@@EarthrealmWarrior the individual trees/stems die all the time for tons of reason (old age, illness, etc) -- forest service collects deadfall and fells sick/dead trees, piles them up in "slash piles" and burns them in the winter.
You can’t leave a link in the description? What kind of TH-camr are you?? Jk love your vids! But seriously, maybe a link next time? Hoping the crew neck you’re wearing in this video is on this website 🤞🏻 Nevermind, I just found out that’s a Canadian indie rock band 😆
When trees grow taller and new branches form, the branches below get less and less sunlight. It's better for the tree to shed the limbs and not waste energy and food than to keep them healthy for diminishing returns.
Lots of trees do it for lots of reasons! Aspens shed their lower limbs as the tree grows taller because those limbs would then be primarily shaded and thus consuming more energy than they’re producing. So they drop them in favor of the new higher limbs that reach sunlight!
There was a writing prompt I saw on Reddit where aliens invade earth, but they allow humanity to appoint a champion to fight a duel for the planet’s freedom. In one of the responses, humanity named Pando as their champion, and the alien’s champion died of exhaustion trying to beat down all of the trees.
Pando lost its designation as the largest creature on earth. It now belongs to a massive underground fungus in W̶a̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶t̶o̶n̶ S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ Oregon. The fungus also eats trees.
Hence why I said "heaviest" -- although the "largest" moniker is still very much up for debate. A lot of people still think Pando counts as more of a "single organism" than that fungal network. Let the botanists fight, i say!
Eats decomposing trees, mycelial networks help spread nutrients and chemical signals amongst plant root network. Afaik the mycelium in the PNW is the largest by landmass, in square miles.
@a. phytophile Actually, the honey mushroom is a parasitic fungus! They eat the living parts of the tree until it dies. And once it dies, it can continue eating the body of the dead tree for years! Amazing how such a prolific parasite can live in balance with an entire forest ecosystem without overrunning it
@@balesshippolova No, Pandora is derived from the Greek mythos of Pandora's box. Pandora stands for gift so finding another habitable planet could be seen as a gift. Or when Pandora opens the box humanities evils are unleashed which could be a nod to the colonisation/exploitation of the planet.
i remember hearing a theory that pando might actually be multiple organisms and we'd never know. the theory is based on the idea that a small section of pando could've broken off by way of the connecting roots dying or breaking, thus making the section it's own self-supporting organism, but we'd never know bc they all share genetic material
A little while ago the Star Wars comics featured a place called “the living sea of Gazian” it is a gigantic fungus system where people can connect their minds. Luke goes there and gets help from the consciousness of a long dead Jedi Master. I am positive it was inspired by Pando.
@@randomchocolateenjoyer5393 because they connect their consciousness by connecting to a living non animal organism... just like they do in Pandora maybe? 😜 smh
I can't imagine how happy he must have been when he visited this place. It actually makes me feel happy just thinking about how happy he probably was visiting this place
I live within a few yards of 3 of your liked trees . Black Loust, Black Walnut and Pecan Trees. I like watching you take a log and make something Beautiful. Well as for Me Over and Out.
Pando reminds me of Gravity Falls, that one dream flashback with Ford where he's sleeping on an Aspen tree, the eye-like markings turned into actual eyes watching him sleep
Justin, if you've ever the opportunity, the should hike the great divide trail outside of Pagosa Springs Colorado. There are several stands of bristlecone pine on the higher timberlines that pre-date us all. It is asked that nothing be taken or harvested for obvious reasons, nether the less, its a journey well worth the effort.
This is literally the most interesting thing I've heard. So I watched this video like 5 times cuz my mind was just blown by this fact. Trying to understand that this organism has existed for so long.
From Louisiana. When I lived in Lakewood, CO, we went for the Cog Train ride up Pike's Peak. The tour guide told us something similar about the root system of the Aspen. Something on the lines of if you "genetically" tested them, the ones hundreds of miles away, would have similar genes, because of how they grow from the roots. I don't know how factual that information is. This was almost 23 years ago.
