It's interesting how over a few videos you lay out how three species are indirectly related and are tied together. Reintroducing wolfs and/or lynx would decrease the overabundant deer population, which could help improve the aspen population, which can shade the rivers, and help salmon. This is a great way to talk about ecological interdependence without it being so direct.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Xavier! I am really glad you picked up on this theme in our videos. It is very intentional. In this particular case it is all about Scotland and I think we need to do a better job to paint similar pictures for people to understand our other project areas as well. :) - Cheers, Duarte

@austenhead5303

2 жыл бұрын

Or hunt the deer to control the population, and reduce the need for factory farming.

@wlhgmk

2 жыл бұрын

The most important effect of these predators is not so much the number of grazers that they kill but rather the fact that they keep the grazers moving and give the vegetation a chance to recover.

@mtscott

2 жыл бұрын

Introducing wolves to a small populated country…possibly not a great idea for people safety.

@irishfruitandberries9059

2 жыл бұрын

@@mtscott based on what evidence?

I remember watching billy Connollys world tour of Scotland he went up the highlands and met a few lads doing this very thing back in 94 It’s good to see people keeping the project going 28 years on

I am self employed gardener in far north Scotland. One of my jobs is at a hotel called forss House Hotel, the grounds there have woods and a small salmon River flowing by. There is a small stand of aspen growing ona steep bank by river. Also scrubby Hazel, whitebeam Ash and Rose bushes, I have planted alder, grey willow, birch, rowan, Ash, and other willow species near to try and shelter aspen. The problem is bracken, it covers the ground Amongst aspen grows over 5ft high. So no new shoots. Hoping other trees will compete with bracken help aspen. Going to chop bracken back also this year. There is 2 other aspen stands I know of in or near Thurso one of 2 towns in caithness.

@alicequayle4625

16 күн бұрын

We have found that crushing bracken around midsummer works better than cutting. My other half uses a concrete rake to do this. Crushing the bracken means it bleeds.

Same for Scots pine.The Highlands were like Norway - Covered in trees.This is an important project.Iceland is doing it too.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

I was lucky enough to visit Sweden a couple of years ago and was really surprised by the similarities. It was a nice reminder of what Scotland could look like! Cheers, Hannah

@alwayslearning7672

2 жыл бұрын

@@MossyEarth And Ireland , where I'm from.😏

I live in Northern Alberta, Canada. The idea of aspen being rare is quite foreign to me; I am surrounded by millions of acres of boreal forest, and aspen is a very abundant tree here. It is good to see the remediation work you are doing in Scotland. I only wish that forestry practices were more sustainable where I live.

It's always exciting to see these plans put into action, hopefully we'll see aspen numbers properly bounce back in the UK!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! It might take a few years but the best time to start is now! :) Cheers, Tom

@connorwilson8078

2 жыл бұрын

We should properly rewild everywhere, including wolfs, maybe even some bears, we have plenty of deer and other food,

@johnkelly3886

2 жыл бұрын

@@connorwilson8078 You mean turn Scotland into a one large nature reserve. It will mean a bit of clearances of the people. But, we Scots don't mind that sort of thing. We are used to it.

Good luck Hannah, a worthy mission to restore an iconic Scottish species!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

A worthy mission indeed!

What I find most exciting about this one is how there are so many benefits from a single tree species! From mammals and invertebrates to salmon and then all the species that depend on salmon! Well done designing, implementing and explaining it Hannah

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! I also love that we are working both on the planting AND the regeneration of Aspen :)

Let's go Hannah! Loving this project and the keystone species aspect of it. So many different benefits to surrounding wildlife and environment, all of it coming from the beautiful Aspen trees!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bob!

Exciting, it's always great when tree planting fits into the wider rewilding concept and is done with extended impact in mind!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Thank you for all the hard work Paul, this would not be possible without your efforts :)

Aspen is the most life giving tree for wildlife. This project is so exciting. If you need additional people to plant, I volunteer!

