This place survived 200 years of Alabama being a state only for us to destroy it when we know better. It’s time to speak up and let them know this isn’t the future we want for Alabama!!Reach out to your elected officials and go to the Morgan County Economic Development Association website! #nativehabitatproject #Alabama #morgancenter #conservation
Man the policy behind our conservation and ecology is a mess. Starting my masters in agriculture and conservation next week partially because of people like you. Maybe one day we can have some people in those federal positions who force developers to conserve instead of working with them to see how little they can legally preserve
Seriously. We also need to separate ourselves from the types of environmentalists that cause people to take the issues even less seriously, to the point where it makes people react in a way where they do things just to spite environmentalists.
@@Wolfspaine7N6100%, blocking roads or demanding taxes on the evey day working person, farmers etc. just antagonizes the public. We need to show developers, land owners etc. how nature can benefit them and everyone else
Yes, it's disgusting, I've seen it happening all my life! I've watch development even take a hill down with large ponderosa pines on it to make a car sales lot in Colorado. It made me sick passing on the highway each week seeing it happening. I was shocked!
Unfortunately saving the environment has become politicized, it’s a shame that the same culture that claims to love outdoor activities like hunting and fishing, can simultaneously turn a blind eye to destruction like this.
I find a lot of the national dialogue on conservation very confusing re: how the political lines get drawn. In my state, conservation is a bipartisan to conservative concern - never left. I mean, it's literally CONSERVation?? 🤔
Thank you for highlighting this atrocity. 😢😢😢😢 We WILL be better, but by the time enough of us care to shift power ENOUGH... I'm not sure how much will be LEFT for us to be better FOR 🥺🥺🥺🤬🤬🤬🤬🥺🥺
I like living in the suburbs because it gives me a lot more space to sit on my phone in the air conditioning and complain about cities on social media. Ahhh the great outdoors! #civilization
Even worse, I’d liken our treatment of this continent’s native habitat to a body that has been almost completely scarred, and yet they’re still trying to gouge out the few remaining places that haven’t been scarred, and for what? In the long term, really, for what?
Huuuu makes you think that when you put a dollar sign on something it's viewed as a dollar sign not as something to be enjoyed for generations to come.
Terrible news! Just shows laws need to change in order to save the environment and endangered species! Plants and animals that are threatened or endangered need further protection! I’ve heard plants in Alabama don’t get properly protected, and seeing all this destruction makes me sick to my stomach.
Hot take. Enviromentalism, is never political. Enviromentalism should be something we all, fight for, the world we live on, is not worth destroying for $$$.
Shouldn't be political but it is. As soon as an environmental group gets money it attracts people who want to use that money for pet politicians. I love the environment but find it hard to give since it helps politicians that want to send more bombs to Ukraine.
We care. They don't care it's all about money, I'm sick of these developments and cooky cutter neighborhoods going up over grasslands and meadows. I'm in Clark county Washington and now all I see is strip malls and cooky cutter hoods
Always difficult to hear about land destruction. Everyone needs to look up their local land trusts (who conserve land) and donate. Raise the alarm when developers are threatening imperiled species. This is going on everywhere.
They're fast at throwing up junk housing or businesses. They come in, scrape that topsoil away and put a 10x10 foot grass area with a picnic table in it and call it good in between all those vinyl siding boxes. They came by this year to "improve" my road by killing everybody's front yard and old trees and gardens that apparently are in their "right of way" they took when they annexed us. It'll be a widened street with big biking paths 20 feet from my front door. Killed everything. I saved my native gardens and what I could and filled my entire back yard up with the plants. I'm trying to buy some land (50+ acres) out in no man's land to retire in. It's just a matter of time until our houses are big boxy buildings. Oh, but they said they are putting knockout roses all down the street so we can have some ugly usually dead thorny "flowers" to look at, lol. All of us will continue to fight, but it's hard. Sometimes you win, though. Keep up the fight for these people to at least try to work with us.
That’s always the worst, when people are informed and still actively choose to do harmful things. I’ve had way too many people shrug off my attempts at showing them the gestalt of planting plants that are listed invasives and just generally exotic to our ecosystem. I’ll do my best with my little suburban display garden and nursery though I suppose.
Greed and vanity-is there any way that organizations can be impelled (EPA injunction, etc.) to collect seeds and transplant endangered and rare species prior to planning development?
