Our Strange Plan to Fully Rewild This River

We've got a really exciting opportunity to begin reviving this river. On Glassie Farm, part of the Northwoods Rewilding Network, we are focusing our efforts to restoring the riparian zone and all the small creatures within it. A habitat which is crucial for biodiversity and our approach to do so is quite exciting. In this episode we're gearing up to begin constructing our fake beaver dams which we hope will have a huge impact later this year.
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0:00 Intro
0:41 The Problem
5:18 Our Plan
6:19 Our Work so far
9:20 The Future
🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT
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Beavers have rightly claimed a lot of accolades in the recent rewilding movement for their central role in restoring riparian areas. The dams they engineer create habitats, filter water and help mitigate flood damage and droughts. For degraded riparian areas devoid of trees and beavers, artificial structures called Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs) are being used to mimic the effects of beaver dams. This is the case for our latest project in Scotland at Glassie Farm, a member of the Northwoods Rewilding Network (NRN). Habitat degradation, pollution and rising water temperatures are threatening a host of important native species. In partnership with River Revivers, we’re building BDAs and planting native trees and scrub to create habitat, help improve water quality, stabilise water temperature and mitigate flood damage.
Follow this link to read about the project in full on our website www.mossy.earth/projects/ripa...

[@gringopapi6985]

I been donating to Mossy Earth for 2 years and I have to say its money very well spent, not just for the work you do but the skillful way you film and storytell it. Thanks! // Proud supporter

[@ginalou5774]

Me too!

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you for having been a member for so long! It means a lot to everyone in the team and it truly is what makes all of this possible. We are the ones that are proud to have you :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@cashvendetta]

Donate to me too bro😭💀

[@Perichoresis777]

Hey Gringo, as a California native living in Scotland (and a gringo myself), thanks! Hope you can visit this area sometime.

[@zacharytaylor3632]

​@@cashvendetta so bad

[@scrandon525]

This is literally a 10 minute walk from my house- can't wait to see what you folks create! Not sure if you already know this but the forest next to it (not the plantation, the old-growth one) has Pine Martens in it, hope your work helps them!

[@hamishashcroft3233]

Bro where? I live in Aberfeldy lol

[@scrandon525]

@@hamishashcroft3233 In the forest behind Weem mate, near St David's well

[@matthewwrynn8595]

Imma walk 10 min in every direction from that point. Are visitors welcome?

[@deathmeter7243]

@@matthewwrynn8595 Dam, gl on finding them.

[@olivere5497]

Im from North Kilt town too!

[@davidmende3409]

5:40 First time seeing the mossy earth team themselves filling in the niches that the animals usually have to fill themselves 😂 so nice of you, to give them a break once in a while

[@MossyEarth]

😂😂😂😂

[@cmoakes18]

So refreshing to hear the enthusiasm from the land owner, wish there was more like him

[@osmia]

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[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

I think more would be if they knew what could be done with their land. Show any land owner a video like this, and I think they'd get very excited.

[@sahilmaniyt9064]

Please never stop making this type of videos I like small streams, beaver dams, flooding forest and everything what you upload

[@MossyEarth]

Hi Sahil! We intend to keep on going for as long as we are able to implement these projects, hopefully that is a very very long time :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@sahilmaniyt9064]

@@MossyEarth ❤

[@maxwalsh234]

look how many stumps surround the river. its incredible to see how merciless people are towards nature.

[@davidsmith8997]

@@MossyEarth Why not just import some beavers?

[@Soken50]

@@davidsmith8997 Probably because there aren't any trees there to convince them to stay so they first have to plant trees and let them grow out a bit so the area is suitable for the beavers

[@louislamonte334]

It's my greatest hope that this project is a smashing success!!! You are such an inspiration!!! Have an excellent day today, my friend!! I really look forward to the day that Scotland is rewilded and restored to its natural state!! I'm a bagpiper and I hope bagpipe ballads are written about you one day!

[@MossyEarth]

Ahh we really hope so too! Bagpipes are a seriously cool instrument so we would love some ballads written in our name. Thanks so much for encouragement! Cheers, Rob

[@nickcollins4268]

Ah sounds like you should write the Ballad of mossy earth love to see that on the channel. Sounds Bonnie to me.

