Dead christmas trees are planted on this beach - here's why
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Another good sense project. No landfill, stabilised dunes, wildlife environment and community. What’s not to like? Well done Blackpool!
Yeah for sure, so much to admire about it.
Q: you have any papers you recommend on what you called increase in atmospheric nitrogen as a cause of faster growth in dunes? didn't you mean in the soil or sand in this case? 78.08% of the atmosphere is nitrogen, so even a few thousands ppm more of it would have little observable impact, at least in my mind, but i haven't read the research, i generally don't follow the news but even i heard it's big in the media (farmers protest stuff and regulations from the eu i guess?)..
anyhow, nice videos mate, i'm from belgium and recently we got good news that our very last stretch of wild dunes are saved from "development".. cheers and have a good one!@@LeaveCurious
@@runs_through_the_forestthere is a difference between atmospheric nitrogen, that does not react with anything and is just there and nitrogen deposition deriving mostly from fertilisers. That nitrogen is reactive as it should be absorbed by plants
Lucky here in the USA recreational parks, take in x mas trees, they usually turn it into mulch.
But it never occurred to me about sand dunes. This is a great idea.
It would also be great for rewilding woodland since dead trees play a role in the eco system.
You can also use the logs if they are thick enough for harvesting mushrooms.
These trees can grow up to 60 foot high with a spread of 25 feet, so you have to wonder what these plantations will become. I suspect most will die. Tough native grasses would be a much better solution
A great way to spruce up the environment fir the coastal plants and animals.
Stop larching about, and be serious!
@@Anmeteor9663 Yew must forgive - I do pine for attention.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 I cedar what are doing there. Now I am alder I am not so easily palmed off with nonsense. Let's stick to the story about the beech.
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A corny pun is always poplar
Such a clever re-use of what would otherwise be wasted, and an elegant solution to coastal erosion and habitat loss. Simple, yet multi-faceted. Pure brilliance.
What a brilliant project! Feels like the perfect intersections of habitat enhancement, green waste solutions, community engagement and species protection. Not to mention just a wacky clever idea for old xmass trees! Love it!
For sure, a lot to admire :)
This is great, man. Please do some more videos on strange rewilding projects
Good to see this project being covered and what a fine project it is, restoring habitat, cutting waste to landfill and bringing the community together, win, win, win!
My hometown in coastal NC, USA has been doing this my whole life to protect and rebuild the dunes, but it is done by the town employees, I love the idea of the whole community coming to get outside together, I think that is truly a remarkable addition to the process.
Never in my life would I expect Christmas trees planted on a beach. It's a quite unique and encouraging project! I hope more follow suit
Hopefully NC coast can’t start this Christmas Tree 🎄 Planting thing too
I have been restoring Dune Slacks of Amrum/Germany for the last 5 weeks. The Dune Slacks were completely overgrown and dominated by creeping willow and heather, leaving little room for netterjack toads to breed in or low-competitive species. It was an enormous effort to reset the succession to a state of an open, sandy and diverse dune landscape.
There are now pictures of it on the site if amrum news
@@CorviNigris That's great! I am working with natterjack toads in the UK. Are your dunes grazed at all?
@@PromorteD There are several places in Germany where dunes are grazed. for this specific area grazing is being implemented. Either by ponies or cattle, depending what the island can support. Grazing will be neccesary to further increase habitat diversity and to slow succession down.
Good Evening - Greetings from New York!
What is 'succession' at a sand dune? What is 'creeping willow'? Is it invasive @ the seashore? If so, why? Why are you not allowing its propagation?
If heather is tolerant of salt, what is the problem of letting it grow in situ where you are? What is the function of toads down by the sea? I thought they were a freshwater species?
Is Amrun near the Friesian section of Germany in the North? Have a good week - Tschüss, J.
Hey there,@@jamesmcdonnell5617 There are plenty good videos on dune formation and succession on youtube ;)
netterjack toads can tolerate some salt. Heather and creeping willow overgrow everything and therefore supress an othervise highly biodiverse ecosystem. Rob describes it well.
Amrum is one of the north frisian islands.
Scientists in a few thousand years: “There was a forest of conifers growing right along the coast”
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Won’t they just watch this video?
"It was likely planted for ritual purposes"
@GunnarsGames it's unlikely that this video will last that long. Even if it just gets lost among the endless masses or additional data and videos the people in the future will fill their internet with, one day it will be forgotten.
None of them have roots. They will know they were just put there....they just won't know why😂
Preventing soil erosion and creating additional land overtime. Great work Blackpool. Wish we did this in California, I see so many christmas trees on the side walks and parks every year.
I just love when “out of the box” thinking gets support, although I wonder how many people said “that won’t work” before they proved them wrong!
