Looking for guidance on creating reproducible spacy version python environment for existing research project

[KTRosenberg]

I have a published systems research project with a hard dependency on spacy version 3.1.4 and the specific models that I downloaded when I first installed. I'd like to be able to recreate the installation without depending on maintenance of the old version. I need to be careful about getting precise versions.

So far, I've collected a few of the packages including spacy 3.1.4 for macOS arm64. I'm trying to figure-out how to save the exact models. Then I need to know how to install them locally.
I'm a bit stuck on exactly what to do here, and just saving the tar.bz2 is probably not enough. There are several other libraries that get installed as a result of installing spacy as well.

I can give more details, but I thought I'd start with a brief post first to see if this is the appropriate place. Otherwise, it would be great to have a contact.
Thanks for your time.

On a related note, is there a reason spacy 3.1.4. couldn't be used with the latest python? My project uses conda, which I believe uses the latest python, whereas when I started, it used 3.9. I think that spacy 3.1.4 might've broke with python 3.12.