There's Over 4000 Giant Oaks in this Forest - heres why 

You need a lapel Mic mate. Your Audio is really low and buzzy in places... The visuals are spectacular 👍

yeah something happened with the audio in this one@@edwardfletcher7790

Acute Oak decline = old age.

@@LeaveCurious Boya do excellent $10 4 conductor lapel mics that work with any old phone with a headphone jack 👍

What a wonderful description. It felt like it there 🙂

@@LeaveCurious where is it, by the way? i don't think you mention in the video

I do. In my imagination I can see, hear and smell it all and I've never been to England.

I know this forest or one exactly like it, shame he didn't visit it when the blue bells are out, they cover the forest floor like a carpet. I hate to spoil the 'old England' vibe but it's in Scotland ( or one exactly like it). There's one section that was planted around the time of Mary Queen of Scot's

Huge ancient oaks and other trees everywhere! Would be so beautiful!

don't forget about the Woolemi pine

In eastern usa, it was all clear cut at one time or another. The woods are still beautiful, but so different without the big old trees

Same thing here in New Zealand. It’s a bloody shame that large scale deforestation is still ongoing in Australia though, you Aussies gotta get your shit together before it’s all lost.

Aussies should listen to this guy, don't cut it all down before you regret it!

We are very lucky here in Britain too

Old trees die. You should be happy as more resilient vegetation takes its place.

Trees are meant to grow in communities of interlocked roots and branches which help shield them from winds and slips. Too many have been left as specimen trees thanks to the earlier fashion of clearing out forests leaving only the larger trees and allowing huge lawns to replace the original forest floor.

Very nice project ! But, I assure you that in 15 years, they’l have a pretty good shape.

Yeah we’ve lost a lot of course, but it’s lovely having spaces like these and many ancient trees in Britain.

Yeah, we've lost a lot, but we've also kept more ancient trees than comparable European countries. We have also managed to keep areas of ancient non-treed habitats such as chalk grassland and heathland (both plagioclimaxes evolving from neolithic agricultural clearances) and peat bogs, ditto and important in carbon sequestration. Plant trees on these habitats and you lose them and, with peat bogs, you wind up releasing sequestered carbon. Plant trees, but be aware that it's not a panacea. And manage them after planting......

It's lousy below the border for that, and incredibly sad. Although... the population is also far higher, so if we had littering idiots going everywhere they wanted, it would probably cause damage on a massive scale so there may be something to it!

Most English just walk where they like anyway. I've never let a fence stop me :)

@@Truth-And-Freedom I know you think that’s cool and free and all but that’s not a good idea man. Most fences are there for a reason, whether you agree with it or not. Hopping fences can be dangerous.

@@connorbutler5900 I care not for danger ......and the fun I've had jumping fences - well worth it. All 44 years of it so far worth ever second 👍

staying in or outside the fence can also be dangerous. predators on both sides.

They immense and thank you, I appreciate this!

Why did your place have lost so many trees?

You really do feel great. There’s something about them.

@@LeaveCurious I believe that all living things have souls, including plants, and a tree that old, while still not a conscious being, would have a deep and complex soul.

It was very special, thanks ☺️

That's brilliant keep it up

Amazing! I hope they enjoy it and keep up the good work.

Was it larch that was widely planted?

Those trees need management if they are to survive for much longer: comparing to southern Iberia, with old Holm and Cork Oaks, they have been breaking large branches/forks regularly, specially after droughts and windstorms. These result in open trunks or a completely broken trunk below the 'Pollard' level.

@@lobster5782 True. Resources? Even crown relief (reducing shading by felling younger, taller, older surrounding trees that are killing old pollards) is expensive.

Another factor is surely the following: These trees would have been mature specimens when the sail fleet of the British Navy was at its peak Had they not been pollarded, they could have produced large enough timbers to be used for ships of the line and so would have been much less likely to survive

@@JM-bg1it True. But they (of course) wouldn't have been first pollarded as mature trees. Would have been first cut at 'waiver' size 'cos lopping the top out of an already-mature tree would have been dangerous and likely too much of a shock to the maiden tree.

Thats a very good question. Is pollarding a practice which no longer persists, at scale, anywhere in the UK?

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And you are :)

There is a stob-cut (like a short pollard) oak in a scrubbed-up road verge (actually a strip of common land) in a place called Malden Rushett in Greater London. This tree has regenerated from a strip like this and has almost re-formed a circular trunk. The wreckage of it's former body lies all around. Thousands drive past it every day and never see it (and others like it).

Could see some young saplings walking around. More in the woodland. Not sure about the fenced area!

@@LeaveCuriousThat's good to hear 😃 May those forests continue for another thousand years!

@@31Blaize I was wondering exactly the same thing about regeneration as it looked more like an old folks home, but then I saw what looks like a youngster at 4:41 on the left near its mum.

The fenced areas are too keep the cows in not to keeps people out btw. Some areas have conservation grazing with english longhorns at some times of year.@@LeaveCurious

That's a key question. Typically oaks will not successfully regenerate under a canopy of oaks - they need a gap. Gaps can arise if a pollard collapses. Providing for replacement trees in a system which runs on a 'cycle' of many hundreds of years is fraught with difficulties when 'a week is a long time in politics', budgets are cast yearly (often in arrears) and if a management plan for a site is cast and funded for 5 years, that's unusually long.

Becoming a member just supports the channel and enables me to keep making videos… hopefully one day in Canada! But either way, I’m hugely grateful for the encouragement, thank you!

You guys are to efficient. Old trees look "untidy."

