They offer leaves to water which provides the food for insects which feed the fish we love to catch. Lastly, they keep temperatures cool so we can have trout and other cold water species live in our rivers.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

We’ve poisoned the air, the water, and the land.
In our passion to control nature,
things have gone out of control.
Progress from now on has to mean something different.
We’re running out of resources and
we are running out of time

It is striking how many days people went without medicine, food and water without help from any agency of government or volunteer group. Many of those who did not evacuate were in poor health and circumstances to begin with and many said they were physically unable to leave.

We still need cat cages, cat carriers, dog kennels, animal toys, food — cat, dog, puppy and kitten. Water. We need old blankets and sheets in case we get sick animals. And we need money.

We need food, water — we have nothing now. We are just farmers, but we cannot go back and harvest and our cattle have been stolen.