I been donating to Mossy Earth for 2 years and I have to say its money very well spent, not just for the work you do but the skillful way you film and storytell it. Thanks! // Proud supporter
Thank you for having been a member for so long! It means a lot to everyone in the team and it truly is what makes all of this possible. We are the ones that are proud to have you :) - Cheers, Duarte
This is literally a 10 minute walk from my house- can't wait to see what you folks create! Not sure if you already know this but the forest next to it (not the plantation, the old-growth one) has Pine Martens in it, hope your work helps them!
5:40 First time seeing the mossy earth team themselves filling in the niches that the animals usually have to fill themselves 😂 so nice of you, to give them a break once in a while
It's my greatest hope that this project is a smashing success!!! You are such an inspiration!!! Have an excellent day today, my friend!! I really look forward to the day that Scotland is rewilded and restored to its natural state!! I'm a bagpiper and I hope bagpipe ballads are written about you one day!
Ahh we really hope so too! Bagpipes are a seriously cool instrument so we would love some ballads written in our name. Thanks so much for encouragement! Cheers, Rob
Oww what good idea,,i dont play bagpipes 🎵🦋🦅🦌but i write songs ,,i will see if i get a mossy earth song come to me.,, Am in Cattalonia, have a mountain valley and a river property ,,but no money ,,, Hoping to grow food forest on the old grapes terraces,,of the river house ,,and do any planting i can to enhance the river banks,, am solo and old so hoping for help ,,but not detered without,,i live on the mountain finca with my horses,,but have water issues here ,💧🌧plenty to reclaim ,,but the river project is the future for me and will sell the mountain finca to help fund ,,the river project ,,, So so enheartened to see you guys do these projects,,,,your roots of a better way of life that is growing on this beautiful planet,,🌍🏜🏞🌄🌦🌤🍇🍅🌶🐎🦌🐗🐐🐾🪶
Hi Sahil! We intend to keep on going for as long as we are able to implement these projects, hopefully that is a very very long time :) - Cheers, Duarte
@@davidsmith8997 Probably because there aren't any trees there to convince them to stay so they first have to plant trees and let them grow out a bit so the area is suitable for the beavers
I'm 74 years old and grew up in a small town on the Yakima River in eastern Washington State, USA. The river was the central point in our lives growing up. We built rafts and a canoe from which we swam, fished, gigged bullfrogs, and just generally spent as much time as possible on the water. We witnessed the effects of pollution in our wanderings, often seeing foul smelling water flow from pipes draining the surrounding farm land into the river. I recall thinking at the time that if a person dedicated their life to the river and tracked each source of pollution to its origin and helped correct the problem, in a lifetime the river could heal and everyone would enjoy a pristine river in their community. And it seemed to my child's mind that a life dedicated to a river would be a life well spent. Now, near life's end, I still think the same. If you wish to be contented in your later years, be a river caretaker and have a life well spent.
I’m 73 and went to OTI back in 1970 in Oregon. A Japanese friend of mine was from Yakima area. I believe his family owned a farm there his name was Tom unfortunately I can’t remember his last name but it was Japanese Okiama or something. He was a great foosball player. I think he had an older brother. If you know him I would love to reconnect . I’m living in Florida now. Tom Davis.
As a (mature, 32 y/o) environmental science student, this is exactly what I want to be doing once i've earnt my degree. You guys have the absolute dream job, and i'd love to join you one day. Thanks for being an inspiration.
Been following your channel for about a year now, what you guys are doing is awesome. Now your here in my country making changes for the better. People like you are the reason i decided to go back to education. I'm about to conclude my first year at uni studying ecology and conservation. Which is surreal being a decade older than the other students. Carry on your inspiring adventures.
Ah thats so awesome. Thank you for the encouraging words, we do our best to communicate our projects here on youtube and its nice to hear that our videos have a wider impact! Best of luck with your studies. Cheers, Rob
A dam to give life to our Mother Earth, not one to take it away from her. We need more people and projects like this, where our skills are used to create life, not to destroy it. I love you guys, thanks for your initiative!!
I have been trying to create a few dams on our short section of river, my hope is to reduce the effects of the flooding in the winter, so far I have seen positive results. As we have a lot of trees I opted for the simple method of putting large branches across the river, and allowing them to dam up naturally.
How does building dams help reduce flooding? I would have though it would increase it instead, since the water then spreads out all over the area instead of remaining concentrated into a single artery. Is it that, with more channels, any additional volume is divided up and so the overall levels of each channel doesn't rise much?
@@raerohan4241 dams create buffer areas, so when increased inflow of water happens it can build up behind the dam and then slowly be released downstream over a larger amount of time. This reduces maximum flow of downstream river systems.
@@raerohan4241 I am not stopping the flooding, just reducing the effects, by slowing the flow of the water it deposits material rather than washing it away.
@@raerohan4241 : In essence, it moves the flooding to areas where it's less damaging, which additionally can reduce the flood levels in down-stream areas that still flood. Also, it can sometimes result in more up-river absorption.
@@raerohan4241it just means slowing down the flow of water. Giving time for the soil around the dam to absorb moisture it into the groundwater level. In nature this happens naturally but because of deforestation water really can't absord easily in to the ground thus all the water that comes from the rain turns in to a surface run off which then turns in to a flash floods when they converge to low areas since there's nothing to slow down the flow. Still... the effects of it varies from ecosystem to ecosystem so lots of research are needed before implementing such project.
I like that you portray regulations and bureaucracy as something positive rather than something that just slows things down. There's a reason those exist, and in the end they help with managing projects like these properly.
So cool to see this technique being used in other places! I was part of a project in Montana that was building beaver dams to restore riparian habitat and combat erosion. We used a succession of small dams made from native willow and pines on ours. Excited to see how yours goes.
@@Sara-eg9bc Sure. the project I worked on was on Cottonwood Creek. There is an article from the start of the project called Re-watering the Prairie. I don't know if there has been anything published on that particular stream recently, but you can find more on the beaver dam analogs in Montana through the University of Montana and Montana Sate University. The dams have been used in a few different places in Montana and they are still studying the longer term effects of them on the streams.
