Building Habitat Piles at Rewilding Lettoch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Part of our rewilding project involved dealing with a lot of Norway Spruce planted as ground cover for game birds. Now it's too tall, too thick and detrimental to a well balanced ecosystem. Removing the spruce and making piles out of the stripped branches is a great aid for both insect and bird life.
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Floral, faunal and fungal diversity requires disperate habitats to be present in a landscape. As you suggest, even the humble brash has its place in supporting life that is observable to the naked eye - and much that is "hidden". Opening up plantation growth often results in spectacular changes within a short time frame.
Also, was wondering how your "greenhouse" has stood up to the recent weather condtions - still in place I hope! Many regards.
Very nice, brushpiles is something everyone with a bit of land can do!
We do the same.
Cutting trees under the pretext of promoting biodiversity and bird conservation is abhorrent, ridiculous and stupid.
Hi there and thanks for watching. At one level I'd agree with you. It does seem counter intuitive to cut trees down to promote nature restoration. And yet we already, after only one year, have lots of examples of saplings of oak trees and rowan trees that are now starting to grow in the wood where once nothing grew because it was too dark. The Norway Spruce, which grew at the expense of pretty much all other life are going to be replaced by native trees that will bring with them a much richer ecosystem and much more life for insects and birds than the dense spruce wood could ever achieve. And the felled spruce are now doing a great job of providing nesting material for birds, and rotting wood for bugs, insects, fungi and plant life to live in a feed from. Cutting down trees does seem wrong in some ways but if they are planted for harvesting, as many Norway and Sitka Spruce trees are, they do turn large areas of land into dense dark places where little can thrive. Now at least the woodland floor has a chance to regenerate naturally and bring with it a much richer environment. That at least is the plan and so far it seems to be working. Thanks again for watching. Hope you stick with us.
@@lettochfilms Well, best wishes for success
Thank you very much. Just delighted you're watching. Let's hope we're getting some things right 🙂@@itacaperduta All the best.
Properly spaced out i find sitka spruce useful as shelter trees in exposed locations, oak, birch hazel grow taller in shelter, alsp man has introduced many non native trees since roman times, our wildlife has adapted to many of these species, we must not get carried away with removing all non native species. They have their uses!! Sitka spruce can live up to 3,000 years and are some of the biggest trees around. Birds eat the seeds and tits treecreepers, finches, all find shelter and insect foraging in their canopy. I look after wood and gardens here in caithness. Mixed wood introducing many new tree species (small numbers)
Cracking wee video! Get shot of that invasive spruce & let mature& a good bit of light do it’s thing. All the best from Mark in East Kilbride