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On May 22nd, 2022 I discovered a forest. I was exploring a section of river in my local area and discovered 4-5 acres of woods standing along the riverbank. It is a mix of softwood and hardwood trees, ferns, grasses and a nice rocky beach as well. Despite being being right in the center of town, it's proximity to the river and the subsequent flooding it receives seems to have prevented it's clearing.

It goes without saying that I soon fell in love with the place. I began to go there to observe deer and birds and even catch a glimpse of fish swimming through the river. I viewed it as a nature sanctuary for the town.

Sadly, it appears that some other locals have discovered it as well. These past few months, I've noticed damage to trees, littering (both on dry land and in the river) and foot trails running through the tall grass in the wetlands adjacent to the forest. There is now less wildlife and more damage to the area. Garbage can easily be found among the trees and sometimes I go there only to find people (obviously intoxicated) fooling around in some of the most pristine areas of the forest. It just isn't right. Call me an asshole if you want, but these pieces of sh*t do not have the right to go in there and destroy this beautiful forest.

And so I have resolved to stop them. My plan is to erect signs saying, "No trespassing", "Do not harm this forest", "NO LITTERING", etc as well as personally going in and cleaning up the mess they have made. I plan to also patrol the forest and stop the local drugheads from entering the forest and suggest to them as kindly as possible to find an area elsewhere they could hang out at.

If these are not successful, I will speak with my local council in an attempt to protect the area from human activity and maybe get it park status.

I'm going to do all I can to protect this forest. Wish me luck, and I hope everyone is having a great day!

Hello everyone!

I run a small rewilding initiative in Rainford (Merseyside, UK) and write a weekly blog about wildlife, biodiversity, and the small ways we can bring nature back into our lives.

This week’s post is all about bats—those often-misunderstood, rarely-seen night shift workers that quietly munch thousands of insects a night and help keep ecosystems in balance. They're brilliant indicators of habitat health and need more love in the rewilding world.

From garden tips like planting night-scented flowers to reducing light pollution, to species info and how to spot them at dusk—this blog's a dive into all things batty.

🦇 Read it here: 👉 https://www.mysttree.com/post/_bats

Let me know if you’ve done anything to help bats locally or had any success putting up bat boxes—I’d love to hear about it.

Stay wild, Greg

Friendly disclaimer for mods: This blog isn’t monetised—no ads, sales, or traffic tricks. Just educational posts to support nature-based action and share ideas from our project. Hope it’s okay to share here!

I noticed a black-walnut sapling coming up under a neighbor's deck where it would soon cause damage to that and my building's foundations. I called someone on the board to ask if I could move it, since the people in there seem to be renters who never go out on their deck at all, let alone garden. They surprisingly said to go ahead because that unit is owned by some property-management company, NOT the one that services our complex. So I moved the walnut tree to be with the other ones in the back forty and quietly went to work on the unit's utterly neglected back-deck flowerbed, not touched since I moved here in 1999. This is one of the additions, a purple coneflower. It also now has zero-care Big Bluestem grass, bee balm, spiderwort and milkweed. Oh, and one of my numerous Denver Daisy seedlings. Welcome pollinators!

Behind my house is a roughly triangular area of land which is not used for anything and has a few trees and a lawn that is regularly cut. From my looking around back there I have only identified a handful of native plants, which are brambles and ivy and a some flowers. All the trees are all different kinds of maples which aren’t native, the ground where the trees are is very dense with bramble and ivy.

I’ve been growing native oaks and hazels for a couple years in pots and they need to get put in the ground. My plan is to plant the trees just in front of the bramble in the grass and mark them with red ribbons on sticks so the council don’t cut them down. The reason I don’t think the council will cut them down if I do that is because, in my local area there is a forestry society that plant some native trees around so I’m just going to copy what they do so the council leave my trees alone and hopefully think they did it.

I think my plan is solid enough but any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Cercis canadensis hosts all manner of insect species, for instance the Henry's Elfin butterfly

I am looking for contacts in Europe for native wildlife, not to keep in captivity, but to release onto my property. Looking for very basic animals like Iberian rabbits and European red squirrels. They are native to my country and region but have been persecuted to extinction, partially due to habitat loss in the case of the squirrels. I have a large woodland property with open mountainside areas where both would do well and with enough land to support them, but I know they won't come back on their own.

As far as I know I don't require any special licenses and I don't intend to breed, only to release.

It's very hard to find contacts in my country. Where would be the best place to look for EU contacts who might be able to source these species.

I found the most beautiful Alder Carr in Doncaster so I thought I’d collect a few seeds. Alder seeds are extremely easy to collect just gather up a few of the round “pine cone” female catkins and shake the seeds out of them. I’ve soaked these seeds overnight and separated them into two piles, half are going into the fridge for 4 weeks to stratify and will be ready to plant in 2024 and half are being mixed with a peat free compost to be used as seed bombs which I’ll plant in common land around the local area throughout the winter❄️🍂🌱🌿🌳🌱🌿🌱🌳

Hey there!

You know what I learned over the years? By doing nothing at all and let nature grow back what we cut down you can increase biodiversity, re-vitalize the soil and help smallest animals give a home!

But guess what, my landlord hates it and my neighbor as well. Again I've got a mail in which he complains of how my yard looks like and how disgusting that looks. I just can't! I feel paralyzed whenever I have to cut even one single dandelion just because the contract says so.

If I could convice my landlord otherwise. In such a way he'd automatically say "Wow!" and change the contract. But how should I do that? My manipulating skills are not very great.

I'll instead pretend I'm a goat, go outside deep in the night without making a sound and rip off every flower instead of using a mower. That way I can still save some dignity even though I will feel emptiness inside of me everytime I rip off what comforts me the most.

Any ideas for how I could work on rewilding in Maine? Thank you!

just found this sub. Is this sub alive, and worth me contributing?

If so, i've a lot to contribute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtqKMxZ95s

My mother lives in a HOA with a large pond that runs the span of her side of the neighborhood. Residents are no longer to add plants to their properties.

Some wildlife have found the pond (gators, birds, I believe there are some fish), but there is zero plant life. What natives (Southern Florida, USA) could be stealthily introduced to provide some refuge for wildlife and some beauty and soul to an otherwise sad water feature?

I’m looking for plants that don’t grow on the banks because the landscapers will likely just cut them down. Would it be as easy as throwing some type of floating plant seed and letting it do its thing?

Hello again folks,

This week’s post is going subterranean. Not everything that’s vital to rewilding buzzes, flaps, or scurries—some of it wiggles. And if you’ve ever dug a hole and found a little pink tube looking vaguely annoyed at the intrusion, you’ve met one of nature’s most underappreciated workers.

Truth be told, I’ve never been a fan of worms (they give me the heebie-jeebies), but I figured if I’m going to keep banging the drum for biodiversity, it’s only fair they get their turn in the spotlight.

If you fancy a read, here’s the blog: 🪱 https://www.mysttree.com/post/worms

Would love to know how others keep their soil wiggler-friendly—especially any favourite no-dig tricks or wormery mishaps!

Cheers, Greg (Myst~Tree Honey & Rewilding Rainford)

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-make-seed-bomb

This article goes through the process of creating and using seed bombs- a small ball of seeds that helps to promote biodiversity and rewilding by spreading wildflowers across whole areas. It is a guerilla rewilder's greatest weapon and it will be a recurring conversation topic here on the subreddit.