Bruce Kania's guest appearances

Bruce Kania

Regenerative Skills

Designers of Paradise with Erik Van Lennep

Duck Season Somewhere

Daniel Christian Wahl

Judith Schwartz

John Moody

Joel Salatin

Scott Stephens

Curtis Stone

Steve Gabriel

Ryan Reynolds

Leah Penniman

Brian Von Herzen

Peter McCoy

Rob Roy

ALBERT BATES

MARK SHEPARD

Eric Toensmeier

OwlTail

While watching Canada geese trading along the Yellowstone River from his back porch, innovator Bruce Kania tells Ramsey Russell about "the business of inventing." Influenced by a grandmother that taught him to snare rabbits, he grew up archery hunting in Wisconsin, became a young muskie guide, and eventually moved to Montana to chase elk.  His Biohaven Floating Island technology is distributed worldwide, cleans water, increases fishery productivity and is even a scalable solution for water quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and world oceans. The invention was inspired while duck hunting in what he refers to as the Red Dog Story. A close encounter with a mountain lion is also recalled. What are some of his other inventions and what key advice does Kania have for would-be inventors? How did a duck hunt inspire this technology? Besides floating duck blinds, what are some of the ways the biohaven floating islands are being used worldwide? And if he uses this technology to form his own country, will there be ducks? Some great inventions have originated in the duck blind, but this one takes it to whole 'nuther level.    Related links: Floating Island International   Episode Sponsors: BOSS Shotshells Benelli Shotguns  Kanati Waterfowl Taxidermy GunDog Outdoors GetDucks USHuntList   It's duck season somewhere 365 days per year. Host Ramsey Russell chases waterfowl worldwide, year-round. Follow Ramsey's duck hunting adventures: Instagram @ramseyrussellgetducks YouTube @GetDucks Facebook @GetDucks.com

While watching Canada geese trading along the Yellowstone River from his back porch, innovator Bruce Kania tells Ramsey Russell about "the business of inventing." Influenced by a grandmother that taught him to snare rabbits, he grew up archery hunting in Wisconsin, became a young muskie guide, and eventually moved to Montana to chase elk.  His Biohaven Floating Island technology is distributed worldwide, cleans water, increases fishery productivity and is even a scalable solution for water quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and world oceans. The invention was inspired while duck hunting in what he refers to as the Red Dog Story. A close encounter with a mountain lion is also recalled. What are some of his other inventions and what key advice does Kania have for would-be inventors? How did a duck hunt inspire this technology? Besides floating duck blinds, what are some of the ways the biohaven floating islands are being used worldwide? And if he uses this technology to form his own country, will there be ducks? Some great inventions have originated in the duck blind, but this one takes it to whole 'nuther level.  Related links: <a href="https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/solutions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Floating Island International</a> Episode Sponsors: <a href="https://bossshotshells.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BOSS Shotshells</a> <a href="https://www.benelliusa.com/shotguns/waterfowl-shotguns" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Benelli Shotguns</a> <a href="https://www.getducks.com/photo-galleries/kanati-waterfowl-taxidermy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Kanati Waterfowl Taxidermy</a> <a href="https://gundogoutdoors.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GunDog Outdoors</a> <a href="https://www.getducks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GetDucks</a> <a href="https://www.getducks.com/us-hunt-list/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USHuntList</a> It's duck season somewhere 365 days per year. Host Ramsey Russell chases waterfowl worldwide, year-round. Follow Ramsey's duck hunting adventures: Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ramseyrussellgetducks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ramseyrussellgetducks</a> YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GetDucks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@GetDucks</a> Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Getduckscom-613161632060459/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@GetDucks.com</a>

Bruce Kania, Floating Islands, Montana

We’ve covered a ton of angles to this topic already, from fixing broken water cycles on the land with keyline planning and earthworks, to marine ecosystem restoration through conservation and even farming. In today’s episode I got to speak with Bruce Kania of Floating Island International which developed their patented Biohaven floating island technology as a solution to algae-ridden and nutrient impared waterways since 2005. Since then they´ve launched over 9,000 island systems worldwide as solutions to a variety of problems facing contaminated water. In this interview Bruce breaks down the chemical and biological processes that happen in the water when there’s a heavy nutrient load and how it affects the balance of oxygen and the lifeforms that depend on it. He tells me how the floating islands that he’s helped to develop work to cycle the nutrients of polluted waterways back into the food web that then fosters the beneficial life forms that are emergent elements of healthy water ecosystems and that mature to help the whole system and surrounding ecology to thrive. We also take a look at the case study of Fish Fry Lake in Montana and how it’s gone from a polluted lake with regular algae blooms to become the most productive wild fishery in Montana where people can even swim and snorkel!Be sure to stick around till the end of the interview as Bruce explains just how big the potential of these floating wetland systems is as he’s looking to develop inhabited floating islands that help to filter and clean the great plastic garbage patches in the Pacific ocean and the possibility of creating floating solar farms that function as new real estate as well. Resources:Main Website https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/solutions/Dos and don’t of waterway stewardship https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/the-dos-and-donts-of-waterway-stewardship/Ted talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPIUUnoRPcY&amp;feature=emb_logoInternship link  https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/internships-available/

We’ve covered a ton of angles to this topic already, from fixing broken water cycles on the land with keyline planning and earthworks, to marine ecosystem restoration through conservation and even farming. In today’s episode I got to speak with Bruce Kania of Floating Island International which developed their patented Biohaven floating island technology as a solution to algae-ridden and nutrient impared waterways since 2005. Since then they´ve launched over 9,000 island systems worldwide as solutions to a variety of problems facing contaminated water.  In this interview Bruce breaks down the chemical and biological processes that happen in the water when there’s a heavy nutrient load and how it affects the balance of oxygen and the lifeforms that depend on it. He tells me how the floating islands that he’s helped to develop work to cycle the nutrients of polluted waterways back into the food web that then fosters the beneficial life forms that are emergent elements of healthy water ecosystems and that mature to help the whole system and surrounding ecology to thrive.  We also take a look at the case study of Fish Fry Lake in Montana and how it’s gone from a polluted lake with regular algae blooms to become the most productive wild fishery in Montana where people can even swim and snorkel! Be sure to stick around till the end of the interview as Bruce explains just how big the potential of these floating wetland systems is as he’s looking to develop inhabited floating islands that help to filter and clean the great plastic garbage patches in the Pacific ocean and the possibility of creating floating solar farms that function as new real estate as well.  Resources: Main Website <a href="https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/solutions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/solutions/</a> Dos and don’t of waterway stewardship <a href="https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/the-dos-and-donts-of-waterway-stewardship/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/the-dos-and-donts-of-waterway-stewardship/</a> Ted talk <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPIUUnoRPcY&amp;feature=emb_logoInternship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPIUUnoRPcY&amp;feature=emb_logoInternship</a> link  <a href="https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/internships-available/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.floatingislandinternational.com/internships-available/</a>

Regenerating lakes and ponds with floating islands, with Bruce Kania of Floating Island International

Bruce Kania – Nature’s Wetland Effect