Ohh California, big hole valley, hooked avenue. Maybe in your title you should let viewers know what state it's inn ?
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee19 күн бұрын
The title is "Big Hole Valley: Connecting People and Place in Montana".
@jacopolavina9359Ай бұрын
👍🏼👍🏼
@ryanscott6422 ай бұрын
So much of the land appears to be denuded, likely for ranching. No wonder there's no water.
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee3 күн бұрын
Ranchers get a lot of blame for resource degradation and some of it is well-deserved depending on specific land management practices. But taking ranchers off the landscape, they'll likely be replaced by subdivision, septic systems and kentucky bluegrass. Cattle ceased using the area we restored because of how overstocked the forest is. Downed trees from a pine beetle outbreak make it really hard to access. The private ground downstream pastures cow/calf pairs and yes, pretty hammered. We installed over 100 beaver mimicry structures on their place to help charge up the groundwater. We attribute much of the depletion of water in the area to the overstocked forest that has not been managed well for decades. Its complicated.
@jonathanrossroberts2 ай бұрын
Very nice!
@monida553 ай бұрын
I applaud the efforts being featured here in the Big Hole, but the comment made at 04:05 asserting that all the beaver had been removed from these waterways by the time Lewis and Clark got there is ludicrous. Lewis and Clark returned to the east in 1806. In 1805 Francois Antoine Larocque a French Canadian working for the North West Company explored the Yellowstone River drainage mostly trying to establish relations with the local tribes in SE Montana. Not until David Thompson and others of the North West Company established posts west of the Divide near Libby and Thompson Falls in 1808 and 1809 respectively did fur trapping take off. Then from 1810 - 1840, additional fur companies like the Hudson's Bay Company, the American Fur Company and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company were instrumental in taking most of the beaver.
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee3 күн бұрын
You are totally correct! Its the one regret we have about this film. that was an overstatement. Hope you liked the rest of film and our attempts to reintroduce the function of the beaver to the landscape!
@OublietteTight4 ай бұрын
1000 thumbs up! Can you reintroduce beaver next?
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee3 ай бұрын
The State is working on a plan to allow for beaver translocation. Currently not possible due to regs so we act like beaver until they take over!
@chugachocho4 ай бұрын
Where are the beavers 🦫☘️?
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee3 күн бұрын
Exactly! The beaver had left the area decades ago. Likely elk moved into their area and depleted their food supplies (willow, aspen) along with the forest encroaching on the aspen stands and shading them out. We simply plugged up the existing beaver dams in hopes to re-grow the riparian shrubs they need for food, and hopefully, one day, will bring them into the area to take over!
@koholohan34785 ай бұрын
Time to pop in a bunch of willow, birch, aspen, etc cuttings and whips, then introduce beavers eventually. I suppose maybe they're still there and will move into these improved areas?
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee3 күн бұрын
That's the hope. We're trying to get the habitat set for beaver to want to move in. Or, when MT allows beaver relocation, we take some nuisance beaver up there to a new home!
@user-ud1te2ys4n5 ай бұрын
この草原で植林活動を行うべきです‼️
@RickC-1386 ай бұрын
“Battery dies”
@user-we2bk6qb3n6 ай бұрын
Big egos did it.
@jayk.22766 ай бұрын
I thought Montana didn’t stock fish??
@petesteensen33927 ай бұрын
I love staying and fishing this river
@petesteensen33925 ай бұрын
Not me. FOff
@TheNightwalker2478 ай бұрын
One structure does this amazing effekt. Imagine if america had it's originsl beaver population back how much more water there would be year round
@vigouroso8 ай бұрын
Hahaha the name of yer committe!
@Gfthce34269 ай бұрын
This is so refreshing to hear the environmentalists using ranching as a tool too maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
@Tupunaforever9 ай бұрын
pretty amazing
@gregknipe877210 ай бұрын
stop trapping beaver.
