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I remember the creek behind my childhood home in Ohio being clear enough to see crawdads 25 years ago, but it's just a muddy ditch now.
The change happened over a decade as the farm fields upstream got bigger, the buffer strips of trees got removed, and every rain now washes tons of topsoil straight into the water, which makes me think we focus too much on carbon and not enough on keeping our basic land and water healthy.
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webb.keith13d ago
Honestly, that's just how nature works though. Creeks change over time, it doesn't always mean something is wrong. A little mud in the water isn't the end of the world, fish and stuff adapt. People see change and automatically think it's bad, but it might just be the new normal for that area.
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the_sean13d ago
My uncle's pond turned into a mudflat in three years.
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