Absolutely adore that you're doing this. I hiked 600 km of the Scottish National Trail in 2020 and I gotta agree about those conifer plantations - they are real deadzones, with the only life in them (apart from the trees,) being mushrooms and moss. They were quiet and dark, like the scary forest in Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast. They're downright creepy to be in; they just don't feel right. The uniform rows of trees are spooky in their unnaturalness and I never enjoyed hiking in these plantations; I don't believe that I ever camped in one. The natural scotch pine forests were so much friendlier so I did camp in those and it was always a big relief whenever I left a plantation far behind me. Even a local I spoke to agreed that the plantations felt creepy! Coming from a lifetime growing up in the relative biodiversity of British Columbia, Canada, I would love to see Scotland returned to a natural state someday, hopefully with some lynxes and wolves padding along after the red deer. They'd do a far better job keeping the deer in check and healthy which actually helps protect humans as wolves especially will go after deer with prion disease while their presence also helps forests grow by keeping deer on the move - protecting the riparian habitat that fish like salmon need, which keeps anglers happy downstream. Best of all, these carnivores work for free! Please keep up the great work.❤
Exactly! There is a lot of work to be done to bring life back to this landscape. We are doing our best and so are many others and we all hope to see some of it recover in our lifetime. - Cheers, Duarte
You will not be glad to hear that the SNP arè buying up sporti g estates with the intention of planting them to monoculture spruce as a carbon soak to help meet net zero. If you are a taxpayer, you will be funfding it.
We have a very similar situation were I live in Queensland Australia with the clear felling and then burning around four decades ago of thousands upon thousands of hectares of native forest for pine tree plantations. This was not only along and between freshwater streams and rivers but also an entire marine strait. I'm very interested in this project being a somewhat burnt out and disillusioned ecologist after years of trying to make a difference here in Australia. Good luck with the project and more broadly for the reintroduction of beavers into the UK.
Sepp Holzer calls it a fir desert.. a fitting description. I live in Oregon. I used to believe the endless sea of conifers was a natural forest. It wasn't until I moved to the country that I learned our state is a big timber farm. My property was selectively logged 15 years ago and they left all the maple, hemlock, cottonwood, etc. I didn't realize how many birds I had here until I went to run my dogs in the doug fir plantations. It is eerily quiet out there.
I just love the idea of rewinding places that humans have been in, used, and discarded. I live in Minnesota, USA, and I can't tell you how it saddens me drive for hours only to see hundreds on hundreds of miles of farmland with tiny spits of woods that only remain to make sure another Dustbowl is prevented (though the last few years, more and more trees are being taken down from those sections, so it's only a matter of time).
In projects like this in the USA trickle dams will be built once every 50 or 75m along large stretches of river. Maybe these projects arent so common in scotland so its harder to build multiple, but really youd want at least 4 or 5 dams to create a significant result.
I was in a pretty low place for a fairly long time. Decided one day last summer to head out to the local river and fish to clear my thoughts. Water was low so I had to wade. I fell in love with it. We're incredibly fortunate to have sections of our rivers designated as Environmentally Significant Areas. A mystical forest surrounded by a concrete jungle. I'd like to look into what I can do here in Canada to help improve and preserve our precious ecosystems. Might be time for a career change. I'm incredibly thankful there's people out there like you guys and I can only hope more take inspiration from Mossy Earth. Excited to start following along.
I have to admit that I had been struggling for years against a programmed prejudice that I had against "eco warriors", "tree huggers" and all of the other labels that tabloid type media have portrayed over the years. For that I feel ashamed. In time I could clearly see that what these groups were talking about was the reality of our environmental situation. These young and passionate groups are very much our key to a future that may start to end a harmful period in our existence.
To be fair there are of course the extreme types in those groups and sometimes the way they go about things isn't the best. But the general things they fight for are good.
This is great to see. People who care about biodiversity and restoring waterways that humans have disrupted. Beavers have been stigmatized as being nuisances for farmers. Ecologists have been working hard to change that narrative. I am appreciative of this vital work. I live in a dairy farm town(Tillamook, Oregon) which has 5 major rivers that have many many dairy farms along the river banks which are disrupting the natural environment. The Tillamook river is basically half water half cow shit. I’d like to see a change in farming practices to be sustainable such as, no pesticides/herbicides and grazing rotation to prevent destruction of riparian habitats. I hope it remains farmland for the farmland zoning is the only thing keeping it from being gentrified and overpopulated/overpriced.
9:15 I can hardly wait for the survey! The river I paddle regularly, here in Maine USA, is home to beavers. They don't make dams there, we did it for them (leftovers from the mill days). They just fell trees and stock larders. Thank you for doing such inspiring work to rewild impacted ecosystems. My joy in life is learning the organisms that surround me in my rural environment. Some think I'm an expert, but I know enough to know how little I know. What a blessing. Keep up the good work- I doubt I'll ever see, IRL, what my small sustaining donation is helping rebuild. And that's just fine. edit: I wish you'd at least have mentioned Leave Curious.
Rob (from leave curious) is now working full time with us so he is part of the team. Maybe in his next video we can shout out his channel but just so you know Rob is now part of everything we do here :) - Cheers, Duarte
Mossy earth, excellent work, I love you guys. I’m so thankful for this work I almost cry tears of joy. I’m quite sure I will if your vision of a restored land comes to pass and I pray to God that it does. Man has often “waited till the harbor catches on fire before he stops dumping fuel into it.” (America didn’t start protecting waterways the way they do until our government had to deal with a serious harbor fire down south. I think this saying is a useful.) That land owner, his words are music to my ears. I am so thankful he isn’t a fool that is pathetically driven by greed so he doesn’t appreciate nature and it’s bounties. May God bless him. Hey Rob, my grandfather’s last name was McManus, his family came to New Foundland from Scotland back in the 1800’s and ended up in California. You look a lot like my cousin, mate, I’m pretty sure we are related. Ha Cheers. Yes, I have some special pride and gratitude for what you are doing here because my ancestors came from Scotland. I bet she was so beautiful and I have hope that Mossy Earth can bring much of that back. I support Mossy Earth because I love the planet and I cherish the glorious and priceless work of God. Moreover, I support Mossy Earth because you aren’t being hypocrites like the CEO of the World Wildlife Foundation, taking millions a year from donations because he wickedly compares his salary to that of other greedy and selfish executives. These people will go to hell if they don’t repent. This must stop, and I pray that you all will resist the temptation to take too much money from our donations, seeing that the planet needs this money more than you. I certainly cannot donate to such unwise people. I also pray that God will help you all to get fair and fantastic salaries while you do this invaluable work, because I love you and I hope this kind of work flourishes and becomes popular worldwide, and a highly sought after career because of how noble and fruitful it is. Please do not follow the examples of the greedy executives if donations are very great. Peace to you and may the grace of God guide you and bless you evermore. Amen
Thank you for the kind words of support! We agree with you, Julian is very forward thinking and it is amazing to have the chance to work with him :) - Cheers, Duarte
This videos get me so excited, to see that my friends and I are not alone on restoration projects, and there are people everywhere doing their best to make the planet wild again!
In Australia it’s called a leaky weir developed by Peter Andrews NSF as we don’t have any types of animals that instinctually build dam walls. Great work you’re doing and great that the landowner is so keen to have it done 🤙🇦🇺
I like these people just because of the fact that they are acting on their beliefs instead of just shouting or protesting (with paint and all that stuff, it just makes me think environmentalist are mad loud people), But seeing THIS inspires me. Thank You.
