Rewilding the Northeast (full)
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2020
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Less than 3% of land conserved in the Northeast is forever-wild. Northeast Wilderness Trust is working with landowners, volunteers, and other conservation organizations to rewild the Northeastern landscape, from the Adirondacks to Maine and south to Connecticut. Executive Director Jon Leibowitz, Stewardship Director Shelby Perry, and Conservation Landowner Susan Morse share about the importance of wild places, what makes them special, and why we need to protect more wilderness in the Northeast. Produced by Cassidy Motahari.
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Old growth forests are some of the most magical places on earth. raw primal wilderness unmolested by man.
"Setting these places (forest / wilderness) aside permanently - for their benefit, not for ours."
It's for our benefit. We have abused nature way to much, we just have to rectify our wrongdoings as soon as possible, before it's too late.
Great video!
Thank you! We agree wild places have immense benefits for people, too :)
Thanks for doing what you do ❤
I think that all old growth forests should be found and protected. There’s not much left, and whatever is found must be saved from whatever humans may do to it
So many forest in CT that are protected reserves are all over grown with trees no sunlight hits the ground thus creating a death trap for the ecosystem
Totally agree but to add, humans also have great capacity for good, so whatever they might do includes good actions too and I think it's important to recognise that. Being human doesn't always mean destruction, it can mean tenderness, understanding and love. We need to start talking more about this side of us I think.
Old growth trees are unique ecosystems - I love the quote "Great oaks take 300 years to grow, 300 years to stay, and 300 years to die."
This is awesome. It really is. Definitely want to keep in mind that selective cutting can be the life force, life line, and life blood of the fauna you are working so hard to protect. Old forest, is beautiful, it also becomes sterile. Without forest fires, forests and it's inhabitants benefit beyond words from selective cutting. The new growth is what provides food and sanctuary. There is a balance that can turn old forest into a wildlife haven/heaven. It can be accomplished with no cost to the owner/ trustees and I would strongly recommend looking into these possibilities. Either way, thank you for fighting the good fight.
If ever there was an area that was desperate to be rewilded it is the American Northeast!! A beautiful video! There's so much to do! I hope the American Elm & the American Chestnut among many other species make a comeback! Thank you for the work you do!!
Unfortunately the dutch elm disease is not gone that is why no new trees will ever grow
@@andrewbaker6908 Well, they're still working very hard to not only eliminate the disease but also to breed disease-resistant trees so there is a lot of hope!
@@louislamonte334 hope fully it's not a dodo bird
@@andrewbaker6908that's dumb....there are countless thousands of elm trees around....I have hundreds on my 100 acre parcel in Massachusetts
You will lose....money and greed will always override what you intend.
awwwww...that was soooo beautiful to see! The forests are pure magic!! Thank you will never be enough for preserving these unique places! Please keep us updated on other places ...keep filming...share the beauty..:-)
Putting aside wilderness lands IS for our benefit. They are the life support we require on this rock.
Thank you! Beautiful sound of birds too.
So kool. If you want to help our earth just leave it alone and respect it
The intelligent stewards have finally arrived!!!!! Thank you 🙏!!!!
Well done, all of you! Keep going.
Thank you Sheila!
Forever wild. Great to see Sue Morse again after 25 years. She came to New Mexico to teach our Sky Island Alliance road-ripper volunteers valuable tracking skills as a reward for their hard work. Great teacher and incredible conservationist.
We are so grateful for Sue and all she does to speak on behalf of wildlife and wild places!
I love this stuff
Inspiring. Thank you for your work. Land trusts and conservancies will be so vital going forward!
Good 👍 work you guys an ladies are really doing justice for the earth
Thank you Cory!
I love the work this organisation is doing, and how areas of old growth forests are being protected. In Scotland, we face unique challenges in conservation but are similar to the north east in the way that much of the land is privately owned. I hope the success continues and that future generations can walk among the forests of today.
Thank you and cheers!
Until the 1800s the northeastern USA used to have Wolves, Puma, Elk & Bison. Are there any plans to bring them back? Wolves in the northeast would be very important as the region lacks a top predator.
@Jaylen Grant Scammers, beware ya'll
@@SlowMoebius its america so cant you just buy a couple of them as pets and then release them like who's gonna stop you
btw what about the other keystone species like beavers and otters etc
Wolves, pumas, and elk yes. But did bison really get that far northeast?
