Coppicing: How trees regenerate

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Coppicing, a traditional forest management method dating back to the Neolithic period, involves periodically cutting trees to the ground level, taking advantage of their ability to resprout. This technique allows for cyclical harvesting of wood, providing a stable supply of firewood. Despite its decline with the advent of fossil fuels, there has been a recent resurgence in coppicing for its benefits to biodiversity and as a sustainable fuelwood source.
Credits:
Manuscript: Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Pamadillo
Animation: Pamadillo - www.pamadillo.com/
Intro/ending music: Gregor Quendel www.gregorquendel.com/
Middle music: Andreas Raad / @baltimus9000
Project: ROTATE: Application of traditional knowledge to halt biodiversity loss in woodlands
Funding: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic and Norway Grants 2014-2021
Contact: NIBIO researcher Fride Høistad Schei, fride.schei@nibio.no
References:
1. - (0:41) Cutout: Lumberjack 1 pin.it/5m51JGWwV
2. -(1:13) Cutout: Coppiced stool www.treehugger.com/permacultu...
3. -(1:18) Historic photograph: The sweet track / 7810999323691323
4. - (1:25) Historic photograph: Man coppicing villerscotterets.over-blog.co...
5. - (1:29) Cutout: Cooking and eating pin.it/VXXz5zJGe
6. - (1:32) Cutout: Tool digitaltmuseum.no/02102115022...
7. - (2:21) Historic photograph: Log truck 1924 www.trucksales.com.au/editori...
8. - (2:23) Photograph: Clear cutting www.skogbruk.nibio.no/miljohe...

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@soulreaver8466 18 күн бұрын

YES!!! I just convinced a customer today to let me grow a line of trees until they are able to be coppiced in order to weave (with grafting) a living fence that can be chopped and dropped to feed the soil. It took me 20+ minutes to explain why it was important. This video is DENSE with information. I can't thank you enough for saving everyone's time in the future! Liked, subscribed, and currently waiting on popcorn for the binge-watching session of your channel.

@hearthandpine 7 күн бұрын

Awesome video. Is it similar to the way the Japanese harvest trees as well? Your animator is PHENOMENAL.

@jiggsborah7041 13 күн бұрын

I love this.

@Trotskers 19 күн бұрын

We love your videos! Thank you from NC USA

@qualqui 11 күн бұрын

This explains why growing up in se Utah, our landlady had a Black Locust tree, it had a big trunk,and very tall, but considering its native habitat is the midwest and southern states, where it rains more than out West, well my mom planted some tomatoes, radishes and squash and the runoff of the water, permitted that ol' black locust to coppice, my mom left two of the shoots and they grew quite big, I wouldn't be surprised if that black locust is still alive and thriving after 42 years of moving from there.

@CyanStudios24 18 күн бұрын

We can work with nature instead of against it! Great video. Hope this gains traction because the production quality is really good and I thought this was very interesting.

@cuttwice3905 14 күн бұрын

I use coppiced willow for weaving baskets and making hurdles and trellises for my garden.

@andreasmelve3135 14 күн бұрын

Ah! How old were the poles when you cut them? And what time of year do you do it for them to be right for weaving? 😊

@krzysztofrudnicki5841 17 күн бұрын

People don't coppice well. Don't ask me how I know.

@Kenan-Z 15 күн бұрын

I do ask. Please tell me how do you know.🤔

@HaHaThatIsFunny 15 күн бұрын

He was friends with Dahmer🙈

@anemone104 11 күн бұрын

Nice! Short, sweet and information rich. However over here in the UK fuel (wood, charcoal, whitecoal) may not have been the primary product of much coppice. Hazel coppice was common and very valuable, cut at around 7 years, so the desired produce was small diameter and used for a vast range of products from wattle room dividers and house wall sections to sheep hurdles, dry cooperage, crates and clothes pegs.

@caseymartinez5641 17 күн бұрын

Works for willow trees too

@adoschtinad 19 күн бұрын

How weird, I was just talking about this practice the other day. My question is: How can certain (wild) species thrive only by human intervention?

@NelsOscar 19 күн бұрын

We are also participants in the ecosystem. We can have positive impacts for some characters just as well as negative ones for others

@adoschtinad 19 күн бұрын

@@NelsOscar of course, it still seems weird that in the short amount of time on a grand timescale we’ve practiced this that a whole ecosystem has formed

@jjohansen0201 18 күн бұрын

Hi, that's a very good question. I was responsible for this manuscript, and we want to try to explain some of this in a last video for the project. It is hard to know for sure, since processes from the past are difficult to study. BUT, an important point is that some of the less severe human disturbances (controlled burns, grazing farm animals, coppicing, pollarding etc.) mimic natural disturbances that probably were common in evolutionary history. There is a recent paper about this, where they found that light woodland and open vegetation was very common in Europe before humans. An explanation for this could be, and i quote: "In Central Europe, the mammalian record indicated a mosaic environment of forested and open vegetation, based on the frequent occurrence of Equus ferus (wild horse), Bison spp. (bison), and Bos primigenius (aurochs)". Here is the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135