Can't wait to see the before and after 😍

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

You might have to wait a while Ria :P !

Alongside other re-wilding projects around the UK it sounds like re-wilding is gathering pace. That's super encouraging. Hats off - great project. Mark

Thank you guys for all your hard work,Aspen forests are going to look spectacular in Scotland.Hope i live long enough to see them.

A very meaningful project with so many wildlife benefits - thanks for putting in the effort!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Julie!

I remember driving up to the Scottish Highlands and the shear amount of deforestation seemed almost criminal. Hardly a tree in sight.

@angusmarshall8431

2 жыл бұрын

‘The Scottish Highlands’ - such an awful catch all term that has no meaning. Where did you go? Caithness? - vital peatland habitats that have been over planted for commercial crops in recent decades, now under restoration. Cairngorms/Aberdeenshire? Plenty of natural woodlands, and even more as regeneration takes place on former commercial crops. Lochaber? Lots of commercial forestry. I could go on, but deforestation is the wrong term to use, and people such as those in this video are partly to blame. The right trees in the right place are much more important than any tree will do anywhere mentality that seems to have become the norm.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Do we give off the impression that we think any tree anywhere will do? In fact we're very careful with what species are plant where, which is why we're planting aspen predominantly in the riparian areas. And the Scottish Highlands can mean all those places, but it can be a useful term for the purposes of these kinds of videos. Cheers, Hannah.

@jk28416

2 жыл бұрын

@@angusmarshall8431 yes true, I was asked by a norwegian 'do you have any trees', the issue is the giant pine forrests planted for lumber have choked out the indiginous trees

@angusmarshall8431

2 жыл бұрын

@@MossyEarth Hi Hannah, I wasn't implying in this video that you were advocating 'any tree anywhere'; it is unfortunate though that many people think this is the solution to everything. It is a shame that this has become accepted thinking at a very basic level. My issue with using 'Scottish Highlands" is that it can very easily paint a false picture for people. The term has become overused in the world of rewilding, and is very often used as both examples of poor and good land management - itself quite subjective. The Black Isle, and Ardnamurchan are both, by definition, in the Highlands, but are such different places, they require different solutions, it leads to people over simplifying the various issues, and quite frequently misunderstanding them. To educate and encourage the general public, the narrative must change. How can what is good for Cape Wrath be good for Glen Lyon? The issues faced by these places, are at large the same, but it is the more localised changes that matter. In your position, whilst working for landscape scale changes, it would help if you were not using generalisms that can very easily mislead people. Cheers.

@veramae4098

2 жыл бұрын

@@angusmarshall8431 Please tell us about your tree planting.

I saw them working on reforestation back in 1981. There were strips of newly planted trees, of all types, in north Britain and Scotland.

That's what I had to do in my (Scottish) garden in the end - plant thorn bushes/trees among the trees I intended (a lesson learned the hard way!) I chose Hawthorn and Sloe, since Hawthorn is so painfully slow to grow from seed, whereas Sloes only need a good frosting and they're up like cress in the Spring/Summer. Rosa canina is a reasonably good deterrent to thread through branches (but I only keep a few as these can take over). Plus I found a Scotch Rose fruiting by the coast (a little more difficult to germinate, but got one plant out of one hep's worth of seed). It has wonderfully spiky branches that are enough to turn away even curious cows leaning over the fence. I was thinking about getting in a couple of Aspen trees actually. I didn't know they had been so common in the past, so I think I might get a couple just for show and to try and introduce a few around the neighbouring woodlands. Shame that rain makes planting so uncomfortable for humans and camera equipment, but at least you can plant to your heart's content knowing that everything is getting a good old drink. Good luck with the planting!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Debbie! Good to know that it works and you should definitely go plant those Aspen in your area :) I will pass on the knowledge to Hannah in case she hasn't heard of some of these bushes/plants. All the best, Duarte