Those may be some of the biggest trees but the heaviest is Pando which is a clonial organism of trees meaning that one original tree grew and then off of that one thousands of almost exact same tree grew
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"Pando is for lovers" merch on the website rn! Get it while the gettin's good!
Why are there chopped up trees ? Aren't they supposed to save it or am I missing something
@@EarthrealmWarrior the individual trees/stems die all the time for tons of reason (old age, illness, etc) -- forest service collects deadfall and fells sick/dead trees, piles them up in "slash piles" and burns them in the winter.
You can’t leave a link in the description? What kind of TH-camr are you?? Jk love your vids! But seriously, maybe a link next time? Hoping the crew neck you’re wearing in this video is on this website 🤞🏻
Nevermind, I just found out that’s a Canadian indie rock band 😆
@@Justinthetrees oh ok that's good to know that they aren't destroying the forest
@@Justinthetreeswhere's the website? I really want a pando is for lovers sticker
Wait, some trees naturally shed their limbs?!? That is a really interesting strategy. Why would they do that?
When trees grow taller and new branches form, the branches below get less and less sunlight. It's better for the tree to shed the limbs and not waste energy and food than to keep them healthy for diminishing returns.
Lots of trees do it for lots of reasons! Aspens shed their lower limbs as the tree grows taller because those limbs would then be primarily shaded and thus consuming more energy than they’re producing. So they drop them in favor of the new higher limbs that reach sunlight!
For the same reasons humans do
@@fe-nauzI haven't shed any of my limbs...
@@JakeLovesSteak yet.
"You can tell its an aspen, because of the way that it is"
Yes! This is what I was looking for 😊
I honestly thought he was gonna say it for a moment
@@Air_Macaroon so did I! It started so similar, I wondered if it might be a sleeper reference at first, but I'm not so sure now
Thank you XD if someone didn't say it I was gonna
Dammit you beat me to it
Everyone knows the real way to tell if it’s an Aspen is because of the way it is. I think that’s pretty neat!
The way it is? And what way is that?
Neat!
Literally heard this in my head the moment he said how to tell it’s an aspen 😂
@@mitchgillilan it's a reference to Lenny Pepperbottom's Neature Walks. Look it up, it's pretty neat.
There was a writing prompt I saw on Reddit where aliens invade earth, but they allow humanity to appoint a champion to fight a duel for the planet’s freedom. In one of the responses, humanity named Pando as their champion, and the alien’s champion died of exhaustion trying to beat down all of the trees.
What was the prompt named? I would like to read the thread
lmfao
lol that is creative
Pando lost its designation as the largest creature on earth. It now belongs to a massive underground fungus in W̶a̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶t̶o̶n̶ S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ Oregon. The fungus also eats trees.
Hence why I said "heaviest" -- although the "largest" moniker is still very much up for debate. A lot of people still think Pando counts as more of a "single organism" than that fungal network. Let the botanists fight, i say!
Eats decomposing trees, mycelial networks help spread nutrients and chemical signals amongst plant root network. Afaik the mycelium in the PNW is the largest by landmass, in square miles.
@a. phytophile Actually, the honey mushroom is a parasitic fungus! They eat the living parts of the tree until it dies. And once it dies, it can continue eating the body of the dead tree for years! Amazing how such a prolific parasite can live in balance with an entire forest ecosystem without overrunning it
Am I wrong by trying to include Posidonia australis seagrass in this chat? The ribbon weed off Australian shores?
I believe the fungus you're talking about is in Oregon, unless theres also one in Washington which is possible i don't know a lot about Washington
What a big boy! So beautiful.
He’s our beautiful big boy, it’s true
@@Justinthetreesthis is so wholesome 🥰
So grown up
Fun fact in the Disney movie Strange World they name a plant after Pando as just like it’s real life counterpart all of shoots of it are one organism
I was wondering if that's why avatars world is called pandora
That's one of the two things that are good about this movie
loved that movie!
