Thinking Like Water

Part Biography, Part How-To...the Thinking Like Water docuseries features "water wizard" Bill Zeedyk and allies who illustrate a proven toolbox of simple low-tech, low-cost methods to restore degraded lands. Working with Nature, rather than against her, they gird against the ravages of extreme dr...

Episode 1, “Willing to Try Things”, kicks off the five-part Thinking Like Water docuseries. Here we meet watershed restoration enthusiast Bill Zeedyk and follow the thread of his life’s work. Episode 1 lays the foundation of Zeedyk’s pioneering contribution of induced meandering to the field of...

Episode 2 , “All About a Bird: 1,000 Acts of Restoration”, highlights the Endangered Gunnison Sage Grouse and how a host of partnerships and private landowners pull together to save this unique bird. Nathan Seward (Biologist, Colorado Parks & Wildlife), who originally brought Zeedyk to Colorado ...

Episode 3: “Fire & Flood” zooms in on restoration in the age of increasing catastrophic wildfires and their post-fire impacts as well as how hybridizing treatments comes with the terrain. Snow is falling less in many areas and melting sooner resulting in a more parched landscape as the warmer and...

Episode 4 “Country Roads, City Roads” features roads guru Steve Carson of Rangeland Hands, urban water harvesting expert Brad Lancaster, and watershed restoration pioneer Bill Zeedyk as they work their magic of turning roads into forces for good in rehydrating watersheds. When we think of restori...

Episode 5, “Watershed Wide:Putting it All Together”, is the finale of the 5-part series and introduces new restoration approaches born from local wisdom. We zoom in on Bill Zeedyk’s watersheds to witness: a river's re-wilding through a town center with Lea Knutson of Hermit’s Peak Watershed All...