@@TheSuperappelflap beavers, otters & bobcats are present in most if not all north american habitats
@@jabujolly9020 new york was the northeastern limit of their range
Very interesting fakts. Thx
Awesome work. Thanks 👍
Great video 👍
My family used to go "sugaring off" back in the day! I'm in Massachusetts and I can't wait for there to be more rewilding here. I subscribed; thanks!
There’s a 300 yr old tree in my neighborhood. I wish there was some way to protect it. 😢
you have my full support. I will be in touch with your orginazation.
Thank you Julian! We so appreciate your support; glad to connect with you.
Great to see. Any work with the Abenaki, as far as returning these forests to tribal conservation & stewardship?
We need more protected areas in northern Ontario. There is so much undeveloped land, that it’s a unique opportunity to protect areas the size of small nations
Im from the UK and jealous of all your wilderness. Protect it!
Amen, Sault ste Marie northward should be preserved
Yeah. Leave New Hampshire Beautiful!
the king in the north!
You are the guardians of the permaculture's zone 4 and 5. Suavelos!
I so badly have been dreaming of the ability to buy up all the land that's up for sale in my home in the PNW to conserve it but idk how to start...
We have the same problem with Tallgrass Prairie in the Midwest but the situation is even more dire.
Rewilding is a great solution for prairies as well; we recommend checking out American Prairie's work in this arena.
the natives really knew what they were doing...
and not allowing logging just to maybe do a little thinning is what causes forest fires that are getting worse every year. other than that your doing good work.
Yeah, I'm a conservative. I want to preserve the wild land. But to sell this concept to the people we need to make it positive. The current message is 'save the wild land we have'. I want to expand the wildness. Make it systemic, not just on the border of society. I want to rewild the cities. Begin by planting more trees. Cities with more trees are statistically less violent. Bring back backyard bee keepers and victory gardens. Bring the natural flora and fauna of the countryside into the cities.
Hi Pete, this a beautiful and necessary vision, and we absolutely agree that increasing the prevalence of nature and wildness in suburban and urban settings is critical. There are some fantastic organizations who focus more specifically on that type of rewilding (we recommend checking out American Forest's Community Releaf Program for a national example in the US...and there are many more organizations working regionally and across the globe!)
Northeast Wilderness Trust's Muddy Pond Wilderness Preserve (www.newildernesstrust.org/muddypond) is perhaps the best example of NEWT's work in this realm. Thanks very much for sharing this important perspective.
@Legend of the Blue Macerator That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Unless you are 7 y/o. Are you 7?
Does anyone know the music at the beginning? it's gorgeous
The music is by David Celeste
Question is are they going to allow or help with the natural fire regime in order to maintain a healthy forest. Conserving and protecting sometimes isn’t the healthiest, forests need disturbances
Hi Josh, you're absolutely right that forests need disturbances. The great thing about letting them grow old naturally is that these disturbances still happen in all sorts of ways, on nature's time. These disturbance events include fire, wind, ice and snow, floods, diseases, and insects. However, if a naturally occurring fire on land we protect is adjacent to a human community, the local fire department intervenes for safety. We do not prescribe or manage burns, as northern hardwood forests and boreal forests (the majority of the ecosystems we protect) are not high-frequency fire ecosystems, unlike the Western U.S. which is a fire-dependent ecosystem. Thank you for your question!
The Adirondacks Was Founded By Teddy Roosevelt! Over 100 Years Ago! You Have The Catskills And A Lot Of Preserves In The North East So I Don't Know What You Are Talking About! Hunters Have Preserved The Forests For A Long Time Even Before You Guys Got Here! So You Know Have Fun With Your Story!
Ah I see. North East North America. From the title thought it maybe Northumberland.
Strange comments about "envious of future generations" , goodness help them with our legacy.. Referring to it as " property," , is rather odd rather than land or woodland/forest.
Nevertheless we have lot to learn from North America , as Britain is the least wooded country in Europe and years of intensive agriculture moorland exploitative game shooting and overgrazing have left a depleted environment.The National Trust helpful , but underfunded
Hmmpf. Come to West Virginia, it was never UN-wild. West Virginia, Wild and Wonderful, Almost Heaven. This state is one vast forest, with hidden valleys, deep dark rivers and mist shrouded mountains all year round. You can drive 5 minutes from the center of the states largest city and swear you are the first Human to ever step foot where you are. Life is old here. The Appalachian Mountains are the oldest mountains in the world, having been above sea level for 1.1 billion years and was last covered by ice almost 650 million years ago when the entire planet was bound in ice. Our population is dropping each decade by 20,000 and when you only 1.78 million people, that adds up fast. This state is one giant National Park.
