If any land owner out there is considering doing any work on their rivers, please first consult the Wild Trout Trust. Unlike the EA, who want to use our precious rivers for flood relief for the towns and DEFRA who use our taxes for crackpot purposes, such as reintroducing Beavers, the WTT are honest and objective. Their work is backed by scientific knowledge and practical skills, and they are only interested in what’s best for the river and the environment.
Work has to be done. Mind you the words "tidying up" frighten me to death!!! I wish, oh I wish, we had the Rivers Authority Whose responsibilities including , clearance, drainage, and dredging on places like the Somerset levels. They would care for fish stock when needed. They are sadly missed. Now we have single interest bodies all with their own little agendas. As my Grandma once said I don't want somebody whose "qualified" I want someone who knows what they're doing!!! and the R A did.
So true. As you well no vegetation produce fish food, so has to be well managed. I see slash and burn, trees that hold the river together felled ! Next flood the gravel beds will dissapear......so sad.
I was taught at school that trying to pour a quart of water through a 28 mm pipe will cause it to over flow, pouring it through 50 mm pipe will let it pass through without it over flowing, my point being, where rivers flood why don’t they did, or dredge the river bed to allow more water to pass easier? Am I being too simplistic?
The water just goes somewhere else quicker with that approach. Slowing the water flow and flooding areas away from built up areas is the better option BUT farmers and landowners should be rewarded for providing this flood reduction benefit to the nation. At the moment they aren’t and so continue just to worry about their own land.
I thought the whole ides was to get rivers flowing quicker away from built up areas where it causes monetary issues to homeowners, therefore insurance companies, therefore you and me in the knock on effect, this should be done along the whole river until the water enters a part of the river wide enough to cope with the volume of water. You can’t solve a problem by doing nothing, that’s what got us into this situation in the first place, not clearing silt has lead us to where we are today.
Dredging a river actually makes very little difference in a big flood and it can be a very destructive operation for the fish and invertebrates of a river. Drainage ditches are a slightly different matter.
Rivers need skilled management where necessary.End of.Hark back to what happened at Abbotts Barton.These so called environmental bodies have very little nous.Extraction and pollution are the frontline issues which should be addressed.
Yes true, and that is the very reason we need the return of the Rivers Authority who were able to advise farmers and their local staff knew many of the riparian owners which made for a more cooperative mood between the parties..
@@hedgehog3900 any evidence of that? Where does yours and everyone else's food come from? I'm guessing you think it appears on the shelves of your local supermarket.
@@lukepitts5774What a childish simplistic MORONIC comment. The eutrophication of our waterways are well known, studied and understood. Producing goods for profit does NOT entitle anyone to disregard the environment they are produced in.
Here in the US one thing was learned, sometimes you have to go into a stream and recontour the banks due to channelization. Make a deep channel into a flood plain. Sure beavers can do that, turn an entire valley in to a flood plain with a meandering stream that changes location every few years. The but for that is how many beavers and when do they come in conflict with people and current land uses. Still a good barrier of trees maybe 40 or 50 m around a stream helps with Nitrogen and phosphorus along with sediments getting into a stream. With beavers you do not have that you end up with a series of shallow ponds with a channel that makes the flat land around it unusable, in head waters. Farther down the streams just become too big for beavers.
Farm land in the Uk is increasingly pressured, and I am concerned that the introduction of Beavers will only serve to turn fertile fields into swamps. And we have already seen thousands of homes, built on flood planes, suffering flood damage in the last few years too. So the idea of deliberately introducing beavers into our rivers, who will build dams and slow the flow of the river to the sea, just seems totally crazy to me.
@@drcarp7377 but remember, they look so cute to some people, that do not know what they do. They change the eco system where they are at through the land type. Now in the US if you challenge someone that lives in a city and "knows better than you" they just call you a Nazi and discount you. I have seen places where the Game commission in Pennsylvania has moved problem beavers. Then a person with a trappers license had to go in and take the colony out due to damaging roads and homes.
@@brett76544 I don’t know if you live on the UK, but they did the same thing with otters. The river systems and waterways in the country are generally of poor quality. Pollution incidents are common, and the fish have to contend with that, on top of over predation from cormorants who have come in land because of less fish in the sea. Then we had the ingress and proliferation of American signal crayfish, which have taken over some waterways. They eat fish eggs, so the stocks in some areas were already dangerously low. But, because otters are cute and cuddly, they bred them, built des res holts for them, and indiscriminately distributed them. Consequently, many waterways just couldn’t cope with the additional predation. And otters are very wasteful predators. They don’t eat all of the fish they kill. So you will see half eaten fish, dying in agony. They also eat everything, so waterfowl are disappearing. And now they are coming into towns and cities, and eating fish out of garden ponds, etc. No environmental risk assessment was ever done by these so called conservationists!
