This is possibly the most pertinent and useful presentation you've made to date. Very impressed and frankly it should be mandatory viewing for anyone in a fire risk zone.

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. I hope a lot of people get some common sense around fire design.

@annburge291

2 жыл бұрын

Looking at watersheds are the most pertinent and useful presentations... but understanding how fire flows through the landscape is extremely important for basic safety of all species and to reduce carbon emissions.

@toysandguns977

2 жыл бұрын

I think the whole American south west needs to get on board with Permaculture to fix the water issues they have there!

@annburge291

2 жыл бұрын

@@toysandguns977 totally agree, and all the east and west coast of Australia and Northern central Mexico

@FlyingDwarfman

Жыл бұрын

​@@toysandguns977 Concur except that it should expand even far beyond the American SW. Content and concepts from these videos should be central learning for policy makers around the US and the world.

I discovered you accidentally yesterday and can’t believe that not a lot of people watch you. Your explanations and presentations are clear and precise. These things should be taught in school.

This should be part of architecture curriculum as well for designing buildings in a fire prone zone.

@rashoietolan3047

Жыл бұрын

Intelligently proclaimed Myo I agree

Been crazy here in Australia recently, my area in the northern tablelands of new south wales got hammered, being a permaculture practitioner im glad the natural design kind of already incorporates theses ideas, stay safe in Oregon as like here in oz im sure we will be dealing with more fires in the near future, shout out to the American firefighters that came out to help in Australia its good to see we both send professionals to not only help each other but also learn new techniques to survive such a devastating force.

@rashoietolan3047

Жыл бұрын

Stay inthwartable Jeffery For there is a solution to all things Good day

You are good mate. Quick note: hugeculture shouldn't be placed as a swale wall on contour. If a heavy rain event happens they could float away downslope. As per my knowledge they shall be placed in a angle so as to absorb and deflect water but not hold it in place as it happens in a swale wall. My 2 cents. Keep it up i learn a lot from you !

@cheyuu7896

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on slope gradient an dimension of the Hügelkultur I guess.

dude that topographical model of the landscape is extremely well executed. nice work man!

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Lots of time in the sandbox training for it as a kid :-)

@janinetrue

Жыл бұрын

And beautiful!

@geekdivaherself

8 ай бұрын

​@@amillisonI laughed pretty hard at this!

There are some really good tips in this video. Thank you, Andrew. One thing that could be added is that mature deciduous trees tend to not have ladder fuels like conifers, and their leaves, even on branchier lower younger trees, tend to not burn like conifer needles. Deciduous species tend to regrow like coppice if a fire does occur, and many can be coppiced purposefully to create biochar for nutrient and water holding soil systems, so replacing strips of conifer forests with deciduous permaculture systems can be a powerful deterrent for wildfire spread. Also, while your diagrammed and video depiction of the hugulkultur is contained in a forested setting (with trees downslope-which stabilizes the landscape's soil systems), it is not actually generally recommended to build them across the slope (in a swale-type configuration) since a catastrophic rain event can saturate the woody sponge, destabilizing it and send it downslope. This can be alleviated by breaking the hugulkultur row up with spillways that cause a sheet flow of excess water downslope between them or burying the woody material in a trench so that it can not (or is much less likely to) be released downslope if saturated.

@megan6808

11 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you! I live in the bush in Oz and spend 6 months of the year getting ready for the other 6 (fire season). Always looking for ways to reduce the fuel load and create fire breaks.

We live in Nor Cal, our biggest fire was 2015 it was a mile from our home. Some of these ideas we can’t implement we’ll be cause our house is really at the highest point, but we are clearing out the ladders, trimming and Re-evaluating our landscape. Thank you for the ideas.

There is power in numbers. One person practicing permaculture can help mitigate fire risks. A whole community practicing this...oh man

I’m going to be developing a new home site in eastern WA. Definitely planning on incorporating fire risk reduction landscaping. Our conservation district (Spokane) has a free service where a forester will come out to your property and asses fire risk and give specific recommendations. I assume that this is something other districts do as well.

@geekdivaherself

8 ай бұрын

Nice!