[@julzhepburn3688]

Oww what good idea,,i dont play bagpipes 🎵🦋🦅🦌but i write songs ,,i will see if i get a mossy earth song come to me.,, Am in Cattalonia, have a mountain valley and a river property ,,but no money ,,, Hoping to grow food forest on the old grapes terraces,,of the river house ,,and do any planting i can to enhance the river banks,, am solo and old so hoping for help ,,but not detered without,,i live on the mountain finca with my horses,,but have water issues here ,💧🌧plenty to reclaim ,,but the river project is the future for me and will sell the mountain finca to help fund ,,the river project ,,, So so enheartened to see you guys do these projects,,,,your roots of a better way of life that is growing on this beautiful planet,,🌍🏜🏞🌄🌦🌤🍇🍅🌶🐎🦌🐗🐐🐾🪶

[@mariedeyo7399]

​@@julzhepburn3688heya maybe you could do a KZbin channel and make some money and help that way. All the best. 🖐🌻

[@the.original.throwback]

I'm 74 years old and grew up in a small town on the Yakima River in eastern Washington State, USA. The river was the central point in our lives growing up. We built rafts and a canoe from which we swam, fished, gigged bullfrogs, and just generally spent as much time as possible on the water. We witnessed the effects of pollution in our wanderings, often seeing foul smelling water flow from pipes draining the surrounding farm land into the river. I recall thinking at the time that if a person dedicated their life to the river and tracked each source of pollution to its origin and helped correct the problem, in a lifetime the river could heal and everyone would enjoy a pristine river in their community. And it seemed to my child's mind that a life dedicated to a river would be a life well spent. Now, near life's end, I still think the same. If you wish to be contented in your later years, be a river caretaker and have a life well spent.

[@TomBTerrific]

I’m 73 and went to OTI back in 1970 in Oregon. A Japanese friend of mine was from Yakima area. I believe his family owned a farm there his name was Tom unfortunately I can’t remember his last name but it was Japanese Okiama or something. He was a great foosball player. I think he had an older brother. If you know him I would love to reconnect . I’m living in Florida now. Tom Davis.

[@MotoHikes]

As a (mature, 32 y/o) environmental science student, this is exactly what I want to be doing once i've earnt my degree. You guys have the absolute dream job, and i'd love to join you one day. Thanks for being an inspiration.

[@charlespierce3647]

A future wasted life.

[@joshvines1765]

Been following your channel for about a year now, what you guys are doing is awesome. Now your here in my country making changes for the better. People like you are the reason i decided to go back to education. I'm about to conclude my first year at uni studying ecology and conservation. Which is surreal being a decade older than the other students. Carry on your inspiring adventures.

[@MossyEarth]

Ah thats so awesome. Thank you for the encouraging words, we do our best to communicate our projects here on youtube and its nice to hear that our videos have a wider impact! Best of luck with your studies. Cheers, Rob

[@falcolf]

Absolutely adore that you're doing this. I hiked 600 km of the Scottish National Trail in 2020 and I gotta agree about those conifer plantations - they are real deadzones, with the only life in them (apart from the trees,) being mushrooms and moss. They were quiet and dark, like the scary forest in Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast. They're downright creepy to be in; they just don't feel right. The uniform rows of trees are spooky in their unnaturalness and I never enjoyed hiking in these plantations; I don't believe that I ever camped in one. The natural scotch pine forests were so much friendlier so I did camp in those and it was always a big relief whenever I left a plantation far behind me. Even a local I spoke to agreed that the plantations felt creepy! Coming from a lifetime growing up in the relative biodiversity of British Columbia, Canada, I would love to see Scotland returned to a natural state someday, hopefully with some lynxes and wolves padding along after the red deer. They'd do a far better job keeping the deer in check and healthy which actually helps protect humans as wolves especially will go after deer with prion disease while their presence also helps forests grow by keeping deer on the move - protecting the riparian habitat that fish like salmon need, which keeps anglers happy downstream. Best of all, these carnivores work for free! Please keep up the great work.❤

[@MossyEarth]

Exactly! There is a lot of work to be done to bring life back to this landscape. We are doing our best and so are many others and we all hope to see some of it recover in our lifetime. - Cheers, Duarte

[@richardjones2006]

You will not be glad to hear that the SNP arè buying up sporti g estates with the intention of planting them to monoculture spruce as a carbon soak to help meet net zero. If you are a taxpayer, you will be funfding it.