@user-zh1xj7my1h10 ай бұрын
Beaver re-introduction time! Beed to add some food trees by all those little dams.
@krakca10 ай бұрын
How about just fencing off certain areas so trees can grow and not get digested by livestock and reintroduce beavers?
@jamesrollins432810 ай бұрын
I was looking forward to this video, but I have to say that I was quite disappointed. You missed the chance to provide narration that would have explained what we’re seeing and how it represents the improvement, and provide a vision of what the whole thing will look like in a few years (I know it’ll look better with time). For someone like me who is not familiar with the area or the way it looked pre-project, it may be difficult to visualize how what we’re seeing here consists of improvement. 1. Was the wiggly stream on the right previously straight and incised, but now slowed down with meanders? 2. Are the thin strips of water going right to left just the first stage of spreading water over the previous desolation? 3. Another commenter has already asked about what’s going on with all the matchstick trees. I applaud all the work and planning that went into this project, and concur with other commenters that a follow up would be great. I just think that by not providing history and context via narration, you diminished the impact of your video. Please keep up the good work.
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee10 ай бұрын
You're totally right! This was one of our first videos from when we were just starting our KZbin channel. Definitely a missed opportunity here. We will look into adding some narration and/or doing a follow up video. Thank you for your comment. (If you are interested in our work, check out some of our other videos. Some of them DO have narration.)
@russellringland139910 ай бұрын
Get the Beavers back on the land. Anything else is a huge waste of manpower and cash. They're just farting around if they're not bringing Beavers in to do the work.
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee3 ай бұрын
Current Montana regs don’t allow moving beaver into an area. Hence our work. But we’re heading in that direction, setting the habitat up for them
@russellringland13993 ай бұрын
@@BigHoleWatershedCommittee Can beavers walk over the border into Montana? Or do they have to check in with the DNR. I'm surprised the environmentalists don't have bigger balls out there. Bring them in and don't mess with the B.S. The destruction was quick. The restoration should also go quickly. Are you planting several thousand trees a year? B/C that's how many the beavers will need.
@relentlessmadman10 ай бұрын
re-introduce real beaver???????????
@1voluntaryist11 ай бұрын
It seems Non-Profits have been crippled by regulations. Why? Is this fearful state agencies that want job security, a monopoly? If they can stop restoration on private lands, private property rights are being violated. Is the fundamental problem political, e.g., authoritarianism? It is internationally. Is America infected? If so, I say stop it by "Striking at the Root of the Problem".
@41divad11 ай бұрын
For years drainage in Calif was get the water into concrete and rid of eat. What a disaster. Now every project hss to hold some water... the more the better. Making progress
@warrenwalker817011 ай бұрын
beavers
@deepwaters233411 ай бұрын
You see this a lot in Colorado, and it is beatiful!!!
@dundonrl11 ай бұрын
Talk about holding back the water for later in the year, yet "environmentalist" want to remove the 4 lower dams on the Snake river that hold back FAR more water than all the beaver dams in Montana!
@moroteseoinage11 ай бұрын
Conservation is for soy boy liberals
@Powerviolenc311 ай бұрын
No its not you sissy. conservatives needwater more than any soyboy city
@222Wanderlust11 ай бұрын
How about reintroducing the beaver?
@burtlangoustine111 ай бұрын
Plant ancient grasses with long tap roots, this will fill the natural wells within the hillsides BENEATH the soils, halting drying out and draining-out of the topsoils. Re-introduce Beaver and stop playing God with all the tech and machinery. Its cheaper to let nature back-in, than use the digggers etc
@BrokefishN11 ай бұрын
Have you added beavers back into the mix yet? They are the masters of holding back water all we have to do is plant what they like to eat. and that's not just trees.
@ronstewart454511 ай бұрын
The question is, where did the beaver go?
@normanzurich278111 ай бұрын
Les pays les plus polluants au monde c’est les États Unis 🇺🇸 et la Chine 🇨🇳 Ensuite vient l’internet 😮😮😮
@toddfarthing876011 ай бұрын
Beavers!