Here in California I have cultivated succulents all around the perimeter of the house which acts like a fire blanket..... the more the better! Concrete roof tiles with bird stops to prevent wind and fire from getting underneath and stuccoed wood trim facia, rake and soffits. A basic above ground pool or a permeant pool with a pumping system is also beneficial as a reservoir. Not to mention a generator if the power goes down. A sprinkler system as mentioned or fire gel administered around the exterior of the house is a great idea. An evacuation plan for the worst case scenario is essential with all valuables such as documents kept on file drawers to remove quickly as needed or to keep in a safe deposit box. This is a a very important video to view and understand!

Permaculture is so amazing. This is a fascinating video and will be more important over time. Thanks so much for sharing.

The first thing Americans should do to make their homes fire resistant is to get rid of bitumen plastic shingles off the roof. I remember seeing a news clip from a California wildfire with home rooftops alight from ember attack. Australia uses steel or tiles (cement or clay).

I live in the mountains in Washington state up by where the fire on his screen showed up... 2020 was a terrifying year. So many of my neighbors took in evacuees and the property owners took in a lot of farm animals and pets

@downbntout

2 жыл бұрын

Got that right. Hello from Moses Lake

Prickly pears are natural fire breakers. They grow fast into tall "walls" that simply won't catch fire: perfect for fencing, easy to grow and you get outstanding crops too. They are also safe corridors for small animals. All you need is the pads, you place them on the soil and you will get a massive hedge (up to 15 feet tall) that stops fire, intruders and keeps the wildlife happy in a few years.

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

Nice. Thanks for the suggestion. This is great for hotter climates that can support a tall hedge of prickly pear.

@williamburke9947

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I tried to transplant the prickly pear I got from a fallen one from a client’s yard. This was in and around the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA and I couldn’t get them to take. Granted it was some of the most rain we’ve had in decades this year, and snowed as well so it simply didn’t work out. I’m even more sad since I’m learning of the firebreak potential; wanted to make the jam and make roasts out of the green parts.

Stellar episode! I look forward to all of them. They're immensely needed in the onset of our extinction otherwise. Could you do an episode over opportunistic permaculture that involves the increasing flash floods as of late as well?

@Iamam313

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was hoping too

The USSR used to have many forest-managers, who took good care patrolling the woods, preventing illegal hunting/poaching, collecting dry brunches/dead trees in areas prone to fires and did other forestry-related activities. Now there's only a fraction of forest-managers left in Russia - no equipment and very low wages did that. The Ministry for extraordinary situations did not go to extinguish many of our fires this year- villagers tried without any fire-safety on, yet Russia sends those water-bearing planes to Turkey to help them deal with their fires. It's all really sad~ In Siberia where Chinese easily cross the border they light up grasslands near the forests, so when the trees got burned down the Chinese collect the wood for themselves, because apparently they are allowed to do that. (Mind, I do not have anything against Chinese per se - they are very hard-working ppl, but they've practically occupied our Far West - they have huge mostly illegal farms there that uses tones of chemicals to grow veggies, locals are not happy and yet gvmt does nothing.)

@1rstjames

2 жыл бұрын

There's this huge myth being perpetrated in the US by the logging industry that we need to rake forest floors and thin the forests. Studies have proven that doing this increases fire intensity and destroys old growth forest soil food webs, of which is comprised of the worlds largest living organism (fungi). Please stop spreading this myth. It is just that, a myth. Look into these logging studies and you'll find lands that have been logged and thinned have burned more intensely, and NEVER restore biodiversity prior to being logged. It takes 10,000 years for a forest to become an old growth forest. You start raking forest floors and you'll rapidly spread desertification, increase fire risks, increase carbon seeping into the atmosphere, and spend unnecessary money on labor. Most fires are caused by arson, flammable human objects in wildlife zones, downed electrical poles, and lighting. The intensity of fire is increasing due to more human possessions in the path of wildfires, along with more invasive vegetation growing in disturbed areas. As weeds are the first series of vegetation in succession, disturbed land becomes laden with weeds. This is natures way to rapidly create biomass over decades to begin to cater to pioneer vegetation.