@robertmcgovern8850

2 жыл бұрын

Aspen are strange and difficult trees, tho. A stand or grove of aspen is not a collection of individual trees; it is a monoclonal organism grown out of a single parent tree, connected underground, and exchanging chemical signals in ways we don't fully understand and which border on spooky. So you can plant a hundred aspen trees in a declivity of a hillside; if you are lucky, one will survive and begin spreading underground until it forms its own stand. Planting aspen as specimen trees also tends to end in failure. I live in the Wyoming mountains where aspen are native, and *everyone* down in town tries bunging a few aspens into their yards. Most leaf out okay for a few years, never get much taller, then turn sickly and die. We can no more grow a thriving specimen aspen than we can keep a single honeybee as a pet. They are *colony* creatures, clones, built to live among hundreds of their siblings. Also, aspen are like birch in that they do best as part of a mixed boreal forest/tiaga ecology. They act as transitional species between meadows/riparian ground and dense conifers; they can dominate upland drainages, holding open the space and stabilizing erosive soils with their tangled, shallow root systems. But they do benefit from winter wind protection supplied by evergreen neighbors.🙂💨🌲🍂🌲

@glenncordova4027

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertmcgovern8850 You are talking about the quaking Aspen. These Aspen are more like our cottonwood trees. They are like individual trees.

@robertmcgovern8850

2 жыл бұрын

@@glenncordova4027 You are right, they are different species in Europe and America. Tremula versus tremuloides. But this is what Wiki has to say about the European aspen: "Like other aspens, it spreads extensively by suckers (root sprouts), which may be produced up to 40 m from the parent tree, forming extensive clonal colonies."

@glenncordova4027

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertmcgovern8850 That's interesting. Thanks

Great work team! Hannah, we need to get you an umbrella ☂️

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

We'll add it to the budget! 👌

Greetings from Finland! You´re doing a brilliant job👏Once they´re fully grown trees they will produce seed like crazy, which also applies to birch and spruce.

I’m so excited to see an update video on how the Aspen are doing in a few months/years! Such great work. I was wondering how the deer are kept away from the saplings? I know they love to munch on young trees. Thank you for all you’re doing!

Super excited about this project and looking forward to the next planting season! Thanks to all our members for supporting this project :)

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the hard work Hannah!

Brings me immense joy to see this. Wish I could live long enough to see the results.

KZread brought me here! I like your project. When is your planting season? Spring? Fall? What kinds of success have you had with planting thorny shrubs? Are they native? Are you collecting data? I am a forest ecologist from British Columbia, Canada. Here there has been a recent initiative to begin planting our native aspen (populus tremuloides) in our dry forest ecosystems as a natural fuel break; increasing landscape level wildfire resilience, while providing habitat diversity and promoting biodiversity. We have also worked on several riparian restoration project for moose habitat that included black cottonwood (populus trichocarpa). Here we had great success with natural herbivore repellants, including compounds comprised of pig blood. Thank you and keep up the great work!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Wesley. Really interesting to hear about these projects, and that you've had good success with natural herbivore repellents. Perhaps we could exchange some ideas via email? Send me a message at hannah@mossy.earth if you like :)

Respect! It's a shame much of the uk's ancient woodland was deforested

@BadYossa

Жыл бұрын

I guess there is a fallacy that this deforestation started in relatively recent history, when the reality is that it began long before the Neolithic period, about 7,000 years ago. We've always been the most destructive species and I can't imagine that will change, which is both heartbreaking and frustrating.

I take my hat off to you guys! What you're doing is SO beautiful and important :)

I ain't Scottish but the magnanimousness of this video is universal. Respect from Bangladesh.

As someone from the home of the great aspen grove Pando, I find it very surprising that populus tremula is struggling in Scotland.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is such a difference! Hopefully we can get a European pando :) - Cheers, Duarte

@ivancho5854

2 жыл бұрын

Sheep.

This is great work you are doing Getting some of Scotlands forests back is really worthwhile 👍

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support Stephen! Cheers, Hannah.

The highlands are beautiful and homely I get to see them soon when I go visit family in Scotland

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your visit to the Highlands! Cheers, Hannah.

