From landscape architecture to conservation agriculture | Thomas Woltz | TEDxCharlottesville

The Conservation Agriculture Study at Nelson Bird Waltz Landscape Architects is a highly collaborative design methodology that seeks to provide the set of

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skills to the needy Earth, we seek to rebuild the committed commitment that was depleted in the yield of the raising of the large amount of the farm of the large amount of the large amount of the large amount of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large number of the large amount Studies of the Graduate Studies of the Greats.

United States, how is it that the way we feed can end up killing the tool kit that I had just acquired and I was in the process of developing that I would have shown that the

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is a profession that is at the intersection of the restoration of the ecology of the science science of soil Horiculture Civil Engineering? Theory until a highly illuminated client appears and says that I am willing to allow him to experiment with my land that the highly enlightened UH

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ist is here in Alamar County and we started a project that has lasted during the last 18 years that allowed us to experiment with his land to do things that we really do not know that I really like the re -stations of the season of the season.

Through design construction documents, but this document, this master plan has guided the construction of this property for 18 years, we begin with the river routes by rebuilding the currents and forms of drainage that replant them with marginal species to create habitat for amphibians and representatives of representatives, we begin to administer the largest open land that we replace the festival of the non -native fescos of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base of the base.

Fire and he said absolutely, so every 3 years, a large cloud of dark smoke rises in Alal count of reappractions and restart in this project in this project. Docuing about measuring who our scientific partners could be that they could help us collect data that could eventually be shared with people who could not hire or hire scientists UM information that could be shared with the extension agents of the whole country, the study work began to grow in many many different states and even abroad, one of the ramifications of this was that the neighbors began and another very filled with the neighbor of a writer of a writer of a writer of a writer of a writer of a writer of a writer At the height of the neighbor and the nearby actress near closely closely closely near the nearby near close to about what she says there. do it to me and so This is her managing her Own Burn of Her Native Grass Meadow SO Pretty exciting positive r ating influence now over 2,200 acres of Rush County Have Been Managed in This Method We Began A RELATIONSHIP MAN Gamechanger for Us Working with Conservation Biologists to Give Us The Data of What are the Compromished Systems Within on Piece of Property So What I Love Is Gathering A Team of Scientists and A Team of Designers From Our Office Putting place.

In that I want to focus on my comments today on the east coast of the farm of 3,000 acres sheep cattle and a farm of crops that had been UM, since almost all cultivation lands in New Zealand had been very committed by generations of agricultural practices. This is the site for those of you who love the Bahamian islands, this is someone who knows the ecology of New Zealand, this is the site of the natives of the Bahamian islands. You will see a tree, erosion was horrible the lack of biodiversity, sadness, so we put ourselves on a mission, could we remove the most fragile areas of this farm that should never have been cultivated?

I believe in this and during the last 12 years we have been building a model farm for the country of New Zealand that demonstrates the best

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biology by rebuilding these systems and re -removing that together this map shows another layer of this project that has been a true Gamecher for us in Nelson Walts Walts, this is the cultural layer of cultural history, what remains the cultivation of culture. I have been on land before arriving in this case, the great migration of Maui reached this property in 1300 in 1769, Captain James Cook reached this property in New Zealand, was just north in the UH bay not in this exact land, so what is seeing are three maps, the cultural landscape in the agricultural landscape and then the green lines of the overflows of life.

Wetlands that really should have never been cultivated This was my first trip in a fragment of the New Zealand rainforest. The wood in New Zealand, we built railways directly in the tropical jungle, put the trees and return them, this is what the wood that today the highly erodable volcanic soils are now erected in the ocean is the ocean this is the scale of the trees that we are putting back the part of our associations with the local tribe. Farm, so these enter and I want to see this cabbage palm that is still on earth, each of those white pins represents a tree as a participation for one of our trees until now, we have planted 600,000 jungle trees 1969 the wetlands that all had been drained to maximize grazing lands, so we think we rebuild, but we do not pretend and do not pretend and naturalize them Let's build as a visible visible paint.

We will be artists here, but we work in close collaboration with conservation biologists and scientists to know exactly what we are doing again so that ecological services are still a visible construction of construction, a kind of sight housing from which they saw the pain of the plans. Rio de Aguas deep and then 14 islands of different UH tracks planted with different native species to become the houses of many of the native birds only in New Zealand, we are inspired by paintings by Roberto Berle Marks, a landscape architect of the sixties, Brazilian, who is also a great painter.

The wetlands had been 100 years ago and this is the result that we have this spectacular broad landscape of fresh water wetlands and salt swamps, these are the swes prior to the treatment that collect hundreds of fresh water acres that filter them with the plants and then keep them in this wetland that now we are reorganized by the native birds again of the natives, which we also reorganize the agricultural lands of the farm. The screens used trees to refuge trees to protect the citrus fruits and then in honor again to this cultural landscape to the traces of Maui in the distance in this image that is seeing the Mount Tanaki a very sacred site for Nat's hand, the local tribe with which we have been working for so long, this bridge is the ax with the axes with the peak of that mountain of this bridge of the tribute.