[@slayorcs]

We have a very similar situation were I live in Queensland Australia with the clear felling and then burning around four decades ago of thousands upon thousands of hectares of native forest for pine tree plantations. This was not only along and between freshwater streams and rivers but also an entire marine strait. I'm very interested in this project being a somewhat burnt out and disillusioned ecologist after years of trying to make a difference here in Australia. Good luck with the project and more broadly for the reintroduction of beavers into the UK.

[@fullcircle.organics]

Sepp Holzer calls it a fir desert.. a fitting description. I live in Oregon. I used to believe the endless sea of conifers was a natural forest. It wasn't until I moved to the country that I learned our state is a big timber farm. My property was selectively logged 15 years ago and they left all the maple, hemlock, cottonwood, etc. I didn't realize how many birds I had here until I went to run my dogs in the doug fir plantations. It is eerily quiet out there.

[@emmalyondelsordo9740]

So cool to see this technique being used in other places! I was part of a project in Montana that was building beaver dams to restore riparian habitat and combat erosion. We used a succession of small dams made from native willow and pines on ours. Excited to see how yours goes.

[@Sara-eg9bc]

How did yours turn out? Can I read up on it?

[@emmalyondelsordo9740]

@@Sara-eg9bc Sure. the project I worked on was on Cottonwood Creek. There is an article from the start of the project called Re-watering the Prairie. I don't know if there has been anything published on that particular stream recently, but you can find more on the beaver dam analogs in Montana through the University of Montana and Montana Sate University. The dams have been used in a few different places in Montana and they are still studying the longer term effects of them on the streams.

[@one_field]

OMG I LOVE YOU. The beaver imitation was so unexpected and so fabulous. I snorted tea! You guys are awesome.

[@MossyEarth]

😂😂

[@conwy_water_gardens]

I have been trying to create a few dams on our short section of river, my hope is to reduce the effects of the flooding in the winter, so far I have seen positive results. As we have a lot of trees I opted for the simple method of putting large branches across the river, and allowing them to dam up naturally.

[@raerohan4241]

How does building dams help reduce flooding? I would have though it would increase it instead, since the water then spreads out all over the area instead of remaining concentrated into a single artery. Is it that, with more channels, any additional volume is divided up and so the overall levels of each channel doesn't rise much?

[@ratchet1freak]

@@raerohan4241 dams create buffer areas, so when increased inflow of water happens it can build up behind the dam and then slowly be released downstream over a larger amount of time. This reduces maximum flow of downstream river systems.

[@conwy_water_gardens]

@@raerohan4241 I am not stopping the flooding, just reducing the effects, by slowing the flow of the water it deposits material rather than washing it away.

[@absalomdraconis]

​@@raerohan4241 : In essence, it moves the flooding to areas where it's less damaging, which additionally can reduce the flood levels in down-stream areas that still flood. Also, it can sometimes result in more up-river absorption.

[@oddpotato4038]

​​@@raerohan4241it just means slowing down the flow of water. Giving time for the soil around the dam to absorb moisture it into the groundwater level. In nature this happens naturally but because of deforestation water really can't absord easily in to the ground thus all the water that comes from the rain turns in to a surface run off which then turns in to a flash floods when they converge to low areas since there's nothing to slow down the flow. Still... the effects of it varies from ecosystem to ecosystem so lots of research are needed before implementing such project.

[@matthewdavies5875]

Great work everyone! I can't wait to see this area in 2-3 years from now.

[@tony98discovery]

It's great that they restore the natural landscapes. I love seeing the lives of animals in a natural way.

[@phrayzar]

I have to admit that I had been struggling for years against a programmed prejudice that I had against "eco warriors", "tree huggers" and all of the other labels that tabloid type media have portrayed over the years. For that I feel ashamed. In time I could clearly see that what these groups were talking about was the reality of our environmental situation. These young and passionate groups are very much our key to a future that may start to end a harmful period in our existence.

[@annechapman2801]

In Australia it’s called a leaky weir developed by Peter Andrews NSF as we don’t have any types of animals that instinctually build dam walls. Great work you’re doing and great that the landowner is so keen to have it done 🤙🇦🇺

[@brauliofernandesss]

This videos get me so excited, to see that my friends and I are not alone on restoration projects, and there are people everywhere doing their best to make the planet wild again!

[@gardendeeds]

Well done Everyone. Videos are getting better and better . I must say very good demo as a joke, worked well to illustrate why we need beavers. Timeline was professional, with documentation to drive it home. All in all, Research and progress makes us sooooooooooo happy!