@BLAQFiniks

2 жыл бұрын

@@1rstjames I did not say you need to "thin" or "rake" forests' floor. I was talking about DRY wood in areas prone to fires - fungi do not grow on dry wood anyway. The trees that already dropped are not dry, because they have contact with the soil. As far as I know USSR forest managers picked branches and cut only DRY wood for winter heating for the surrounding houses. The logging was done by big governmental firms on big scale with big machinery.

@1rstjames

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLAQFiniks I know you didn't say that Alex. I wanted to post this to your post because many in the US will see your post and see links to the common myth, so I wanted to address them beforehand. Sorry for any confusion.

@BLAQFiniks

2 жыл бұрын

@@1rstjames well, it's ok; maybe I should have emphasized "dry" in the first post; honestly, never even crossed my mind, because for me it's a given - you do not clear fallen trees from the forest - it's just logical to anyone aware of the basics of how Nature works^^ (aka should be *everyone* - that's thought at school! 😜)

@CommieCat

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don’t know how the Chinese get away with what they do. I spent my youth in the forests north on the yenesei and ob- last few years the fires have kept us out .

My state hasn’t had a forest fire since 1970’s. Used to see a lot of watch towers ran by conservation department. Our conservation department main focus since 1965 is education for landowners. In 1978, our state sued reduce federal land which went from 38% to 18%. The conservation pushes water sheds, biodiversity, and controlled burns. Within a week you can have conservation visit and get recommended ways to improve your land including helping you setup and stock watersheds.

Great way of explaining through these amazing illustrations

@silverpixiedust13

2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree!

@Don.alione

2 жыл бұрын

@@silverpixiedust13 you have an awesome name!

@silverpixiedust13

2 жыл бұрын

@@Don.alione thank you!

Hi started watching you yesterday I live of grid in remote rural area in the northeast of spain with severe water problems and am learning such a great deal from your awesome videos !! Thanks so much !!

should have a cement apron around the house and if you use a barn, which you might just want one for a fire shelter for animals and some equipment, a cement apron can be useful there as well, even if you have a dirt floor inside the barn. I know you mentioned you weren't talking house design, but one of the number one things that causes houses to go down in this kind of wildfire is vinyl windows, they melt and let embers in. I keep thinking someone needs to make aluminum blinds that pull down over the outside of windows for fire and hurricanes. would have to have metal pulls as well since fiber would burn or melt. or maybe metal shutters, either way covering windows helps. oddly for gutters its the reverse, you want the vinyl because they melt and drop away from the house instead of holding embers up to the roof. great video!

I enjoy all the videos you do and the drawings are superb! In 2020 my wife and I purchased 8 acres of neglected forest and unused watershed outside of Port Orford Oregon. The land is sloping and southwest facing. Port Orford is known for it's wind, Bigfoot and the Red Fish Marine Reserve - probably in that order. In the late fall through early summer the creeks flow, but as summer progresses the creeks go underground and the place resembles a dry land area. Water conservation is a reality for many people here. Fire has been our top concern because we're located outside of the tsunami zone. The habitat, like so many coastal forests has been disrupted by logging. In our case, what used to be Myrtle groves is now covered with Himalayan Blackberry and other clusterf*cks of invasive, non-native brush. For the last 20 years I've seen a major increase in wildfires. Rarely a summer goes by without smoke in the air. The sunset in the Rouge Valley can look apocalyptic at times. After loosing all our possessions in the Talent Oregon fire of 2020, the current reality really hit home. All of the videos you produce are very useful to me. This one especially so. I've got a lot of work to do, but I'm already seeing results. Thanks for the great resource!

Excellent video. We survived the Holiday Farm Fire 🔥. Fire stopped at our creek drainage because the wind changed direction and the slope was to steep for the fire to travel down .

Living in NorCal (what was Paradise CA) this is gold! Thank you!!

Saw one of your videos in a solarpunk thread and now I'm hooked. Vancouver's been covered in smoke for a couple weeks and I've been looking for some information about how we get through fire season in the short term. Hope people are watching and learning.

