WEBVTT 00:12.119 --> 00:14.560 So what you're seeing is um 00:14.569 --> 00:17.040 regenerative grazing and you've got 00:17.049 --> 00:19.979 cattle mixed in with actually rescued 00:19.989 --> 00:22.139 um donkeys . And so you kind of got a 00:22.149 --> 00:25.000 mixed herd . And what the hope is here 00:25.010 --> 00:27.989 for me as the climate change advisor is 00:28.000 --> 00:31.909 that I hope that we um improve the soil . 00:36.189 --> 00:38.400 We know in a desert , water is kind of 00:38.409 --> 00:40.909 boom and bust . There's not a lot and 00:40.919 --> 00:43.479 then it comes all at once and you 00:43.490 --> 00:45.490 really want your soils to hold that 00:45.490 --> 00:47.323 water in so that you can make it 00:47.323 --> 00:49.546 through the dry times . But when you've 00:49.546 --> 00:51.768 got a lot of bare ground , what happens 00:51.768 --> 00:53.990 is it runs off and people in the desert 00:53.990 --> 00:55.990 know this very , very well . And so 00:55.990 --> 00:57.934 what I'm hoping to do , what we're 00:57.934 --> 01:00.101 hoping to do is to create those plants 01:00.101 --> 01:02.157 that are gonna hold that water , the 01:02.157 --> 01:04.157 soil that's gonna soak it up like a 01:04.157 --> 01:06.323 sponge rather than having it run off . 01:06.323 --> 01:08.546 Um where no one can use it and where it 01:08.546 --> 01:10.712 causes a lot of damage on a lot of our 01:10.712 --> 01:13.430 desert base . Um erosion and e and even 01:13.440 --> 01:15.551 here at Marine Corer Station , Yuma , 01:19.389 --> 01:21.440 here on the ground , we have some 01:21.449 --> 01:25.199 ranchers who are um who are just world 01:25.209 --> 01:27.819 renowned for what they do . This is not 01:27.830 --> 01:30.709 just any rancher that we picked to come 01:30.720 --> 01:33.099 here . Um When I wanted to do something 01:33.110 --> 01:35.559 in the west , I reached out to one of 01:35.569 --> 01:37.458 the biggest names in regenerative 01:37.458 --> 01:39.625 agriculture . And I said , I wanna try 01:39.625 --> 01:41.680 to green a desert . Who do you got ? 01:41.680 --> 01:41.540 And he said , you need to talk to 01:41.550 --> 01:42.717 Alejandro Carrillo . 01:47.580 --> 01:49.747 What we're trying to do is actually to 01:49.747 --> 01:53.019 mimic nature because we consider that 01:53.029 --> 01:55.480 movement is equals to health and not 01:55.489 --> 01:57.489 only the animal , but also also the 01:57.489 --> 02:01.430 land , you know , well , we are 02:01.440 --> 02:03.496 actually cattle ranchers and then we 02:03.496 --> 02:05.940 learn this holistic regenerative uh 02:05.949 --> 02:08.600 grazing . And now we're trying to get 02:08.610 --> 02:11.380 that benefit into the , into the 02:11.389 --> 02:13.369 military installations . So we can 02:13.380 --> 02:15.729 actually make a more resilient uh 02:15.740 --> 02:19.630 environment . So what we do 02:19.639 --> 02:21.806 is actually improving what we call the 02:21.806 --> 02:23.830 effective rainfall , that effective 02:23.839 --> 02:25.895 rainfall is , don't tell me how much 02:25.895 --> 02:27.895 rain you get , but tell me how much 02:27.895 --> 02:27.699 rain you keep . 02:33.179 --> 02:35.068 I mean , I think there's a lot of 02:35.068 --> 02:37.290 misconceptions out there about what the 02:37.290 --> 02:39.457 military does about the impact that we 02:39.457 --> 02:41.568 have on the environment . And I think 02:41.568 --> 02:43.679 people are commonly very surprised to 02:43.679 --> 02:45.623 find out that for example , Marine 02:45.623 --> 02:47.846 Corps Air Station , Yuma , which is the 02:47.846 --> 02:50.179 busiest air station in the Marine Corps , 02:50.179 --> 02:49.720 you know , conducting all kinds of 02:49.729 --> 02:52.062 training , getting people ready for war , 02:52.062 --> 02:54.173 but we also manage climate resiliency 02:54.173 --> 02:56.340 programs , right ? And that we view it 02:56.340 --> 02:58.396 as really very important part of our 02:58.396 --> 03:00.340 overall mission set . And let's be 03:00.340 --> 03:02.562 honest , I mean , climate resiliency is 03:02.562 --> 03:04.785 a national security threat . We have to 03:04.785 --> 03:06.729 address that as well as all of the 03:06.729 --> 03:07.660 other threats that face the country .