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you, it is really nice to hear that you see progress in our video work :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@enamulhaquenayeem10]

What you are doing is a nobel activitites. I highly appriciate & support your's effort. Thank you for thinking about the environment & the Earth.

[@relentlesslyquirky2904]

In projects like this in the USA trickle dams will be built once every 50 or 75m along large stretches of river. Maybe these projects arent so common in scotland so its harder to build multiple, but really youd want at least 4 or 5 dams to create a significant result.

[@MossyEarth]

There will be more I think. This is stage 1! - Cheers, Duarte

[@voryndagothDL]

Absolutely phenomenal to see. Hope this gets some real traction, and that the data gathered from this project can be used for even bigger re-wildling efforts in the future

[@cdogensis6392]

I literally walked the area shown in the film back in August, completely unaware that it was this project. I wish it every success. It was interesting cycling round the wider area from Aberfeldy, that for all that there is still too much over-grazing, and, (worse in my opinion), conifer plantations, there are huge areas where pine forest regeneration is taking place, e.g, around most of the roads in the area of Tummel Bridge and Schiehallion. There is hope!

[@azharkuzairy]

Flooding the forest is my favorite project and now beaver dams?! Let's go! Can't wait for the next update!

[@troyclayton]

9:15 I can hardly wait for the survey! The river I paddle regularly, here in Maine USA, is home to beavers. They don't make dams there, we did it for them (leftovers from the mill days). They just fell trees and stock larders. Thank you for doing such inspiring work to rewild impacted ecosystems. My joy in life is learning the organisms that surround me in my rural environment. Some think I'm an expert, but I know enough to know how little I know. What a blessing. Keep up the good work- I doubt I'll ever see, IRL, what my small sustaining donation is helping rebuild. And that's just fine. edit: I wish you'd at least have mentioned Leave Curious.

[@MossyEarth]

Rob (from leave curious) is now working full time with us so he is part of the team. Maybe in his next video we can shout out his channel but just so you know Rob is now part of everything we do here :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@chriskrebill1842]

To engineer like the Beaver, you have to Think, Act, and Be like the Beaver! LOL what a hoot! Thank you for another amazing video and another amazing project to save our planet! Truly inspirational!!

[@MossyEarth]

😂 Thank you for the support! - Cheers, Duarte

[@joshjansen86]

Smart approach to making the workers live like a beaver, instant success for this project

[@dog_2_]

Awesome work guys! I wish every river had an awesome team like you guys to take care of it!

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you for the kind words! - Cheers, Duarte

[@gnarmarmilla]

Mossy earth, excellent work, I love you guys. I’m so thankful for this work I almost cry tears of joy. I’m quite sure I will if your vision of a restored land comes to pass and I pray to God that it does. Man has often “waited till the harbor catches on fire before he stops dumping fuel into it.” (America didn’t start protecting waterways the way they do until our government had to deal with a serious harbor fire down south. I think this saying is a useful.) That land owner, his words are music to my ears. I am so thankful he isn’t a fool that is pathetically driven by greed so he doesn’t appreciate nature and it’s bounties. May God bless him. Hey Rob, my grandfather’s last name was McManus, his family came to New Foundland from Scotland back in the 1800’s and ended up in California. You look a lot like my cousin, mate, I’m pretty sure we are related. Ha Cheers. Yes, I have some special pride and gratitude for what you are doing here because my ancestors came from Scotland. I bet she was so beautiful and I have hope that Mossy Earth can bring much of that back. I support Mossy Earth because I love the planet and I cherish the glorious and priceless work of God. Moreover, I support Mossy Earth because you aren’t being hypocrites like the CEO of the World Wildlife Foundation, taking millions a year from donations because he wickedly compares his salary to that of other greedy and selfish executives. These people will go to hell if they don’t repent. This must stop, and I pray that you all will resist the temptation to take too much money from our donations, seeing that the planet needs this money more than you. I certainly cannot donate to such unwise people. I also pray that God will help you all to get fair and fantastic salaries while you do this invaluable work, because I love you and I hope this kind of work flourishes and becomes popular worldwide, and a highly sought after career because of how noble and fruitful it is. Please do not follow the examples of the greedy executives if donations are very great. Peace to you and may the grace of God guide you and bless you evermore. Amen

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you for the kind words of support! We agree with you, Julian is very forward thinking and it is amazing to have the chance to work with him :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@EmpireOfTheBarnacle]

Scotland is in desperate need of these projects! Thanks for this work in my country

[@antonalibio]

Don't get tired with your purposeful advocacy for our home, the mother earth. Job well done to the whole team.