These videos are so good! I love watching these and really can't wait until I get to implement these in my future land

Excellent content. Very timely for those of us on the West coast of North America. Thank you

This is an excellent presentation and is the type of information I've been hoping to learn - thank you so much. It seems that now that we are in the rainy season, very few are still thinking about fire and taking steps now to prepare for next summer - out of sight, out of mind, I guess. I plan to be a lot more prepared next fire season, and am making many changes now.

Great video. Living in the Blue Mountains Australia I'm constantly aware of fire in the landscape.

Another fantastic free class! Thanks very much for sharing such valuable content with us!

Spectacular presentation. Your videos are exceptional. Keep up the phenomenal work.

Something that's worked very well in my neck of the woods (a bit north of San Francisco) is the old dry stacked stone walls that were put in I believe by Chinese workers a hundred years or so ago. They make for extremely durable firebreaks if you're working with fairly open fields, and especially as a last ditch barrier between your home and the environment. Three foot high or so walls - even if they're more just piles of rocks than something more sculpted - can make the difference. As a PS, love your content! Always really amazing, inspiring, and informative. Thank you!

Wonderful presentation! I really appreciate the fact that you mentioned controlled burns to reduce fuel loads. The deprivation of fire from ecosystems is part of what got us into this mess and hopefully people will begin to recognize the value of reintroducing fire in controlled circumstances. In my area (the piedmont of the Eastern coast) fire dependent savannas and prairies used to be the dominant ecosystem before Europeans arrived, and there has been a lot of biodiversity lost from the suppression of fire.

Magnificent presentation! Boulder, Colorado's City Planning Department should see this and offer it to people who must rebuild after massive fire destroyed hundreds of homes. Winds flowed down from the Rockies with such force that almost instantly turned a small fire into a hell for thousands. Thank you.

A brilliant presentation! I hope this gets widely distributed in fire-prone areas!

Not only excellent content but also awesome presentation with your glass board and your demonstrator!!

Incredibly helpful! I appreciate your teaching and look forward to implementing into the design of my property.

Loving everything ur presenting Andrew. All can save this planet.

Winds will come downhill each night as a cold air drain from higher elevation. This effect is more pronounced in valleys with a lake. Chinook, adiabatic or foehn winds compress, dry and warm the air as they descend, often on the leeward side of the range. Large trees in a stand will contribute evaporation transpired through foliage, which maintains water vapour in your local air shed, so your relative humidity will be higher than over a less vegetated landscape. This process also retains groundwater in the soils as water is drawn up into the tree roots. If you have a water source, purchase a fire pump. Install outdoor stand pipes that operate off the main waterline usually 1” compared to 1/2” flow through the house. Keep rain barrels to catch flow from your roof. Have many small hand piled fires, and pile the thinnings and branches so that the fire burns the ground fuels. Let your fire creep around to consume the litter and duff. The ash is useful to fertilize the soil and your piles will be too small to harm soil biota. In my temperate forest, these burnt areas come back as moss which helps to build soil biota and develop the mineral soil layer. Thanks for your work.

I have been thinking about a solution to our fires in California. My solution is simple. The whole idea is to hydrate the soil. When the soil is moist, all plants have more moisture in them and are less prone to catch on fire. So how is this done? On slopes 20 degrees or less, I would subsoil or chisel plow to at least depth of 24 inches. This causes the precipitation to go to a depth where the water will stay and be less likely to be evaporated. On slopes higher than 20 degrees, I would build swales, trenches, terraces or even hugoculture which would help the water runoff to stay in that area and be absorbed and thus hydrate the soil, trees and other vegetation. This hydrated soil will slow down the spread of any fire. If there is a lot of dry brush, dry trees I would use a machine called a mulcher and grind this down and then chisel plow this land. Chisel plowing will help cover wood chips and make the ground easier to absorb rain water.

@doloresreynolds8145

2 жыл бұрын

You are risking a lot of topsoil erosion with all that plowing, even on shallow slopes. Better to build on top of existing soil with things that have better moisture holding properties, like wood chips, and leave the topsoil and the subsoil ecosystems in place. There is more involved in holding the soil in place once you start adding moisture in any quantity, like root systems, mycelium and fungi. You lose all of that with plowing.

