50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything | Short Film Showcase

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in climate and water threads as an encouraging example of large-scale landscape restoration.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

National Geographic

Topic

land restoration

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This National Geographic piece about David Bamberger and the Selah Ranch Project in Texas bears watching. [VIDEO] Surface water from rivers, lakes, streams, and reservoirs garner attention because they are visible and make the effects of changes and shortages easier to understand. But a much …

• One of my favorite "case studies" related to this is the Selah ranch in Texas. The TL;DR: version is that because it was choked with trees and brush, the groundwater had been removed. The owners restored it to primarily native grassland, and in the process …

• If this interests you, I've been watching a lot of permaculture and regenerative agriculture videos on YouTube and there is some really encouraging stuff going on out there! I have no idea how to make the restorative stuff go more mainstream, but it's really impressive …