Woodstove Lunch and new National Park in Scotland?
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
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Join Darach and I as we head out into the forest for the day, cook up some lunch on the woodstove and have a bit of a catch-up! Thanks for watching!
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Welcome back
01:57 Tarp Shelter
02:40 Fire Prep
06:03 LOFI Titanium Lunchbox
07:46 Where have I been?
10:32 Storm Damage
15:09 Forest Thoughts - National Parks
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Nicely said Forester, nicely said. Hope the weather held for your lunch outside and many more to come.
Thank you Mhairi!
Hi Highland Woodsman, enjoyed your video and I am glad you are now on the mend .
I agree with you completely about the national parks.
Another item I would add to all the other negatives re Cairngorm NP is the ever increasing water abstraction and the shrinking of the water table.
The rapid decline in Scotlands natural and manmade habitats over the last 45years over ALL of Scotland is quite sad.
The Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Fins have invested in protecting their assets as well as encouraging and managing outdoor recreation.
Without major land reform, land ownership and land use the communities and their natural environment who should benefit have no control on developments or 'inward investments'.
Another Scottish national park will be more of the same.
One of the things that makes all the above countries the same is that they are all independent sovereign countries.
Thanks so much for watching! Land Reform is absolutely critical if we want to see significant progress in Scotland!
Thanks for your exposition of perspectives on national parks. Really useful. Concerned that large swathes of the country are turning in to theme parks.
Thank you! I share the same concerns!
Nice to have you back 👌 i think your points to the nationalpark are very valid. it seems like it is a bit backwards in Scotland with the nationalparks
Thanks as always Ronja 😀👍🏻
Great to see you back Sam, sorry to hear about the injury I expect it was an eye watering experience and very scary! I totally agree with you on the national park business, it should be totally wild as in other countries, otherwise what's the point? Look after yourself and looking forward to the next rant lol 😊
National means by definition only what traditionally existed there such as ancient native woodland , plant life, wildlife animals, birds etc so there should be no alien plantations or barren moors which used to be covered in woodland before it got chopped, burnt and alien sub grouse species introduced , in fact neither should alien sheep be there , therefore the natural heritage is not natural et Al and should be removed from national parks.
It should be a large natural national nature reserve for people also to enjoy the outdoor hobbies such as hiking , camping, fishing etc and I think this is what Sam feels also but careful with his chosen words as he works in this industry but his spirit is telling him and all of us what is right for the people.
The globalists who have thieved the land from the indigious people will only ever see wealth and profit., until they are decentralised and ran off the land nothing will ever change for the better!
Thank you 😀👍
Great to see both you and Darach back out again Sam! A very interesting and informative Forest Thoughts with some valid and relevant points I think. I’ve started a wee side project myself, I’m hoping to visit all the last remaining remnants of Scottish Pinewoods, along with some other places too!! Look forward to the next video.
Thanks as always Tony, I'd definitely love to get around them all myself, there's a few pretty well known obvious ones I've not been to, especially in Deeside 🌲
Glad to see you again! Your knee injury is more than reason enough to stay away for a long while! Good to know that it's healed well!
Your thoughts on National Parks is very true. It's a huge dilemma. The existing ones there seem to be like an oversized resort. It has to be so difficult for the families that actually live within it's boundaries. Here in the states, there no private homes within the parks. If you are within the boundary that is to become a NP, you are forced to sell your property and the vacated premises is left to "return to nature". This has its downside too! We're thankful that we have plenty of areas to develop into NPs without disturbing too many people. Someone said it earlier, there isn't enough space there. This is a difficult dilemma!
We hope the forest clean up continues to go well! It's so sad to see all those trees blown down...
Thank you for always striving to teach us something about the land you love and how to enjoy it's beauty! We really enjoy your videos!
