will save the environment better than supposed green energy like solar panels.
that is what i learned from a old couple that were /lived to be in their early 100s, if you have beavers on your land you will always have water even in drought times,, so i took their advice and never trapped more then 2 beaver out of a colony unless they were causing damage to roads or field crops ,i was a damage control trapper at one time when i was younger and healthy,, so yup beaver are oth good and bad,, in this case they are really really good
I grew up in Ely around Cave lake Cummings lake illipah lake in the Ruby marshes. So much outdoor fun I never even realized I was in a desert, this is a good story !
Wow and wow! How amazing was that?? Mars and bountiful, rich Earth....so well done by all the people involved...You give Mother Nature a helping hand, leave her be, and she is so so generous in return...But the true heroes here are the beavers...those cute, hard working engineers of the rivers and the land...they create pure magic...:-))))
I've become more and more interested in these stream and wetlands restoration efforts, how they can be accomplished with incredibly low-tech and on an extremely small scale, and how they heal the whole environment around them.
When there is water and rolling foothills like that it also brings back and hold populations of Sage grouse, Hungarian and Chukar partridge, not mention larger mammals.
This is so wonderful! We heard about this recently and was so happy to come across this video. What an amazing story of how things can recover with the right knowledge to manage land correctly. Thank you so much for all that you've done to make this happen! Bravo!
I love hearing farmers acknowledge they didn’t know better at the time but I’d love for them to shout out the early scientists, advocates and activists who’ve been trying to explain it since the 70s 👏
This is an amazing and inspiring story! I'm sure it will serve as an example of how multiple use management, when done correctly, can benefit all parties. Thank you, Carol, for having the foresight to document conditions 32 years ago and sticking with the goal! Do you remember your week at the Tozitna River fish camp with my crew and me ;)
Hi Jason! So cool to hear from you. Do I remember Tozi? That was the best experience of my life! I have long wondered how the salmon runs are doing here. News about salmon everywhere seems pretty grim. Are you still in Alaska?
I'm especially impressed that the ranchers haven't been negatively affected. That's the real thing here. That actual useful business can thrive along with everything else.
Ranchers need the beaver dams to raise the water table in surrounding land. Ranches aren't the only useful thing either... Fish thrive in beaver ponds as well as hundreds of other species in the food chain. Removing the beavers ruined the area, and that was a decision by human hunters and ranchers. Restoring habitat for beavers improves the land around streams immensely.
This is such an awesome story of rebirth! I applaud everyone's efforts over the years to bring this area back to vitality! NGL, i shed a few tears after watching this. Gives me hope for us humans to be able to work together for a common goal, regardless of differing backgrounds.
This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I spent my formative years in Wyoming, where you can see this same damage from grazing everywhere you go. Little effort has be put forward to restore the streams and creeks from grazing damage. I could name several streams there that need some of this management.
Properly timed grazing and working with natural systems is the most productive way to retain water, improve nature, and raise meat animals simultaneously. Bravo.
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Imagine this little animal basically doing all the work for us and restoring things that we have all but destroyed
The beaver is a saviour in times of drought and times of flood, amazing creatures that need more recognition from the general public for doing infinitely more good than bad.
Great. Take ours. Here in downtown Columbus Ohio we have those little brown b@st@rds raising he11 and Wildlife boys out here all the time catching and releasing... it ain't happy time for anyone!
Beavers are a lot like man. They will destroy entire ecosystems for their own benefit.
@@vintagethrifter2114 They create new ones, though. Wetlands are threatened and lacking damn near everywhere humans have set foot!
@@vintagethrifter2114 their benefit is the ecosystem’s benefit, that’s the difference between them and us.
@@kirani111 Beavers aren't flooding forests, mountain meadows and prairies for the ecosystems "benefit". They are doing it for their own benefit. Prairie dogs don't care who flooded their town. They just know that their colony has just become extinct. It's like the great Pacific garbage patch. Did you know that it is its own ecosystem, complete with plants, marine and bird life? We altered the original ecosystem and created a new one. It is the same thing beavers do but you want to give them a pass and blame humans for doing the exact same thing.
