Oxbow lake

Right.

Oxbows, they're typically down in the floodplain next to the streams and creeks.

Mm-hmm.

We're not farming anyway.

When you all kinda share that North Star, you work together to find these practices.

Mm-hmm.

Oxbows, for example, uh, Iowa Soybean Association, Nature Conservancy, us, we work together to kinda develop an oxbow ID tool and an oxbow restoration tool kit, right?

Mm-hmm.

And then we go up the river.

We get into Horseshoe, which is another old Oxbow Lake.

And we actually see two gators in there.

And we're like, okay, we've seen a couple.

But at school, we're not taught about finance budgeting.

We're taught about like Oxbow Lakes, Pythagoras' Theorems, molecules and the periodic table.

Not saying that all that stuff shouldn't be taught.

It gives you a good basis for understanding the world.

I'm a physical geographer, so it's proper geography, like science-y stuff, but environmental and how humans interact with the environment.

And what really got me then kind of go was visiting mountains, seeing rivers, like, how does that work? Like, We all learn about Oxbow Lakes in school, but why does the water erode the outside of the bend and not the inside of the bend? What is actually going on there? I found there was a subject that could help me look at the world and appreciate creation more in that sense and just be wowed by it.

We don't understand everything, but just getting a little glimpse behind the curtain, like, oh, that's what's going on there.

And I think that led through A-Levels into my choice of degree.

Okay.

And he enjoys Oxbow Lakes.

Yeah.

Unbelievable.

Did you learn geography? Yes.

Ox- Oxbow lake.

Oxbow river.

Eh? Labrador current.

You'll be put on a watch list.

Finally, for now, just because, you know, one of the things that I really banked, actually, was an oxbow lake.

is a lake.

Okay, I'm going to give you a fact here and I'm going to tell you how you can remember what this looks like.

You know that? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, the

Oxbow Lake.

The big windy, windy, I know it's not a lake, it's a river, but that's how they told us to remember that.