Thanks so much for watching! Forced sale of property does seem quite extreme but as you said there is plenty of other areas for people to live in and we just don't have that luxury here being such a small country! I think it would have made more sense to designate the National Park around core nature areas and areas with high potential first instead of spreading it so thin over such a huge area with so many land owners straight away!
Good to see you back Sam and look forward to more of your content.
Many thanks for watching as always Ed 👍🏻
Gutted to hear that Sam, I hope that the recovery is swift and pain free.
All the best fella and stay chirpy
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Many thanks Chief!
Great to see ya man! Boy! That looks like you guys had a or a couple of microbursts if not a tornado! Wow! The soil looks moist so maybe the root systems are shallow. Great to have you back sir!
Take care.
NQU
Thanks for watching! That's exactly what it felt like!
Yes most of our timber crops here are non native shallow rooting conifers on wet soils and they are incredibly vulnerable to wind damage especially when it comes from the East.
So nice to see you back Sam. Good to rest knee. Laid up with total knee replacement 41c air con running watching some of your previous video. Look forward to your next
Wishing you a speedy recovery Catherine 🙌🏻
Lovely to see you and Darach back 🙂
Thank you 😊
Interesting info and opinion on the potential new National Park. I hadn't heard about that. Subscribed. Cheers.
Thanks Paul, appreciate that 👍🏻
Glad to see you are back and healthy. The national park system here is a mix as well. Banff is so popular it is impossible to visit for 6 months
Thanks for watching! My experience of National Parks in Canada is limited but I did get to visit Jasper and Banff. Although they were quite busy it seemed like they were very good at keeping the majority of people contained to certain 'hotspots' ?
Great vid as always mate. Nice to see you back and hope your injury fully clears up. It's great getting older mate eh. 🤣👍
Cheers Neil! 😂👍🏻
Keep the videos up bud. Good luck with the knee.
Thank you 😀👍🏻
Wonderful video i have watched a few others and i am enjoying what you post great videos and i love the discussion on national parks as i live in the US and i agree with you if thats what they want to do then I agree with you No to a National park they need to be a protected area so you all can enjoy them without all the bad. And based on yor content and the the national park discussion I have subscribed to your channel
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing, much appreciated 😀
Enjoyed your Forest Thoughts there Sam, agree with most of what you said…I will say I’m not against honeypot towns like Aviemore. Banff, Canada is a honeypot town but that doesn’t stop their National Park being an excellent example of what an NP should be like. Simply put, they value nature far greater there than we do in the likes of CNP and Loch Lomond NP. As you say, we are still suffering from the idiotic decision to make national parks here all about “cultural heritage” rather than for wildlife. It is the cultural heritage that has helped make us one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, why we still pander to those who wish to cherish it I do not know.
Thanks Connor. It's a good point about the honeypot towns and Banff and Jasper do that very well in terms of keeping the majority of visitors 'contained'.
Totally agree with your views, cultural heritage for who? = upper class and wealthy. I don’t agree with the total exclusion of people living within national parks that you can see in the states, land has been managed by man for thousands of years, alongside and in harmony with nature, until relatively recently when it’s been to benefit a few rich posh people with warped ideas on nature conservation.
I agree with you on people living in the parks. I don't think Scotland is big enough to be able to exclude people completely in that context. Most of Scotland has been inhabited and the land managed at some point. Land reform is critical for the future. Releasing the land held by these big damaging estates and break it up into lot's of small holdings where people can live and manage in a low impact way like you said in harmony with nature.
Go to see you back. Hope the knee is well
Thanks for watching 😀👍🏻
I was 100% for national parks before watching this vid.
I thought the tourist money would help fund rewilding and housing for workers. Sad to here it has protected muir burning.
I am guessing there will be some sort of entry fee in Scotland to fund workers and rewilding soon.
I think Nevis becoming a park would be good because its very busy.
Parks in Canada seem too keep 'most' people out of the true wilderness. Lake louise and Banff get hammered so that the Divide is protected.