@tonydoggett7627

2 жыл бұрын

Next time you have a campfire, source some green eucalyptus branches with leaves on them. Place on the fire and stand back. No matter how green some plants can be, it’s the volatile oils that fuel the fire.

@jamessang5027

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonydoggett7627 Thank you. That is useful info.

I love you so much..it is very valuable and hands on teaching...Keep shared, Mr. Millison, Thanks a lot!!!!

Wow! Great content. My situation is just as you describe as the worst. I live in far Northern California just south of where you are. This area, as you know, has experienced very devastating fires. My home is on the top of a slope surrounded by dense vegetation. I'm attempting to clear ground vegetation and low limbs from pine and oak vegetation. A water storage tank with gravity feed is in my plan. I appreciate your channel and its content. Thank you.

You are a legend. Thank you for the informative video. Keep up the good work mate. 🙏

Thank you so much for sharing your expertise. Be well.

Love your presention! I can say I have learned something from you. Be back soon please

Great Teachings Of Healing And Repair! As You Titled Them!

Where I live in Italy specially, near Florence in Tuscany, there are a lot of cypress trees. Cypress trees have been known to have self protection against fire, so it’s something to explore as an extra barrier to slow down fire.

These are amazing videos. Very inspirational! Keep the videos coming.

Very cool, I like your models and presentation. It is interesting to think about how land stewardship and conservation groups could use permaculture projects for wildfire risk reduction at the watershed scale. I think it could be accomplished (with resources and people) using some combination of tactics you've considered in this video. Cheers from western Canada

fog netting catchment is a wonderful thing in dry areas even heavy rocky areas can use fog netting to collect more dew and hydrate an area.

I have property in the Honey Lake Valley, 3 separate times this summer the highway 395 was shut down as the Beckwourth, and Dixie fires burned down the mountain destroying property and smoking out the area for months. I assure you wild fires are easily controlled as those who did not graze their land or clear it took heavy damage. Those who cleared their land all survived. Most property, private and public, has not burned in over 40 years here, and has not been cleared either. I’ve been saying the whole area is a ticking time bomb for years.

Great information, so glad I watched this. I'll be forwarding to many friends too because I think you're right. We'll see many more fires causing so much damage and people need to think ahead when they are making land and home decisions.

@amillison

8 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you found it helpful. Thanks for sharing. :)

Great to see your storytelling! Great job.

Ok, fellow OSU alum, and PNW wildland fire fighter. Great video, keep it up!

Your amazing Andrew! Thanks for all the work and love you put in these presentations, I´m a permaculture teacher and designer in Mexico and you´re a great inspiration and source of creativity, love to see everything you upload. Keep going!

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Santiago. Where are you located? I'm headed to Mexico next month.

@santiagopalomarc

2 жыл бұрын

@@amillison I live in Tepoztlán, if you are around Mexico city and got a free day please come by!

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

@@santiagopalomarc I will be in Mexico City. How long is the travel from the Roma district? Do you have an established permaculture site there?

Great video... love your drawings also. Visual learning at its best...

Amazing video, thanks a lot for the effort put into this!

In Australia there are trees which actually need the seasonal fires to spread their seed. I'm pretty sure they are a pretty good sorce for carbonhydrates too so they might be interesting for people who live there. I'm not a big fan of spreading species around the world (that can get dangerous), because there was a reason they evolved where they evolved and not elsewhere, but if you have the plants in your neighbourhood you should use them. ^^

@mrwess1927

2 жыл бұрын

Controlled burns

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

When I lived in Arizona, I lived around a lot of species that needed fire for seed germination. That's an especially bad place to build because some plants actually exude volatile oils during the dry season because the want to burn so badly.

