THE MOST AMAZING ECOSYSTEM RESTORATIONS EVER
HERE THEY ARE. All achieved by USING THE LAND, not by protecting it.
Click once for a close-up, twice for an extreme close-up.
The photo sequence above was taken at a gold mine in central Nevada. The restoration started with the mine, already unsuccessfully reclaimed (upper left). Then Nevada ranchers Tony and Jerrie Tipton applied seeds, organic material (hay), animals (cows), and allowed the land to gestate over the winter. The results are shown the following spring and at the end of the summer growing season.
The next amazing restoration involves a pile of copper mine tailings in Arizona. Same formula, same results. This was a superfund site on which standard reclamation techniques had failed also. Then Arizona rancher Terry Wheeler applied the technique he was the first to envision. It worked under the most difficult conditions imaginable.. More than ten years later it is still working.
The restoration picture below was achieved by me and my partner Norm Lowe. The challenge was a gravel mine on the Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, AZ. The first photo (two photos spliced) shows the mine. Next is Norm broadcasting seeds. (Look at how rough that ground is!) Then a cowboy spreading hay, the cows doing their work, and then the results. Click any of the photos once for a close-up, twice for an extreme close-up.
1 comment:
Fantastic! I recently read an article on http://dailypitchfork.org/?p=719 attempting to discredit these techniques, the Savoy Institute and Holistic Management. Clear proof that so called environmentalist have an agenda and they are so close minded to anything that doesn't fit into their paradigm isn't true. How do we convince them?
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