[@Brubarov]

A dam to give life to our Mother Earth, not one to take it away from her. We need more people and projects like this, where our skills are used to create life, not to destroy it. I love you guys, thanks for your initiative!!

[@zander6907]

You work all over the globe and its amazing

[@yourenotwrong3511]

Yes

[@graftrebeck6837]

I am always very excited when i see a new video of you!

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you Graf! That is great to hear 😀 - Cheers, Duarte

[@user-wk4ee4bf8g]

Just starting the video. I'm immediately reminded of the time a group of friends and I decided to go play with the stream one spring in VT. We were still waiting for the warm season to fully take hold so we were all emotionally constipated and there was something so satisfying about changing the water with rocks, sticks, and leaves. The snow melt floods had made all sorts of changes, moved silt, clpgged stuff. It was lovely to lightly play with that new shape, use drops to create new pools, all sorts of stuff. I've done it more since and it's surprisingly resilient after heavy rains if you do the work when the water is high in the first place. Nature always wipes it away eventually, but the tools are still right there to play with. It was always surprising how good leaves are at sealing things up. Rocks are the main shape, branches are like a tensile web, and autumn leaves form the seal and sediment filter. We had no idea what we were doing at the time, but it was easy, natural.

[@mistingwolf]

I just love the idea of rewinding places that humans have been in, used, and discarded. I live in Minnesota, USA, and I can't tell you how it saddens me drive for hours only to see hundreds on hundreds of miles of farmland with tiny spits of woods that only remain to make sure another Dustbowl is prevented (though the last few years, more and more trees are being taken down from those sections, so it's only a matter of time).

[@timurozkurt5239]

Great work team, especially Ellie for getting this off the ground. Can’t wait to see how the dams have an impact

[@indyreno2933]

Beavers are rodents that constitute the family Castoridae, there are two living beaver species within a single extant genus, which are the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) and the American Beaver (Castor canadensis), beavers had been far more diverse in the fossil record, with many smaller prehistoric beavers that looked like ground squirrels known to create spiral burrows, many primitive beaver genera like Palaeocastor have been known to do this, beavers are part of the suborder Sciuromorpha (Squirrel-Like Rodents), which also groups them with the squirrels, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, anomalures, springhares, dormice, and the mountain beaver, the Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is not actually a beaver despite its name, the mountain beaver is the sole extant representative of the family Aplodontiidae and is a rather more basal squirrel-like rodent, compared to others like dormice, springhares, anomalures, squirrels, beavers, gophers, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and kangaroo mice, the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) is known for being the largest rodent native to the Old World and the largest of the squirrel-like rodents.

[@Oba936]

Hahaha, I'm loving the "Become the beaver"-Part. As always, a wonderful presentation of your work. Thanks a lot!

[@jeremyowen1]

I was in a pretty low place for a fairly long time. Decided one day last summer to head out to the local river and fish to clear my thoughts. Water was low so I had to wade. I fell in love with it. We're incredibly fortunate to have sections of our rivers designated as Environmentally Significant Areas. A mystical forest surrounded by a concrete jungle. I'd like to look into what I can do here in Canada to help improve and preserve our precious ecosystems. Might be time for a career change. I'm incredibly thankful there's people out there like you guys and I can only hope more take inspiration from Mossy Earth. Excited to start following along.

[@GBGinmyheart]

You should put the project site name in the thumbnail. It would make it easier to follow the projects over time, and would certainly get me more excited about watching a video in my feed, as I'd know it's an update I've awaited.

[@MossyEarth]

Maybe we can use a “series title” at the end of the title? Or also use playlists what do you think? Also if you hit the little bell next to the subscribe button you will get notified for every new video :) - cheers, Duarte

[@GBGinmyheart]

@@MossyEarth Personally I have more subscriptions than I have time to watch, and pick mostly based on what titles and thumbnails make it seem worth it. Putting it in the title could work if the title isn't too long already. On some views in the mobile app, for instance when looking at videos in the channel view, the title cannot be too long before getting cut off. In the sub feed this shouldn't be a problem however. Playlists are great for catching up, but not great for updates. I'm no expert on this, but I know how I operate :)

[@Hannah-vt7lc]

​@@MossyEarth yes, putting in the title would be great. Best would be at the start. Something like Glassie farm 2 | 'title of video'.