Parks in Scotland could be good because they centre tourists around Cairngorms. Affric is protected.
Its sad that there has been so much restoration in the Cairngorms and that it had to be sacrificed to become a park. But a park must be thought of as wild otherwise the tourists wont come.
I would hate to see Affric become a 'Park'.
The biggest problem here is the National Park is owned by the government like usual. It's a mix of public and private land and the national park authority are more like a planning authority only so money side of it is not that simple. Nevis is a good idea, I get what you mean about it being busy already, may as well keep everyone contained there.
Fair play, your views on the national parks and rewilding are not bang on. I live in Aviemore and have a family to raise, and yes, rent is impossible. We were nearly homeless twice last year! Settled for now, and long may it continue. The actions in place are very contradicting and only benefit the privilege and the big Estates. I've worked through the process from a gamekeeper to a keen conservationist. So, not all I know or talk about is just hot air.
On another note, good video and set up 😎👌 I have a feeling we may have mutual friends......🤔
Hi Stevie, thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment. I'm glad things have settled down for you, I've almost resigned myself to not owning my own home if I want to stay in the Highlands which is a fairly sad situation. Mutual friends are highly probably, it's a small world up here! 😀👍
That fire pit looks awesome. Can you share where you got it? Thanks.
This is the X-Fire 19 from x-boil, a small company from Germany. Link is in the video description 👍🏻
Hi Sam, great to see you doing another video.
I aways thought a national park would be a good thing without question, listening to what you said and how national parks are ran and managed, well may be not a good thing. I seen affic has a relative new trail which will bring more people there, my question is, how would you protect the area with more people coming to the area if not part of a national park situation?
I think in a 'normal' situation a National Park is a great thing but we have such an odd situation here in the UK. Normally a park would be owned by the Government and managed for public benefit but all we have done is drawn these National Park boundaries around a relatively average bit of land with all sorts of public and private land ownership and use!
For Affric it already has the highest levels of environmental protection. National Park status wouldn't add any protection from increased visitors and would actually just increase the visitors anyway! In Scotland we have so few nice areas left that they just get so intensively used. The sooner we start to restore larger areas the sooner people can spread out and water down their impacts if that makes sense.
@HighlandWoodsman hi Sam, yes that would make alot of sense if we had larger areas of natural beauty and not touched by commercialism.
I walk the lake district alot and it does seem to be turning into a theme park.
Hi Sam,
I enjoyed both parts of your video, thanks for sharing it with us!
National parks in the UK sound quite different from other places I know. I thought it was a great idea to have a 3rd National park in Scotland. But after hearing you explain the pros and cons, I can fully understand why you are against it.
One of the reasons I opted to hike the High Coast in Sweden this year and not the West Highland Way, is that I felt the WHW is (getting) too busy. I don't mind meeting people, but not all day 😅
I still hope to do a nice backpackingtrip in Scotland though, just have to take a look again at all the options.
Thanks so much for watching. I know exactly what you mean even though the WHW and the GGW are on my doorstep I've never considered doing them at all!
@HighlandWoodsman regarding the hikes in Scotland. Is there one you would advice to do?
Not rambling or ranty.. all your points are valid and relevant.. the NP umbrella can and has allowed for toytown ghost communities...and will continue to do so if allowed to become a reality... leave Affric and the Aird be... thanks for the up to date education.. stay free and healthy..✌️👍
Agreed - Thanks so much for watching ! 👍🏻
Hiya bud. National Park is just a marketing label as far as i can see. Much like the NC500 the publicity is designed to drive up tourism whether the area has the infrastructure to deal with it or not. Skye is a total mess because of that, serious soil erosion from footfall and no money going into improving paths to help slow it down.
Couldn't agree more! 👍🏻
Great videos, Hope you don't mind but may I ask what is the watch you wear on your videos ?
