Hope many more areas use these techniques for stream restoration, habitat revival, wildlife, restoring aquifers, farming, flood prevention and wildfire reduction.
@@tomb816 Prebuilding BDA's and other analogues like them will actually incentivize beavers to move in since they kickstart the habitat repair. They provide pools and can give willow and other riparian vegetation a head start on the beavers, so when the beavers do move in they will have food and hiding spots pre made. Beavers generally prefer finished habitat and avoid barren streams completely. BDA's are temporary structures and will fail in about 10 years without repair, something beavers will do if they move into the area. 🙂
I love this project so much. I was feeling down today and saw it come up on my suggestions though I had watched it years ago. I watched it again because it is such a beautiful example of thinking people coming together and doing relatively small interventions in the right way for a huge stack of positive effects. When you draw the essence of this case, you can see how the principles can apply to so many different things. This is not only cool but inspiring and healing just to ponder on.
It's fantastic to see communities rebuilding the natural environment after the wild fire. I can't tell you what joy I feel seeing you do this. It's just great - thank you guys, thank you! 🌤️🏞️🤸😊
They have regulations now that make it nearly impossible to restore streams and creeks anymore. If they can't make money from it it won't happen that's how corrupt our government has became. They can't control the beaver unless they kill them, kinda like us , so good luck getting California to go along with it. It's not an immagration issue or anything to do with gun control...
never in ca, as the big water corps own the water and they want it in there privet lakes. as they then sell it to the highest bidders. or gouge the public for it.
thank you... I believe that many small actions like this together are what can save our beautiful land and curb the worst effect of global heating in the long run.
You can see the habitat that the water retention in the valley is creating, suitable for more riparian species and eventually beavers. Are there cottonwood (Populus) species in this region other than aspen? You all probably know about deep planting techniques and whip plantings that work for trees in the Salicaceae family. I’d be interested in if there is suitable local eco type species for that type of planting? And what plant species you would like to see more of?
great work with universal applicability around the globe - here the quality is in the documentation of the efficacy of such primitive and even ancient methods
In Nevada they are using this technology The N.R.C.S has been very successful with this. We have been involve with them over the last 4 years.Nothing but success. Lots of duck nesting and wilife along with improved grazing.
Actually beavers and salmon have a symbiotic relationship! Salmon are very adept at jumping over beaver dams, they have been evolving together for millions of years. The beaver ponds create ideal spawning habitat by lowering stream temperatures and reducing water speed. Often times there are also small channels around the beaver dams that fish can use to get upstream. This is one of the key differences between beaver dams and the large concrete dams often made by humans for hydropower and drinking water.
Salmon are very adept at jumping over beaver dams, they have been evolving together for millions of years. The beaver ponds create ideal spawning habitat by lowering stream temperatures and reducing water speed. Often times there are also small channels around the beaver dams that fish can use to get upstream.
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process.
As a landowner, I’d just be overjoyed to have someone ask me a question about how the BDA’s worked for my family. It looks like environmentalists have their way, as everywhere. I may have worked the land my entire life, slaving and saving to keep the land family-owned. Without a voice in this conversation, and at any tables where this plan was discussed, I would be just like every other western landowner: out in the gov’t agent never land with no voice nor recourse.
I'm confused, what are you trying to say? I'm assuming you are a rancher, in which case BDAs will be greatly beneficial for you by raising the water table and significantly increasing the amount of grass that is able to grow around the stream. By giving up a small percentage of your land to increase water storage capacity you will exponentially increase grass yield
Beavers were not invited? WTF? It sometimes appears that we people of Idaho try very hard to appear more ignorant than the people of Mississippi and Missouri! Why is this?? It does appear we are quite good at it!! Best of luck to all of us!
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process. They talked about this in the video saying that beavers from nearby intact areas (not degraded) should move in as the conditions in the project area improved.
Small rivers can be cleaned from bottom sediments using a motor pump for dirty water and a suction nozzle Bagermaster. A mini dredger consisting of a motor pump and a suction nozzle allows you to deepen small rivers by removing sediment from sand and silt
It's cool, but beavers would have done it better. It's actually really funny, because they had post pounders and power tools, and it's still not really as good as what a beaver would do. Beavers flood the entire region, they don't just stack logs in a stream. Yeah, the water slows, a little, but it's not really making a pond or lake or anything. I like the idea, especially when beaver are introduced simultaneously, because it basically makes things easier on them. But I'm not sure beaver would want to live in this area, because there's not many trees.