[@spikewillow4552]

Cant say how much I love what you guys are doing ! Thank you

[@AnotherDuck]

I like that you portray regulations and bureaucracy as something positive rather than something that just slows things down. There's a reason those exist, and in the end they help with managing projects like these properly.

[@dominusetdeus060644]

Your beaver impression was spot on lol

[@MossyEarth]

😂😂

[@samirataubmann]

Wow! This is amazing 🙌🏻 you‘re doing such a fantastic job, thank you!

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you Samira! - Cheers, Duarte

[@JackMellor498]

I’m all for the rewilding of the UK, it could help not only restore landscapes to their former look, but increase massively the biodiversity making it better for everything involved, as you guys proved here. Great stuff!

[@Yormsane]

It's so good to see the young 'uns out in the field, tackling important habitat-rebuilding projects like these. The kids are alright!

[@jarnecolman4761]

Will there be (and have there been, for other projects) any case studies on your projects published highlighting the successes and perhaps failures of certain methods and trials?

[@MossyEarth]

We have a monitoring schedule in place for each project and will add updates to the timeline of each project page on our website. The feature is new so we still need to populate some of the older data but that will be the place to go. Results based conservation and rewilding is very important, otherwise its just shooting in the dark. Oh and if you are wondering if we share our failures you will find a video we are releasing in a few weeks quite interesting.- Cheers, Duarte

[@jarnecolman4761]

@@MossyEarth Science and result based conservation is indeed very important, but not always common practice sadly enough. Many projects in my area (Belgium) just do things because they think it’s the right way or because others do so and not because it’s the best or even a good way of doing things. Also nice to hear that there is something about failures coming up, in science in general there is way too little focus on learning from failures and way too much focus on “positive” results.

[@Ghost-Mama]

Thank you 🙏🏻 for the wonderful work that you are doing!! It is much appreciated!!

[@LeaveCurious]

I’m going to have to channel my inner beaver more often. Great project and really looking forward to see this one unfold :)

[@Lone-Lee]

😂 Can't wait to see an update on your construction.

[@liannarivas9206]

Can't stop smiling at your beaver impressions. Thank you for making the day a little brighter and for saving the river. L in oregon.

[@Yo_MehH]

bro this video from wich country ?

[@boombot934]

Please🙏🌍 keep the good work! You people are so💪 encouraging!

[@M_O.O_N]

Scotland looks like it should have wooly mammoths walking around 🦣 next project??👀

[@MossyEarth]

😂 if the lynx is controversial imagine that 😂 - Cheers, Duarte

[@krose6451]

5:30 the beaver acting! I laughed so long and so hard I had to pause the video. I sent myself into ancoughing fit!

[@MossyEarth]

😂 Rob really went for it 😂 - Cheers, Duarte

[@connormatthews522]

Love stumbling through youtube and finding something super interesting and totally unexpected. Thank you Mossy Earth and co

[@CausticLemons7]

The work you do is pure feel good material! Thank you for making a difference.

[@kehenabeach4418]

It’s sad that the ones who created this destruction never have to pay to repair it! Gold miners are starting to have to make the land right after destroying it! Lumber companies should have to as well! I am glad there’s groups such as yourselves to make it right!

[@williamdrijver4141]

You guys are doing absolutely fantastic work!

[@MossyEarth]

Ah thank you William, its really encouraging to hear this as we work hard to deliver the projects and make these videos. Cheers, Rob

[@yourenotwrong3511]

Thank you.

[@thtkp5]

I love earth healing projects. Love you people. Keep it up.

[@umeysac.panjaitan4703]

I've just known that land near river can be own by people (not government). Planting trees near river is a nice step to do since it'll prevent the erosion. What a nice work to do mossy earth & team!! Will wait for the dam result

[@PaulCoxC]

I reckon you were a beaver in a previous life Rob ;) great video, looking forward to seeing this progress

[@MossyEarth]

I have to say it felt incredibly natural, but I don't know about only eating bark, twigs and leaves though Paul... Cheers, Rob

[@standardannonymousguy]

Totally subscribed. Interested in the future updates on the land projects. Excellent work and discussion!