To engineer like the Beaver, you have to Think, Act, and Be like the Beaver! LOL what a hoot! Thank you for another amazing video and another amazing project to save our planet! Truly inspirational!!
I've just known that land near river can be own by people (not government). Planting trees near river is a nice step to do since it'll prevent the erosion. What a nice work to do mossy earth & team!! Will wait for the dam result
Absolutely phenomenal to see. Hope this gets some real traction, and that the data gathered from this project can be used for even bigger re-wildling efforts in the future
I literally walked the area shown in the film back in August, completely unaware that it was this project. I wish it every success. It was interesting cycling round the wider area from Aberfeldy, that for all that there is still too much over-grazing, and, (worse in my opinion), conifer plantations, there are huge areas where pine forest regeneration is taking place, e.g, around most of the roads in the area of Tummel Bridge and Schiehallion. There is hope!
Beavers are rodents that constitute the family Castoridae, there are two living beaver species within a single extant genus, which are the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) and the American Beaver (Castor canadensis), beavers had been far more diverse in the fossil record, with many smaller prehistoric beavers that looked like ground squirrels known to create spiral burrows, many primitive beaver genera like Palaeocastor have been known to do this, beavers are part of the suborder Sciuromorpha (Squirrel-Like Rodents), which also groups them with the squirrels, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, anomalures, springhares, dormice, and the mountain beaver, the Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is not actually a beaver despite its name, the mountain beaver is the sole extant representative of the family Aplodontiidae and is a rather more basal squirrel-like rodent, compared to others like dormice, springhares, anomalures, squirrels, beavers, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice, the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) is known for being the largest rodent native to the Old World and the largest of the squirrel-like rodents.
Will there be (and have there been, for other projects) any case studies on your projects published highlighting the successes and perhaps failures of certain methods and trials?
We have a monitoring schedule in place for each project and will add updates to the timeline of each project page on our website. The feature is new so we still need to populate some of the older data but that will be the place to go. Results based conservation and rewilding is very important, otherwise its just shooting in the dark. Oh and if you are wondering if we share our failures you will find a video we are releasing in a few weeks quite interesting.- Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth Science and result based conservation is indeed very important, but not always common practice sadly enough. Many projects in my area (Belgium) just do things because they think it’s the right way or because others do so and not because it’s the best or even a good way of doing things. Also nice to hear that there is something about failures coming up, in science in general there is way too little focus on learning from failures and way too much focus on “positive” results.
Well done Everyone. Videos are getting better and better . I must say very good demo as a joke, worked well to illustrate why we need beavers. Timeline was professional, with documentation to drive it home. All in all, Research and progress makes us sooooooooooo happy!
I want to just put in a very small comment about the acid flush talked about around 2:30, The pine needles are acidic but the primary acidic compound of Conifer leaves/needles is Tannic acid. Tannic acid is a very weak and when derived from conifer material very dilute. The hydroxyls in it are extremely water soluble which help fish be mostly unaffected and has shown to reduce parasite loads on fish and invertebrate's gills. This is NOT the same as pouring an industrial acid (muriatic, sulfuric ect). This is truly great work and I appreciate all you do.
It’s sad that the ones who created this destruction never have to pay to repair it! Gold miners are starting to have to make the land right after destroying it! Lumber companies should have to as well! I am glad there’s groups such as yourselves to make it right!
I'm Scottish and love the Highlands, but all the monoculture and the over farmed land obviously has left huge issues. It lightens my heart to see even a small area protected and redeveloped with nature in mind ^_^
I’m all for the rewilding of the UK, it could help not only restore landscapes to their former look, but increase massively the biodiversity making it better for everything involved, as you guys proved here. Great stuff!
I love beaver dam analogues and everytime I'm in the highlands I think it's such a disappointment how dry the land is due to the amount of incised streams. The fairy pools on the isle of Skye are a perfect example of it!
I live in a «big» City in Switzerland, where the beaver has taken back small streams. Throughout the last 4 years the beaver family here has made few dams, and the small straight stream developed to a solid, wild stream that has its natural curvy form. also, now we have even fish in the stream
You should put the project site name in the thumbnail. It would make it easier to follow the projects over time, and would certainly get me more excited about watching a video in my feed, as I'd know it's an update I've awaited.
Maybe we can use a “series title” at the end of the title? Or also use playlists what do you think? Also if you hit the little bell next to the subscribe button you will get notified for every new video :) - cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth Personally I have more subscriptions than I have time to watch, and pick mostly based on what titles and thumbnails make it seem worth it. Putting it in the title could work if the title isn't too long already. On some views in the mobile app, for instance when looking at videos in the channel view, the title cannot be too long before getting cut off. In the sub feed this shouldn't be a problem however. Playlists are great for catching up, but not great for updates. I'm no expert on this, but I know how I operate :)
It's too easy to fall into the mentality that the earth is spiralling into disarray. I love watching videos like this. They remind me that not only CAN something be done, ***people ARE doing it.*** All over the world. And I can be part of that solution. Piece by piece, we can repair the damage. We can be part of life finding its way back.
for people who don't deal with beavers on a regular basis, yeah they make rich ecosystems but also they aren't easy to control. And they will spread. So just be aware. A lot of that area may be under water by the time you're done. Love, Canada.
I LOVE Mossy Earth. I hope to one day be able to do similar projects all around and maybe even purchase land that I can rehabilitate and one day live with nature in a low impact home. I plan on being a financial supporter of these projects as well once I have my personal finances in order.
Just starting the video. I'm immediately reminded of the time a group of friends and I decided to go play with the stream one spring in VT. We were still waiting for the warm season to fully take hold so we were all emotionally constipated and there was something so satisfying about changing the water with rocks, sticks, and leaves. The snow melt floods had made all sorts of changes, moved silt, clpgged stuff. It was lovely to lightly play with that new shape, use drops to create new pools, all sorts of stuff. I've done it more since and it's surprisingly resilient after heavy rains if you do the work when the water is high in the first place. Nature always wipes it away eventually, but the tools are still right there to play with. It was always surprising how good leaves are at sealing things up. Rocks are the main shape, branches are like a tensile web, and autumn leaves form the seal and sediment filter. We had no idea what we were doing at the time, but it was easy, natural.
Beaver Dam Analogs is a big thing in North America. There is much literature, how to guides. Main thing is that you do not build one but many.. they are allowed to fail
Will you be removing or breaking down the stumps to allow easier planting of young trees? This project is wonderful! Keep up the great work, and best wishes!
