Upper Spey River Restoration Project

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In the face of the decline of wild Atlantic salmon populations, the Spey Catchment Initiative's Upper Spey River Restoration Project has successfully installed Large Woody Structures (LWS) in the headwaters of the River Spey, thanks to a collaborative effort between the Spey Catchment Initiative (SCI), Jahama Highland Estate, and the Spey Fishery Board.
The project aimed to enhance the river's habitat by creating more complex and varied physical habitats to support diverse aquatic life, including juvenile salmon.
The Upper Spey River Restoration Project not only benefits biodiversity but also provides natural flood management and boosts climate resilience by slowing the flow of water out of the catchment.
The successful completion of the project marks a significant milestone in improving the ecological health of the upper Spey.
For more information about our projects, visit our website: www.speycatchment.org

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@user-sp3wd2nn3e 4 ай бұрын

It's a good start. Next, fence off the a broad swathe along the river and allow riverine vegetation to come back. Plant a few native trees to help the process. Finally put wolves back to control the deer and you'll get another yellowstone effect.

@felipericketts Жыл бұрын

Could planting of trees along the edges of the river be a part of the project? I assume naturally occurring woody structures would come from such vegetation.

@frankiej511 Жыл бұрын

Planting trees should be part of it. What a barren, degraded looking landscape? Why not plant a few trees? Is there some sort of aesthetic objection ... don't you like trees up there? What happened to the original trees, forests, etc? A few trees along the river would surely be a boon for the (vanished?) salmon fishery of the Spey river. When I say a few trees, I really mean many many trees.

@gordon1545 Жыл бұрын

@@frankiej511 Same as everyone else here, my first question was about riparian planting. This stuff is very complex and site-specific and there may be reasons why it's not being considered there. Either way, it would have been good to see that addressed in the video.

@pam9470 8 ай бұрын

Scotland has a major deer problem as there are no natural predators - groups of trees planting could be done, but would need protective fencing as deer will eat every young tree in sight! There is now an effort to encourage people to eat deer as it is low in cholesterol !

@philgriffiths5514 Жыл бұрын

Blimey what a barren landscape. I guess pointing out that the large woody structures are a benefit as they would have fallen in rivers due to the large woody structures along the riparian habitat. Like what there used to be. But good start and best of luck.

@michaelguerin56 Ай бұрын

Good project . I hope that you achieve your biodiversity ambitions.

@alanbrooke144 Жыл бұрын

The glen looks like a barren waste-land!

@lag9765 Жыл бұрын

Restoration, a beautiful word...

@kerilloyd7504 Жыл бұрын

are you planning on fencing off the river to allow trees to regenerate naturally? LWD is great but surely you want trees to grow along the banks.

@ianblewett3118 3 ай бұрын

No response. It would be nice to learn that trees would also make a comeback!

@rambo410 Жыл бұрын

Just awesome. Whish every country can start taking care of their wild life, nature etc....

@user-ov5go7ho5y 8 ай бұрын

Long time since I've been to that part of the world, what an excellent idea and wish it every success!!

@capoeirastronaut Жыл бұрын

Beavers would do this work for free...!

@bonniek3985 Жыл бұрын

Why not put whole trees in the river as they do in the Pacific NW in the US. Better cover for the young fish.

@billsmith5109 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been involved in this somewhat. You’d need to know what this river is like at flood stage. It’s a short KZfaq but it appears design intent is that anchoring is by root wad, not by one of several other choices. Normally you expect some down stream migration over time. The root wad only provides a set amount of restraint. Maybe with longer stem the engineer thought logs would get washed out of system the first year. Tree planting, LWD. Yes, but that’s for time of your great-grandchildren or longer. In your children’s lives they can have other benefits. Shade, meaning temperature. Food. In relatively small rivers like this that do have adjacent mature timber in the PNW they’ve found that for coho and steelhead terrestrial invertebrates sometimes make up much the food source. I don’t know if same is true for Atlantic salmon parr.

@bluebowser3347 Жыл бұрын

If you want to benefit the river add beavers immediately.

@user-sp3wd2nn3e 4 ай бұрын

no trees for them to fell..

@bluebowser3347 4 ай бұрын

@@user-sp3wd2nn3e There are trees nearby, the beavers will just have to drag the wood a little further than usual. The UK has few predators so it wont be as dangerous for them.

@PeteDevlinootnaboot Жыл бұрын

Good work folks!

@juliamadelin3825 Ай бұрын

Do you have a problem with deer, have seen so much damage In the NW Highlands where fences have not gone up to protect tree. Great work, from what I have seen of the Spey valley it needs it,

@24bellers20 Жыл бұрын

How does pushing trees over improve it? Plant some.

@user-sp3wd2nn3e 4 ай бұрын

pushing over non-native commercial conifer monocultures to form river obstacles is a good start.

@jwornell2114 Жыл бұрын

nice vid

@frontier6937 7 ай бұрын

see the truth about stream restoration projects (Utube: "How a stream is restored in Gaithersburg").

@dryflyman7121 Жыл бұрын

Fair play in what you are trying to achieve and good luck, but it is not aesthetically pleasing.

@MZig-rw7su 8 күн бұрын

Barely a native tree to be seen....all talk and no action....barren area. Probably not even aware....

@krzysztofklich8942 8 ай бұрын

i think that you destroy this river and trees and you waste money

@kurtduff5907 Жыл бұрын

Naturally occurring woody structure put in place by Komatsu. Maybe plant some vegetation🤔trees would fall in river by themselves.

@pedrothewise2584 Жыл бұрын

so the owners of all that prize fishing river estate get to donate a few trees and give permission for others to rectify their nglect of their land.who are the actual owners.a hedge fund no doubt. can they not pay? goid work anyway but should be funded differently.