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process.
They should have just brought in about 6 or 8 beavers they wouldn't of costed but what they paid one of them engineers for a day... And they would of done it twice as fast and provided lots more food for predators for years to come
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process.
Instead of building beaver dam analogs why not just allow beaver dams to be built again? Cheaper, easier, more efficient and better for humans and wildlife.
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process. If the landscape was left alone, eventually beavers would move back in after the vegetation had come back naturally. But it could take a very long time depending on the level of degradation. We can help get things moving and shave off decades of recovery time and BDA's are cheap to install.
I lived in Idaho when I was age 8. I was born in Europe. Idaho at the time was a very dry place. Some people thought it would become worse than arizona, hilarious 😂. You guys should try to be stronger men, and use 100 pound rocks and mud to make water-falls. I did this at a local park, and many people were trying to stop me. The rocks weren't 100 pounds, they were less than 50.
Let's get this straight. You killed all the beavers that do this to survive, but think you do it better? Bring back beaver and let nature do it's part as well.
Why not return beaver to the area? There's a thought. Let nature do the work it is meant to do. The "stream owners" and government don't actually want to restore the area. They just want pasture.
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process. This was all talked about in the video and is what they are planning for.
As they say the habitat was destroyed during the fire and not enough vegetation for the beaver to easily establish. Not like you just throw some beavers in a stream and the build all of this in a week. However what they have done here enable the beaver to move in much faster.
HAHA !!! Rich couple buy 5k acres and has the state and federal government make all the improvements to make their land more valuable.......rich keep getting richer.
how much of that money was stolen from the tax payers. and how much was there OWN money? sure great to save the land for the critters. but if it has ANY tax moneys involved it must never be behind a LOCKED gate. it should be open to the public as PUBLIC land. NOT privet cattle grazing land.
really cool to see land owners that actually take on their responsability to support wildlife.
Hope many more areas use these techniques for stream restoration, habitat revival, wildlife, restoring aquifers, farming, flood prevention and wildfire reduction.
As an ecology scientist this makes me so happy to see this!
Beavers do this for fun... And you don't have to pay them.. They could of saved tax payers money and help the environment.... But I'm no scientist
You sure are making it very beaver friendly. Beautiful work and area.
Looks more like they were putting the Beavers out of work. Pretty sad 🙁
@@tomb816 Prebuilding BDA's and other analogues like them will actually incentivize beavers to move in since they kickstart the habitat repair.
They provide pools and can give willow and other riparian vegetation a head start on the beavers, so when the beavers do move in they will have food and hiding spots pre made.
Beavers generally prefer finished habitat and avoid barren streams completely.
BDA's are temporary structures and will fail in about 10 years without repair, something beavers will do if they move into the area. 🙂
I love this project so much. I was feeling down today and saw it come up on my suggestions though I had watched it years ago. I watched it again because it is such a beautiful example of thinking people coming together and doing relatively small interventions in the right way for a huge stack of positive effects. When you draw the essence of this case, you can see how the principles can apply to so many different things. This is not only cool but inspiring and healing just to ponder on.
how refreshingly positive this presentation has been!!!!
It's fantastic to see communities rebuilding the natural environment after the wild fire. I can't tell you what joy I feel seeing you do this. It's just great - thank you guys, thank you! 🌤️🏞️🤸😊
Great opportunity to re-connect the stream to the flood plain.
Add beaver. And you needed willow plantings. You guys know this. It's in your BMP playbook
There’s another video that shows some of these areas where they’ve added some beavers
Nice work everyone !! These bring a smile to my face !
Great land owners. Thanks !!
How dare TH-cam suggest a video that might restore my faith in our future instead of further eroding it.
Haha same xD
Well done. I hope we use the same technology in California.
They should be. Where they can't keep beavers thieving that is.
They have regulations now that make it nearly impossible to restore streams and creeks anymore. If they can't make money from it it won't happen that's how corrupt our government has became.
They can't control the beaver unless they kill them, kinda like us , so good luck getting California to go along with it. It's not an immagration issue or anything to do with gun control...
never in ca, as the big water corps own the water and they want it in there privet lakes. as they then sell it to the highest bidders. or gouge the public for it.
As a GIS Student this makes me so happy to see this!
thank you... I believe that many small actions like this together are what can save our beautiful land and curb the worst effect of global heating in the long run.