I love this cause it's such a simple project it could be replicated wherever the sand dunes habitat occurs! I imagine that, just like you alluded to, the sand dune ecosystem itself can function like a mangrove forest in the way it can take the brunt of incoming storms and reduce damage done to peoples houses and infrastructure. So it's ecologically, communally and economically beneficial!
I love your passion for nature, I love your enthusiasm for nature restoration, I love your excitement about each topic you discuss and I love your haircut!! Hope you are well Rob! 💚💙💛
ahh thank you, i mean its hard to not get excited about a project like this... and cheers, the haircut was long over due.
@@LeaveCurious You look refreshed and Amazing!! Nature restored!! Well done!! 😁
How cool!!! I want to spread the word of this in my own country.
Have you been to Formby beach? Red squirrel reserve. Natterjack toad reserve, prehistoric human foot prints and massive sand dunes. Even spotted a Christmas tree or two further back from the sea :P
I did this with a group of people 29yrs ago on troon beach. Nice to see it's still happening 👍
Great use for these trees.
For sure :) cheers!
It's a great idea. I so enjoyed watching ordinary people get involved and do something wholesome.
How cool is that!
Well done those involved!
For sure!!!
We do something like this in Louisiana. The Christmas trees are picked up at by the city and used to prevent coastal erosion. In Louisiana we refer to it as "recycling" our Christmas trees.
What a great scheme - and proof positive that rewilding brings benefits to human beings. Those sand lizards are so beautiful. I'm really sorry to hear about the rabbits being hammered by myxomatosis - such a crude and cruel method to cure localised excessive numbers. No doubt that is also part of the explanation for the 'plague' of urban foxes.
I love the idea. It reminds me of how Christmas trees are being used in the Louisiana marsh in an effort to combat erosion.
That's really cool. Never thought about that either.
Haircut looking fresh in this one champ
Thanks dude, definitely feels better.
What an amazing project, well done Blackpool.
The best ideas are often the simplest.
I really hope this catches on in places where coastal erosion is a problem.
I used to go to the Lytham sand dunes every time we visited Blackpool. To be honest, it was my favourite part.
did you see Half as Interesting posted a video about a town that logged the trees on it's dunes and buried itself? The posted that this week the timing is so close!
Nope I missed this, can you link me to it please
@@LeaveCurious czcams.com/video/4LvxLIVwizo/video.htmlsi=2OLm8zTgBVFtNJPC
It just seemed so interesting to see the end point of humans destroying dunes and then a few days later see us trying to start growing dunes!
czcams.com/video/4LvxLIVwizo/video.html&ab_channel=HalfasInteresting@@LeaveCurious
@@LeaveCurious not sure if I can add a link in a comment but the video is called How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
I was just thinking about this video. That area only be 30 minutes away from me, I wonder if this method could help restore the habitat.
Thank you for yet another interesting video about something I had never heard of before 😇
We're learning something new every time and the satisfaction of seeing people work hard on restoring nature and rewilding etc... it warms my leafy green heart 💚🌿
Your enthusiasm is contagious my friend!! I love to see these kind of projects!!
Thanks to all of you at Leave Curious for another video showing the simplest actions can make a huge impact on a particular environment. Well done !
I found your channel a few days ago and I'm hooked!
Particularly love this video, I grew up on a beautiful beach with sand dunes.
It's great to learn more about them!
Thank you
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This is a fantastic channel 💚. He’s very informative and educational.
How fantastic. Such a simple idea makes such a difference. I went to Hawaii a few years ago and the erosion of the beaches on O'ahu was shocking. Turtle Bay had bad erosion too. I was told the sand on the beach in Honolulu came from Australia.
I think this is a wonderful approach! Where I live, we don’t landfill any plant waste. From mostly-vegetal kitchen scraps to dead Christmas trees and garden cuttings, it all goes into a “green waste” bin for each household and is picked up weekly, along with the trash and recycling bins. All the plant materials go into a “high-temperature composter” of huge capacity to make garden compost, returned to the public. There are very few things we’re actually allowed to put into the trash here. The green waste bin also takes things like pizza boxes, food-stained paper plates and containers, napkins, etc. that can’t go in the paper recycling. It’s a pretty good system, I think curbside pickup is the key. We also can take household hazardous waste like batteries, old paints/chemicals and light bulbs in to the facility four days a week. All the resources, like metals, that can be are extracted and sold for re-use. I’m always picking up small discarded batteries on my walks, then batch them to go to the Haz Waste (I carry a plastic baggie for if they are corroded, to protect my skin and clothes on the way home).
Sadly, all of this is "in theory" though.
TV documentaries show that many of these schemes are just not working, or are actually bogus!
I'm in Perthshire, and "in theory" we have a pretty good recycling program, but I very much doubt whether the majority of people can be bothered.
Just a small example: I live on an average street on an estate, on the outskirts of a small town.