@@balesshippolova No, Pandora is derived from the Greek mythos of Pandora's box. Pandora stands for gift so finding another habitable planet could be seen as a gift. Or when Pandora opens the box humanities evils are unleashed which could be a nod to the colonisation/exploitation of the planet.
@@mintiiroseWhat's the other thing? I bet I can fully agree with it
Also, you can tell if a tree is an aspen by the way it is
How neat is that?
I thought for sure he was gonna say that
This appears to be true for all trees, and possibly even other objects!
@@0v_x0 Nature really is wonderful, isn’t it?
I would guess their wisdom would be "Sharing is caring, but it's even better when you're sharing with yourself!"
Pretty good wisdom, as expected for a 14,000 year old.
This was so cool to learn!
Glad you enjoyed!!
As someone who has no knowledge of trees or woodworking, you are such a genuine guy and I enjoy watching and learning from you.
I love the Bill Cipher forest.
PANDO MUST BE PROTECTED!! I wouldn’t at all be surprised if it’s some kind of forest guardian. If anything happens to Pando we’re probably fucked
✨ pandoyancyyyyy ✨
I love Aspen. The white bark with eyes.. the shape of the leaves that rustle a lovely sound in the breeze.
Just lovely and amazing in every way.
i remember hearing a theory that pando might actually be multiple organisms and we'd never know. the theory is based on the idea that a small section of pando could've broken off by way of the connecting roots dying or breaking, thus making the section it's own self-supporting organism, but we'd never know bc they all share genetic material
A little while ago the Star Wars comics featured a place called “the living sea of Gazian” it is a gigantic fungus system where people can connect their minds. Luke goes there and gets help from the consciousness of a long dead Jedi Master. I am positive it was inspired by Pando.
Or the 90s Mario Bros movie. 😅
Also the planet from Avatar, "Pandora"
@Eliezra what does Pandora have to do with it other than a name similarity? /gen
Or the giant mycelium superorganism in the pacific northwest of the USA?
@@randomchocolateenjoyer5393 because they connect their consciousness by connecting to a living non animal organism... just like they do in Pandora maybe? 😜 smh
It feels like bill cipher is gonna talk to me through those trees
It’s so beautiful how all their leaves are the same color and how almost all of them are equally healthy
Pando!!!!! I saw a video about this, I've always wanted to visit :) so cool!!!! :D
ALWAYS guaranteed to learn something new with this guy.
I really want to take a trip to go there one day. When I found out about this years ago, I was simply amazed.
Pando constantly reminds me of that swamp from Avatar and every time there's footage of the forest I look for a huge central tree.
You can tell it's an Aspen tree by the way it is. Neat!
I didn't know about Pando! that is AMAZING, thanks for sharing!😊
The light rain makes it sound like Pando is currently expanding as you record...
Cool!!!! Thanks for lesson, Justin
I can't imagine how happy he must have been when he visited this place. It actually makes me feel happy just thinking about how happy he probably was visiting this place
Guess where I am
…the woods
What a nice tree. I love trees
You've been inspiring me with your fascination of wood/trees! Thank you! From one very depressed/anxious girl ❤
I’m so excited about this case!! When will you be restocking some of your delights ????
Some Aspen have a green or tan shade to their bark. There are Aspen in Glacier NP that have a green shade.
Most DEFINITELY want to visit sometime! Wow!
I had not heard of this til now. Thanks for this.
Beautiful vase.
I love visiting there.
You just have the most interesting things to tell. I loved this. Googled it and found several other trees that have stories to tell.
I live within a few yards of 3 of your liked trees . Black Loust, Black Walnut and Pecan Trees. I like watching you take a log and make something Beautiful. Well as for Me Over and Out.
Great information as always.. and great job on the lathe, by the way...
that is a beautiful piece of log!
