Earth, Wind, and Water: Flooding Our Forest

Mossy Earth, Aug. 30, 2023; Kelly Ani, Seven, Ananda (DBM) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

One year ago we flooded a forest, and the results are insane

(Mossy Earth) Last year we flooded a forest, and the results have been amazing. This year we really hoped it would flood again. This is what happened.

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⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:04 Early spring
• 5:03 April floods
• 9:30 May floods
• 12:56 Summer floods

📸 Old photo credit: V. Andráš and the man in the picture is Professor RNDr Vladimír Kováč, CSc. 🔎

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Over recent decades, large swathes of [Eastern European] Slovakia’s wetlands have been lost. They have been drained to make way for agriculture as a result of the construction of dams for hydroelectric power, as well as for timber production. Wetlands are an integral part of the Danube River floodplain landscape in Slovakia. And draining them to plant trees has detrimental impacts on the environment. Wetlands store large amounts of carbon and are home to a diversity of plant and animal species (flora and fauna) that are specially adapted to wet conditions. One of these species is the nationally endangered, endemic Pannonian root vole, which has declined drastically in Slovakia in response to disappearing wetlands. This project will revert the forest into a wetland by digging 650 meters of ditches. This will kickstart a “flood” of change and bring back a healthy functioning, sustainable, and wilder ecosystem. Read all about this work here: mossy.earth/projects/restoring...