For the Maui, the MAI have a long tradition of earth mound and construction of the Earth, the settings of Fit Fitthest Storage of Food, these are some of the remaining footprints, this is a Kumra Pox Kumra was a vegetable that the maui cultivated from 1300 to today, these wells are excavated in the clay full of leaves of leaves and then they are filled with homage to those who are filled with homes. They fill with the honor of tribute. The Farmland As We're Reb Building Ecologies Let's Rebuild a respect for the valuable cultures that are nearly invisible in This Slide We've Oriented The Drives Between The Citrus Production and these High Sheard Hedges As An Homage To A 300Y OLD OLD BURIAL SITE THIS IS CEMERY IN THE MIDST OF THE PHARM THAT WE WANTED TO HONOR THE MALIE ACCOURNS From home, we work with them in A to ask ourselves how we can respectfully honor this tradition and demonstrate this tradition in the middle of the gardens around the farm house and, therefore.

With this and honoring it in a new way for a new generation in the future, perhaps the most ambitious part of the work in this farm was a highly aspirational project, could we rebuild such a stable ecology so rich and so sure that we could reintroduce to the tuatara, which is one of the most endangered animals? Highly compromised, it has been brewing an egg for a year and we think that 9 months were bad, they are very vulnerable to the pests that have been introduced to New Zealand New Zealand do not have native mammals who do not think about it, there are no lions to the tigers of the stages of dogs or people who do not have humans and without them do not have predators, so they do not have the capacity of the pedors.

Thinking with this mass team not only have 40 creative passionate people dedicated in Nelen Bird Waltz who work with me, but we have hundreds of biologists biologists Biologists Biologists of conservation we are our partners so deeply, but we also have these cultural geographers or anthropologists archaeologists with this great team led by Steve Sawyer to a conservation biologist Zealand on this ealt on this ealtal that we restart to this medium. And once again without an enlightened customer, this would not have happened, so the first step builds a predators -proof enclosure so that the comadreja Stoes album Do not say that you do not tell any trick that they are said to be seen as a touch of cava.

You can see that there is water in the distance, but here it is actually where they are working so you can draw it on paper, but these guys are the ones that build it, so I say that the credit goes to others in this whole work, so with the predators -proof enclosure, you can see that we reforest 8,000 trees to rebuild the rain jungle inside this inclination. Petrols Grayfac Petrols and Fluttering Sheer Waters Seabirds That Had Not Been Seen On This Shore For 100 Years How Do We Start How Do We Rebuild This Ecology we Department of Conservation and the Maui Wouled Release Tuatara pole This Fenze was inspired by Christo I have to say this we call it our and Christ The Running Fenze Project He Did In Sonom Measures these are the heroes Also of this project um before the conservation biologists that common measure collect data are checking ink pad traps where critters can walk across and you can?

Are Predator Free Within The Enclosure This is our target spects and that is a oil in its Madriguera Cavan these 8 in deep burrows and that is that it lights a tuatara to put an egg, so we needed some madrigueras Steve Sawyer, our ornitologist and conservation biologist had this brilliant idea the first time the first time it has been used For outdoor energy speakers, that is what you are seeing in the distance there and made a CD of Ganet Petrols Um Um Fluttering Sheer Waters Waters if you ever need someone and that drives them absolutely, which gave them a CD of the CD CD CD of CD CD of CD.

The CD begins to reproduce thanks to solar collection and these sea birds far in the distance on the beginning of the Pacific in a circle and have begun to land that the first of a world of using these devices has achieved to attract marine marinas that now we now have the first new Ganet colony established in the world in the world that have repeated pairs of the waters that are in the waters. They are extinct UM and this is the time when Just Catches is your heart where you are seeing an erosion land that I showed you in the first coverage covered with species of the tropical jungle and these beautiful marinas that arrive at the night of a safe night, I am happy to inform that last year 62 tuatara was delivered from the department of conservation and tibas of maui in the trip of the cycles.

Absolutely sad that have been a 12 YEAR trip of the update of the cycle of those who have been a trip of those who are becoming a 12 -year trip. The ecology really ends with this image because I feel it is a way of saying that this image of the ocean where we now have blue penguins nesting in the right boxes is the tuara enclosure in the distance is the wetlands is the wetlandsbuilt and all over the replanting coast and in the distance that you see to the collapse of the sheep grazing earth that has reduced the impact on this earth on this earth is the edge of the fixation of the edge in the distance that you see to the collapse of the grazing earth that has reduced the impact on this earth on this earth is the edge of the earth on Earth on Earth on the ground of the waters of the sheep.

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