@@damionkeeling3103 Well, I think that here in the Netherlands it is a bit more complicated than that. Large parts of the Netherlands used to be a swamp, or to be more exact a river delta that would be influenced by the tidal wave action from the sea before humans made dikes and all sorts of barriers to keep the sea out. But It had many swampy areas and river tributaries. So I am not sure if those conditions were the best conditions for oak trees to grow old to begin with, or to grow at all for that matter. I do know that every centimeter from our land has been touched and modified by humans. And that over centuries of time the rivers have been tamed with dikes and other barriers and that all the swampy areas have been pumped dry and most of it became agricultural land or cities or an industrial zone. So we do not have any ancient forests to begin with, the forests that we have, have been planted by humans at some point in time. And I suppose that the trees were used for commercial purposes such as building ships. I can also imagine that they bought wood from other countries, such as Germany and the Scandinavian countries. But I am not sure if that were indeed the case. We are also one of the most dense populated countries in the world. Both with humans and cattle and pigs and goats. 60% of the land is agricultural land, 18% of the surface area is water, and what is left over must be shared by all the people and the companies and the wildlife animal species that are not extinct yet. On top of that we had the war with big bombardments and battles, and during that time we also had the hunger winter where people were starving to death, most dominantly the smaller farmers but also people in the cities who had no money, and they had to warm themselves with wood or coal or oil stoves, depending on what was the most accessible and cheapest fuel for their situation. Many trees did not survive that time. And preservation of nature and natural ecosystems did not exist either at that time. So it is easy to see why ancient forests do not exist in the Netherlands and why ancient trees are rare or of none existence in the Netherlands. I live near a forest where the planting of trees was started many hundreds of years ago, and that lasted over centuries of time in an attempt by multiple generations of people to prevent the desertification from their local area of land that was caused by over grazing from the land. It swallowed and buried a small village and and a local homestead with big sand dunes. And over centuries of time people were desperate to stop the desertification by planting trees. And it worked. However, the still moving sand dunes that it created are still there. It even has its own very own local desert type of micro climate. With relative cold night during hot summer nights. But those trees have also been selectively used for commercial purposes. Most of the trees in that small forest that are alive today are not that old. And most trees are pine trees. But I am not a historical expert by any means. The things that I mentioned are just some general things that I have picked up and learned over time out of personal interest. And I could be very wrong with my conclusions.

To @insAneTunA Though no-one could claim that it is natural, the Netherlands has one of the most beautiful landscapes anywhere. People are ofttimes surprised when I tell them that after Switzerland, I think that the Netherlands is one of the loveliest countries in Europe in terms of the countryside.

@@RCSVirginia I could not disagree more with you. It is green and very well organized, and not a single inch of land has been untouched, but the Netherlands was a disaster for the wildlife that used to live here before we started applying all the destructive farming practices and changing the landscape and destroying the habitat for wildlife. It is flat and boring, and once you have seen one polder, you have seen them all. (A polder is how we call all the combined pasture land that is surrounding the villages and cities and each region has their own polders, and in total the polders make up about 60% of the total land surface from the Netherlands) We do not have a single mountain or valley, and compared to Switzerland the Netherlands is as flat as a pancake. We don't have bedrock either. Only a small portion of the land has some sandstone. So how you can make the comparison between Switzerland and the Netherlands is a complete mystery to me. At the end of the day beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One can consider the Dutch landscape as beautiful, but once you know more about it, and when you understand how biodivers the plants and animals used to be, and how much we humans have destroyed over the most recent past centuries, it becomes increasingly difficult to call it beautiful. I do not blame or shame you, because if I did not know any better, I probably would call it nice too. But now that I have learned more about it I see a lot of pure destruction for greed when I look at our countryside.

Where in oregon.?

You're very welcome :)

It certainly is, can’t say I know of many other like it!

I’ve been to the South Island and had a very good time exploring. Lovely country! Trees seemed bigger there!

@@LeaveCurious So pleased you've been to NZ. Do come again when you're able. In the North Island, we have huge Pohutukawa trees, many are ancient and date to pre-European times. The oldest is estimated at nearly 800 - 1,000 years. It's called "Tane Mahuta" and is on the Western North coast of the North Island. Magnifincent.

@@LeaveCurious Oaks grow faster here so I guess the wood wont be as strong but they look amazing. Bright green in spring then nice dark green over summer and providing shade. They seem to produce a ton of seedlings, is that the case in the UK too?

@@franceshorton918 You should point out that Tane Mahuta is a kauri.

Oops! Yes you are quite right, thank you. I was online waay too late at night and lost my concentration. Also lost in admiration for huge, ancient, trees ! xx@@damionkeeling3103

Thank you! This is a good idea and yes I will try and include this as its a real problem for many of our habitats.

He doesn't give away the location of endangered species in order to protect them. Some idiot would absolutely try to destroy the area for their version of fun.

Exactly! I think some people get off knowing where it is and you don’t, completely pointless video.

@@ComancheWarrior63rubbish. I live near Sherwood Forest, probably the most famous forest or in the top 3 in the world, it’s never “overrun”

@@westaussie965 College and High School students in the USA have deliberately poisoned historically important trees as a "prank". It happens.

Alright I’ll consider making it, just wouldn’t want it to be too boring!

@@LeaveCurious Would be very interesting!!

@@LeaveCurious Boring? Highly unlikely! And it could inspire others to do more to turn things around.

Oh really i live in suffolk do you know what this place is called id love to visit

@GorkhorMusic Staverton Thicks

Ah awesome, thank you very much!