@@drcarp7377 Pennsylvania. We also still have otters and beavers through out the state, but more in the Susquehanna River water shed than others. I even know of a few lakes that still have fresh water jelly fish do to the water quality. We still have huge forests, some say too many deer, but we manage with hunting. Beavers with trapping. Especially, those that love to clog up drainage systems around roads. The last few years we trapped the beavers on my parents lake. Montrose borough above had put in a new drainage system that moved more water from a larger foot print towards the lake and were having wash out problems on the side of the road going over the creek going to the lake. This was causing algae blooms in the lake. Then the beavers moved in raising the lake water level by 3 ft from the dam they built in the concrete spill way. The borough was crying that the pond was flooding their road. Threatening lawsuits and trying to call my father to answer before them. I am a borough councilor in another borough and knew the rules they were not following to due so. That really ticked them off. So I went to a meeting, but they decided to have 3 officers there, so I went out and slapped on a pistol for the meeting and called a few armed friends to show up. I wish we recorded that meeting, 12 armed people in the seats was priceless and my tone. We said you need to this, this and this to improve and slow down the water coming into the lake before we would entertain allowing someone to trap the Damm beavers of our property. The funny part was the beavers could have raised the water level another foot by the permit we have for the lake. The big thing is before beavers and even otters, Scotland needs to address the size of the forests around the streams, that has a huge affect on water quality and flooding. Then they might even release wolves and linx. They tried that around here from Cornell university and a few wolves may or may not have been shot by a few people. I know one was shot during a coyote hunting completion. (our coyotes are a hybrid with wolves in this area of the us)
That is the biggest loss of bollocks that I have read so far this year. You obviously have no idea about biodiversity or about rivers. This type of destruction was bad enough in the late 20th Century. In the 2020's it is criminal damage. I don't care if it was the landowner. Vandalism and destruction. As simple as that.
@@portcullis5622 grow up the trees will regrow from the stumps left now the suns able to reach the bank the plant life has a chance to get a hold its basic nvq stuff pal
@@tinabaker4662 environmental vandalism is when a woodland is felled and a warehouse put up in its place which is what happened were i live not to mention the prison they built on a site were red squirrels had moved in grow up
@@peterjones7303 Firstly, I am definitely not your "pal". Secondly, as a trained horticulturist and ecologist, I know all about coppicing and pollarding of trees and plant succession, thank you. "Basic nvq stuff"? I presume you mean NVQ's? Do they still exist? If so, I suggest you go and study basic ecology. As I said, this is environmental vandalism that deserves a punishment to deter other rogue riparian owners from carrying out similar destructive acts in the name of "flood defence" or "river management". The second landowner on here has a much better idea of how to coppice riverside trees without clear-felling. Personally, I think he has overdone it a bit, but at least he has thought about it carefully.
john price got sent down, ive just spent the last 2 months locked in a cell with him, nice enough chap but i can guarantee he wont be doing it agin because to say he struggled in prison is an understatement. most of the time i had to wear earplugs because of his constant whinging. never heard a bloke moan as much as him in my life.
Just because someone owns land, it does not give them the right to do anything that they want. There is the Wildlife and Countryside Act for a start. Mr Price's efforts remind me of the type of environmental destruction that was all too familiar in the decades after World War 2. There is simply no excuse for it in the 21st Century.
This is a dangerously misleading video. The farmer has no idea what he is talking about re habitat and is clearly lying through his teeth about what was said to him by the angling trust. Self interest at its best.
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If any land owner out there is considering doing any work on their rivers, please first consult the Wild Trout Trust. Unlike the EA, who want to use our precious rivers for flood relief for the towns and DEFRA who use our taxes for crackpot purposes, such as reintroducing Beavers, the WTT are honest and objective. Their work is backed by scientific knowledge and practical skills, and they are only interested in what’s best for the river and the environment.
Work has to be done. Mind you the words "tidying up" frighten me to death!!!
I wish, oh I wish, we had the Rivers Authority Whose responsibilities including , clearance, drainage, and dredging on places like the Somerset levels. They would care for fish stock when needed. They are sadly missed. Now we have single interest bodies all with their own little agendas.