Those of us that need to put garden waste in the garden bin, need to pay £40 a year for it. My neighbour, who makes a decent living, refuses to pay this, and yet still has quite a lot of garden waste. He told me once, he refuses to pay it, and would rather throw it in the bushes! I'm virtually housebound, and I've NEVER seen him loading garden waste into his car, to take to the recycling place.
Food waste is supposed to be put into the garden bins, which people can use for free, as long as they're not putting garden waste in it. On garden bin day, there are virtually no garden bins out on the pavement, along the entire street! It's not the type of street, where people have compost bins either, so where is all their waste food going?
I phone the council recycling dept a couple of times a year, just to make sure of the rules, and they don't know what they are either. They say they'll get back to me, but rarely do.
It's all very disheartening.
I wish I lived in a place with more conscientious people like yourself!
Very interesting, thank you for making the video! 😊
Cheers, Patrik
Ah thank you Patrik :)
Great video Rob, and like one or two other posters, it’s my home town of Lytham St Anne’s! The dunes have always been prone to erosion, often due to the heavy footfall of tourists and once damaged storms can literally blow them away. This is a great way to stabilise them. Two fun facts, natives of Lytham St Anne’s are referred to as “Sandgrown” and the area just inland of the dunes was once known as “Blowing Sands”, but I don’t think you’ll find that on modern maps.
Great video. Just the sort of content that resonates with many of us. Local initiatives helping to restore, maintain and create habitats and recycling to boot! Keep up the good work! 👏
Happens every post-Christmas where I live - hurricane-prone coastal North Carolina. This helps build and stabilize the dunes which protect the beaches from erosion and storm surge.
Fantastic idea, wonderful to see a community coming together in a project to help the environment and protect the coastline 😀👍
What a lovely project 👍
What a great project! And thanks for making a video about it!
What a fun project, love it
Great video
We place ours in our chicken yard each year. The hens love to cozy up under the drying branches for protection for the wind and heat in summer. Once we replace it with the following years tree we burn the old one and mix the ashes into the exisiting soil. The tree usually stays fairly green until mid to late summer so its really not an eye sore.
Will Pearce's ''Tear Up The Ground" has been a favorite song of mine for a while, but I hadn't seen the dune succession process talked about in a real-life context yet! Got very excited when I recognized what the video will be about xD
Very glad I found this channel where I can learn about real work being done to restore and maintain wild habitats. Keep up the good work!
Not all heroes wear capes.
Very interesting! There need to be more projects like this
Great video - loving the content was out running today and saw that beavers are being reintroduced near me in rushden lakes northamptonshire which made me smile as I just watched your video on beavers the other day
That’s awesome! 🦫
Awesome! You all are AMAZING 🥰
Califorina needs this. I have a feeling that we are missing tons of rock formations and sandunes that got cleared out 100s of years ago for tons of reason. Also too many houses to close to the beach.
A simple brilliant idea as they are certainly declining everywhere
This has been going on for donkeys years at Formby and the nearby beaches to protect the sand dunes.
I’ve never heard of it before but it does seem to make a lot of sense and a difference too 💚
For those who don't live on an island, Xmas tress make great sanctuaries for fingerlings
In Finland they started to put dead christmas trees to the bottom of some of the lakes and sea for fish to lay eggs on them. The trees act like some artificial reefs where the baby fish can shelter. Human activities have destroyed many of the natural habitats so this helps a bit.
It's a great idea. Although I won't be sacrificing the Christmas tree I made so that I no longer have to cut one down each year 😋
You made one? That's cool!
@@LeaveCuriousIt's dead easy - a few selected branches from a wander through the woods tied into a tree shape with rope then decorated 😁Reuseable and eco-friendly! (although will not help sand dunes)
@@31Blaizegreat idea, how do you keep the branches fresh for the whole year? maybe it's because I live in a humid place but if I tried they'd rot immediately
@@Solstice261I'm in the UK, so we are humid but not at high temps. I've not had a problem with the branches because essentially they just season. I made my tree 3 years ago and it's still going strong. I expect that eventually some of those branches will give out but certainly none have rotted. Whereabouts are you roughly?Edit: I should probably mention I saw one on Etsy and thought it was a really good idea - it's not my idea 🙂
@@31Blaize Spain, humid and hot, that might have something to do with it, thank you for the insight, I'll put it to the test next winter
Yes a brilliant idea that you have explained well in this video
Glad to see a video on this, as a fan of your channel and a Blackpool local that grew up playing on these dunes and looking for the wildlife on the nature reserve there, this is a great local project!
Your vlogs should be shown on The BBC One Show. You're doing a great job in bringing nature conservation to the public 👏
Brilliant. Well done guys.
i'm curious if the acidity (and probably pesticides) of the trees will effect the dunes. if not, it is a very cool project.
That’s a good question. I was wondering if they would eventually break down into soil instead of sand?