Im sitting here thinking if it could be an idea to have a cooperation with Frank Erichsen and morten D. D. Hansen, who is having an ongoing project here in Denmark, where they are trying to restore biodiversity in many different ways. Its even turned into a program for our national television. Could be a great episode, working together with these guys.
Good on you people! I’m in Australia, where willow is a weedy problem in our rivers. I trust, with the help of your experts, you are planting local native species and paying attention to the order of succession. (planting the pioneer species that quickly establish and provide protection and stability for longer lasting species of plants.) I’ve subscribed and look forward to the project’s development, the owner’s joy of hearing the wildlife return as well as the health of the river. This needs to happen the world over.
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great to see the progress and all these new projects! #mossyfamily
This is amazing. I'm a huge fan in Maryland, USA. I do a lot of community litter cleanups and recently I did some volunteer work for the Magothy River Association where we caged off certain trees to protect from our beavers. It was such fun and rewarding work. Take care. :)
Interesting watching this video as we (Central Oregon) have employed this for a number of years. Steep gradient and over grazing had left this semi-desert creek in terrible shape & since Salmon & Steelhead spawn in the system, fake beaver dams were constructed. The difference from your project is that beavers were in the area but any attempt to dam the creek were washed away in the Spring. A permanent structure as you have proposed was not viable for fish passage. Beaver dams are porous and usually constructed with a Vee shape, allowing downstream as well as upstream passage. The answer was a number of pole set vertically with a basket weave of willows in between. This gave the beavers some structure to stand up to the spring snow melt. The creek was Bridge Creek, a tributary of the John Day River.
Looking at your project, it doesn't seem to be designed to fail which is necessary to keep the creek from building too much head and scouring downstream and dumping much sediment in the main River. I think building multiple small steps or placing woody debris & causing small pools to catch sediment will raise the water table more safely. It is a slow process.
@@michaelogle1315 I'll be building this dam, don't worry 'll make sure it's plenty leaky, and will fail :) we hope to do two initially and maybe more in time.
This is my first Mossy Earth vid, and honestly I’m tearing up a bit. It gives me a lot of hope to know that we can try to reverse some of the damage that we’ve done over generations and rewild damaged ecosystems. It’s also great to see that you appear to be working with experts and within permitting regulations in order to do the work properly, rather than doing some slap dash UA-camr-y effort that likely won’t actually have much lasting impact. I look forward to researching your organization more, and hopefully helping out as a member!
A lot of the images shown here sadly reminds me of New Zealand where I'm currently travelling through, a lot of the country is just gras without a tree in sight, even next to the numerous small streams there is no wild life at all just "dead" water, grass and a lot of sheep or cows
Having spent 9 months in New Zealand I can relate. Its such a shock, especially in the north island and the eastcoast of the south island. - Cheers, Duarte
Ooo okay now I understand. Before watching this, I thought 🦫 beavers always ruin the river. Then I thought "oo these people may want to do something so the beavers don't ruin the river" At the end of the video I understand that they want to build dam for beavers. By that, the beavers will have home, and the flow of the river is also not obstructed 🤔. 😮 Awesome 👍
as long as it is done right here the wolfs have become to many with nothing to keep them on check and what do the eat? ppl sheeps not the wild bores not the dears
I been donating to Mossy Earth for 2 years and I have to say its money very well spent, not just for the work you do but the skillful way you film and storytell it. Thanks! // Proud supporter
Me too!
Thank you for having been a member for so long! It means a lot to everyone in the team and it truly is what makes all of this possible. We are the ones that are proud to have you :) - Cheers, Duarte
Donate to me too bro😭💀
Hey Gringo, as a California native living in Scotland (and a gringo myself), thanks! Hope you can visit this area sometime.
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This is literally a 10 minute walk from my house- can't wait to see what you folks create! Not sure if you already know this but the forest next to it (not the plantation, the old-growth one) has Pine Martens in it, hope your work helps them!
Bro where? I live in Aberfeldy lol
@@hamishashcroft3233 In the forest behind Weem mate, near St David's well
Imma walk 10 min in every direction from that point. Are visitors welcome?
@@Grapesleadtowaffles Dam, gl on finding them.
Im from North Kilt town too!
So refreshing to hear the enthusiasm from the land owner, wish there was more like him
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I think more would be if they knew what could be done with their land. Show any land owner a video like this, and I think they'd get very excited.
5:40 First time seeing the mossy earth team themselves filling in the niches that the animals usually have to fill themselves 😂 so nice of you, to give them a break once in a while
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It's my greatest hope that this project is a smashing success!!! You are such an inspiration!!! Have an excellent day today, my friend!! I really look forward to the day that Scotland is rewilded and restored to its natural state!! I'm a bagpiper and I hope bagpipe ballads are written about you one day!
Ahh we really hope so too! Bagpipes are a seriously cool instrument so we would love some ballads written in our name. Thanks so much for encouragement! Cheers, Rob
Ah sounds like you should write the Ballad of mossy earth love to see that on the channel. Sounds Bonnie to me.
Oww what good idea,,i dont play bagpipes 🎵🦋🦅🦌but i write songs ,,i will see if i get a mossy earth song come to me.,,
Am in Cattalonia, have a mountain valley and a river property ,,but no money ,,,
Hoping to grow food forest on the old grapes terraces,,of the river house ,,and do any planting i can to enhance the river banks,, am solo and old so hoping for help ,,but not detered without,,i live on the mountain finca with my horses,,but have water issues here ,💧🌧plenty to reclaim ,,but the river project is the future for me and will sell the mountain finca to help fund ,,the river project ,,,
So so enheartened to see you guys do these projects,,,,your roots of a better way of life that is growing on this beautiful planet,,🌍🏜🏞🌄🌦🌤🍇🍅🌶🐎🦌🐗🐐🐾🪶
@@julzhepburn3688heya maybe you could do a UA-cam channel and make some money and help that way. All the best. 🖐🌻
Please never stop making this type of videos I like small streams, beaver dams, flooding forest and everything what you upload
Hi Sahil! We intend to keep on going for as long as we are able to implement these projects, hopefully that is a very very long time :) - Cheers, Duarte
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look how many stumps surround the river. its incredible to see how merciless people are towards nature.
@@MossyEarth Why not just import some beavers?
@@davidsmith8997 Probably because there aren't any trees there to convince them to stay so they first have to plant trees and let them grow out a bit so the area is suitable for the beavers
I'm 74 years old and grew up in a small town on the Yakima River in eastern Washington State, USA. The river was the central point in our lives growing up. We built rafts and a canoe from which we swam, fished, gigged bullfrogs, and just generally spent as much time as possible on the water. We witnessed the effects of pollution in our wanderings, often seeing foul smelling water flow from pipes draining the surrounding farm land into the river. I recall thinking at the time that if a person dedicated their life to the river and tracked each source of pollution to its origin and helped correct the problem, in a lifetime the river could heal and everyone would enjoy a pristine river in their community. And it seemed to my child's mind that a life dedicated to a river would be a life well spent. Now, near life's end, I still think the same. If you wish to be contented in your later years, be a river caretaker and have a life well spent.
