Water on your mind?

The Rewilding COP and the Global Landscapes Forum are back with the upcoming event on Rewilding Waterways: Restoring Nature's Flow.

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Join us for a fascinating look everything that encompasses rewilding waterways: dam removals, the use of water in regenerative agriculture and preserving biodiversity along the world's rivers.

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You will hear great speakers like Permanick founder Nick Steiner, who transformes water cycles for regenerative landscapes, Lena Hommes, a PhD researcher in political ecology and water governance from Wageningen University and ecologists and Biking4Biodiversity founders Hanna Öllös & Jonas Sommer.

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Date: 28th November 2023

Time: 16.00 CET, 15.00 GMT and 7.00 PST

Event duration: 90min

Get your (free) ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-waterways-restoring-natures-flow-tickets-754701471417?aff=oddtdtcreator

I've got 8 acres of forest and the understory has been decimated by deer.

Aside from a little Christmas tree fern, and some invasives, there's very little growing under the canopy.

Many have suggested "thinning the herd" myself but I'm honestly not up for it.

I'm curious if any of you have experience dealing with a similar situation.

I've heard coyotes in the area so I've wondered if it's possible to encourage a den or two out back, and maybe this would help decrease the impact of deer on my understory.

I've also read suggested methods of deterring deer using electric fencing, gradually expanding the area over time.

From experience, would you suggest the electric fence approach or building some cozy coyote dens, or both? Any experience with this?

Edit: I'll have to figure out if there's a spot I could legally have a bow hunting stand. Rifle is definitely illegal in my area but if there's a spot at least 250ft from any houses it would be legal to let someone bow hunt.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/26/a-joy-to-watch-uk-rewilding-brings-endangered-species-back-from-brink

Many success stories focus on the big projects. It is heartwarming to see that small-scale efforts can make a big difference too.

I live in far Southwestern Colorado and have lived in a few different places in the Rockies. There are at least 6 National Parks and Monuments in the mountain half of the state as well as over 13 million acres of National Forest and even more acres of BLM lands. To an outsider, much of this part of the state may seem fairly "wild" as it stands. That being said, there are probably a lot of opportunities for rewilding. The main one of these, I would think, would be riparian restoration. There are quite a few places where riverbanks have been damaged by grazing, development, mining, and more. Depending on the location, this could mean establishing native vegetation, improving fish habitat, and re-establishing natural river flow. Here's an example of a riparian restoration project in the Arkansas Valley.

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Some other things that rewilding could mean in Colorado:

- Removing defunct dams

- Reintroducing wolves (already underway)

- Protecting elk migration corridors and building wildlife bridges in prime locations

- Promoting native plant growth in places that have been damaged by overgrazing and cheatgrass invasion.

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What else?

I have 11 acres of ash woodland in the south west of England planted by my father all infected with die back. Sad as it is to see those beautiful trees rotting before my eyes, I see it as an opportunity to turn it into a little rewilding project, there is a public walkway tucked in one corner but most of it is empty of people. The trouble is I am broke and ignorant, I would love to commit my time to doing this but dont know how to go about it. I will obviously do plenty of research but i thought it would be nice to ask you lovely people what to do, is there a way to raise money for it? Do i need money or should I do as little as possible? I would love to do things like putting up bird boxes and digging a pond but really I'm in the dark

Great read highlighting both the positive and negative of Nature taking back what humans have previously been "managing"

Link: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41235349.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Do you live in Ireland or know anyone who do? What's your take or their take on this?

Cheers

I've recently moved into my grandfather's old house with a 1.2 acre lot. I'm not a big fan of the ecological dead zone that is the modern lawn, so I'm trying to expand the one patch of useful pollinator brush located on the property. It's located on an access path cut by the utility to service the poles at the back of the property.

Surrounding this nice patch is overgrown brush and closely mowed lawn. My plan is to thin out the brush to just the decently mature trees and try to spread the pollinators to the cleared area. What's the best way to do this? First thought was to just cut the brush, mulch it onto the site, and cut down some pollinators to shake over the mulch. Thoughts?

Pollinators

More Pollinator pics

Scrub brush at edge of the lawn

You can see some mature trees interspersed in the brush

So I’ve recently got an acre of distressed forest in NJ that I’m trying to rewild. Tons of invasive, etc. In addition to already planting a dozen or so native trees, what I’ve started doing next is just browsing for native trees that are sprouting, and fencing them on with wire so the deer can get ‘em. It’s been fun and I think fairly successful so far. Anyways, yesterday I saw a few seedlings of honey locus. Their native range comes pretty close https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gleditsia_triacanthos_range_map.jpg Any thought on them? Is the range close enough that, along with climate change, they are considered naturalized and/or beneficial here? Or should I rip out?