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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. Good luck.

In Australia, we call them "leaky weirs" (check dams too) as beavers don't exist and they were popularised by Natural Sequence Farming and Peter Andrews with great effect. Don't let the name fool you, they aren't that leaky and are built similarly to this vid.

I don't know if I like the term beaver dam as it's a bit exclusionary but if it works for clicks and techniques for the northern hemisphere, that's cool.

I've just included some old videos, NSF has been around for a long time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbaSL94NBcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwnT8IrWNYQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fayywpnFBAA

And the dude himself explaining why more recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUDxycp7ayk

Playlist with more (80 videos) if anyone interested:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE-d88mKVNvCLWK0_m46vHoQGXfT5T-S4