We have hot spring canyons that never see snow on the ground even in the worst winters when the mountain ridges get 2 or 3 feet of snow at a time. We have a mountain that has permafrost all year round. We have all sorts of wildlife including Bison and Elk, but we officially do not have Wolf or Mountain Lion, although some locals will argue that with you. While I have never seen a wolf here, I did see a Mountain Lion once - just ten feet away, for some reason it was focused on something besides me. Thank You God! It wasn't a Bobcat, they are as thick as rabbits here.
Sounds great. Now all that needs to be done is to bring back wolves and chestnut trees that the blight doesn't kill.
@@jabujolly9020 Well, we still have chestnut trees, my childhood farm has 17. I grew up there in the 1960's and 1970's and these trees were fully mature when we bought the property and are still standing. I hated them, the pods hurt like hell if you were barefoot and stepped on one. Mowing around them was like flinging grenades. I am aware of the blight and the hybrid program, but I do not think this property was ever part of that program. In 1982 we contacted WVU and they came down and were there about a week and paid to take one tree with them, it was the smallest. They took a lot of cuttings from the others.
As for wolves. No thanks. I hate that we have coyote and I am not happy to ponder the thought of mountain lions. I had my one encounter with one when I was young and that was enough - I was very, very lucky he was just curious and not hungry.
@@cadengrace5466 So did the lab determine that the trees were immune to the blight? I've often wondered if and when a strain can be made available to bring the American chestnut back to its prominence. I think wolves aren't as bad as you think. There are hardly any cases in North America of wolves preying on humans but there sure is a big problem with the eastern coyote. But wolves would prey on the coyotes.
As for mountain lions you probably already have them.
@@jabujolly9020I was young when WVU came in and looked at them. They have may have said something to my folks that I was not made aware of. They came back and took four more seedlings a few years later that had sprouted. More I do not know.
The problem with wolves is that their presence makes coyotes and bobcats more aggressive since the predator rankings get jumbled and more competitive. Coyotes in my area (Charleston) are not too bad and I think it has to do with the massive number of black bears in the area.
As for the mountain lion, I was young, lived on the farm with the Chestnut trees. I was walking in the woods and came across some large tracks I was not familiar with, I followed them around the ridge and they circled back to a point I could see my own prints. I had circled around because the mountain lion was following me, not me following it. I sat on a deadfall that was striding over another deadfall like a see-saw.
As I pondered the scope of the tracking business the log suddenly and strongly bounced under me. I looked to the other end, about 25 feet away. There sat a mountain lion staring at me. He did not move, I did not move. Off in the tree canopy some squirrels took off and started chattering like they do when they are in heat and the mountain lion took off in their direct like a bolt of lightening.
I jogged out of the area as fast as my legs could take me. I was 12 and weighed about 135 pounds. I do not know how I lived through that. I was his for the taking and he just was interested in me like that.
I wonder if timber wolves will make a come back and maybe elk Aswell
Nailing signs into the trees is potentially harmful to the tree. A post would be the preferred method.
Hoping you’re making plans to replant the American chestnut tree.
We partner with American Chestnut Foundation which conducts research on one of the landscapes we protect.
The Northeast wasn't wild when we got here. Humans had already been here for over 25,000 years.
Thought you meant North East England and realised we chopped down all our forests 500 years ago. Too late for this denuded island. Good luck guys.
There must be wilderness.
Also cities are hell
You should recognize the value of both. With a large population, dense cities are the only ways a large amount of true wilderness can be conserved
What about the planes contrails destroying the oZone, dropping chemicals and polluting water. Anyone around the northeast want to figure out filtering and testing solutions for our gardens. We can’t stop weather warfare but we can try to minimize the pollutants in our immediate areas.
Bears are funny dogs, makes me sad people cut down all the big trees
Northeast america not just the north east that could be anywhere in the world
America tend to think they are the whole world
An easement does not last forever.
Hi Frank, thanks for writing. Forever-wild easements last in legal perpetuity. To ensure that the lands owned by Northeast Wilderness Trust stay wild beyond a doubt, we always work with other conservation organizations who hold easements on NEWT-owned lands. This adds a double layer of protection, backing up our promise to the public that we will safeguard these lands as forever-wild. Hope this helps and please let us know if you have any questions!
Why you allowed hunting?