2195 aspen! That's wonderful! Thank you so much : )

Thank goodness you're doing this!!!!

thank you for a super informative little segment, i shall be watching more of your content, jj

my mother who died last year loved aspen, so this makes me happy.

Excited to be expanding this project! Lets bring back the aspen :) Good job Hannah!

I know the midges in Scotland just love them, as they do with all the willow family (Salicaceae). If you are camping or just sitting down to have a rest or a picnic near such trees, be warned. You have about 90 seconds before these tiny flying insects descend on you and start biting.

Great work. Im currently growing 10 trees in pots, when they bigger i will plant them somewhere. I hope you plant more Aspen in bonny Scotland? Can't you get school children involved, get some funding from the state?

This is a wonderful project! I’d love to join in on some tree planting! Ever since reading Peter Wohllebens “The Hidden life of trees”, I’ve been fascinated with trees. I highly recommend the book!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation, some of us in the team have read it! Glad you like our project. Cheers, Hannah.

Thanks for sahring this project - very interesting stuff

It's amazing what kind of knock-on effects rewilding can have on an entire ecosystem. Great work, the salmon say thank you.

@paghal11

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being a spokesfish for the salmon!

Reminds me a bit of "Old Mortality" by Walter Scott. Instead of chiselling in worn out names on the gravestones of Scotland. She is planting trees. She is still a legend. Young Immortality.

I want to work for Mossy Earth! i love those projects. This is making a big diffrence.

It would be interesting to know how many survive. I live in Colorado and the aspen here are notorious for not surviving transplantation. Aspen groves are one huge macro organism and all the trees are part of the same plant. So individual trees away from the mother grove have hard time. Hopefully, some will take.

@glenncordova4027

2 жыл бұрын

These trees are a species more like our cottonwood than quaking Aspen

I love.this ideas.... bringing back nature

This is cool! I would love to do something like this in Arizona.

Put up a resting stake for birds. They will perch and drop seedlings of trees and briars. Those in turn can help protect your saplings. Greetings from Ireland

Wow! Great project and video 😍🌱

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ema!

Love Mossy Earth!

Great project, best of luck.

Liked and subbed. Thanks for your work. 🙏

Great video and channel!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Joana!

Thanks!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Marty! We really appreciate your support on this project :D - Cheers, Duarte

Great work. I live in Grantown on Spey, the Aspen stands here are the most plentiful ive seen in Scotland, a vision of the habitat you endeavour to create. Come (all) and check it out if you have the time!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to come down and check out the aspen stands there this summer - I've been meaning to! There are a few trees scatted around our project area and I always enjoy seeing them, but the only substantial aspen stands I've seen were in the Canadian Rockies. Time for that to change. Cheers - Hannah

Great work. 😁👌👍🏻

Aspen was the wood of choice for war arrows and medieval clog soles; latterly used for the base planks of carts

I wonder if Scotland was covered by Aspen once. Think about it, the Romans had such a bad time marching through the forest in Germany, I can imagine if Scotland was as bare as it is now they would have easier time conquering Caledonia lol. I watched this video multiple times already, in huge part had to do with the fact that Hannah has the voice of a Noldor elf.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Ha this is brilliant! Noldor elf indedd 😂 - Cheers, Duarte

Well done.

Love the Gaelic names for Aspen, crann creathach (Ireland) craobh-chrithinn (Scotland) meaning Trembling Tree/Branch

Population of deer eating up every sapling that sprouts in easily accessible area is probably the main issue at the moment. Trees would populate land again if they would be let to. Other than reintroduction of the wolves to wildlife - which is a really complex and hard to do solution (sheep, gates, fencing or the lack of it, free camping etc...), solution that comes to mind is to have special park rangers with several dogs patrolling the specific highlands areas which would allow to make deer herds moving enough for bigger percentage of saplings to grow into more mature trees. I'm sure that such project could be supported by governmental funding as it would be relatively inexpensive and could be a dream job for many nature loving people.