49 year old Englishman here and just wanted to say. Amazing Lady, Amazing story and everyone who listened to her and helped with this Amazing transformation, your all Amazing people. So nice to see life being made. I could have watched this for hours.
This is miraculous. Don’t think that this is a story about only a mile or two of stream. Carol has done this with hundreds of miles of stream in Nevada!
now if only these folks could do something about their culture of white supremacy
A few more trees growing in the desert and climate change, won’t be a problem anymore in fact, more biodiversity and less heat
Nothing miraculous about it! It called getting the hell out of the way! Simple don’t you think?
@@jamessparkman6604so you think you can change the earths temperature? Less heat? So then they’ll be complaints about worse winters?
Congratulations to the farmers, land managers and hunters for recreating and preserving that ecosystem. Keep up the great success! Greetings from Germany
@@SimSim-zf9if it's easy to have 20 20 vision in hindsight. I wonder sometimes how people hundreds of years from now will view the actions of people who live now. 🤔
Land managers, farmers and mostly hunters are people who contributes to ecosystem problems, farmers overuse the water and and these hunters endlessly killing wild animals just for recreation.
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20:20 hindsight, for god's sake its the 21st century not the 1900's. These things were known over 50 years ago and we still continue to rape the land. These types of success stories are a drop in ocean.
Also what do the hunters have to do with anything? They are only looking for a good supply of prey to rebound.
Ditto from the UK!
Esp the farmers. Either there was a massive pushback from them when the govt came in to “fix the problem”, or the problem they caused was so bad they didn’t care what anyone did to the stream. It’s sad they took and took from the land until it’s resources were gone instead of managing it as a resource all along.
Carol you deserve a medal. Not only for identifying what was causing the problem but then presenting your findings and getting the buy in from the people who, maybe inadvertently, contributed to the problem. Jon, you and you fellow ranchers are certainly a great bunch of people. Having the foresight to understand what Carol had identified and then picking it up and running with it.
All in all a damn fine bunch of people making the land a much better and more sustainable.
I hope lots of people use this as tale of how successful the outcome can be if people work together on a project.
it may have taken a long time but I'm sure everyone felt the benefits from quite early on. Well done everyone involved, oh and a big shout out to Mr Beaver and his family for contributing also.👍
It really is a story of cooperation. That's how we win.
This is fabulous! I grew up during a time in the Great Basin where most of the drainages looked like the 1989 video and photos of Dixie Creek. I’m so happy to hear and watch this multi-interest group come together to restore something so precious in this dry country. Bless you all!
How about the revitalize the human habitat for once.
Carol out here literally changing the world what a trooper
This woman's beaver singlehandedly saved Nevada.
Very beatiful contrast between dry chaparral biome and riparian zone. I appreciate the people's will to make a world to be a better place and to restore damaged nature.
A watershed manager once told me his job was capturing and safely releasing water. Dixie Creek is an excellent example.
It's too easy. Just bring Beaver and keep everyone from shooting them. The Beavers will do the work.
@@russellringland1399 nobody shoots Beaver. They won't come back until the habitat can support them. Beaver haven't been Hunted hard for 100 years. There are so many beavers in New England now, we don't know what to do with them all. It is just a matter of giving them space to live
The permaculture ethos for watershed management is "slow it, soak it, spread it" and maximize each drop's participation in life-rich interactions between the point where it first enters your land and the point where it finally leaves your land.
@@zenolachance1181 We need more in the PNW, i have only seen a few in the wild.
@@Dylangreat123 I'm sure New Hampshire would love to give you some
The permaculture ethos for watershed management is "slow it, soak it, spread it" and maximize each drop's participation in life-rich interactions between the point where it first enters your land and the point where it finally leaves your land.