You're walking among an eldritch god
Those eyes look so cool!
I am so jealous you got a piece of Pando to turn!
Loved the (calm and soothing voice) pandooooo
Beautiful trees
Thank you for being fun and teaching the goood stuff to know. I just love it💜💜💜
I love this 🧡
Love your dog😀💖
This is literally some sort of irl magical forest, I love it 😂
Pando is a great argument for "Father Earth".
Can we not gender giant space rocks?
It's great that you live so near such a wonderful thing.
say hello to Pando from me next time you're up there
YESSSS PANDOS BACK!
That's one impressive manspread by Pando.
Pando reminds me of Gravity Falls, that one dream flashback with Ford where he's sleeping on an Aspen tree, the eye-like markings turned into actual eyes watching him sleep
There's an Aspen grove near where I live. Not as large as Pando but very impressive. I call it Lothlorien to honor its majesty and beauty.
Aspen is my favorite wood (for looks) and the comes birch.
What a nice tree, I love trees
Omg is that a rural alberta advantage sweater?!? Favourite band
Justin, if you've ever the opportunity, the should hike the great divide trail outside of Pagosa Springs Colorado. There are several stands of bristlecone pine on the higher timberlines that pre-date us all. It is asked that nothing be taken or harvested for obvious reasons, nether the less, its a journey well worth the effort.
The dog is just like “ the floor is WISDOM “
Omg this is so cool! I never knew about this👀
The aspen is now officially my new favorite tree
That's so awesome!!
Enjoy it while you can. I understand it's on its way out.
Not the dog in the back eating pando😂
Thats actually really interesting all those cloned trees lol. Nature is amazing!
Would never have thought that the Pando from Strange World would have an actual real life equivalent, and with the same name, no less.
Nobody wants to talk about the pupper eating ground candy nuggets?? 😂😂
Great vase 🌹❤️🌹
Love Pando
This is literally the most interesting thing I've heard. So I watched this video like 5 times cuz my mind was just blown by this fact. Trying to understand that this organism has existed for so long.
Using the mycelium network to communicate. Pretty fascinating
Kinda spooky if you think about it. A single giant organism that stretches for miles and the bark has eye shaped patterns...
Pando is one of my favorite creatures, but you missed the opportunity to make Pandos Box!😂
ENTERING THE PANDO ASPEN CLONE🚨🚨🚨
Yeah, Pando is the real OG
I love trees.
What a nice tree.
👁
I feel like I would just go into an imaginary corner while being afraid because of those tree eyes.
Pando is always watching
I've been there! Lovely forest.
So interesting. I was in, until you did some turning. 😴
Promoting a deeper awareness of trees, is a great public service 💜
I have spent so much money on wood from a lumber yard and you are inspiring me to just go into my woods
From Louisiana. When I lived in Lakewood, CO, we went for the Cog Train ride up Pike's Peak. The tour guide told us something similar about the root system of the Aspen. Something on the lines of if you "genetically" tested them, the ones hundreds of miles away, would have similar genes, because of how they grow from the roots. I don't know how factual that information is. This was almost 23 years ago.
Great place on Saturdays
Bill is always watching
The little juniper branch in the vase at the end
No hints necessary. I recognize my good friend Pando anywhere.
You can tell it's Pando by the way it is.
The OG manspreader 😂😂😂😂
We are all pando. Pando is love pando is life
“Pando is always watching…
… over us”
I love Pando
Pando looks really cute
Crazy how similar it looks to birch at a glance
Those may be some of the biggest trees but the heaviest is Pando which is a clonial organism of trees meaning that one original tree grew and then off of that one thousands of almost exact same tree grew
That is only an hour from my house. I love it there.
I love this 😊
Amazing! I'd love to visit Pando someday
I went to pando once, I was so excited, it’s genuinely such a cool thing. I really wish it wasn’t slowly disappearing into human caused death