[@MossyEarth]

More updates coming your way soon! We have some exciting projects in the works ;) - Cheers, Duarte

[@buzzabuzza3494]

Superb work and thanks to the wonderful landowner for allowing this to happen👏👏

[@HomeSlice97]

5:28 an essential part of the process. I’m glad to see that Mossy Earth takes a big-picture approach!

[@emilyarchibald1900]

Its fantastic how much you guys are doing! ❤

[@Yo_MehH]

which country is this?

[@UBERKalti]

Bless you Julian

[@MossyEarth]

Bless him indeed. A very nice man that wants to do good by the land! - Cheers, Duarte

[@aLfPlaysGames]

This is amazing. I'm a huge fan in Maryland, USA. I do a lot of community litter cleanups and recently I did some volunteer work for the Magothy River Association where we caged off certain trees to protect from our beavers. It was such fun and rewarding work. Take care. :)

[@WILLIE4104]

Earth needs more people like you❤

[@stuartmorgan101]

I love beaver dam analogues and everytime I'm in the highlands I think it's such a disappointment how dry the land is due to the amount of incised streams. The fairy pools on the isle of Skye are a perfect example of it!

[@matthew3136]

Def need more than one though. the more the better.

great to see the progress and all these new projects! #mossyfamily

[@PaulCoxC]

I love this hashtag

@@PaulCoxC its like a world wide family supporting diversity all over the world. ♥️

[@MongoHallo]

I live in a «big» City in Switzerland, where the beaver has taken back small streams. Throughout the last 4 years the beaver family here has made few dams, and the small straight stream developed to a solid, wild stream that has its natural curvy form. also, now we have even fish in the stream

[@treeman5263]

I love to see people that are smart know what they’re doing and actually care about nature.

[@GerardMeijssen]

Beaver Dam Analogs is a big thing in North America. There is much literature, how to guides. Main thing is that you do not build one but many.. they are allowed to fail

[@MossyEarth]

This is stage one! More work coming after this. :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@alexpotter9998]

I live in the UK and would love to help build the dam.

[@MossyEarth]

Hi Alex, you should look for projects in your area to get involved in. There is always something you can do! - Cheers, Duarte

[@samday6621]

Good on you people! I’m in Australia, where willow is a weedy problem in our rivers. I trust, with the help of your experts, you are planting local native species and paying attention to the order of succession. (planting the pioneer species that quickly establish and provide protection and stability for longer lasting species of plants.) I’ve subscribed and look forward to the project’s development, the owner’s joy of hearing the wildlife return as well as the health of the river. This needs to happen the world over.

[@thesilentone4024]

You should use some rocks to help reduce the amount of wood being used.

[@MossyEarth]

Noted, thanks :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@MrT_Rex]

Nice project, lads !!

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you Mr. T Rex! - Cheers, Duarte

[@MrT_Rex]

@@MossyEarth 👍

[@nickcollins4268]

My kind of people. You gotta love the big smiles at end of video. Keep up the good work!

[@MossyEarth]

Thank you Nick! We appreciate the support and will keep it up! - Cheers, Duarte

[@tross]

Learned about how the"acid flushes" from pine or commercial conifer plantations, effect the stream and what the ecosystem can hold. Would imagine there's money being made growing those trees, that may be, a whole different story. Appreciate the cheery focus on the neat environments the team is working to restore. Brilliant storytelling.

[@Twitch760]

The farmer is a great steward of his land.

[@MossyEarth]

Indeed! One of many projects he is undertaking. A pleasure to work with people like Julian! - Cheers, Duarte

[@maxgerstberger7216]

A lot of the images shown here sadly reminds me of New Zealand where I'm currently travelling through, a lot of the country is just gras without a tree in sight, even next to the numerous small streams there is no wild life at all just "dead" water, grass and a lot of sheep or cows

[@MossyEarth]

Having spent 9 months in New Zealand I can relate. Its such a shock, especially in the north island and the eastcoast of the south island. - Cheers, Duarte

[@iainmackenzieUK]

Brilliant! Thanks for the update - genuinely exciting

[@N000-reply]

Fantastic content like always. Hats of to Julian for allow this kind work on his land hopefully more land owners will follow suit

[@thor.halsli]

Me and my dad are planing to do this our self at the family farm this early summer :) The farm is in Rissa Norway

[@MossyEarth]

Ah thats so cool! Let us know how it goes please! Cheers, Rob

[@AcHiM1421]

You should do a project together with Everwave ❤

[@MossyEarth]

Hmmm this is something that we will look into, thanks for the suggestion. Rob

[@frenchys_prospecting]

Mossy earth is what got me into permaculture and zero waste living. Please never stop uploading.