You can see the habitat that the water retention in the valley is creating, suitable for more riparian species and eventually beavers. Are there cottonwood (Populus) species in this region other than aspen? You all probably know about deep planting techniques and whip plantings that work for trees in the Salicaceae family. I’d be interested in if there is suitable local eco type species for that type of planting? And what plant species you would like to see more of?
Super interesting and well produced.
The world needs more of this
Great effort and cooperation.
I really wanna see how it's doing spring 2022.
great work with universal applicability around the globe - here the quality is in the documentation of the efficacy of such primitive and even ancient methods
In Nevada they are using this technology
The N.R.C.S has been very successful with this. We have been involve with them over the last 4 years.Nothing but success. Lots of duck nesting and wilife along with improved grazing.
you guys are really inspiring! 🦁🐯🐅🐆🐴🐎🦄🦓🦌🐑🐏🐗🐖🐄🐫🦣🦏🐼🐨🐻🐿🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦫🦒🦒🦒
Prison inmates in Idaho get no credit for all the wildfires they fight, and do rehab work on those same fires.
Thanks prisoners.
Thanks prisoners for giving paying your debts back.
Some of them started them
Some should get credit
It's because you are prisoners.
Now the owners should plant 20,000 trees within 1/4 mile of the stream for the future beavers. I don't see a lot of existing trees for them.
My beavers love bamboo.
...team work to make the dream work
Are native grasses sown on the burn sites? Other species?
Great presentation of the info!
excellent work! ! !
YOU ARE HEROES!
Great work guys
can you go back here and show how it's changed.
Awesome work! Thanks 🙏
Fixing post-wildfire creek damage sounds like a growth industry.
is there an update on wild life increase?
Criticam o Brasil,mas no Brasil a lei obriga ter 30 metros de área de mata nativa ao lado de qualquer nascente ou córrego de água
Where's the beavers?
fantastic! bravo
Excellent
Beautiful view
Brilliant 👏 well done guys and girls.
Foresters in South Africa been doing similar for years
Great video ❤😊
great work!!
This is awesome. Low expense, low impact. The only concern I can see is perhaps fish passage for some fish. Bank storage may be improved by flooding.
Actually beavers and salmon have a symbiotic relationship! Salmon are very adept at jumping over beaver dams, they have been evolving together for millions of years. The beaver ponds create ideal spawning habitat by lowering stream temperatures and reducing water speed. Often times there are also small channels around the beaver dams that fish can use to get upstream. This is one of the key differences between beaver dams and the large concrete dams often made by humans for hydropower and drinking water.
What awesome land owners
Yes wish we had a lot more like them
5000@cers is a ton of land
Beavers are climate and ecosystem savers.
if water retention in the landscape is one of the key issues, why is there no water harvesting at elevation - alongside the river restoration ?
i agree
What a win.
I wonder why there is no trees on these mountains, looks like plenty of water and no trees... it is crazy
it's shrub-steppe. too dry and arid.
Have you looked into reintroduction of beavers?
What is it like now? Any update videos?
You have only bare hills now. Any chance to reforest them?
This was not a heavily forested area pre-fire. The land is continuing to recover at a much better rate than it would have without the jump start.
@@idahoconservationcommissio7335 what about adding beavers????
ex-STREAM-ly happy with the project
bdas pre fire might minimze riparian impact in the event of a fire incident
More and more of humanity is scaling Maslow's pyramid.
Think Global, Act Local
Those beavers will make lots of babies who will move in if you let them.
bring the beavers back
How do the fish get through the dams?
Jump. Just like any other obstacle.
Salmon are very adept at jumping over beaver dams, they have been evolving together for millions of years. The beaver ponds create ideal spawning habitat by lowering stream temperatures and reducing water speed. Often times there are also small channels around the beaver dams that fish can use to get upstream.
how about puting in beavers and fish
Just add beavers and you'er done!
Why not introduce beavers?
"Emerald islands in a vast cheatgrass sea"-
Sage grouse love ticks. This should prove thru time & permaculture design 2b a gr8 area for cattle & chickens to grass feed.
Re introduce beavers and then protect them. They will do the work for you!
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process.
Great
Might want to just reintroduce beaver and then not trap them into extinction.
