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Bolton Conservation Volunteers
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 เม.ย. 2017
Conservation videos. Bolton Conservation volunteers have been working for forty years to enhance nature and increase biodiversity in the Bolton area and surrounds. Our fortnightly tasks include pond creation, tree planting, hedge laying, drystone wall repair and habitat management. To see how to get involved or just to look at some of our work, please visit www.boltonconservation.org.uk
BCV's Darwen Pub Crawl - 19th May 2019
Not a conservation video - Bolton Conservation Volunteers also have a social life, which includes a walking group and occasional pub crawls. This is a brief record of one such pub crawl in Darwen, Lancashire, on 19 May 2019.
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Great North Wood overview
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Guesting on BCV40, Edwin Mallins explains the London Wildlife Trust's Great North Wood Project. The Great North Wood, counter-intuitively, was south of the Thames, in a bulge between Deptford, near the Thames, and Croydon to the south, with its rough centre in Upper Norwood (great Nor Wood) which is nowadays known as Crystal Palace. Edwin and Sam (his co-project officer) have been busy with vol...
Ravenden Clough path work 10 Feb 19
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers meet on 10th February 2019 at Ravenen Clough on the Smithills Estate, near Bolton, to cut back rhododendrons which are crowding the path around the clough, to clear clogged drains which are causing the path to flood, and to make wildlife friendly habitat piles from the brashings. Video and music from The Thing in my Soup.
BCV Blackleach Tern Island
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On 4th November 2018, Bolton Conservation Volunteers restored the cockle shell bed on Blackleach Country Park's island in the reservoir. The volunteers shift 6 tons of cockle shells from the car park to the island, lower them down a high brick wall and ferry them across the lake. The shells are laid on newly laid matting to provide safe nesting for terns and swans. Music and video from The Thin...
Moses Gate Wildfest
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On 23rd September 2018, BCV held their first ever Wildfest at Moses Gate Country Park. Opened by Kath Martin, the event was organised into eight areas: meet and greet, dog training and advice, bird identification, pond dipping, hurdle making, den making, wildlife art & bug hunting, with a reward at the end of popcorn and pancakes. Set to music from The Thing in my Soup.
BCV and Woodland Trust go drystone walling in the wet
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers and Woodland Trust gather at Walker Fold Farm for drystone walling training on 27 August 2018. We put back stretches of wall that had been in poor condition, and had been further dismantled down to a firm foundation by Tom, Rick and Paul The Wall prior to the task. Despite an all-day deluge, a substantial crew turned out. Edited to music from The Thing in my Soup,...
How to make a pond with bentonite clay granules
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers and Friends of Bridge St LNR in Horwich re-engineer two ponds which do not hold water using Bentonite clay granules. Over two work days, the volunteers take a foot of soil out of the ponds and store it at the sides, then apply the bentonite clay, before sandwiching it beneath the previously dug-out soil. The process is explained by Rick Parker and accompanied by m...
How to make a hibernaculum for amphibians
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers make a large toad hibernaculum at Eatock Lodge, Westhoughton. In additional work, they dig runaways and drains from a path that floods in the winter down to the lodge. Eatock Lodge has had a large population of toads for many years.
Great Crested Newt pond survey with Rick Parker of BCV, at Hacken Lane, Bolton
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BCV's Rick Parker surveys two ponds at the Hacken Lane south site, Bolton, for Great Crested Newt eggs, while the Bolton Conservation Volunteers de-shade the ponds in the rain. Rick finds and shows us the GCN eggs, plus the tiny caterpillar of an aquatic China Mark Moth. Video and music by the Thing in my Soup.
Northern Forest first season's planting with BCV
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers help Woodland Trust on 8th April 2018 with the first season's planting for the Northern Forest initiative, in which they intend to plant, over 25 years, 50 million trees throughout the Northern Forest , which comprises five contiguous north of England Community Forest Trust areas. The planting takes place near Burnt Edge, on the Woodland Trust's Smithills Estate t...
Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Anglezarke Reservoir for hedge laying competition 11-03-2018
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers meet at Anglezarke Reservoir for their fifteenth annual hedge laying competition in memory of Dr John Leather, the group's hedge laying guru. Four teams of two and a fifth team of one compete. The competition is introduced by Rick Parker of BCV, who also acted as judge. The hedges are laid in the Lancashire style where the laid branches are kept roughly parallel, ...
Bolton Conservation Volunteers lay a hedge at Eatock Lodge on 11 02 2018
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers meet at Eatock Lodge in Westhoughton, near Bolton, to lay a hazel hedge and create a long dead hedge from the brashings. The process is partly explained in captions. Music and video by The Thing in my Soup.
Bolton Conservation Volunteers meet at Hacken Lane LNR on 31-12-1017
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers meet at Hacken Lane Local Nature Reserve on New Year's Eve 2017, led by Rick Parker, to coppice osier willow in preparation for a schools project, which will be making hurdles at the edge of the LNR's paths from the withies. An extra task is to clear overhanging branches from one path which is used as a Bridle Path by horse riders, which frequent the LNR. Video by...