I’m 73 and went to OTI back in 1970 in Oregon. A Japanese friend of mine was from Yakima area. I believe his family owned a farm there his name was Tom unfortunately I can’t remember his last name but it was Japanese Okiama or something. He was a great foosball player. I think he had an older brother. If you know him I would love to reconnect . I’m living in Florida now. Tom Davis.
I relate to this very much, the nooksack river was our sanctuary from the heat in the occasionally unbearable summer day..
As a (mature, 32 y/o) environmental science student, this is exactly what I want to be doing once i've earnt my degree. You guys have the absolute dream job, and i'd love to join you one day. Thanks for being an inspiration.
A future wasted life.
Been following your channel for about a year now, what you guys are doing is awesome. Now your here in my country making changes for the better. People like you are the reason i decided to go back to education. I'm about to conclude my first year at uni studying ecology and conservation. Which is surreal being a decade older than the other students.
Carry on your inspiring adventures.
Ah thats so awesome. Thank you for the encouraging words, we do our best to communicate our projects here on youtube and its nice to hear that our videos have a wider impact! Best of luck with your studies. Cheers, Rob
A dam to give life to our Mother Earth, not one to take it away from her.
We need more people and projects like this, where our skills are used to create life, not to destroy it.
I love you guys, thanks for your initiative!!
I have been trying to create a few dams on our short section of river, my hope is to reduce the effects of the flooding in the winter, so far I have seen positive results. As we have a lot of trees I opted for the simple method of putting large branches across the river, and allowing them to dam up naturally.
How does building dams help reduce flooding? I would have though it would increase it instead, since the water then spreads out all over the area instead of remaining concentrated into a single artery. Is it that, with more channels, any additional volume is divided up and so the overall levels of each channel doesn't rise much?
@@raerohan4241 dams create buffer areas, so when increased inflow of water happens it can build up behind the dam and then slowly be released downstream over a larger amount of time.
This reduces maximum flow of downstream river systems.
@@raerohan4241 I am not stopping the flooding, just reducing the effects, by slowing the flow of the water it deposits material rather than washing it away.
@@raerohan4241 : In essence, it moves the flooding to areas where it's less damaging, which additionally can reduce the flood levels in down-stream areas that still flood. Also, it can sometimes result in more up-river absorption.
@@raerohan4241it just means slowing down the flow of water. Giving time for the soil around the dam to absorb moisture it into the groundwater level. In nature this happens naturally but because of deforestation water really can't absord easily in to the ground thus all the water that comes from the rain turns in to a surface run off which then turns in to a flash floods when they converge to low areas since there's nothing to slow down the flow. Still... the effects of it varies from ecosystem to ecosystem so lots of research are needed before implementing such project.
I like that you portray regulations and bureaucracy as something positive rather than something that just slows things down. There's a reason those exist, and in the end they help with managing projects like these properly.
So cool to see this technique being used in other places! I was part of a project in Montana that was building beaver dams to restore riparian habitat and combat erosion. We used a succession of small dams made from native willow and pines on ours. Excited to see how yours goes.
How did yours turn out? Can I read up on it?
@@Sara-eg9bc Sure. the project I worked on was on Cottonwood Creek. There is an article from the start of the project called Re-watering the Prairie. I don't know if there has been anything published on that particular stream recently, but you can find more on the beaver dam analogs in Montana through the University of Montana and Montana Sate University. The dams have been used in a few different places in Montana and they are still studying the longer term effects of them on the streams.
Absolutely adore that you're doing this. I hiked 600 km of the Scottish National Trail in 2020 and I gotta agree about those conifer plantations - they are real deadzones, with the only life in them (apart from the trees,) being mushrooms and moss. They were quiet and dark, like the scary forest in Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast. They're downright creepy to be in; they just don't feel right. The uniform rows of trees are spooky in their unnaturalness and I never enjoyed hiking in these plantations; I don't believe that I ever camped in one. The natural scotch pine forests were so much friendlier so I did camp in those and it was always a big relief whenever I left a plantation far behind me. Even a local I spoke to agreed that the plantations felt creepy! Coming from a lifetime growing up in the relative biodiversity of British Columbia, Canada, I would love to see Scotland returned to a natural state someday, hopefully with some lynxes and wolves padding along after the red deer. They'd do a far better job keeping the deer in check and healthy which actually helps protect humans as wolves especially will go after deer with prion disease while their presence also helps forests grow by keeping deer on the move - protecting the riparian habitat that fish like salmon need, which keeps anglers happy downstream. Best of all, these carnivores work for free! Please keep up the great work.❤
Exactly! There is a lot of work to be done to bring life back to this landscape. We are doing our best and so are many others and we all hope to see some of it recover in our lifetime. - Cheers, Duarte
You will not be glad to hear that the SNP arè buying up sporti g estates with the intention of planting them to monoculture spruce as a carbon soak to help meet net zero. If you are a taxpayer, you will be funfding it.
We have a very similar situation were I live in Queensland Australia with the clear felling and then burning around four decades ago of thousands upon thousands of hectares of native forest for pine tree plantations. This was not only along and between freshwater streams and rivers but also an entire marine strait. I'm very interested in this project being a somewhat burnt out and disillusioned ecologist after years of trying to make a difference here in Australia. Good luck with the project and more broadly for the reintroduction of beavers into the UK.
Sepp Holzer calls it a fir desert.. a fitting description. I live in Oregon. I used to believe the endless sea of conifers was a natural forest. It wasn't until I moved to the country that I learned our state is a big timber farm. My property was selectively logged 15 years ago and they left all the maple, hemlock, cottonwood, etc. I didn't realize how many birds I had here until I went to run my dogs in the doug fir plantations. It is eerily quiet out there.
OMG I LOVE YOU. The beaver imitation was so unexpected and so fabulous. I snorted tea! You guys are awesome.
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I just love the idea of rewinding places that humans have been in, used, and discarded. I live in Minnesota, USA, and I can't tell you how it saddens me drive for hours only to see hundreds on hundreds of miles of farmland with tiny spits of woods that only remain to make sure another Dustbowl is prevented (though the last few years, more and more trees are being taken down from those sections, so it's only a matter of time).
In projects like this in the USA trickle dams will be built once every 50 or 75m along large stretches of river. Maybe these projects arent so common in scotland so its harder to build multiple, but really youd want at least 4 or 5 dams to create a significant result.