I love all you projects! I was wondering if you guys have internship opportunities?!

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support but unfortunately t the moment we don't have any internship opportunities. Cheers, Hannah.

nice, will make a donation ! cheers

Great video

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Shawn! Remember to subscribe like and share if you havent already :) It helps a tonne!

From my experience, it is better to plant fewer trees but with better protection, so that they have better chances of survival. I use a reusable individual protective mesh for each tree

Speaking as someone with farm property in northern Sweden that the aspen, that we regard as a weed since it grows so quickly and abundantly, struggles in Scotland is surprising. It must be over grazing by sheep and deer

@glenncordova4027

2 жыл бұрын

Aspen are like candy for sheep and deer.

@mattiasdahlstrom2024

2 жыл бұрын

@@glenncordova4027 After the apple trees ...

Nice job

Crazy how Populus tremula is so rare in Scotland. Here in Germany that tree grows everywhere in more open areas and if you cut them down they will sprout 100 shoots from the roots. But we also have overabundant herbivores. They destroy every attempt to regrow firs. Germany used to be partially covered in fir forests, but the trees were cut down in the middle ages to build I think e.g. Cologne, and ever since then this vegetation type can't recover. We have beech forests everywhere where the forest is able to grow naturally, but firs? They're the favourite snack of several herbivores.

You can tell that this is an aspen because of the way it is

Go Hannah Go - we're all behind you, rooting for you (hohoho) specially while it all wetNwindy !! ;-)

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

hahah thanks for rooting for me! Luckily spring is arriving here now so hopefully our next video shows me in the field on a lovely sunny day! Cheers, Hannah.

This project looks grand, and I applaud the effort in riparian ecology. If I were at the site, I would add a mixture of white dolomite and fermented manure to the edge of the stream. The objective would be to make a healthy mud for the salmon, and a stabilized nitrogen cycle would likely improve the mud quality.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the insight! I will pass this on to Hannah :) - Cheers, Duarte

@willjennings7191

2 жыл бұрын

@@MossyEarth You're welcome to learn from my perspective. My intuition tells me that the deer might be persuaded to let alone the aspen trees, if they are offered better fare. I would try to place a 'salt lick' as an alternative source of dietary minerals near the aspen, and protect the osmolarity of the river with a layer of activated charcoal applied under the 'salt lick'. Activated charcoal in the soil makes for good grazing, in deer terms, so there might be an alternative diet in their niche. I'm surmising that the behavior, where the deer eat a sapling or some bark, could come from mineral deficiency.

Trees for Life found that if you don't fence off an area first, and thus limit deer numbers, all that happens is that the deer eat the nice young juicy saplings. That's why there has been no natural Scots Pine regeneration even in areas like Glen Affric where there are whole forests of mature trees.

@alexandermajor6467

Жыл бұрын

This is covered in the video with an explanation why they're planting prickly bushes around each tree to minimise browsing

@DrewWithington

Жыл бұрын

@@alexandermajor6467 I go fishing on the Sussex Weald where there are lots of deer. There are clear tracks that the deer have made from regular use. They go through hedges, across streams, through thorn bushes. Deer are pretty tough.

@alexandermajor6467

Жыл бұрын

@@DrewWithington Sussex Weald lol - it's well known that planting thorny bushes around trees is an effective deterrent - nothing at all to do with water and hedges - and there is plenty of natural regen in Glen Affric