As my Grandma once said I don't want somebody whose "qualified" I want someone who knows what they're doing!!! and the R A did.
So true. As you well no vegetation produce fish food, so has to be well managed. I see slash and burn, trees that hold the river together felled ! Next flood the gravel beds will dissapear......so sad.
Ashley did the management the right way - sympathetically - Mr Price is just ignorant
check out TomPembertonFarmLife on youtube if you want to see what the environmental agency has done to his land (flooded it)
I was taught at school that trying to pour a quart of water through a 28 mm pipe will cause it to over flow, pouring it through 50 mm pipe will let it pass through without it over flowing, my point being, where rivers flood why don’t they did, or dredge the river bed to allow more water to pass easier? Am I being too simplistic?
The water just goes somewhere else quicker with that approach. Slowing the water flow and flooding areas away from built up areas is the better option BUT farmers and landowners should be rewarded for providing this flood reduction benefit to the nation. At the moment they aren’t and so continue just to worry about their own land.
I thought the whole ides was to get rivers flowing quicker away from built up areas where it causes monetary issues to homeowners, therefore insurance companies, therefore you and me in the knock on effect, this should be done along the whole river until the water enters a part of the river wide enough to cope with the volume of water. You can’t solve a problem by doing nothing, that’s what got us into this situation in the first place, not clearing silt has lead us to where we are today.
Dredging a river actually makes very little difference in a big flood and it can be a very destructive operation for the fish and invertebrates of a river. Drainage ditches are a slightly different matter.
It's fair no one else is going to do the work we pay taxes for no work done so fair play to the farmer environmental agency are useless
Great video and informative video, many thanks and greetings from New Zealand.
Rivers need skilled management where necessary.End of.Hark back to what happened at Abbotts Barton.These so called environmental bodies have very little nous.Extraction and pollution are the frontline issues which should be addressed.
Thing is farmers get into trouble for leaving rivers then get into trouble for doing something.
Yes true, and that is the very reason we need the return of the Rivers Authority who were able to advise farmers and their local staff knew many of the riparian owners which made for a more cooperative mood between the parties..
Farmers don't get into trouble enough.......for poisoning rivers with soil killing slurry, fertiliser and silage run-off.
@@hedgehog3900 any evidence of that? Where does yours and everyone else's food come from? I'm guessing you think it appears on the shelves of your local supermarket.
@@lukepitts5774What a childish simplistic MORONIC comment. The eutrophication of our waterways are well known, studied and understood. Producing goods for profit does NOT entitle anyone to disregard the environment they are produced in.
@@hedgehog3900 "moronic " what a disgusting way to reply.
Here in the US one thing was learned, sometimes you have to go into a stream and recontour the banks due to channelization. Make a deep channel into a flood plain. Sure beavers can do that, turn an entire valley in to a flood plain with a meandering stream that changes location every few years. The but for that is how many beavers and when do they come in conflict with people and current land uses. Still a good barrier of trees maybe 40 or 50 m around a stream helps with Nitrogen and phosphorus along with sediments getting into a stream. With beavers you do not have that you end up with a series of shallow ponds with a channel that makes the flat land around it unusable, in head waters. Farther down the streams just become too big for beavers.
Farm land in the Uk is increasingly pressured, and I am concerned that the introduction of Beavers will only serve to turn fertile fields into swamps. And we have already seen thousands of homes, built on flood planes, suffering flood damage in the last few years too. So the idea of deliberately introducing beavers into our rivers, who will build dams and slow the flow of the river to the sea, just seems totally crazy to me.
@@drcarp7377 but remember, they look so cute to some people, that do not know what they do. They change the eco system where they are at through the land type. Now in the US if you challenge someone that lives in a city and "knows better than you" they just call you a Nazi and discount you. I have seen places where the Game commission in Pennsylvania has moved problem beavers. Then a person with a trappers license had to go in and take the colony out due to damaging roads and homes.
@@brett76544 I don’t know if you live on the UK, but they did the same thing with otters. The river systems and waterways in the country are generally of poor quality. Pollution incidents are common, and the fish have to contend with that, on top of over predation from cormorants who have come in land because of less fish in the sea. Then we had the ingress and proliferation of American signal crayfish, which have taken over some waterways. They eat fish eggs, so the stocks in some areas were already dangerously low. But, because otters are cute and cuddly, they bred them, built des res holts for them, and indiscriminately distributed them. Consequently, many waterways just couldn’t cope with the additional predation. And otters are very wasteful predators. They don’t eat all of the fish they kill. So you will see half eaten fish, dying in agony. They also eat everything, so waterfowl are disappearing. And now they are coming into towns and cities, and eating fish out of garden ponds, etc.