Seawater is slightly alkaline and has loads of bicarbonate so would easily neutralise any acidity as the trees break down.
They’ll eventually compost into organic soil for the grasses to use.
@@simontillson482 thank you 🙏🏻
@@simontillson482 Good to know!
And do you know how pesticides will effect the environment? I have heard that these trees get sprayed with a lot of pesticides
@@JustCatoo I’m not really sure about the pesticides. Most are designed to break down in a few months, so I’d guess by the time a tree has matured, been felled, and used over the holiday period, there should be little left, if anything.
Also, fir trees are generally very pest-resistant anyway, so I suspect pesticides are rarely, if ever used on them unless there is a specific problem to deal with. Most issues would occur around the time new growth starts, so from end of winter to late spring depending on climate, so spraying might happen at that time if needed. Plenty of time for the compounds to decompose before harvesting for xmas.
Would love to see a followup in spring/summer!❤
Me too! 💚
What a good Idea, reduce the waste, and knowing the story of Blackpool, it's great, It's such a peculiar tradition and absolutely impressive, it also adds deadwood matter which is lacking in Europe and excellent for insects.
It probably doesn't help that sedimentation on beaches has been greatly reduced making it harder for young sand dunes to form as beaches enter recession
This is brilliant. Exactly what ecology should be!!
An amazing idea Well done!
What a great idea! Fire island NY US should follow. They are losing beach due to erosion. Good for the beaches and good for community.
Awesome!
This would be great for Gulf of Mexico states. Rebuild the coastlines, which would bring back so much stability to the area. Louisiana is in great need.
Already doing this. I believe Texas as well.
They did this in Maine, USA this year. Thank you for explaining why they are trying this out, as our local news is useless.
In Argentina we have sand dunes in a large portion of our coast line, but about a century ago a bunch of people started buying up the coastlines and planting full forests on top of them (with foreign species) to settle the sand and to be able to utilize the land. Nowadays, most of the coastline has been turned into beach towns that receive hundreds of thousands of tourists each, every summer. The tows are basically built on top of the sand dunes, the ones with the pinecone forests are the most desirable and exclusive (some examples are Cariló, Pinamar, Mar de las Pampas, Costa Esmeralda). This whole thing has had a terrible impact on the environment. The sand dunes work as sand banks for the beaches. By foresting the dunes, they prevent the beaches from regenerating and are thus getting ‘eaten’ by the sea. There have been similar approaches as the one shown in the video, they have built a sort of trenches with wooden sticks that have been successful in restoring the sand dunes and actually making them grow, but that doesn’t solve the problem.
WELL DONE! Merry Christmas AND a happy new beach!
nice. here in louisiana, we use christmas trees to deter coastal erosion and catch sediment. we've been doing this for many years with good results. they're not planted though, just piled up along the waterway.
This is also being one in some small rivers in Scotland. It slows the erosion of the riverbanks and provides shelter and breeding areas for fish and insects
That's a fantastic idea. I'll tell our council here in nz.
Inspired by this video I went to bury my Christmas tree in the sand as well.
Turns out primary schools are not happy when you bury a tree in their sandbox. Apparently they are not meant to be a thriving ecosystem... You learn something every day.
I'm confused ...
yes very good. they started doing it in Galveston, Texas and Freeport, Texas, also. Because of our real bad beach erosion problems down there. Very excellent for to build back the beaches.
Great video. Short and sweet
Really interesting video. I really enjoyed it.
Texas beaches have been doing this since the 1970’s. It builds up sand dunes on barrier islands.
Very cool 🌲🌲🌲
This could be any kind of wood / vegetation that can provide some structure. Love the creativity of the thinking that led to this project.
Thank you.
wonderful! I want to see it...
Here in USA recreational parks, usually have have programs where they take Xmas and turn them into mulch or saw dust.
However it never occurred to me that xmas trees could be used for sand dunes.
It's also good for woodland, dead trees benefit the ecosystem.
Logs if they thick can be used for mushroom harvesting.
Its a fantastic project.
Fantastic! That's well done to Blackpool!
This is smart thinking instead of wasteful spending on non solutions
Smart i like these natural solutions
Have you seen the rewilding project that Mapperton Estate, in Dorset, is doing? Pretty cool. 😊
Very lovely and believable.
Love this.
Cool! Thank you!
Powerful idea!
Thanks!
What a great idea! Thanks for the upload. :)
Great idea !
Love the lickle mouse at 6:17!!!❤❤❤
It is brilliant, I love to walk along the dunes, I saw a sand lizard last summer which is great! 🙏❤️
I love lizards, so many reasons! yaya heart
Wish they would do this at southwold in Suffolk the dunes are a mess
This is very cool!❤
a great example of if we direct humanity's efforts correctly, living in balance with our planet should be easily attainable
Thumbs up. Like using old wind turbine blades for underwater structure for reefs.