@dantemadden1533

Жыл бұрын

@@amillison Eucalypts are laced in extremely flammable oil and flammable barks, our land in many ways needs fires, the fires here are good for rejuvenating the land and many seeds will only germinate after a fire, so here it’s just a way of life, but in America it’s not and I can see how the Eucalypts that were brought over are causing devastating fires over there

@Afonqueror

Жыл бұрын

@@dantemadden1533 We have the same issue in Portugal. An absurd amount of land is covered in eucalyptus, or pine, and every year our country burns to the ground. All because of the paper industry lobby

I have learned so much from you and your drawings explanations I have actually transformed a piece of desert following your videos... seriously

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

That's very cool to hear. That's actually the whole point :-)

I have a friend in Northern Portugal (over 40 inches/1000 liters of rain per year) who put hugulkulture mounds at the top of a steep southern-facing slope where he was letting chestnuts and oaks grow in an area surrounded by pines/eucalypts). Because of the dry summers, this area gets wildfires and the mounds burned underground!!!! So if you use hugulkulture, make sure the material is actually breaking down and becoming a sponge. This will depend on how deep, what kinds of material you use, winds, water drainage, etc.

Also, I love this video. Very informative and should definitely be required to view for people and builders in fire risk areas.

Your channel is awesome!!! thanks for the wonderful lectures!!!

In 2017, you could feel the heat from the santa rosa fire carried by the wind, in the berkeley/oakland hills. it was crazy.

Amazing videos wonderful as always thank you for the work you do.

another 5 star presentation. the only extra thing -as practicing eco architect - I would add is go under ground in extremely high risk areas, this would also increase your building's climate adaptation performance. earth-ship like..? or at least use a thick sand/gravel based green roof ;-)

i love your video presentation style my man.

need someone with this much knowledge to come and design this for a CO Mtn home.

I've been in N. California for 50 years. All of a sudden, the trees didn't start growing and dropping flammable materials on the dirt, and then cars really didn't create all the dead limbs and piles of pine needles because these dead flammable piles have been here since dinosaurs really. You have the best permaculture info on the planet! I love it. I think as equally questionable as that humans have caused the fires to occur through bad ecology, what about economics and organized crime? The first time I saw victims of disaster faced with FEMA and other tax funded cleanup, was during the major floods that occurred a decade ago. What was evident was that there was a superfund distributed to companies. I am sure these companies were lobbyist oriented, and received the funds. What resulted was cleanup and the result of billionaires profiting from disaster relief funds. Wow, organized crime would take advantage of this. To be facetious, would they increase bad ecology to cause massive floods? Could that be possible? Like God and Noah, man, organized criminals, could actually create weather conditions to trigger disaster funds? Is there any evidence that "billionaires" are created from disasters? Well, if you google "Wildfire billionaires," prior to the Maui fire, you would only see a Forbes article about a timber mogal who made "billions" from harvesting wildfire timber for lumber. Yes, from burned trees! Well, the trees do not burn. They are green and wet. I'm a victim of Caldor fire, and I have a saw mill. I make $2500 to $5000 per tree, these burned trees in lumber sales from my own property, 32 acres. The only trees that were not useable are the bark beetle kills. Those beetle trees burned through. The live trees still had pine needles in them: all of them! They were only scorched, and about 10% came back to life green. So, if you drop one match at the backside of a wind pattern, it's amazing that your evidence shows that the fires didn't start on the valley side, but the back east side. Same with Caldor wildfire. In fact, 60 minutes reports the now retired "fire chief" reporting that "USFS obstructed Cal Fire from fighting the fires the night they started, and they grounded water choppers that typically fight fires at night in the most extreme conditions against the pilots objections that it was safe to fight the fires. The USFS let them burn destroying our town and all the way to Tahoe. Even though the timber industry had all the USFS timber to harvest without the usual hundreds of thousands of dollars of permits and fees, Forbes reports up to "70%" discount on "fees for wildfire harvesting." The general public would probably not be concerned. I never thought that wildfire trees were sold as lumber the same as harvesting live trees. So, really it's diabolically brilliant if it is organized criminals getting someone to set fires. Is this claim outlandish? Well, google "100 firefighters arrested annually for arson." The National Volunteer Firefighter counsel, and others reveal this fact! From unemployed firefighters to fire chiefs are arrested for creating employment opportunity, regardless of the loss of life and property. Now, for those with the head in the sand! Organized crime exists, and the disaster creates a barrier hiding any chance of suspicion of any crime, yet billions of dollars are released with little oversight. The crews were here for months idling equipment with hour meters doing nothing creating free money unlike counterfeiting where anybody would notice. Disasters are a way to counterfeit billions of dollars where congress prints the dollars. The victims get nothing. They cleanup destroys the rest of property, for instance, expensive driveways are cracked and destroyed by heavy equipment as well as septic tanks, and the whole they did to remove the foundations now requires thousands of dollars of soil engineering and compaction expense. The left all the branches and rutted peoples land. If you did not comply, the liened and stole peoples property that did not trust them and for good reason not the trust these invader pillagers. I know you're not the platform of this negativity, but human empathy has to be found for disaster relief victims! Disaster relief does little to help victims if anything at all. It creates billions and incentivises arson death and destruction where people can live for decades from the profits.