Hi there -- we allow hunting on certain properties (not all) of abundant prey species only. Since large predators have been extirpated from the Northeast, hunters help keep deer in check to allow the forest to regenerate.
If you want rural people to get on board with conservation, you almost always need to allow some form of limited hunting. People who own land will not be interested in granting conservation easements if they, their families and friends can not hunt on these lands. Hunting is ingrained in most rural populations and is as much a way of life for them as the theater and night clubs are for urban people. I own land under a conservation easement which I hunt, it is longleaf pine/ wiregrass savanna in the southeast US.
@@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures where I live hunting of deer is common so they don't overpopulate because of lack of large predators like wolves
Every piece of "donated" property still has taxes owed upon it. This further burdens and destroys middle class ppl who have to share the tab.
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I'm a little disturbed by the fact that coyotes were mentioned when they aren't indigenous to the northeast. Surely the goal should be to bring back wolves and mountain lions which actually belong there. I think that wolves and mountain lions will hunt and control the coyotes. also there needs to be more effort to bring woodland caribou back to the northernmost regions of New England especially northern Maine.
People are probably scared that wolves and lions will attack them but that's very unlikely to happen because they will only attack humans if they feel threatened by us
@@alfieshepherd6522 very few examples of wolves attacking people in North America, however, with lions/cougars/panthers (mountain lions) they have been known to attack people as an easy form of prey, especially if the lion is young, old or in bad health. With that being said I have absolutely no issue with bringing apex predators back to the land scape. I personally enjoy being in wilderness areas with mountain lions, grizzly bears and wolves, to me it is a good feeling to know you might not be the "baddest dude" on the block, so to speak. The presence of apex predators makes me pay attention to EVERYTHING when I am in these areas, that is one of the reasons I love to travel to Montana and camp by myself around the North Fork of the Flathead river. I typically will have firearms with me, but not so much as protection from the apex predators in the region as from the humans that go there.
@@alfieshepherd6522 Anyone who has ever owned a dog can tell you that what makes a critter feel threatened can be unexpected. They can and do react to something that we miss entirely. If and when such a thing should happen with large predators, it can be tragic. There's a reason we killed them all in certain areas.
@@russellmarra8520 You're not wrong but who's going to get that close to a wolf?
Thanks for your comment. Welcoming back native predators and large herbivores is indeed important to the ecosystem as a whole, and has benefits for people, too. To do that, large and connected forests must be protected so that they can find enough food and shelter, travel safely to find mates, and establish large territories--and that's what we are working towards!
It's a great initiative, but for ever wild is a concerning concept. After a time, human activity is necessary for a healthy forest. Things will get better faster for sure if you recognize the need for man and other mega fauna. That is an ecological crisis we have barely begun to grapple with.
Man has been sugaring and foraging and stripping limbs and bark from trees, ripping up saplings, etc, for thousands of years.
We are missing a panorama of species that were fudemental to the areas ecology up until very recently
Wilded areas do regenerate, but decades of research on rewilding have shown there is a need to supplement lost elements.
Deer, birds, small rodents, and amphibians can't do it alone.
What about the beaver, who is only recently absent? Or the wolves and foxes required as custodians of their prey's populations? We decimated them, wiped them out whenever we could, and nature is meant to fix it by itself? Using some disjointed habitats?
This is suspiciously poorly thought out
Hi Miles,
You're right that restoration of native species can absolutely be a part of rewilding. What’s even more amazing is when we do trust nature to heal--which it can do quite well when we give it time, space, and peace, as the Northeastern US has seen over the past century--these animals can naturally return. In other instances, reintroduction can be a useful practice when done well and with care. Northeast Wilderness Trust Preserves across New England and New York host beavers, deer, birds, amphibians, foxes, moose, bobcat, coyotes, and may even support Canada lynx and American marten.
For whatever reason, they aren't understanding that old growth forests have no food in them for most animals. These old forests are loaded with chipmunks and red squirrels. Very low numbers of upland birds, deer and medium sized mammals etc. It is absolutely beautiful, but these places become barren hiking trails for humans and thats about it.
If this is gonna be a success, those hound hunters have to GO. They have no respect for nature or people and only care about their own selfish interests. The UA-cam channel Gold Shaw Farms have a video on these hound hunters that trespass on their land and bully and violently threatening them for standing up to them.
Hi Mr. X -- NEWT does not allow hounding or predator hunting on any of the lands we protect.
You mean you saw a group of hound hunters that gave you that impression, but don't really know how all the other hound hunters operate ?