Trees and hedgerows lost at Irthlingborough Lakes but there's a good reason
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Walkers around Irthlingborough Lakes area are worried about areas within the WildLife Trust nature reserve have been cleared of trees and vegetation. I walk from Wellingborough to Irthlingborough in the rain to go and investigate. Seems there is a good reason for doing this work which appears to be devastating area.
The work being carried out is fully explained in the video and I hope the information in the video explains it all in a way that calms down the legends that protect our green spaces by highlighting such issues.
My only grievance is that with all the flooding we have recently gone through and are still going through, the animals are displaced as it is. Let alone with this drastic change on top of the flooding. Timing is a bit off in my eyes. What's your thoughts?
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The reason why it would be carried out now is because it will be breeding season soon (especially with this unseasonably mild weather) and they would obviously not be doing any felling or large scale clearing of understory during that period of time. I agree it looks devastating, but you have to remember that the UK use dot be home to elephants and bison (and I'm sure you can imagine what kind of devastation those two once made together!). That tree in the river will be excellent for fish to take cover and breed in!
The timing is unfortunate with the flooding, but in truth the wildlife that would be affected by the flooding will not generally be anymore disturbed now by the felling and clearing. There may have been some hibernators disturbed, but I would expect the Wildlife Trust made sure to minimise this and to work around anything they might suspect to be a hibernacula (that is somewhere an animal is hibernating).
I don't know about the Wildlife Turst being a bully, after all there are few real sancutuaries for wildlife in the modern UK landscape and even the most considerate of us make a lot more disturbance that we might realise. I do think that the Wildlife Trust need to be much better at communicating with people however, I know it seems counterintuitive to the devastating deforestation that is happening around the world, but conservation is about a lot more than planting trees! (As much fun and and rewarding as that may be). They don't get paid much in the Wildlife Trust, and I wouldn't think these places would be brought with wildlife in mind by anyone else unfortuntely.
Hope this dispells some of the heartache of seeing all those trees down, conservation can seem more like devastation sometimes and whilst I'm aware there are probably places where it isn't done quite as thoughtfully as it should be, the overall effect will be positive for wildlife in the long term!
First of all I must thank you for the time you have given to comment and secondly... WOW!!!! Facts galore. The only timing that is off like I said is the flooding situation. This is felling season as the trees lay dormant in the cold months. If fact the time to fell trees really is now as like you said it's strangely mild out there. The Ash die back I knew about but the coppicing I am a little unsure of, I just don't know enough to give a professional side of the story. Yh wildlife trust have to be bullies. I suppose bully is the wrong word for it. Dominant over the land the hold is more appropriate. Anyway thank you once again and I've pinned this comment to the top for all to see. Kind regards Purps
Exactly and for coppicing to work you have to do it when the sap is in the roots not the branches and leaves.. Sap will be rising next month and no more coppicing, pollarding or hedgelaying until October at the earliest.
Purple vision....if you are saying you don't know much about coppicing etc then why make irresponsible comments about wildlife trust? Causes bad feeling and stirs up discontent. My husband is a volunteer for WT. They are doing a terrific job.
its so hard to stay positive in such a negative world.keep up the good work dave
It's all about perspective. The feelings start to change when information starts to hit the mind. Thanks for watching
Also worth noting the site is a SSSI, a lot of the discontent from Irthlingborough Folks seems to be over the plans for a Dogs on Leads rule to be brought in, mainly I believe to stop rampaging dogs disturbing Ground Nesting Birds.
Dogs on Leads is a sensible policy in sensible areas. The only people with an issue shouldn’t be allowed to own pets.
Thanks for this purple. 👍 I did see you down the lakes waiting for a bus and wondered what you'd been up to.
😂 spotted
thanks dave.
You're most welcome. Always happy to spread the knowledge
Cheers Purple, very interesting this time around. I’m playing catch up with your vids so don’t write me off!.
No worries Paul. In your own time bud. Just enjoy 😊
great video and good to see someone else angry about their actions. it's heartbreaking to see the destruction and decimation under the thinly veiled 'ash dieback'. as you noted many are well back from the path and no threat to anyone, not to mention the fact they look perfectly healthy! the loss of habitat is really sad. there have been a few instances of people rescuing deer stuck in fences/barbed wire they've erected :( some are now sadly penned in between rising water levels and these abnormal structures in their environment. another side effect of this constant 'work' is the overuse of vehicles and machinery, churning up the ground making it unpleasant for walkers/cyclists/buggys etc. finally....don't even get me started on the blocked paths etc.!!!!! us locals have been the custodians and guardians of these lakes and pathways for at least 40yrs
And it's your voices that need to be heard in my eyes.
I was down there this afternoon and was going to send a message letting you know but your a legend and have eyes everywhere 🤣
Thanks bud. You legends are my eyes though
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That intro bro 👏 great video so sad but makes a little more sense now. Thank you
A gooden isnt it haha. I'm glad it helps Joel. Of course I always have my opinion but there is always the facts to try and consider
Hi purple 😊 dispite all the facts about doing the job properly this time ot year,can you image the outcry if this work was done in the busy summer months.especially if the pathways had to be closed for safety reasons.we would all be down there protesting that we couldn't walk or cycle the routes😂😂😂
Yh me you and our army would be right there
I think it's sad, the forestry area behind Willliam Trigg Close, someone said persimmons homes own it, they never maintain it, the trees look like their suffocating with ivy growing all over them. 🤔
Hmmmm
Like you I'm unsure. Do I trust a trust?
Ya gets me
Nice one buh
Cheers boss
I don't like the term "habitat pile", yes they provide habitat but they do something more import. It's "slow release carbon". Burning is rapid, and mulching is sort of medium speed. Leaving the brash and trunks in piles like that keeps the carbon locked inside them and only released as they decompose. If other organisms like fungi, moss, invertebrates or animals eat the wood then they absorb the carbon keeping it locked out of the atmosphere. Coppicing is really good and we don't have enough copses in regular coppice rotation. Coppiced woodland has ridiculously old trees that all look young because they are coppiced every 20/25 years but could be 500 or more years old. As the coppicing rotates through the copse it creates areas of different light allowing the seed bank to germinate with flowers which then go dormant again as the shade comes back. They are great habits for many UK species that we are loosing simply because we are loosing our coppiced woodland.
Nice input. I suppose it is a bit vague
😮😮😮😮 a Heron we have one of those on our $NZ2 coin
Oh cool.
I honestly trust what you have to say rather than these "agencies". Most of these "agencies" are out to protect their own budgets rather than anything else.
Thank you for that bud
Any chance a group of your subscribers would/may be interested in going up there and moving the cut branches away from the blocked path?
I can't condole that kinda action bud but i'm sure folk would move it in time themselves. The 60yrs+ residents of Finedon would haha but their a different breed
great idea terri
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Never trust a Trust.
Yh I'm always a little skeptical about them and Charities