Bolton Conservation Volunteers meet at Bridge Street LNR, Horwich, for our Christmas task
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers meet in the rain on 17 December 2017, to de-shade two ponds at Bridge Street LNR in Horwich, near Bolton. This encourages the growth of oxygenating plants in the spring and helps biodiversity. We use the brashings to make habitat piles which will act as hibernating spots for amphibians and safe places for other small wildlife. We also create stakes for later use i...
Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Firwood Fold
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers gather at Firwood Fold, Compton Way, Bolton, with Friends of Firwood Fold and other volunteer groups under the Bolton Green Umbrella, to lay the hedge at the edge of the path, which is a traditional way of thickening hedges and lengthening their life. We added dead hedge where the existing hedge was too sparse. Hedge laying used to be done to hold livestock in, bu...
Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Rumworth Lodge 2017
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Rumworth Lodge 2017
Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Eatock Lodge, Westhoughton, 27/8/17
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Eatock Lodge, Westhoughton, 27/8/17
Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Cunningham Clough, Westhoughton
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Cunningham Clough, Westhoughton
Bolton Conservation Volunteers pond dip at Kearsley Moss
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers pond dip at Kearsley Moss
Bolton Conservation Volunteers with Beaumont & St Bernard's Primary Schools
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers with Beaumont & St Bernard's Primary Schools
Bolton Conservation Volunteers Drystone Wall Competition 2017
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers Drystone Wall Competition 2017
Bolton Consevation Volunteers at Kearsley Moss 23rd April 2017
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Bolton Consevation Volunteers at Kearsley Moss 23rd April 2017
Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Holdens Plantation 9 April 2017
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Bolton Conservation Volunteers at Holdens Plantation 9 April 2017
Video of the after it is full?
Hello there, do you know what the soil composition was? I' about to use bentonite clay for my pond and it helps to know how much clay to use, depending on what the soil is. Thanks
Hi there - how's it holding up after all this time? I've heard that bentonite clay can leak after a while?
This is really helpful - thank you for showing the process.
What a fabulous group of people, creating such a gift for the wildlife.
What's the cost per sft? Applied two thick layers of bentonite!
Thank you 🙏
It would be great if theirs end result of the pond video.
1:31 can’t hear what the guy is saying at all. The rain noise is too loud and he’s too quiet.
You should have way many likes than this! Thanks for the inspiration. Building a 50’x175’ pond this summer/fall and getting some pallets of bentonite clay bags delivered just like you used. Building a stage on the dam and having folks come out to stomp it in.
Thank you - wish you folks could come to my house in the states ... working on a very small "pond" to try out the technique. Would love to see your spill way construction for when the ponds get too full...
Great way to start a video- so much background noise you can't hear a word said. :-(
Brilliant
so whats better ? mix it with the soil of this technique using bentonite as a blanket??
Bless the volunteers
Men working laboriously in heavy mud ? Were is the tractor ?
Did you put two separate layers of the bentonite?
So granulated. I've only seen fine powder. Looks like you raided a crematorium. 😏
Scary music
You should also plant more trees and add many aquatic plants in the pond.
oh excellent i've built a hibernaculum my garden has lots of amphibians and reptiles.So useful i want more and mroe people to build them and ponds :)
Thanks for sharing, I must keep the 30% slope in mind if/when I make a little pond in my garden, keep up the wonderful work! Watching with interest from Brisbane Australia.
Only if you are doing it with this type of material. If you do it with concrete, liner, fiber glass, etc you can do it any shape and slope that you want. The 30% in this instance was only because that is the requirements of that form of bentonite clay.
So much balsam weed on show, pity/ The motorway noise is awful and of course this is a drained peat bog. For it to become a local nature reserve, would it not be worth trying to cut back most of the trees (they might make for a decent sound barrier wall) and trying to restore it as sphagnum moss? If they can do it next to the motorway at Cadishead, why not here?
why is that lad fishing a tiny garden pond?
Can you advise where you sourced the sodium bentonite from please? And the approximate coverage needed? thanks
It's great to see volunteers doing this work, yet for the scale we need machines ought to be frequently used as they can get an awful lot more done. For this terrain, people are probably still best for now. The guy did mention using a mini digger to help prepare the mounds. There are many videos on TH-cam about planting machines - from the very simple tractor-pulled things with one or two people putting trees in the ground to the fancy hi-tech machines that fire trees and a squirt of water/feed into the soil. Interesting stuff. Great to get people involved though. Teaches us all something.
