Rotating ride-on seedling planting machine - GIF

[Frank S]

My dad always reminded me of tide waits for no man. Similarly MOTHER NATURE cares for no man or beast. We can just try to harness her but its interesting how many animals/birds know so long beforehand, except for fire.

My Grandpa always said it will only rain where and when nature needs it to rain. there is never any rain during a drought and all droughts end with a flood and sometimes a flood will be a signal that there is going to be a drought.

[ranald]

My Grandpa always said it will only rain where and when nature needs it to rain. there is never any rain during a drought and all droughts end with a flood and sometimes a flood will be a signal that there is going to be a drought.

The older generations knew so much more and tried to & did pass the knowledge on to some who understood/listened. That was before we started the chemical/drug thing to "fix" everything ( not saying that that isn't appropriate at times). I have seen Drought ravaged land with a very green patch/plot where someone has used better practices to manage their farm: example of part of the practice being trees along riparian areas as well as scattered clumps preventing erosion & salinity raising its ugly head.

I used lots of our native Lomandra when regenerating my little plot: these grass like plants hang on like billeo during floods, even when only a couple of months old, preventing erosion. "Water Watch" were amazed that my creek water was much cleaner than the stuff upstream from the road culvert (water only seeps around/under unless reasonable rain occurs which is fairly often here in the coastal hinterland. Also a couple of neighbours with contiguous land have done some regen + farm forrestry helping biodiversity: grazing is less than before & some stock is excluded from the small creek .



Pic shows a very narrow creek part with small one about 4 mths old in foreground.
To right is one about a year old.
The clumps reach about 2 metres high when mature & spread to over a metre dia.
I've seen freshly planted ones almost pulled out but hanging on by a couple of roots.

Most of us are aware of successful projects like Yellowstone, and I must say I get a grin when I think of the chap who monitors rare & endangered species in the Appalacian trail name is A. Weed. In Australia we have a coal company, Adani, which has breached laws a couple of times before even receiving the "official" go ahead to start mining. Secret hand shakes?
Unfortunately we have some terrible laws against whistle blowers of wrongful practices like that of our ATO.
Thankfully many worldwide governments & organisations & individuals are taking serouusly that we need to change to more positive practices.Some good heart warming there.