@GotoHere11 ай бұрын
The ranchers trapped and killed the beavers. They are the culprits in this environmental disaster.
@the_lost_navigator726611 ай бұрын
Projects like this are vital for our future. Well done.
@costaht11 ай бұрын
Sorry my stupid question but, why not just reintroduce beavers into those areas?
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee3 күн бұрын
State of Montana currently doesn't allow for beaver relocation. They are working on it. Once these restored areas have the appropriate habitat that's exactly what happens next. these things take time!
@atruefreethinker194411 ай бұрын
these are good stewards of the planet. thank you.
@banishedvideos101411 ай бұрын
"Im a Rancher and it took 4 generations to realize I shouldn't have shot those beaver" why do farmers always know so much about farming and care so so little for nature?
@banishedvideos101411 ай бұрын
Herbicides and pesticides, Fertilizer in rivers, cattle trampling forests, Shooting all local wildlife, Mono cultures, rarely changing crop,GMO , Enclosure of nature. While i get that all these things are required for modern agriculture, I hardly even see farmers attempting to use them sustainability.
@tyronewashington23011 ай бұрын
kek, "The most important thing we do is work with mother nature". By making methane farms?
@tyronewashington23011 ай бұрын
Wetlands are a significant source of methane pollution, a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential twenty-five times that of carbon dioxide. The average time it takes for methane to be naturally oxidized into carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is about 9 years. Maybe change the logo to Big Hole heating the planet by 25x normal for 25 years.
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee11 ай бұрын
Ecology is not zero sum. Yes, more organics are broken down in wetlands, thereby releasing more methane than a parallel system without wetlands. But wetlands also are visited by 80% of the species in the West-- so they are vital for most wildlife in the West. What would you have us do, then? Destroy all wetlands to save on methane? Simplifying complex ecological processes and inter-related biophysical factors does not help anything.
@atlashammercock958211 ай бұрын
Love it very cool thank you for your efforts must be incurably rewarding work!
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee11 ай бұрын
Thanks!!!! Our small staff of 3 and all the contractors we use take great pride in this work. It is making a difference, albeit small in site-specific, but a positive difference nonetheless!
@pluki135711 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video. It's amazing how beautyfull it is out there! 😍 It was also very interesting to see (from a far away - Poland ) how social interactions work there. Lots of wise words in this video. A lot to learn from. P.S. Even from that grain of hipocricy that could be sensed at some moments. 😉
@NathanaelMallow11 ай бұрын
Reduce population through attrition a cessation of births all efforts will be for naught if we don't bring down the human population.
@tyronewashington23011 ай бұрын
I agree, you should have not children. Just you though. lel
@NathanaelMallow11 ай бұрын
@@tyronewashington230 That wouldn't work 9.3 billion people on the planet the law of cause and effect is absolute in the past 50 years 73% of all plant and animal life has gone extinct the law of reincarnation will see to it that we do reap what we sow. ... well good times ahead I guess.
@guerillagardener223711 ай бұрын
Well I know what my grandad might say, finally the crazy white man understands mother nature is the true wealth.
@tyronewashington23011 ай бұрын
Crazy white man learned crazy big wetland methane farms to defeat mother nature with heat.
@jameshuff624811 ай бұрын
release the beavers!
@simplyamazing88011 ай бұрын
bring back the beavers.
@verilliumfunk488611 ай бұрын
Im the 1000th subscriber! love your work from CA!
@BigHoleWatershedCommittee11 ай бұрын
Wooohoooo!!!!! THANK YOU! We'll be working this winter on improving our channel now that we can monetize! Thanks so much
@verilliumfunk488611 ай бұрын
@@BigHoleWatershedCommittee I have been visiting big sky since I was a kid, and I am thinking about moving to Montana one day! Are there things I can do with a parcel of land near a river?