As a landowner, I’d just be overjoyed to have someone ask me a question about how the BDA’s worked for my family. It looks like environmentalists have their way, as everywhere. I may have worked the land my entire life, slaving and saving to keep the land family-owned. Without a voice in this conversation, and at any tables where this plan was discussed, I would be just like every other western landowner: out in the gov’t agent never land with no voice nor recourse.
I'm confused, what are you trying to say? I'm assuming you are a rancher, in which case BDAs will be greatly beneficial for you by raising the water table and significantly increasing the amount of grass that is able to grow around the stream. By giving up a small percentage of your land to increase water storage capacity you will exponentially increase grass yield
Just use Beavers
Should've just reintroduced actual beavers, but neat alright
Beavers were not invited? WTF? It sometimes appears that we people of Idaho try very hard to appear more ignorant than the people of Mississippi and Missouri! Why is this?? It does appear we are quite good at it!! Best of luck to all of us!
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process. They talked about this in the video saying that beavers from nearby intact areas (not degraded) should move in as the conditions in the project area improved.
Small rivers can be cleaned from bottom sediments using a motor pump for dirty water and a suction nozzle Bagermaster. A mini dredger consisting of a motor pump and a suction nozzle allows you to deepen small rivers by removing sediment from sand and silt
It's cool, but beavers would have done it better. It's actually really funny, because they had post pounders and power tools, and it's still not really as good as what a beaver would do. Beavers flood the entire region, they don't just stack logs in a stream. Yeah, the water slows, a little, but it's not really making a pond or lake or anything. I like the idea, especially when beaver are introduced simultaneously, because it basically makes things easier on them. But I'm not sure beaver would want to live in this area, because there's not many trees.
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process.
That's somewhere around twin falls the tomato growers choice.
How do you afford to buy 5,000 acres??
They should have just brought in about 6 or 8 beavers they wouldn't of costed but what they paid one of them engineers for a day... And they would of done it twice as fast and provided lots more food for predators for years to come
What would the beaver eat? Have to have the trees first right?
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process.
Instead of building beaver dam analogs why not just allow beaver dams to be built again? Cheaper, easier, more efficient and better for humans and wildlife.
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process. If the landscape was left alone, eventually beavers would move back in after the vegetation had come back naturally. But it could take a very long time depending on the level of degradation. We can help get things moving and shave off decades of recovery time and BDA's are cheap to install.
wow. still cow-towing to cattle. congrats that they selfishly helped and gave access.
The us is a strange country. These people are creating beaver dams and other youtube videos people are blowing up beaver dams with explosives.
I lived in Idaho when I was age 8. I was born in Europe. Idaho at the time was a very dry place. Some people thought it would become worse than arizona, hilarious 😂. You guys should try to be stronger men, and use 100 pound rocks and mud to make water-falls. I did this at a local park, and many people were trying to stop me. The rocks weren't 100 pounds, they were less than 50.
Let's get this straight. You killed all the beavers that do this to survive, but think you do it better? Bring back beaver and let nature do it's part as well.
Why not return beaver to the area? There's a thought. Let nature do the work it is meant to do. The "stream owners" and government don't actually want to restore the area. They just want pasture.
Totally agree with you
In my area every beaver is killed
I've worked on beaver relocation projects. You can't just toss them into a degraded landscape. All that happens is a happy predator gets an easy meal or the beavers leave the area. Using beaver dam analogs helps reconnect the river to the surrounding floodplain which results in willows and other similar woody plants coming in. The analogs also create pools that beavers can use. Then beavers can come in and continue the work. The analogs are just jump starting the natural process. This was all talked about in the video and is what they are planning for.
Yeah you shoud also mention your animals ruined eco system. . where is no wolf there is erosion. .
it was good up until you put cows on the land and basically undid everything lol
So why the fuck aren't we just letting beavers do what beavers do naturally?
why not use umm beavers lol.
As they say the habitat was destroyed during the fire and not enough vegetation for the beaver to easily establish. Not like you just throw some beavers in a stream and the build all of this in a week. However what they have done here enable the beaver to move in much faster.
HAHA !!! Rich couple buy 5k acres and has the state and federal government make all the improvements to make their land more valuable.......rich keep getting richer.
how much of that money was stolen from the tax payers. and how much was there OWN money? sure great to save the land for the critters. but if it has ANY tax moneys involved it must never be behind a LOCKED gate. it should be open to the public as PUBLIC land. NOT privet cattle grazing land.