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Why do the animals ran after de atv?

Stop growing that hemp. They are making rope to climb 🪜 the border 😅 wall.😅

Loved this, so clever and practical. Tell this to the people who make policy. Might change their minds about this climate change thing. ❣️🍀

Isn't the Ash Juniper also known as the Mountain Cedar? I think they are beautiful trees. However, the pollen count one year was the highest on record and it sent me into anaphylactic shock just from breathing the air, so allergic. Lovely tree tho and I love the way they smell. I thought they were drought tolerant. Never heard they drank a lot of water. :O

Great video, but please turn way down or lose the background music, it's very distracting.

When an evergreen shades and cools a land

The complexity of nature

Haven't we waged enough war against nature?

What about earthquakes? How does it hold up?

I say one thing ALERGIES. This is a devil tree when it comes to ALERGIES. High fire risk.

Around here in south Texas hackberry is the worst - they will hurt you

Love this! Will be redeveloping 600 acres after coal lease turnover. Am going to seek the knowledge that your profession provides to create an environment and not just a property.

This really spoke to me, as I’ve unfairly vilified the Ashe juniper in the past, or at least not given the full nuance it deserves. Great video! Excited to watch more.

No. I'm pretty sure the most hated tree in Texas is the mesquite tree.

Arborist here in hill country. Ash juniper is the worst tree around imo but to each his own. I would rather see 100s of different oak species.

Stop destroying start creating we have been living wrong we all know something is not right.

Impressive presentation! Fine production. Important subject matter. Bravo.

My experience with Ashe Juniper is in an area we called Dinosaur Valley outside Glen Rose TX. My bonsai club used to meet for an annual dig in late winter. Very interesting Ashe could be found, usually more interesting than the Eastern Red Cedar we were more familiar with. Wish this video had been available back then.

Ashe Juniper sounds like the name of a supervillian.

brilliant work gentlemen.

Wait? 1900s? But we were told it was the barbed wire that prevented burns? The guy says he cuts them down, but he doesn’t say he rips them out? I’m like 5 minutes in and I have to take my dog out, But why didn’t you include the accounts of settlers that ACTUALLY mapped the hill country like Jack Hays in your account? I don’t know what he said but he would be a great source as one of the only Texans to survey the state back then. This already feels like propaganda? We know the Hill Country Alliance is funded by some very corrupt ppl and California is burning because of their “expert” opinions, no? This is strange… was the hill country grassland or not?

Do this but for mesquite trees

Great video.. Enjoyed

If there is a tree that deserves more disdain that it usually gets, it would be the Bradford pear. What a worthless tree... they smell bad and they are almost guaranteed to break in dramatic fashion.

We battle Mesquite trees in arizona

Looks like Balcones area??

As one who has suffered severe Mountain Cedar allergies for decades, I'm not a fan of the Ash Juniper, to understate it seriously.

You guys are so full of shit. You sound more and doctrinated than educated.

I have 22 acres on top a limestone hill of juniper cedar outside Lampasas towards Burnett. I cut anything that doesn't go mostly straight up and lower branches i can easily reach on those straight ones. Mostly just so I can get around because from space you can only see ground in a couple places. I get a lot of criticism because I leave too much. So thanks for your encouragement to not clear cut. I burn but want to understand how to berm. because i do have lots of contour and would like to keep my dirt instead of rinsing downhill.

I see nothing about burning cedar for charcoal. Before electric power and natural gas for heating and cooking, old growth cedar was used. Cedar burning to make charcoal was a major industry in central Texas. Goat raising was also a control on cedar growth. Goats would eat the young cedar growth. Where are the goats in central Texas today?

He mentioned his water table is at 10ft. Would love to know what his neighbors/ an area average is at

I need tree hugging libs to create a great love for a destructive trees.

Cedar trees are weeds

The problem is not with water nor is it about the natural state of the land. The problem is that juniper is highly allergenic. The problem is that juniper pollinated all wither long and the pollen is carried hundreds of mile, frequently as far north as OKC. The problem is that about 1 in 5 Texans suffers from juniper allergies. For many with the allergy the problem is life altering - Find Pollencom, just look at the national map from Nov-Mar. None of the treatments work, I tried them all. When I was young, I just tolerated the problem. I am old now and I noticed that I would become exceptionally vulnerable to respiratory infections that, in combination with the allergies, can quickly become quite severe. You are missing the forest for the trees. This is a healthcare issue from Austin all the way to OKC.

Improper land management is the ultimate reason we have a juniper problem. So Many land owners are absent and only come to recreationally use the property, and they let the land run wild. Clear cutting is ill advised without a clear plan to control erosion and a plan to restore native grass. I am from East Texas and our problem is Yaupon Holly, What a nightmare!!

Nnnnnnope, I'm an old rancher. They grow fast and thick and aren't "LOW maintenance" they're "NO maintenance." They give the very best windcover for Livestock, cover for calving, foaling, lambing, and kidding.They can be shaped and sculpted and grown into any pattern you need. Cardinals and other wildlife love the habitat they provide. So ... get knotted, mate.

I hate the tallow tree more.

And now the Hill Country is being over developed and the Aquifers are being sucked dry by over population !!! Litter lines the road side and It is getting worse not better

I grew up in Central Texas and I can tell you, if you’re new to Central Texas and don’t have cedar fever. You will within the next two years, I guarantee it.

Cedar and Juniper are my FAVORITE TREES (/shrubs). Thank Yall SO MUCH for Teaching about their life and roles in their environment 🙏🚂🎼🌹🎵🎶⚕️~C< 3)>>-Z->}

Robert Caro wrote about LBJ getting paid a nickel a tree with others digging out down to the tap root because they believed the hill country would be a better place to grow crops. The government is the entity that paid them.

3:20 on the Rio Grande we call creosote “la gobernadora” bc it steals all the water from the other plants, lol

Really beautiful video. Thanks for taking the time to craft and share this.

I disagree. It has to be the invasive Chinese Tallow tree. They are taking over east Texas. Research has shown over 50 % of all trees i Harris county are now Tallow trees. The tree is good for nothing. You cant even use it for fire wood because the smoke is nauseating

I love them but Pacific fronts in the winter blowing in Mountain Cedar from Rockies makes my allergies go haywire.

I would prefer the Cedar trees to the damned Huisache tree/bushes that are a thorny barrier and spreads like weeds. I hate the total clearing of land. We've also seen the wild grapes vanish from the fence lines because of land clearing.

The communication happening around trees via the bacteria and fungi is incredible. Trees using a common "language" and communication between fungi and a stand of trees is something out of science fiction but it's real and I think we don't know the half of it yet. Trees being browsed on by animals and that signaling production of tannins and other responses is incredible. Trees communicating information and fungi in a symbiotic relationship has a which came first chicken or egg question. There is absolutely no way this system just happened to develop randomly.

Thank you for this video. I’ve been so interested in the history of the rivers and creeks I’ve been fishing and I’ve found so much history on the San Gabriel. I just recently learned about the flood that basically led to the construction of the dam, or Lake Georgetown, super interesting stuff. We need this, much appreciated.