There will be more I think. This is stage 1! - Cheers, Duarte
I was in a pretty low place for a fairly long time. Decided one day last summer to head out to the local river and fish to clear my thoughts. Water was low so I had to wade.
I fell in love with it. We're incredibly fortunate to have sections of our rivers designated as Environmentally Significant Areas. A mystical forest surrounded by a concrete jungle.
I'd like to look into what I can do here in Canada to help improve and preserve our precious ecosystems. Might be time for a career change.
I'm incredibly thankful there's people out there like you guys and I can only hope more take inspiration from Mossy Earth.
Excited to start following along.
I have to admit that I had been struggling for years against a programmed prejudice that I had against "eco warriors", "tree huggers" and all of the other labels that tabloid type media have portrayed over the years. For that I feel ashamed. In time I could clearly see that what these groups were talking about was the reality of our environmental situation. These young and passionate groups are very much our key to a future that may start to end a harmful period in our existence.
There’s a difference between fanatical “tree huggers” and eco conscious and revegetation programs.
To be fair there are of course the extreme types in those groups and sometimes the way they go about things isn't the best. But the general things they fight for are good.
Yeah man.. idk about all that.
What you are doing is a nobel activitites. I highly appriciate & support your's effort. Thank you for thinking about the environment & the Earth.
Great work everyone! I can't wait to see this area in 2-3 years from now.
It's great that they restore the natural landscapes. I love seeing the lives of animals in a natural way.
This is great to see. People who care about biodiversity and restoring waterways that humans have disrupted.
Beavers have been stigmatized as being nuisances for farmers. Ecologists have been working hard to change that narrative. I am appreciative of this vital work.
I live in a dairy farm town(Tillamook, Oregon) which has 5 major rivers that have many many dairy farms along the river banks which are disrupting the natural environment.
The Tillamook river is basically half water half cow shit.
I’d like to see a change in farming practices to be sustainable such as, no pesticides/herbicides and grazing rotation to prevent destruction of riparian habitats. I hope it remains farmland for the farmland zoning is the only thing keeping it from being gentrified and overpopulated/overpriced.
9:15 I can hardly wait for the survey! The river I paddle regularly, here in Maine USA, is home to beavers. They don't make dams there, we did it for them (leftovers from the mill days). They just fell trees and stock larders. Thank you for doing such inspiring work to rewild impacted ecosystems. My joy in life is learning the organisms that surround me in my rural environment. Some think I'm an expert, but I know enough to know how little I know. What a blessing. Keep up the good work- I doubt I'll ever see, IRL, what my small sustaining donation is helping rebuild. And that's just fine.
edit: I wish you'd at least have mentioned Leave Curious.
Rob (from leave curious) is now working full time with us so he is part of the team. Maybe in his next video we can shout out his channel but just so you know Rob is now part of everything we do here :) - Cheers, Duarte
Don't get tired with your purposeful advocacy for our home, the mother earth. Job well done to the whole team.
Mossy earth, excellent work, I love you guys. I’m so thankful for this work I almost cry tears of joy. I’m quite sure I will if your vision of a restored land comes to pass and I pray to God that it does.
Man has often “waited till the harbor catches on fire before he stops dumping fuel into it.”
(America didn’t start protecting waterways the way they do until our government had to deal with a serious harbor fire down south. I think this saying is a useful.)
That land owner, his words are music to my ears. I am so thankful he isn’t a fool that is pathetically driven by greed so he doesn’t appreciate nature and it’s bounties. May God bless him.
Hey Rob, my grandfather’s last name was McManus, his family came to New Foundland from Scotland back in the 1800’s and ended up in California. You look a lot like my cousin, mate, I’m pretty sure we are related. Ha
Cheers.
Yes, I have some special pride and gratitude for what you are doing here because my ancestors came from Scotland. I bet she was so beautiful and I have hope that Mossy Earth can bring much of that back. I support Mossy Earth because I love the planet and I cherish the glorious and priceless work of God.
Moreover, I support Mossy Earth because you aren’t being hypocrites like the CEO of the World Wildlife Foundation, taking millions a year from donations because he wickedly compares his salary to that of other greedy and selfish executives. These people will go to hell if they don’t repent. This must stop, and I pray that you all will resist the temptation to take too much money from our donations, seeing that the planet needs this money more than you. I certainly cannot donate to such unwise people. I also pray that God will help you all to get fair and fantastic salaries while you do this invaluable work, because I love you and I hope this kind of work flourishes and becomes popular worldwide, and a highly sought after career because of how noble and fruitful it is.
Please do not follow the examples of the greedy executives if donations are very great.
Peace to you and may the grace of God guide you and bless you evermore. Amen
Thank you for the kind words of support! We agree with you, Julian is very forward thinking and it is amazing to have the chance to work with him :) - Cheers, Duarte
I love to see people that are smart know what they’re doing and actually care about nature.
This videos get me so excited, to see that my friends and I are not alone on restoration projects, and there are people everywhere doing their best to make the planet wild again!
Smart approach to making the workers live like a beaver, instant success for this project
In Australia it’s called a leaky weir developed by Peter Andrews NSF as we don’t have any types of animals that instinctually build dam walls. Great work you’re doing and great that the landowner is so keen to have it done 🤙🇦🇺
I like these people just because of the fact that they are acting on their beliefs instead of just shouting or protesting (with paint and all that stuff, it just makes me think environmentalist are mad loud people),
But seeing THIS inspires me.
Thank You.
Flooding the forest is my favorite project and now beaver dams?! Let's go! Can't wait for the next update!
To engineer like the Beaver, you have to Think, Act, and Be like the Beaver! LOL what a hoot! Thank you for another amazing video and another amazing project to save our planet! Truly inspirational!!
😂 Thank you for the support! - Cheers, Duarte
I've just known that land near river can be own by people (not government). Planting trees near river is a nice step to do since it'll prevent the erosion. What a nice work to do mossy earth & team!! Will wait for the dam result
Absolutely phenomenal to see. Hope this gets some real traction, and that the data gathered from this project can be used for even bigger re-wildling efforts in the future
Awesome work guys! I wish every river had an awesome team like you guys to take care of it!
Thank you for the kind words! - Cheers, Duarte
5:28 an essential part of the process. I’m glad to see that Mossy Earth takes a big-picture approach!
I literally walked the area shown in the film back in August, completely unaware that it was this project. I wish it every success. It was interesting cycling round the wider area from Aberfeldy, that for all that there is still too much over-grazing, and, (worse in my opinion), conifer plantations, there are huge areas where pine forest regeneration is taking place, e.g, around most of the roads in the area of Tummel Bridge and Schiehallion. There is hope!
this is legitimately a dream job for me... like, dam... it couldn't be more perfect.