Thank you! It's a Garmin Instinct but the strap is not the original, it's a green one I bought off of Amazon 👍🏻
@@HighlandWoodsman AHH I thought it was. I have the same . It was the strap that threw me 🤣 great videos. Watched them all now. Keep it up 👍👍
You're such an antidote to so much of the puerile nonsense on here. Thank you! Totally agree re National Parks, we're on Skye and it's the last thing we need. Our infrastructure already doesn't support the volume of tourism we get and the thought of that increasing is depressing. Anyway, I'll not go off into a rant...just wanted to say how refreshing your channel is.
Thanks so much for watching Suzanne and your feedback on the channel, much appreciated 😀
No more national parks. "The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man." ~ Author Unknown. Scotland is not a theme park, or a playground for the rich, it consists of communities living and working there who are tired of being shoved around, labelled, and put in boxes/ Any employment generated would be seasonal and low paid - apart from those who have jumped on yet another gravy train of self promotion and vainglorious projects. One map I saw from the G.N.P.A. early on included parts of Ayrshire, into Dumfriesshire and failed to include the Rhins at all. A more recent map which they say is being submitted in support of their bid still includes bits of Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire as far as I can see, but they seem to have included the Rhins now. They seem to want to cherry pick areas they want to add in. We already have the Forest Park, Dark Skies designation, UNESCO biosphere - surely that's enough? Just my thoughts.
ps - have subscribed, not just because of the national park stuff ;)
Thanks so much for watching, subscribing and this detailed comment - it's really appreciated! I couldn't agree more with what you've said to be honest. I suspect the next park will be Nevis or Galloway. I think Galloway has the advantage as the Highlands already have two 'national parks'.
The simplest way to look at this problem is that conservation needs funding, and the government has apparently decided that the only way to fund conservation is with tourism, which as you pointed out is a bit of a contradiction, because tourism actually damages conservation.
This is why "national parks" in the UK are basically just tourist attractions, and can never be proper conservation areas.
I suppose the solution would be to examine how North American and Scandinavian countries fund their conservation efforts, and copy that model, but again as you pointed out, UK bureaucrats like to do things their own way, which is usually the most ineffective way.
It's hard to see how this will ever be resolved without what amounts to a major assault on tourism, and sadly there's no way that would ever win approval from government, businesses, or even the majority of the public, whose livelihood is dependant on the only real industry we have left in this country. Maybe if we were not so utterly dependent on tourism, we could stop treating every square inch of this country like a theme park.
So ultimately I believe the answer to conservation is to rebuild British industry. Ironic, but true.
You made me buy a thing haa well pledge, was it the 1200ml you were using? I got that anyhoo. And agree with the national park and applies to national trust as well, it's all money orientated and powerful people protecting their vested interest in hunting and timber, North Yorkshire at least. Second homes in national park areas need looking at, if you're not in the home at the very least half the year tax the feck out of them and put that directly into reliefs for people living there. Seems overly simplistic and unfair when the Gov takes money. Overly complex when you're trying to get some off them. Least Scotland is doing (trying) re-wilding, love to see the North York Moors not smouldering twice a year "conservation, long history etc..." hhhm
I think I agree with everything you said in a blunter way, National parks don't work here because we are too small a place (accessable), it's used as a tourism's money grabbing spectacle that always runs its course when the nearby businesses that did good have less consistent business and all nearby communities decline and suffer from obvious increases that come with being in a desirable place. New build refusal should be handled by planning permission and the land would be protected without the brass band and sparkles. This was very interesting fella got me thinking for once haha
Sorry for the delay in replying, UA-cam had hidden this comment from me for some reason! Thanks for watching and I'm glad you found it interesting! 😀👍
National parks in Scotland are disappointing. Neither are predominantly natural or have taken any steps to move closer to this. Its all farming, grouse moor and little towns with pockets of habitat areas. Its crap and the government hasn't the gal to neuter the landowning elites usage, so whats the point.
I find it hard to argue with any of your points 👍