It’s amazing how everything is dried up for miles expect the immediate basin around the creek reminds me of the same effect the Nile river does In the Sahara
You can start to imagine what would happen if you start to reverse the damage humans have done to all of these creeks, rivers, etc. You can create green spots and permanent water throughout dry areas, it cools, changes weather, creates more rain, and makes everything else more fertile... which again starts another cycle of life and growth.
Not being a grand ma nazi but watch auto correct. It's a pain cos it can replace a word with a completely different word (if you accidentally press a wrong key). In your case you ment "except" but autocorrect made it "expect", it seems.
@@Justwantahover Yeah alright "Grandma Errors" 😂
Or the Colorado River in Mexico?
And...man has managed to ruin the natural cycle of the Nile by building the Aswan Dam. Nature has been perfecting herself for millenia until humans came along, thought they knew better and destroyed the environment. .
Beaver. Man's best friend.
We need a lot more of this. Great to see. Nature just needs a little support, then it makes a huge difference. Beavers are awesome, and they are just one of thousands or millions of creatures that exist to maintain a diverse and healthy ecosystem.
You're right about nature needing human support to thrive but most of the time its after the human themselves has degraded the land, ironic right?
Nature was long here before us and actually were doing better without us! Although humans can have a pretty good role to play among other species in this planet instead of battling the thing that gave us life...
@@erfan4244 I think a lot of the ancient cultures have a better understanding of living with the land. We are a part of it yet we are encouraged to see ourselves as apart from it. I don't think this view benefits the world including most of us.
It's good to see some people repairing the land instead of damaging.
This is Incredible. Every single American should watch this and every single American should do their part to restore the country's natural beauty
I love stories like this. We can do so much better.
Love to see ranchers, locals, BLM, and others working TOGETHER. Way to go! Everybody benefits!
Things like this is why I want to take over my dads ranch, so I can focus on putting in beaver dam analogs and pushing wholistic management further than my dad did when he got the ball rolling
in Nevada? It is amazing how fast riparian veg can come back
Beaver dam analogs are cool 😎 we can learn so much following nature’s example . . .
That sounds like a really worthwhile goal. Learn as much as you can now whilst working alongside him and one day when the time is right and he's ready to retire you'll be ready to take over the ranch and continue his work.
Holistic
Fantastic. I'm an Aussie who has lived in arid areas and seen the effects of over grazing and poor land management. The simple strategy of slowing down the water flow (I wish we had beavers) and reducing the time stock feeds on the vegetation is so conducive to the health of our waterways and native ecosystems. Smaller paddocks and faster rotation of stock so that they don't over eat/stress the areas has shown to be both better for the land and better for profits. No matter how much we all wish we could make everything a National Park or protected land, the reality is most of it will be owned and operated as a business. Farmers and graziers have to make money to look after their families and survive just like the rest of us. Initiatives like this, tick all the boxes. Just because our forefathers did things in a certain way, it doesn't disrespect them to learn and adopt better methods when it ultimately benefits everyone. People, animals. plants and the water table. Again fantastic. It makes me feel good to see people making a real difference and caring for the land. Cheers from Australia.
If you import beavers, you need to import predators too, or they will make a mess like they are in South America.
On a positive note, predators that eat beavers would also eat rabbits. ❤
that is blm land those farmers do not own the land we all do they graze dirt cheap and many destroy the rivers with there cows if they want to be on the land they need to do what these farmers did.
I rarely see quail near grazing, Excellent work
My dad grew up on a ranch exactly in this area. He would have loved to see this.
All of us Canadians appreciate all the good work our national spirit animal does around the world.
G'day I'm in Australia and we have been dong a similar thing here with great results.Looks good keep up the good work and
well done.
G'day Dave.........Exciting isn't it!!!
Make a video about it !
I remember & enjoyed the Australian Story of bringing back the creeks & sadly a millionaire philanthropist who devoted a lot for the cause dies young of cancer & touchingly wanted to be burried in a hand made basket like coffin. My respect
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Beavers are second only to man in modifying their environment to suit their needs. They really are incredible creatures who get little recognition.