Beavers are rodents that constitute the family Castoridae, there are two living beaver species within a single extant genus, which are the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) and the American Beaver (Castor canadensis), beavers had been far more diverse in the fossil record, with many smaller prehistoric beavers that looked like ground squirrels known to create spiral burrows, many primitive beaver genera like Palaeocastor have been known to do this, beavers are part of the suborder Sciuromorpha (Squirrel-Like Rodents), which also groups them with the squirrels, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, anomalures, springhares, dormice, and the mountain beaver, the Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is not actually a beaver despite its name, the mountain beaver is the sole extant representative of the family Aplodontiidae and is a rather more basal squirrel-like rodent, compared to others like dormice, springhares, anomalures, squirrels, beavers, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice, the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) is known for being the largest rodent native to the Old World and the largest of the squirrel-like rodents.
Hahaha, I'm loving the "Become the beaver"-Part. As always, a wonderful presentation of your work. Thanks a lot!
Will there be (and have there been, for other projects) any case studies on your projects published highlighting the successes and perhaps failures of certain methods and trials?
We have a monitoring schedule in place for each project and will add updates to the timeline of each project page on our website. The feature is new so we still need to populate some of the older data but that will be the place to go. Results based conservation and rewilding is very important, otherwise its just shooting in the dark. Oh and if you are wondering if we share our failures you will find a video we are releasing in a few weeks quite interesting.- Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth Science and result based conservation is indeed very important, but not always common practice sadly enough. Many projects in my area (Belgium) just do things because they think it’s the right way or because others do so and not because it’s the best or even a good way of doing things.
Also nice to hear that there is something about failures coming up, in science in general there is way too little focus on learning from failures and way too much focus on “positive” results.
Life is a cycle, change is inevitable and it's something to he embraced, not feared.
Well done Everyone. Videos are getting better and better . I must say very good demo as a joke, worked well to illustrate why we need beavers. Timeline was professional, with documentation to drive it home. All in all, Research and progress makes us sooooooooooo happy!
Thank you, it is really nice to hear that you see progress in our video work :) - Cheers, Duarte
I want to just put in a very small comment about the acid flush talked about around 2:30, The pine needles are acidic but the primary acidic compound of Conifer leaves/needles is Tannic acid. Tannic acid is a very weak and when derived from conifer material very dilute. The hydroxyls in it are extremely water soluble which help fish be mostly unaffected and has shown to reduce parasite loads on fish and invertebrate's gills. This is NOT the same as pouring an industrial acid (muriatic, sulfuric ect). This is truly great work and I appreciate all you do.
Scotland is in desperate need of these projects! Thanks for this work in my country
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It’s sad that the ones who created this destruction never have to pay to repair it! Gold miners are starting to have to make the land right after destroying it! Lumber companies should have to as well! I am glad there’s groups such as yourselves to make it right!
5:30 the beaver acting! I laughed so long and so hard I had to pause the video. I sent myself into ancoughing fit!
😂 Rob really went for it 😂 - Cheers, Duarte
I'm Scottish and love the Highlands, but all the monoculture and the over farmed land obviously has left huge issues. It lightens my heart to see even a small area protected and redeveloped with nature in mind ^_^
Your beaver impression was spot on lol
😂😂
I’m all for the rewilding of the UK, it could help not only restore landscapes to their former look, but increase massively the biodiversity making it better for everything involved, as you guys proved here.
Great stuff!
You work all over the globe and its amazing
Yes
Great initiative
Great work team, especially Ellie for getting this off the ground. Can’t wait to see how the dams have an impact
Thank you! Really enjoyed that including Rob's surprise acclimatisation session ;-) Beautiful job with the music too.
I love beaver dam analogues and everytime I'm in the highlands I think it's such a disappointment how dry the land is due to the amount of incised streams. The fairy pools on the isle of Skye are a perfect example of it!
I live in a «big» City in Switzerland, where the beaver has taken back small streams. Throughout the last 4 years the beaver family here has made few dams, and the small straight stream developed to a solid, wild stream that has its natural curvy form. also, now we have even fish in the stream
You should put the project site name in the thumbnail. It would make it easier to follow the projects over time, and would certainly get me more excited about watching a video in my feed, as I'd know it's an update I've awaited.
Maybe we can use a “series title” at the end of the title? Or also use playlists what do you think? Also if you hit the little bell next to the subscribe button you will get notified for every new video :) - cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth Personally I have more subscriptions than I have time to watch, and pick mostly based on what titles and thumbnails make it seem worth it.
Putting it in the title could work if the title isn't too long already. On some views in the mobile app, for instance when looking at videos in the channel view, the title cannot be too long before getting cut off. In the sub feed this shouldn't be a problem however.
Playlists are great for catching up, but not great for updates.
I'm no expert on this, but I know how I operate :)
@@MossyEarth yes, putting in the title would be great. Best would be at the start. Something like Glassie farm 2 | 'title of video'.
It's too easy to fall into the mentality that the earth is spiralling into disarray. I love watching videos like this. They remind me that not only CAN something be done, ***people ARE doing it.*** All over the world. And I can be part of that solution.
Piece by piece, we can repair the damage. We can be part of life finding its way back.
Cant say how much I love what you guys are doing ! Thank you
for people who don't deal with beavers on a regular basis, yeah they make rich ecosystems but also they aren't easy to control. And they will spread. So just be aware. A lot of that area may be under water by the time you're done. Love, Canada.
Scotland looks like it should have wooly mammoths walking around 🦣 next project??👀
😂 if the lynx is controversial imagine that 😂 - Cheers, Duarte
I LOVE Mossy Earth. I hope to one day be able to do similar projects all around and maybe even purchase land that I can rehabilitate and one day live with nature in a low impact home. I plan on being a financial supporter of these projects as well once I have my personal finances in order.
I am always very excited when i see a new video of you!
Thank you Graf! That is great to hear 😀 - Cheers, Duarte
Mossy earth is what got me into permaculture and zero waste living. Please never stop uploading.
That’s really cool! Zero waste is hard to keep up so good for you. Pleased we could an inspiration. Cheers, Rob
@@MossyEarth it’s definitely hard and I haven’t perfected it yet but it’s fun trying. Cheers
You guys are doing absolutely fantastic work!
Ah thank you William, its really encouraging to hear this as we work hard to deliver the projects and make these videos. Cheers, Rob
Thank you.
Just starting the video. I'm immediately reminded of the time a group of friends and I decided to go play with the stream one spring in VT. We were still waiting for the warm season to fully take hold so we were all emotionally constipated and there was something so satisfying about changing the water with rocks, sticks, and leaves. The snow melt floods had made all sorts of changes, moved silt, clpgged stuff. It was lovely to lightly play with that new shape, use drops to create new pools, all sorts of stuff. I've done it more since and it's surprisingly resilient after heavy rains if you do the work when the water is high in the first place. Nature always wipes it away eventually, but the tools are still right there to play with. It was always surprising how good leaves are at sealing things up. Rocks are the main shape, branches are like a tensile web, and autumn leaves form the seal and sediment filter. We had no idea what we were doing at the time, but it was easy, natural.