@mitkoogrozev

4 ай бұрын

You have stumbled upon on a process intrinsic to the monetary system we're immersed in globally. Some call it "disaster capitalism" . The system creates incentives to cause and/or just manage problems, because it's more profitable than solving them (solving would suggest it no longer will happen, which means you remove a way to make money, which is blasphemy in a money based society. We try to find ways to make more and more money, not to decrease them). Also it's not necessarily some people's goal to do this. There are of course people that do sit down, plan and conspire to make bad things for profit, but a lot of it is also just an emergent property of the system. Something that emerges from the collective actions of people who are driven by just a singular incentive to do anything and everything (money).

@homesculptor

4 ай бұрын

@@mitkoogrozev Very astute! Yes, and in the wrong hands, organized crime, its a diabolically brilliant undetectable scheme. The Caldor fire was blamed on the people, right off the bat, that called in and reported the fire. After 4 years of hell, they dropped the charges, and other suspects died or were ignored. One suspect was a fire chief from Arizona, accused by his former employees of being a serial arsonist. He was one of the first on scene, far in the wilderness, outside of his normal route for travel. That is what his Arizona crew accused him of. The first on scene, "even when the fire hadn't been called in . . ." I'm sure the natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, created the impetus. As a wildfire victim, the employees, bragged they were making about 20 to 30k per year as some form of timber tree business, but were well in six figures in the disaster, happy as a pig on poo.

I love you artistic and informative your videos are.

fantastic thanks...love your delivery methods. we live in the middle of the bush on a slope, far North NZ. I get very stressed in summer about fires...came close a few years ago with fireworks getting thrown out of cars by careless ratbags.

From my permanent agri- & other aspects of culture perspective I believe it's known the intensified fire seasons are due to deforestation, clearcut logging, even when done not at all nearby, cuz forests stabilize climate against fires, floods, droughts & temperature extremes too, & do so over a greater area than the forest actually covers with canopy. So our reforesting west of the Rockies, right up to the continental divide, while ending clearcut logging, in exchange for a full switch to selection logging that doesn't highgrade. This means relative old growth gets saved, while canopy is maintained for hydrology, meaning how forests create fresh water in abundance all the way inland & beyond. This is why our prairie east of the Rocky Mountains was considered our "bread basket". Reforesting river riparian zones & to & along the coasts would, thru carbon capture & sequestration, prevent carbon from slipping into the ocean where it does have a damaging acidifying effect. Of course lumber will still flow with this change, except the business should be down-scaled to feed the local rural communities. Besides, in the book The Biophilia Effect, Clemens Arvay cites research finding conifer terpenes boost immunity, ahem.

i remember this guy named jean pain who popularized the idea of turning forest dead trees and shrubs and turn them into woodchips, and use them to compost or produce heat

Andrew you make incredible videos, very informative and great presentation!

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rus, I'm glad you like them!

I'll be building a home with a hardened walk-out basement containing the critical parts of the home as in food and water storage, kitchen, mechanicals, a composting toilet, shower, laundry, etc. Apart from being a shelter, if a storm or fire were to wreck the upper floor the home would still have liveable space. Using metal siding and roofing seems fairly sensible in a fire-prone area. Many beautiful homes were lost because they were clad with attractive but highly flammable materials.