An argument could be made that man is second to Beaver in several ways.
@@duotronic6451 man up to medieval times shaped the environment in ways that also increased biodiversity, similar to beavers. they created small open areas in the woods, etc. The problem is intensive agriculture and ranching which is still fairly recent history.
@@Maurazio "We" moved from being social (cooperation) to cultural (competition). "We" didn't get kicked out of Eden, we defiled it. The whole Earth was an "Eden" and could be again. Let us work to reconcile the needs and works of humankind with those of the Earth and all of its life.
As a Christian we humans after the fall into sin brought selfishness and lack of love of creation to humanity. We were meant to be the perfect caretakers for the planet as God's creation but after the fall we lost the ability to be perfect caretakers of the planet due to greed and selfishness.
Haha, beavers are easily no. 1. Seeing as they are not the ones who created the destruction in the first place.
it is nice to know there are ranchers out there that are genuinely interested in working with nature and not being so hyper focused on just cattle and that water in the desert is a good thing. I am southwestern New Mexico and this is definitely not the case.
This needs to happen around the world! Kudos to all who helped make this happen.
Many places around the world have been doing this for hundreds if not thousands of years. It's modern, industrial farming that has tried to take shortcuts to save money. I live on a cattle farm in Scotland, our cows are regularly moved around, several times a year, and we have more water than we will ever need. It's not just about the water, it's feeding the soil and letting it recover.
Too many people over the years have said "over grazing is the problem", but what they mean is land management is the problem. The waste from cattle etc is vital to the whole system.
@@Argrouk You only move your cattle around several times a year? Regenerative ranchers that I know of in the US move them every day!
@@wendyscott8425 I understand how that may sound, but let me make two things clear that might explain things.
Firstly, the land is sound, it is not healing after years of abuse. It is well hydrated with regular rain, bordered by hedgerows and trees in a biodiverse landscape, and free from chemical "assistance", and has been for generations. This is not regenerative, this is stopping it going bad in the first place. Cattle do not graze anywhere near watercourses.
Secondly, our herds are smaller and pastures are larger (on a per cow basis) than most US commercial ranches. Cattle do not march in a line like a cartoon fever dream lawn mower stripping the land bare, but are free to roam and frolick in a space that they do not come close to clearing before they are moved.
@Argrouk Cool, sounds like heaven!
This story makes my heart sing! Thank you, Carol, and all the other unsung heroes who dedicate their lives to returning our land to the way Nature intended it to be. THANK YOU!! ❤❤❤
Greetings from the Netherlands. Phenomenal. Thank goodness there are folks like yourselves that care about environmental health.
With the waters rising all countries that have desserts or suffer heavy draughts need to adopt this idea. Well done Nevada! ❤
I used to fish for trout in Buffalo Spring I think, near Orovada, NV. You could step across it in most places but it had plenty of trout. Good to see people looking out for these places.
Up north here in Canada we have some pretty flat areas where beaver will flood huge areas, including homes, but in a valley, or rivers like that, they usually just make ponds like you have there, and then the water flows out of it. They don’t stop the river like people think, unless there’s no more input. People always used to break down the dams thinking they stop the water flow.p, but that’s impossible. If the flow stops, it’s because there is no water coming in, and consider yourself lucky the beaver made a reservoir
I still see people complain about returning beavers to the land. These people need to watch stories like this.
Beaver has been extinct in the UK since the mid-1500's. They've been reintroduced in several places since 2009. They're thriving. Everybody keep up the good work.
I've heard euro beavers were bred with american ones to bolster their gene pool.
Wonderful story of habitat restoration, drought prevention, and controlling flash floods with the help of ranchers changing grazing practices, government and wildlife such as the beaver.
It is nice seeing positive stories that are at least tangentially related to climate change. I wish this video was bigger but I thank you for making it and thank the RUclips algorithm for recommending it to me!
Hear hear
Go Beaver !!!!