IT SEEMS TO BE FINE - BUT HAVING LITTLE DOUBTS., 1. WHAT IF THE WATER HAD DRIED DURING SUMMER AND CLAY CREAKS DUE TO EXPOSURE TO SUN WHICH LEADS TO BENTONITE LOSES ITS WATER CONTENT DUE TO EVAPORATION WHICH IN NEXT SEASON AFTER WATER GOT FILLED UP WEATHER THE BENTONITE STILL HOLD THE WATER LEAKAGE? 2. BENTONITE IS SAFE FOR POND ECOSYSTEM?
i read bentonite is a natural clay
I know this is from 10 months ago, but if the bentonite layer is thick enough, drying/cracking won’t change it’s water impermeability makeup. It’ll also expand several times its size again when it came into contact with water Bentonite is safe for pond ecosystem (unless the ecosystem is highly alkaline), they are mostly made out of cretaceous era volcanic ash submerged in the ocean (the ocean then dried up and it become sodium bentonite). If i remember correctly it can be found under the oasis in deserts, and it helps the oasis store water by forming giant clay membrane. So yes it is safe
Question ??? Can you sandwich the bentonite with rocks and gravel instead of the dirt ? I am aming for a recreational swimming pool done with bentonite, but with lots of filtration and clear water... I dont like the idea of an organic pool, done with PVC liner.
don't put any rocks
0:26 Why are they planted so close?
Over the years trees will fail either through disease or the weather or other factors so to make sure you get enough trees to maturity you plant a lot. Plus, you can thin out - removing diseased, dying or just slow-growing trees and the others will thrive with the extra space and fill it.
@@VanderlyndenJengold surely it will save money and trees planting them further a part? The gaps left behind from diseased trees will make glades which also provide good habitat, and eventually when the trees mature they will self- seed in the glades and fill those gaps anyway.
@@MrSlaternater They're pretty cheap when bought in bulk. I'm sure they know what they're doing.
@@VanderlyndenJengold yeah, it can work out cheaper buying in bulk. And the government has targets to meet for woodland cover. Ecologically speaking though, it isn't the best method of planting.
mounding emits carbon destroys soil fungi and radiates heat, just plant trees and ensure the roots have fungi spores
Can’t hear it. Why did you do the video while it was raining?
He should atleast get closer or use a mic
He probably didn't choose to do the video while it was raining. It started raining while the work started. Can't change your plans for that petty amount of rain.
@@azerosblank5036 But he could've gotten closer to the mic. Duh .
Thats quite a bit of digging. No thoughts of an excavator?
Yes, this could have been dug out by an excavator - with an excavator, if you had land available for ponds, you could dig several out in a day. But if you're adding bentonite clay to seal the pond, then the clay has to be applied in a continuous layer and carefully sandwiched in place - see the second half of the video - or the bentonite will blob up like a lava lamp and will not make a proper seal. And your expenditure on the clay will have been wasted. In order to prevent it, you really need to put in the man hours. In this case, approximately forty volunteers took part across the two weekends. That's forty people who have ownership of the work, who want the thing to do well and who can look out for it in the future. This includes the local "friends of" group, for whom the nature reserve is a resource right on their doorstep.
@@boltonconservationvoluntee9050 Im not undervaluing the ownership part.. I just think in terms of efficiencies that would have been a couple man hours of work vice 40x8x2 (500+) man hours of work. I agree the bentonite is best spread by hand and using a compactor. I was referring to the initial excavation.
@@jbweld6193 Then yes, you're right in terms of the initial dig. In this instance, there was a depression where there was a failed pond already (i.e. it did not hold water) and our first weekend's dig was to remove an extra foot of topsoil, which we stored around the edges until the bentonite was put in place. Digging a pond from scratch would, certainly, be easier with a machine. But Rick then got us to replace the topsoil by hand, so that the new clay layer itself was not disturbed. Bolton Conservation Volunteers is a long-established group which meets bi-weekly, (see www.boltonconservation.co.uk ) which does regularly get twenty-plus volunteers, so we're able to do some pretty hefty tasks in short order. This was a case where many hands made light work...
Nice film. Question - if London is set to have a climate similar to Barcelona or Istanbul as soon as 2050, as a report this week suggests, how will places like the Great North Wood fair? What's being done to plant species which will be able to cope with the changing climate of a warming world? Will oak continue to survive in such conditions?
Great video. Did the ponds fill up?
According to Clayton, yes and holding water. Plus, Rick will most likely have sneaked in a score of native pond weeds by now. From a few little cuttings he gave me in a bag, eight months after creation, my own pond fooled a visitor into thinking it had been there for at least ten years.
@@boltonconservationvoluntee9050 Glad to hear your efforts payed off. I bet it looks amazing and natural. I watched to learn about the application of Bentonite but enjoyed the whole video. Keen to know what weeds you added now. Thanks for the update.
Well done! please provide an update video if possible in the future , so we can see the progress. Thanks
Excellent video!
good work andrew !!!!
Great video. Very informative. :-)
It's a shame. Used to be about 6ft deep in the middle it's about 4ft now. Silted up from the pond lily. Full of fish.
Top notch filming and editing, kudos to whoever did it. Guessing Andrew?
I go to st bernards
Stuart
well done everyone! I go to St bernards rc primary school and know how much work went into this