I literally would love to just have a group in each local area and I would collect supplies, get a run down on the mission, go over the map, and I'd love to be out in the woods helping rewild, restructure it to be at it's core- flourishing. I already hike in the woods here in Oregon with my 2 dogs. I could just instead of exploring and photography/the occasional rock hunting. I would set out with a mission just like that guy at the Scottish river. I have 6 years of construction, landscaping, hardscaping, remodeling, carpentry work as the right hand guy to the lead contractor. Sadly I ruptured my left ACL and had to get replacement surgery and it's caused me to not be able to take back on my career because I did a lot of strenuous labor and I have complications with my knee so I really can't be how I was. I can walk tho, so walking around in the woods has been very therapeutic for me during this chapter of change in my life (my father had a stroke at age 55, then my grandma who I share a birthday with passed away later in that year) so it's fair to say that I kinda had to find a healthy outlet for myself and Nature to me has always been the most amazing therapist. By observing certain things with in it's structures and systems It'll subconsciously help me find analogies/comparisons for different situations in Life. I won't ramble on anymore, I'll just state that it boils down to Nature has found a way to help me with coping with the difficult situations in Life, that we don't live Forever, yet ive found trust in how Nature functions and that is, it finds a way to take even the harshest and grossest things and find a way to make something from it. So in a weird way that's helped me find Peace with my own mortality. Like even if we never get answers, im okay because I trust how Nature functions all across the universe and so why would this function that all life forms do.. be wasteful.. for no reason.. Nature, will find a way to convert anything and not waste anything and we see it all around us if you just look at it with the right Perspective. 🌲🍂🪵🍄🌱🌹🥀♻️

@iwanabana

2 жыл бұрын

Take care, my friend.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Nature can be so healing. Enjoy your time in the woods in Oregon. I would love to visit there one day. Cheers, Hannah.

brilliant

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support Bret - Cheers, Hannah

Being back predators to deer to check deer population so that aspen will have a chance to grow . It was a success in Yellowstone

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

We would love to see that happen in due time! However, there is still a long path ahead and many feasibility studies required first.

@BarocaS2

2 жыл бұрын

@@MossyEarth plus, farmers and others with livestock in the area need to be on board with the idea. Otherwise, you just end up with a lot of mysteriously dead, recently released predators. And a lot of wasted effort. Unfortunately, this happened at the beginning of the reintroduction of some birds of prey near me in Ireland. But, the birds are thriving now. Wolves would be a great solution to deer populations. But, farmers would obviously want to protect their livestock. A technique I saw being used before to stop deer destroying saplings was to fence off large sections of wilderness. Make gaps large enough for smaller mammels but not deer. When the saplings are large enough, the fence can be moved elsewhere and the process repeated.

Is the lack of trees in Scotland a lot to do with the large numbers of deer bred for hunting and game keepers removing them for deer and game birds?

@glenncordova4027

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, plus the annual burning to clear land and the constant grazing of sheep

Here in British Columbia the government sprays aspen with glyphosate to desimate entire Aspen forests to make more room for "money trees".

Badly needed in the Outer Hebrides, Hebridean forests were eradicated by over crofting and the introduction of none native red deer from the mainland.

You can tell its an aspen tree because the way it is

I speak out of ignorance. However, my nephew is a tree planter in Ontario and BC. Planting 2000 little saplings a day is not unusual for these guys. Would their approach to planting help?

@mikek9488

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I planted trees when I was younger, then ran my own crew as a contractor. I used to do quality control after that. The crews I checked were doing 30k per day. These guys are trying to get donations with slick videos, and not really generating enough income to accomplish anything. That video had a two man crew. Their technique is sloppy and inefficient. They are also using the wrong shovels for the size of root systems. There are other problems with their approach, esp any lack of site prep, which could be as simple as scalping off the grass and planting in the center of the clearing, trees find it difficult to compete with grass when they are seedling size. That ecologist, although cute as all get out seems woefully inexperienced for successfully managing a project as difficult as afforestation. Using thorny shrubs to protect aspen saplings from browsing by deer sounds very clever but will not work for at least a few reasons.

I hope Mossy Earth is operating within the Scottish Government's program for the restoration of the Caledonian forest.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

We're following best practice guidance and work with professional tree planters for our reforesting projects. Cheers - Hannah

Good luck hopefully your efforts pear fruit.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks James!

I have a dumb, but serious question: If you plant a lot of trees along the river, will they "drink" from the river and reduce the overall water volume? I guess it depends on the type of tree?

