Uploaded by csamarketing on Feb 20, 2012 | Prescribed Burning is the planned application of fire to natural fuels or vegetation in order to accomplish a specific management goal. By reducing fuel sources, communities reduce the likelihood that wildfires will be able to escalate and cause further damage to homes, recreational areas, and community businesses. Without ample fuels, fires are less likely to grow to uncontrollable sizes, which make them difficult to suppress. Prescribed burning is frequently used in Florida communities to manage vegetative fuels. However, many residents are unaware of the necessity or benefits of this management technique. As part of the public outreach component of the Highlands County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), CSA International, Inc. created an informational video to document the role of prescribed burning in wildfire mitigation efforts throughout the County. The video features a prescribed burn performed in August 2009 by Florida Forest Service personnel on a platted subdivision east of Highlands Hammock State Park.
Prescribed burn of underbrush: Management controls fuel loads and potential wildfires, benefits native plants
February 22, 2012 — JoyMueller community demonstrates healthy blend of redevelopment and ecological landscaping
February 13, 2012 — JoyUploaded by KLRU on Feb 7, 2012 | At Mueller in east Austin, it’s a new and yet old-fashioned way to garden, with compact yards that value resources and connect neighbors as nearby bungalows did years ago. It’s a community that unites with nature, too, through the parks and ponds that have brought back the wildlife on land once covered by airport runways and parking lots.
Indiana’s WLFI TV reports accurately on controlled burn: “Fire is a natural process”
February 2, 2012 — JoyUploaded by WLFITV on Jan 31, 2012 | Celery Bog Nature Area
“They don’t know diddly about prairies” — Learn diddly and more in Barnhart Prairie restoration and history video
January 27, 2012 — Joy
Uploaded by barnhartprairie on Jan 26, 2012 | This 12 minute video gives a highlight on the importance of prairie and a brief history of the Barnhart Prairie Restoration project, located near Champaign, Illinois.
Thistles, spotted knapweed, whitetop: Invasive problems for both homeowners and national parks
January 15, 2012 — JoyUploaded by GreatBasinNPS on Jan 12, 2012
NFF works to restore the natural diversity of America’s forests
January 13, 2012 — JoyUploaded by natlforests on Jan 3, 2012 | The National Forest Foundation works with the U.S. Forest Service to support forest restoration on the National Forests where wildfire, insect or disease outbreaks, or storm events have caused mortality at a scale large enough to require artificial regeneration to restore the forest. Our goal is to restore the natural diversity of tree species that existed prior to the event. In so doing we are able to restore the full range of ecosystem services that healthy forests provide.
The plants and animals of America before 1492 — America before Columbus documentary
January 10, 2012 — JoyUploaded by 4micaman on Dec 17, 2011 | This is a two part series. (Part II starts at minute 50:03)
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature.
But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn’t exactly a New World, but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways.
The English brought honeybees to the Americas for honey, but the bees pollinated orchards along the East Coast. Thanks to the feral honeybees, many of the plants the Europeans brought, like apples and peaches, proliferated. Some 12,000 years ago, North American mammoths, ancient horses, and other large mammals vanished. The first horses in America since the Pleistocene era arrived with Columbus in 1493.
Settlers in the Americas told of rivers that had more fish than water. The South American potato helped spark a population explosion in Europe. In 1491, the Americas had few domesticated animals, and used the llama as their beast of burden.
In 1491, more people lived in the Americas than in Europe. The first conquistadors were sailors and adventurers. In 1492, the Americas were not a pristine wilderness but a crowded and managed landscape. The now barren Chaco Canyon was once covered with vegetation. Along with crops like wheat, weeds like dandelion were brought to America by Europeans.
It’s believed that the domestication of the turkey began in pre-Columbian Mexico, and did not exist in Europe in 1491. By 1500, European settlers and their plants and animals had altered much of the Americas’ landscape. While beans, potatoes, and maize from the Americas became major crops in continental Europe.
Routing graywater to bioswales and edible and native plants
January 9, 2012 — JoyUploaded by PistachioFilmsLLC on Dec 31, 2011 | Rainwater Catchment/Rainwater harvesting at WISC Garden in Willits, Mendocino County California. Part of City of Willits Water Conservation Project.
City of Willits California Water Conservation Program, Including Greywater systems, bio swales, rainwater harvesting/rainwater catchment, groundwater recharge, retention ponds. City of Willits, Mendocino County California Water Conservation. California Water Conservation Programs. WISC Willits Integrated Services Community Garden. California Pollution and Finance Control grant water conservation funding. Willits California Permaculture.
Learn the about Spiderwort and more from Nebraska Statewide Arboretum video
January 9, 2012 — JoyUploaded by NEStatewideArboretum on Jan 9, 2012 | Bob Henrickson, of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, talks about native wildflowers of the Great Plains.