I ran inmate fire crew for utah state 97 and 98. We fenced off alot of riparian zones for BMP to achieve these same results
good job eh
Thank you Carol! ❤
Beautiful! Not too far from us. I’d love to see more streams restored in the arid west. I drive semi in the region for a living, and pass so many former stream beds that look like Dixie at the start of this restoration project…barren, dry, ghosts of themselves. Would absolutely love if every canyon and valley looked like Dixie does today! Great work everybody!
These humans make me happy : )
It’s a great positive story, a theme I love. There are Dixie creeks all over the world right now that need help
Well done✨ Beavers are King and they are such cute little hydrologists💗
I watch the daily news and my heart despairs, seeing so little light shed on what truly threatens our future… the decimation of the miraculous balance of Nature.
I find this video and my heart rejoices. Like Dixie Creek, it has been replenished and renewed. Just knowing there are others out there who understand and care, who are planting seeds of wisdom and compassion, replenishes my resolve and renews my strength to never give up.
Thank you so very much!!!
Learn and teach Permaculture. It has answers.
Man, the effect that one small change can make. Inspiring.
So Great to see what Miracles can happen when People understand that Beavers are So Critical to our Healthy Streams and Creeks especially in Desert type landscapes! Thanks for the Video!
What a fantastic job. That lady belongs to the land
Waw ! You guys are showing a way of life i never knew existed. These actions are not being shown on tv or they might show one project. Lately i realize there's so many groups spread all over the world, often connected thru the internet...
I want to be a part of that. I live in Belgium, we don't have these dry places but i sure like to join in the nearest dry region which is Spain. Than you for being an inspiration ❤
I was excited to learn about Dixie Creek, but at first couldn't concentrate because of the music. I came back to it and discovered the sound got better and softer.
I love stories like this! The best part is it's a true story! Sooo glad there's something beautiful like this happening. It's things like this that give me hope. Bless the streams! ❤️🏞️
What a great example of conservation work.well done people, from NZ 🇳🇿
THANK YOU MR GRIGGS
It is a very impressive sight to see the rejuvenation of the creek. It is also a very well-made video. Good luck with enlarging the project. By the way, beavers are just coming back into the UK in a few places. You can check out the progress of "re-wilding" in the UK - and how the reintroduction of beavers is helping the process - at various places on RUclips.
Giant Wet Mice are an ecologically important species.
So cool to hear about the work in the UK! Thanks!
In Australia we don't have beaver but to revive creeks we use bolders to slow the water down and create pools of water that soak in and revive to surrounding landscape. This will save the environment better than supposed green energy like solar panels.
Thank you for recording this
that is what i learned from a old couple that were /lived to be in their early 100s, if you have beavers on your land you will always have water even in drought times,, so i took their advice and never trapped more then 2 beaver out of a colony unless they were causing damage to roads or field crops ,i was a damage control trapper at one time when i was younger and healthy,, so yup beaver are oth good and bad,, in this case they are really really good
Recharging the water table is a huge benefit. The ranchers probably appreciate that.
When we work together, great things happen. Awesome!!
"We've been doing it this way for generations" mentality is one that's hard to lose. Glad they chose to.
Wish there were more things like this on youtube win win instead of argue argue
It’s so nice to see the hard work and perseverance of people trying to improve the world bear fruit. Well done! This is beautiful!
Beautiful work.. our public lands are such a special thing ❤️
I grew up in Ely around Cave lake Cummings lake illipah lake in the Ruby marshes. So much outdoor fun I never even realized I was in a desert, this is a good story !
One smart woman and many brilliant beavers.
Wow and wow! How amazing was that?? Mars and bountiful, rich Earth....so well done by all the people involved...You give Mother Nature a helping hand, leave her be, and she is so so generous in return...But the true heroes here are the beavers...those cute, hard working engineers of the rivers and the land...they create pure magic...:-))))
You nailed it Thanks!!
