Help us restore wild LANDs AND WATERways
Indigenous Stewardship: learning from our ancestors to improve our future
Ever since I could remember, I have always seen our world as a sum of all our parts. Meaning, I chose to live and act for the greater good. Sure, I could be selfish from time to time; we all can. But at the end of the day, I just want to live a good life and want others to also have the same opportunities to enjoy their lives.
And the sense of pride I have for Texas and the United States and our World all are filtered through that lens. You see, I will never be a nationalistic guy; in fact, I find it kind of corny to make one's pride for any country the central focus of their identity. The sense of pride I have for Texas is more about my love for the land and the water and the people and the experiences we can all have and share. And when I see the government and the largest corporations working together to profit off of the land and water while simultaneously polluting, despoiling, and destroying the lands and water. I can’t help but feel a great sense of disrespect.
Perhaps you have felt that way, too. It is time to organize together. To step up and be the leaders that our current leaders can not envision possible. They are too blindsided by quick money to see we are drying up!
Texas is racing towards a death path, predictable, avoidable, and most of all caused by our own actions. A death path created from overusing water and developing the state in a way that disrupts natural ecosystems and supplements drought like conditions.
This is why we need to act today
I believe that we can create real change to decrease drought conditions if we begin to restore native habitats.
But we also have to understand that restoring the lands and improving soil health and water retention is not just a professional process. It is also a cultural process. We have to learn and adapt to be more aligned with Indigenous sovereignty. To empower cultural habits that make us more connected with the land to improve our impact.
You see, impact doesn’t just have to be negative. We can create cultural habits that instill positive impacts on our ecosystems. Imagine that for a moment!
The Medina River Valley initiative has 4 main goals
To establish Natural Protected Areas around Texas that prevent harmful development and introduce conservation and restoration efforts.
To encourage Indigenous Sovereignty through creating cultural revitalization opportunities, sustainable foodways partnerships, and educational efforts for all interested people.
To increase drought resilience, keystone species management, soil water retention, and regional transpiration to encourage rainfall chances.
To earn a minimum of 5000 Earth Protector donors to ensure the longterm viability of this project. If you think this is a good idea, we encourage you to join us!
We wish to begin this initiative with the Medina River Valley west of San Antonio.
We wish to work with landowners, ranchers, farmers, Indigenous groups, and concerned citizens to establish a huge and groundbreaking idea.
We are basing this idea on the nearby Government Canyon State Natural Area, except this would be a citizen-led project.Within this area, we wish to reintroduce American bison(aka buffalo) and beaver into their respective habitats.
There have been several studies and projects where experts have seen that these two keystone species generate beneficial biodiversity impacts on their environments.
And we would carefully manage the lands so that they can safely engage with the land as wild as possible, given the constraints of the project. Now this isn’t gonna be so easy, but it isn’t impossible. And if we can work together, then we can generate huge positive change for the city.
So, if you think this is an idea worth supporting, we encourage you to sign up as an Earth Protector. It takes 2 mins to do, and only costs you a lunch, $15 per month. Your simple contribution allows us to do this. To create real change. Let go!