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

In general trees help with retention. This means when there are floods they will help the land take up more water and when there are droughts the land will release the water slowly so it lasts longer. I don't think there is much of a net gain/loss of water in the system as a whole. Then again, I know very little about hydrology :) - Cheers, Duarte

can you show us before and after pictures of trees

Have you considered promoting something similar on the Faroe Islands? The only trees there are behind fencing which I assume is there to keep goats and or sheep out. Few people living there today seem to keep sheep or goats, so why not begin to rebuild some forest? There are also some smaller uninhabited islands that must not have any herbivores, so why not plant some trees there?

Until the artificially high red / roe deer population, industrialised management of " grouse moors" and the current state supported gold rush approach to commercial woodland creation is addressed the reafforestation of Scotland with native woodland is going to be an uphill struggle. The forests want to be there its people who are preventing them returning.

It needs some top down predators like wolves to keep the deer numbers down, more beavers would dam and provide more water for the aspen and other plant life. It’s time we brought back the wolf!

great

I didn't even know Scotland had aspen forests, there was so much deforestation historically it becomes hard to tell if one place was a forest in the past or not, much less what tree species there are. I live in the southeastern US so there was deforestation here too in the past but most of the forests are protected, (mostly privately owned though) and the demand for wood is met with pine tree plantations and the occassional logging on private property which usually grows back in

@arcturus9366

2 жыл бұрын

I wish you guys the best in rewilding, and looking forward to your next uploads!

Are you using root cuttings? One way to propagate existing clones on the cheap.

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Yes we're using root cuttings grown in professional nurseries. Cheers, Hannah.

I'd love to own a bit of land in Scotland or the North or Connaught and help regrow some aspen (or otherwise native) forests on said area, connecting other areas of woodland I'd like to do a fair bit of biodiversity too, establishing evergreen trees in as well, alongside a few redwoods, cherrys, if I could in a dreambuild Lots of thistle and thorn bushes too, amongst the woods I'd like to make, away from any mires and whathaveyou so as to not deal with water and thistle and thorn and spike and jab at the same time hehe Videos like this inspire me to make me want to build something like this for myself in microcosm

@neilrobinson8101

2 жыл бұрын

Rewilding is about restoring ecosystems and habitats, usually with a focus on native species, so you'll be best to grow Scots pine rather than redwoods.

@tomasa-m5643

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilrobinson8101 Only a few of them, mostly scots pine though

The Salmon have there ovvn name without a territory its Celtic its spiritual its healing its natural.

Do you know what the survival rates are for the aspen saplings your putting out?

@MossyEarth

2 жыл бұрын

Still working it out! Will update you on the next video this autumn. - Cheers, Duarte

So I saw in a documentary that forests in Scotland are being cut down again and transformed into bogs. The bogs bind more carbon than the forests, but why do you start somewhere on the mountain and do not put the seedlings. On the coast where the wind constantly blows the topsoil into the sea. Even in agriculture, all fields should be bordered with bushes and trees so that the topsoil is not swept away, with a maximum distance of 80 meters cultivation area according to a study. For 20% higher crop yields.

Great work! Isn’t the most important thing reducing deer numbers through culling (and in the long term by introducing lynx etc)? Which will only be achieved on a national scale by taking on the big estates and their backward ways of working?

@ivancho5854

2 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid that most people in Scotland are against culling. All the best.

The issue with tree planting projects is they are always measured by the number of planted trees, not by the number of trees that survived planting, wich is much smaller, if not zero. Rearely do I see a follow up of this 'thousends trees planted' projects. This video is 6 mounth old, can you give an update on how many Aspens have actually survived?

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What a naturally beautiful woman! Beautiful heart as well as a beautiful face. I love it.

What’s about Woodwose (Sasquatch) there?

Whats Gona stop the Deer from Eating them?

Do I get an aspen if I become a member?

Hey, not to be negative or anything, but do you have projects nearer cities/waste/deindustrialised land? A lot of your projects are already in very 'wild' areas.