Thanks Andrew. For this interesting video. We create the natural process changes ourselves. Because worldwide nature is being destroyed by, for example, increasing the ion charge, cutting down entire forests, pumping out water reservoirs, large-scale use of chemicals, etc. Nature tries to repair itself, the natural disasters are only a result of human misconduct, definitely not a cause.

woow this should be on netflix

@RedScareClair

6 ай бұрын

It's free here

you are giving some very useful info! Keep up the good work :D

Great modelling. Top banana! Thank you.

Hi Andrew.. Thanks for your drawing method. Its very helpful to understand. Would you make some research about Peat Soil / gambut in Bahasa Indonesia Language ? We always strugling every year in wildfire.. At least tell me what you think and how we can manage our land ? No mountain areas

First time viewer. Ohhh, I like the into. I'm gonna like this. I'll be back in 13mins.

@garethb5729

2 жыл бұрын

Fabulous visuals. Thank you for your time. Thank you indeed. I'm yet to digest the information. Very well made thank you.

Really excellent visuals.

Brilliant video.

Great information! i’ve liked everything I’ve watched. We should all implement many of your ideas. You are the essence of what our government tries to dampen and hide from the rest of us…

This guy should change his career and become an artist!

super useful information. Thankyou

Great advice, thanks!

@amillison

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Roy :-)

Fascinating video, got some follow-up questions maybe outside the scope of permaculture: How difficult would it be to recycle oxygen in the bunker in case of a firestorm above-ground? How long would you have to last in case of the worst-case scenario?

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

Good questions, but this is not my specialization, and I suggest contacting people with more background on bunkers to figure out what the best design would be for wildfire.

You are brilliant. Our home is on top a hill. Am worried now.

@ProjectKamp Should consider this for your camp!

In the area where I live rains like 70% of the year. U never heard about such kind of wild fires, simply inconceivable. More likely to deal with massive floods here. Usually rains +2200 mm/year

@chickenjuice4841

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose that’s better than drought and fire haha

I really enjoy your videos. We are also in the Willamette Valley and permaculture is fascinating. I didn't know if you'd already talked about cork oaks as a fire break? I saw one video where a town in Italy surrounded themselves with them to (successfully) escape fire...Don't know how it would fly planting them here in Oregon, though. Your thoughts?

@user-yf9ro6yr3n

Ай бұрын

Cork Oaks are recommended to Hardiness Zones 8 -11 (USDA).

Do you have any suggestions for an emergency fire bunker? A neighbor in Sonoma, CA, which has seen massive fire storms over the past decade, curried a steel shipping container in the side of a hill (for convenience and lower cost), cleared the immediate area of fuel sources, and placed an oxygen tank in the container with vents out of the container to provide oxygen for people in the bunker and positive pressure to keep out smoke and particulates. Any thoughts?

Tree species in the wider forest area is also Relavant. Eucalyptus and pines burn very quickly. Most species of oaks and many other Deciduous trees don't burn as easily.

One idea I have is to use the wind power during an extreme fire event to disperse some kind of fire retardant spray mulch.

you have really good content. I like it

Very interesting video. Love all of the ones you put out. I would be wary of suggesting bunkers. A couple here in Colorado tried to survive a fire in 2020 in their bunker and they were found dead the day after the fire. While I'm sure there are wildfire proof bunkers I'm not sure the cost is something the average person can afford

@amillison

2 жыл бұрын

Great feedback, John. I see a bunker as a very last resort, and it would have to be designed in a particular way to survive a wildfire. Maybe I should not have mentioned that without providing a warning or more information. But for people in a remote and fire prone area, if you can't evacuate, then you should have some way to ride out the storm.

Are there any good book guides to permaculture that you'd recommend? I really want a sustainable food forest some day.

This will be so useful in Alaska

Awesome video.

Do you by chance do property planning or consultations? I am in Salem and looking to build a self sufficient homestead and you would be the most amazing resource. Please let me know! Otherwise, I will just continue to try and learn from these videos. Thank you!