No environmental risk assessment was ever done by these so called conservationists!
@@drcarp7377 Pennsylvania. We also still have otters and beavers through out the state, but more in the Susquehanna River water shed than others. I even know of a few lakes that still have fresh water jelly fish do to the water quality. We still have huge forests, some say too many deer, but we manage with hunting. Beavers with trapping. Especially, those that love to clog up drainage systems around roads. The last few years we trapped the beavers on my parents lake. Montrose borough above had put in a new drainage system that moved more water from a larger foot print towards the lake and were having wash out problems on the side of the road going over the creek going to the lake. This was causing algae blooms in the lake. Then the beavers moved in raising the lake water level by 3 ft from the dam they built in the concrete spill way. The borough was crying that the pond was flooding their road. Threatening lawsuits and trying to call my father to answer before them. I am a borough councilor in another borough and knew the rules they were not following to due so. That really ticked them off. So I went to a meeting, but they decided to have 3 officers there, so I went out and slapped on a pistol for the meeting and called a few armed friends to show up. I wish we recorded that meeting, 12 armed people in the seats was priceless and my tone. We said you need to this, this and this to improve and slow down the water coming into the lake before we would entertain allowing someone to trap the Damm beavers of our property. The funny part was the beavers could have raised the water level another foot by the permit we have for the lake. The big thing is before beavers and even otters, Scotland needs to address the size of the forests around the streams, that has a huge affect on water quality and flooding. Then they might even release wolves and linx. They tried that around here from Cornell university and a few wolves may or may not have been shot by a few people. I know one was shot during a coyote hunting completion. (our coyotes are a hybrid with wolves in this area of the us)
Nice demonstration 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤️❤️❤️💕
How to turn a beautiful river into a lifeless ditch
River wear in Washington Sunderland is basically fishless the EA don't stock it we pay a licence for terrible fishing up here .
EA take your money and do duck all too make any waterways better can’t stand them just another form of police
Thing is it looks really drastic but in one or two years nature will be back an the bio diversity will be a huge winner
Nonsense, this is environmental vandalism.
That is the biggest loss of bollocks that I have read so far this year. You obviously have no idea about biodiversity or about rivers. This type of destruction was bad enough in the late 20th Century. In the 2020's it is criminal damage. I don't care if it was the landowner. Vandalism and destruction. As simple as that.
@@portcullis5622 grow up the trees will regrow from the stumps left now the suns able to reach the bank the plant life has a chance to get a hold its basic nvq stuff pal
@@tinabaker4662 environmental vandalism is when a woodland is felled and a warehouse put up in its place which is what happened were i live not to mention the prison they built on a site were red squirrels had moved in grow up
@@peterjones7303 Firstly, I am definitely not your "pal". Secondly, as a trained horticulturist and ecologist, I know all about coppicing and pollarding
of trees and plant succession, thank you.
"Basic nvq stuff"? I presume you mean NVQ's? Do they still exist? If so, I suggest you go and study basic ecology. As I said, this is environmental vandalism that deserves a punishment to deter other rogue riparian owners from carrying out similar destructive acts in the name of "flood defence" or "river management".
The second landowner on here has a much better idea of how to coppice riverside trees without clear-felling. Personally, I think he has overdone it a bit, but at least he has thought about it carefully.
john price got sent down, ive just spent the last 2 months locked in a cell with him, nice enough chap but i can guarantee he wont be doing it agin because to say he struggled in prison is an understatement. most of the time i had to wear earplugs because of his constant whinging. never heard a bloke moan as much as him in my life.
2 many Chiefs and not enough Indians
Justin neal is a fine example of those who think he can go round telling farmers what to do with their land
Did dr Justin get of is ars and do something all gob full of B S
They dont do enuff ...lots of fluds and badly kept rivers
None of these commentators actually OWN anything. Fishermen bitching about landowners can bugger off.
Just because someone owns land, it does not give them the right to do anything that they want. There is the Wildlife and Countryside Act for a start. Mr Price's efforts remind me of the type of environmental destruction that was all too familiar in the decades after World War 2. There is simply no excuse for it in the 21st Century.
Soy el primero
Love it and first
This is a dangerously misleading video. The farmer has no idea what he is talking about re habitat and is clearly lying through his teeth about what was said to him by the angling trust. Self interest at its best.