@NelsOscar 18 күн бұрын

@@adoschtinad it doesn't hurt that many processes happen on relatively rapid generational cycles. When your lifecycle is a small handful of years (or just a few seasons), getting access to a different food source or having different habitat available is an impactful change

@jjohansen0201 18 күн бұрын

Hi, that's a very good question. I was responsible for this manuscript, and we want to try to explain some of this in a last video for the project. It is hard to know for sure, since processes from the past are hard to study. BUT, an important point is that some of the less severe human disturbances (controlled burns, grazing farm animals, coppicing, pollarding etc.) mimic natural disturbances that probably was common in evolutionary history. A recent paper was written about this, where they found that light woodland and open vegetation was very common in Europe before humans. An explanation for this could be, and i quote: "In Central Europe, the mammalian record indicated a mosaic environment of forested and open vegetation, based on the frequent occurrence of Equus ferus (wild horse), Bison spp. (bison), and Bos primigenius (aurochs)". Here is the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135

@oloplyflapdar7384 17 күн бұрын

As long as the coppicing scale is not like the huge 10 hectare square x100 plots that people make with Pines to get a harvest each year. If it's on a much humbler scale I'm not necessarily opposed to it.

@anthonybailey7628 15 күн бұрын

As far as I am aware you can’t coppice pines, at least not Pinus radiata which is the plantation tree of choice here in New Zealand. These plantations are clear felled. I take your point though, doing anything in succession is much more desirable

@oloplyflapdar7384 14 күн бұрын

@@anthonybailey7628 yes, I was speaking to the traditional timber stands, not for coppiced purposes.

@ulyssees30y 12 күн бұрын

How do to coppice a pine tree? What variety of pine can you do that with?

@oloplyflapdar7384 11 күн бұрын

@@ulyssees30y as I have replied in a previous comment, I am talking about the scale of the operation, not the type of tree you are coppicing. I have no clue if pine is appropriate to try coppicing.

@nobodysanything2330 18 күн бұрын

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@unpopuIaropinion 16 күн бұрын

Does coppasing make any sense in a city enviroment on a hot climate?

@anthonybailey7628 15 күн бұрын

I think it makes a lot of sense in an urban environment. I would think being able to reduce the size of a tree before it becomes a "nuisance" and being able to let it grow again, repeat, makes more sense than having a tree that ultimately needs severe pruning or removal. Trees which are able to be pollarded would be better though I think. Just my opinion, I’m no expert, but I’m lucky enough to have a bit of land and some trees to try out different techniques with.

@diederikvandedijk 10 күн бұрын

@@anthonybailey7628 Pollarding and coppicing is the same thing. Pollarding is(/was) done where wildlife or cattle would eat the shoots from the stump. The pollard simply keeps the shoots out of reach from deer or sheep.

@jamestregler1584 18 күн бұрын

Also charcoal 🧐

@SloggieBear 11 күн бұрын

Is Paula Pant narrating this? Sounds like her

@brucemattes5015 13 күн бұрын

If a society requires huge amounts of dimensional lumber for building purposes, then coppicing doesn't make a lot of sense. If what one is searching for are smaller diameter hardwood logs suitable for growing mushrooms, fence posts, making charcoal, barrel staves, tool handles, etc, then large scale, coppiced, mixed species, hardwood forests that are an integral part of a silvopasture system with multiple domesticated animal livestock species utilizing the coppiced forest throughout the 4 seasons makes eminent sense. The problem that I see with current day European countries where large hectare historical hardwood coppiced forests have existed for centuries is twofold. First, is that modern-day humans want *EVERYTHING, RIGHT NOW,* and coppiced hardwood trees aren't going to regenerate a new crop of harvestable logs in anything less than 8-20 years. Which means that a farming business that requires a dependable yearly income from a coppiced forest is going to require a sufficient number of hectares/acres planted sequentially across whatever time span that a particular tree species requires between harvests. Plus, a substantial amount of additional hectares/acres for the necessary wriggle room to account for seasonal weather irregularities such as too much precipitation or drought. Second is that there seems to be a worldwide anti-humanity, anti-historical farming, anti-Green Revolution farming movement in place that is tightly aligned with an anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist, pro-Socialist, pro-Communist, let's put right every single historical wrong movement where anything from the historical past is viewed as wrong, unjust, oppressive, patriarchal, etc. As a result of this 3 decades long push against the past, the large hectare historical coppiced forests in Europe are under attack as the Social Justice warriors attempt to redistribute those forest lands into hundreds of tiny plots of severe hectares each.

@ericwanderweg8525 13 күн бұрын

I believe the zealots that you described would much prefer the California approach to forestry, as in leave it wild and blame any unintended consequences on external factors.