Beaver Dam Analogs is a big thing in North America. There is much literature, how to guides. Main thing is that you do not build one but many.. they are allowed to fail
This is stage one! More work coming after this. :) - Cheers, Duarte
A river changing its course over time to me is just nature at work.
I’m going to have to channel my inner beaver more often. Great project and really looking forward to see this one unfold :)
😂 Can't wait to see an update on your construction.
This is like the case in Australia rivers.
Heavy erosion, lack of vegetation along the river etc.
Needing to slow down the water etc.
Bless you Julian
Bless him indeed. A very nice man that wants to do good by the land! - Cheers, Duarte
Will you be removing or breaking down the stumps to allow easier planting of young trees? This project is wonderful! Keep up the great work, and best wishes!
Nice project, lads !!
Thank you Mr. T Rex! - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth 👍
Mossey earth should also do projects in places like Asia Pacific.
Wow! This is amazing 🙌🏻 you‘re doing such a fantastic job, thank you!
Thank you Samira! - Cheers, Duarte
Im sitting here thinking if it could be an idea to have a cooperation with Frank Erichsen and morten D. D. Hansen, who is having an ongoing project here in Denmark, where they are trying to restore biodiversity in many different ways. Its even turned into a program for our national television.
Could be a great episode, working together with these guys.
I reckon you were a beaver in a previous life Rob ;) great video, looking forward to seeing this progress
I have to say it felt incredibly natural, but I don't know about only eating bark, twigs and leaves though Paul... Cheers, Rob
I have no words to appreciate you guys. You are SOOPER HEROES
I live in the UK and would love to help build the dam.
Hi Alex, you should look for projects in your area to get involved in. There is always something you can do! - Cheers, Duarte
Love stumbling through youtube and finding something super interesting and totally unexpected. Thank you Mossy Earth and co
The farmer is a great steward of his land.
Indeed! One of many projects he is undertaking. A pleasure to work with people like Julian! - Cheers, Duarte
Good on you people!
I’m in Australia, where willow is a weedy problem in our rivers. I trust, with the help of your experts, you are planting local native species and paying attention to the order of succession. (planting the pioneer species that quickly establish and provide protection and stability for longer lasting species of plants.)
I’ve subscribed and look forward to the project’s development, the owner’s joy of hearing the wildlife return as well as the health of the river. This needs to happen the world over.
great to see the progress and all these new projects! #mossyfamily
I love this hashtag
@@PaulCoxC its like a world wide family supporting diversity all over the world. ♥️
This is amazing. I'm a huge fan in Maryland, USA.
I do a lot of community litter cleanups and recently I did some volunteer work for the Magothy River Association where we caged off certain trees to protect from our beavers. It was such fun and rewarding work. Take care. :)
Totally subscribed. Interested in the future updates on the land projects. Excellent work and discussion!
More updates coming your way soon! We have some exciting projects in the works ;) - Cheers, Duarte
Its fantastic how much you guys are doing! ❤
which country is this?
Interesting watching this video as we (Central Oregon) have employed this for a number of years. Steep gradient and over grazing had left this semi-desert creek in terrible shape & since Salmon & Steelhead spawn in the system, fake beaver dams were constructed. The difference from your project is that beavers were in the area but any attempt to dam the creek were washed away in the Spring. A permanent structure as you have proposed was not viable for fish passage. Beaver dams are porous and usually constructed with a Vee shape, allowing downstream as well as upstream passage. The answer was a number of pole set vertically with a basket weave of willows in between. This gave the beavers some structure to stand up to the spring snow melt. The creek was Bridge Creek, a tributary of the John Day River.
Looking at your project, it doesn't seem to be designed to fail which is necessary to keep the creek from building too much head and scouring downstream and dumping much sediment in the main River. I think building multiple small steps or placing woody debris & causing small pools to catch sediment will raise the water table more safely. It is a slow process.
Here is what I am talking about....ua-cam.com/video/fjS9-bhAfiQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=IdahoConservationCommission
@@michaelogle1315 I'll be building this dam, don't worry 'll make sure it's plenty leaky, and will fail :) we hope to do two initially and maybe more in time.
How would I go about spending some of my summer holidays volunteering with you all?
We are working on some ideas… It’s hard to find what to do with logistics etc but we have some plans in the works. - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth Okay, do you have any contact details for me to go to closer to the time?
My kind of people. You gotta love the big smiles at end of video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Nick! We appreciate the support and will keep it up! - Cheers, Duarte
You should use some rocks to help reduce the amount of wood being used.
Noted, thanks :) - Cheers, Duarte
This is my first Mossy Earth vid, and honestly I’m tearing up a bit. It gives me a lot of hope to know that we can try to reverse some of the damage that we’ve done over generations and rewild damaged ecosystems.
It’s also great to see that you appear to be working with experts and within permitting regulations in order to do the work properly, rather than doing some slap dash UA-camr-y effort that likely won’t actually have much lasting impact. I look forward to researching your organization more, and hopefully helping out as a member!
A lot of the images shown here sadly reminds me of New Zealand where I'm currently travelling through, a lot of the country is just gras without a tree in sight, even next to the numerous small streams there is no wild life at all just "dead" water, grass and a lot of sheep or cows
Having spent 9 months in New Zealand I can relate. Its such a shock, especially in the north island and the eastcoast of the south island. - Cheers, Duarte
So encouraging. Well done Mr Farmer Julian.
Me and my dad are planing to do this our self at the family farm this early summer :) The farm is in Rissa Norway
Ah thats so cool! Let us know how it goes please! Cheers, Rob
Ooo okay now I understand.
Before watching this, I thought 🦫 beavers always ruin the river. Then I thought "oo these people may want to do something so the beavers don't ruin the river"
At the end of the video I understand that they want to build dam for beavers. By that, the beavers will have home, and the flow of the river is also not obstructed 🤔.
😮 Awesome 👍
as long as it is done right here the wolfs have become to many with nothing to keep them on check and what do the eat? ppl sheeps not the wild bores not the dears
This is Scotland. There are no wolves
I would also recommend grubbing out stumps [from not erosion areas locally] and dumping them in to form a 'leaky' barrier.
This is a great idea! Plenty of stumps too! Cheers, Rob
You should do a project together with Everwave ❤
Hmmm this is something that we will look into, thanks for the suggestion. Rob
It's lovely to see folks actually getting things done with support of community, not just bunch of childish activist. God speed
Glad you enjoyed the project! We are doing our best :) - Cheers, Duarte