Abstract: A rotating browse food producing apparatus intended to produce edible feed stock for ruminants. The present invention incorporates a pair of spiral cutting blades mounted to a rotary machine that drives the cutting blades in a parallel axis located above a fixed reaction surface. Tree branch material is forced between the cutting blades traversing through an arc and a fixed reaction surface. The length of the spiral blades are configured to sever a fixed length portion of the cellulose feed stock to render a product suitable for animal feed.

Abstract: An ecological system and method for counteracting the effects of excessive nutrient deposition (eutrophication) in bodies of water such as marshlands, inland ponds and lakes. The system makes use of clusters of substantially individualized bark fibers positioned in upper, relatively oxygen-rich zones of such bodies of water. The bark clusters function to attract and hold excessive nutrient deposition in the form of colloidal wastes (e.g., colloidal solids of various types, single cell bacteria, etc.) and aquatic algae produced thereby, while at the same time providing a safe habitat for algae predators and feeders in the form of minute animal organisms (e.g., crustacea, rotifers, snails, zooplankton, etc).