[@MossyEarth]

That’s really cool! Zero waste is hard to keep up so good for you. Pleased we could an inspiration. Cheers, Rob

[@frenchys_prospecting]

@@MossyEarth it’s definitely hard and I haven’t perfected it yet but it’s fun trying. Cheers

[@Psychic_Liesl]

Awesome work I love this kind of stuff And thanks for including the Timeline - That helps us to get a true understanding of how long some things take Plus it keeps us excited

[@ariavachier-lagravech.6910]

Thank you for your hard work, I hope this project would succeed and inspire others to restore the environment as well. I hope one day I could contribute by joining memberships but alas I am a broke uni student currently 😭😭

[@dickdastardly5534]

I live near the Brecon Beacons and there is a need for this approach there as the land has been denuded of everything from over grazing and no deciduous trees only strips of conifer plantations. I often wonder what the land used to look like before massive sheep farming.

[@louisgreen3071]

How would I go about spending some of my summer holidays volunteering with you all?

[@MossyEarth]

We are working on some ideas… It’s hard to find what to do with logistics etc but we have some plans in the works. - Cheers, Duarte

[@louisgreen3071]

@@MossyEarth Okay, do you have any contact details for me to go to closer to the time?

[@limez7440]

Brilliant! More work like these can actually help to revitalize our Earth. Keep it up guys, appreciate your efforts a lot!

[@nainasingh4780]

God bless you

[@jasonbaker2126]

I bet the forests and streams there used to be amazing. It will take centuries to regenerate. It's easier to keep something nice than it is to fix it once it's been destroyed.

[@MossyEarth]

Time to start then I suppose :) - Cheers, Duarte

[@kierancotter2382]

This type of landscape and Habitat is very similar to where my father's farm is in Ireland. Its giving me an insight into what could be done on our land here!

[@jasonjay6130]

Hey Rob! I love that you're working with Mossy earth now. I've followed your Leave curious channel for a good while & even have a t-shirt! Keep up the good work.

[@samdahlberg4224]

Hey Mossy Earth, I just want to share how happy these videos make me. I am really invested in the changes we have made in the planet, and for the most part everything you learn about is very very grim and depressing (because we have messed up so much of the world). But your videos do such a great job of bringing optimism and hope surrounding these topics, and show real changes. Just thank you for that. Hopefully soon I will be able to support you all On a side note, at 6:35 you mention various trees planted that work well in the area. Are all these plants native? And in general do you try to stick to native plants in the areas you work? Just curious 😊

[@DuncanPepper]

We make sure it’s native and more than this, that the seed is sourced from the local area.

[@MossyEarth]

Hi Sam! We really appreciate the kind words. Duncan here is the person you saw in the video planting all the trees and he already answered the question. However, I can add that in all our other projects we have worked so far only with native species. The only exception would be Iceland where we want to bring back some species of alder that used to be there before the last glaciation and currently could help local biodiversity. - Cheers, Duarte

[@samdahlberg4224]

@@DuncanPepper Thanks Duncan, and great work on the project!

[@samdahlberg4224]

@@MossyEarth Thanks for the in depth response! You all are the best

[@ragnarokk2788]

That’s what we are doing in the states

[@MossyEarth]

Yeah its really cool to see these types of interventions getting more popular! Cheers, Rob

[@jackiea8274]

Gosh so glad KZbin recommended your video. Love what you’re doing!

[@William-Morey-Baker]

this is legitimately a dream job for me... like, dam... it couldn't be more perfect.

[@Alepoudiitsa]

as long as it is done right here the wolfs have become to many with nothing to keep them on check and what do the eat? ppl sheeps not the wild bores not the dears

[@BarginsGalore]

This is Scotland. There are no wolves

[@ZAR556]

Rejunevate Earth before Terraform Mars

[@MossyEarth]

Yea exactly, there’s still a lot more work to be done on Earth! Cheers, Rob

[@ZAR556]

@@MossyEarth Great Works y'all I'll donate when I have the chance ❤️