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Can rock dams reverse climate change? [video]
- oblib 3y agoI watched this video a few days ago and what they've done is truly amazing. I live in the Ozarks in SW MO and four of the five acres are hill side littered with rocks. A few years ago I piled up some of those rocks in an area that was washing out and now it has about 8-10" of soil built up and is covered with mostly weeds growing. When it cools down (we've had about a month of 100º temps here) I'm going start making rows of rock piles to catch soil and hopefully slow down the erosion and green things up a bit.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoNice video. Appears to go against Betteridge's Law of Headlines since it does reverse climate change in the area (if climate change was making it drier).
- marginalia_nu 3y agoSeems a lot like the sort of changes beavers install in a river.
- _8j50 3y agoWon't it deprive downstream sources of sediment and flow when done at scale?
- mountaintimefrm 3y agoThe lady in the vid, Valer Austin Clark, has some great lectures and slideshow presentations on YT if you search for her name and sort for 20+ mins. She built some absolutely massive rock dams that survived some huge floods.