This is being done in many parts of the world. So exciting and encouraging 😁
Fantastic love beaver habitat and conservation
I have land 20 minutes from Dixie Creek great to see how good it looks.
there is hope! thank you
What a beautiful story. Lets replicated by the thousands
The feel better video of the day. Congrats from France.
Almost brings a tear to my eye.
"Welcome to our drought," as she wades knee-deep. Rockin'
Great story
hey youtube can you recommend way more vids like this i really really love seeing nature heal herself 🥰
Hollies
Get out there and make it happen!!
Beaver Dam Analogs!
I've become more and more interested in these stream and wetlands restoration efforts, how they can be accomplished with incredibly low-tech and on an extremely small scale, and how they heal the whole environment around them.
When there is water and rolling foothills like that it also brings back and hold populations of Sage grouse, Hungarian and Chukar partridge, not mention larger mammals.
What a fantastic story and such a remarkable lady!
This is so wonderful! We heard about this recently and was so happy to come across this video. What an amazing story of how things can recover with the right knowledge to manage land correctly. Thank you so much for all that you've done to make this happen! Bravo!
I love hearing farmers acknowledge they didn’t know better at the time but I’d love for them to shout out the early scientists, advocates and activists who’ve been trying to explain it since the 70s 👏
This is an amazing and inspiring story! I'm sure it will serve as an example of how multiple use management, when done correctly, can benefit all parties. Thank you, Carol, for having the foresight to document conditions 32 years ago and sticking with the goal! Do you remember your week at the Tozitna River fish camp with my crew and me ;)
Hi Jason! So cool to hear from you. Do I remember Tozi? That was the best experience of my life! I have long wondered how the salmon runs are doing here. News about salmon everywhere seems pretty grim. Are you still in Alaska?
I can't agree more! And I too remember our week at the Tozi Fish Camp. Unforgettable.
Great foresight!
I'm especially impressed that the ranchers haven't been negatively affected. That's the real thing here. That actual useful business can thrive along with everything else.
Ranchers need the beaver dams to raise the water table in surrounding land.
Ranches aren't the only useful thing either... Fish thrive in beaver ponds as well as hundreds of other species in the food chain.
Removing the beavers ruined the area, and that was a decision by human hunters and ranchers.
Restoring habitat for beavers improves the land around streams immensely.
just beautiful… 🌱🌾🌳
Intermountain West Joint Venture 🌱 thank you for sharing this story of land rehabilitation! Beavers build healthy habitats 💕 wonderful scientists
Simply love that work to the people have manesh to make i posible, and the farmers that work fore it as vel, Lovely
A powerful restoration. Hope this spreads to the other basins. So beautiful. Congratulations Carol Evans!
I love it you said every stream has their own story.
This is such an awesome story. So inspiring that it isn’t too late for us to change the world. Thank you for sharing.
Carol, you're a rock star! What a great career you had at BLM.
Beavers in the desert.... Unbelieveable.
Beavers used to be all over North America. Happy seeing them making a come back 🦫
@@everythingisfine9988 yes everywhere. all the way down to Mexico
Carol Evans rocks; a dedicated professional. I'm glad a federal employee looks at what can be
Wonderful, Inspire ring, Thank you for your keen stewardess around the area. You have all made a different to our world.
Great. Very nice. Well done. Thanks.
This is such an awesome story of rebirth! I applaud everyone's efforts over the years to bring this area back to vitality! NGL, i shed a few tears after watching this. Gives me hope for us humans to be able to work together for a common goal, regardless of differing backgrounds.
See this and "Weep". Tears of hope and joy.
This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I spent my formative years in Wyoming, where you can see this same damage from grazing everywhere you go. Little effort has be put forward to restore the streams and creeks from grazing damage. I could name several streams there that need some of this management.
Teach them Permaculture.
Wish we could bring back the bison and the beaver in a big way across the west.
Contact someone at your local BLM and initiate a project..meet with ranchers and show them this video..go for it!
Properly timed grazing and working with natural systems is the most productive way to retain water, improve nature, and raise meat animals simultaneously. Bravo.
The beaver is my new favourite creature