Only takes 10-20 minutes to complain to the gov and not the comments section. They take action when enough people complain and take action. Ask Colorado 2a supporters when they tried to ban assault guns a few months ago and they got flooded with calls from around the country. Email sent✔️ P.S My local gov is selling 7.37 acres of what was once a school so it can be developed they are okay with a urban food forests so I assume prairies are good! They are willing to negotiate price based on project merit. Hopefully I can win and work on turning it into a prairie for the community to enjoy and it’ll be a win for the prairie state! I wanna thank you for inspiring me!
@@Dooderduderthedudewhatdudes yes they are willing to sell the land for more or less depending on what you want to do. I’m just throwing out numbers but like they are willing to sell it for $1000 if you want to do something good like create an urban food forest. But if you want to build apartments they want $100,000. There’s an application for it where you can put your purchase price and what your project is. I wasn’t talking about any one job title in specific just that it needs to be the group of people that can something. The people of colorado didn’t just call one person they flooded all the legislators.
@@etherico3041 Cool! Is that called a RFP, request for proposal or some such? I hate jargon but it helps navigate stuff like this. I had good preliminary talks with my county a few yrs back but had to move immediately after. Since then I have a hard time getting anyone to return calls from county planning/development kinda departments. That's why I asked about job title. Good luck on your project!
I don't have any social media. How can I go about getting in touch with you? I'm about to clear a hillside in Shelby county what i have done several times before! I want to know if im destroying good. I have pictures from years past.
And all those houses they're building they're probably going to sit vacant for a very long time because they're insanely overpriced cuz they're only building those subdivisions because it drives up investment.
Hey I can't figure out how to direct msg you . But if you ever come ANYWHERE in Louisiana. Please let me know I would love to help you with whatever you need! We need a program like what you are doing in every state. Please know you are changing the world and I can't help financially but I can with my time!
As much as outsiders who've never been here like to make fun of Alabama, we really have earned the description "Alabama the Beautiful." The economic growth in North Alabama is fantastic for people who need jobs, but we need to find a way to handle it without destroying these precious ecosystems.
This is the reality of the age. And it's ramping up as the effects of ecological collapse and climate catastrophe get worse. Too dumb and desperate to care about what they're doing, but definitely feeling the resultant existential pressure. It keeps me in a quiet, depressive rage. Cities, counties, and states don't care. They only understand short term economic gains, and they want to appease the lobbyists of development companies. I feel so stupid with this kinda stuff, the layers of purposefully impenetrable laws and ordinances make my head spin.
How was this allowed to happen? Don't they have a process where they have to check for endangered species and then not be allowed to kill them if they find them?
@@scottclark155 there hasn't been a single politician that genuinely cares about the environment. They need to be pressured to act like they care, which is why we need lobby groups
We have a similar thing in the UK with bats... they are protected. Woe betide you if you want to do something in a church tower. But there was an abandoned industrial unit next to my house that had bats. No problems in developing it. And for good measure they released hundreds of gallons of heating oil into the local waterway.
They know all too well what they are doing. I wrote Wetland habitat preservation plans on Michigan. If I'm writing a plan for habitat preservation I have to run archaeology reports to identify possible native American historic sites and past identification of rare plants. If I'm writing a report for row crop production at the same exact site they Don't have to look at those reports or even care.
The endangered species act wasn't designed to prevent the destruction of rare species and eco systems. It was designed for the government to make money by charging wealthy corporations when they destroy them.
It is there property man , buy yourself some land to grow grass on it and stop going on about other peoples property man , you have jumped your rocker man . I love what you promote with bringing awareness to the plants and God knows I love and respect the land and plants but man you trying to take it to far .Get to gather a group and plant more of it and grow seeds to plant and divide the clumps you have but don’t grid lock 30 acres over a seed that needs spreed across tens of thousands of acres .
Hey man, I hate to be rude, but I see some changes in your face. Just make sure you're making good choices for taking care of yourself, or get help with it if you can't. You can't save any native habitats if you're dead. Good luck man. I love your work. We need more people like you.
This place survived 200 years of Alabama being a state only for us to destroy it when we know better. It’s time to speak up and let them know this isn’t the future we want for Alabama!!Reach out to your elected officials and go to the Morgan County Economic Development Association website! #nativehabitatproject #Alabama #morgancenter #conservation
Man the policy behind our conservation and ecology is a mess. Starting my masters in agriculture and conservation next week partially because of people like you.
Maybe one day we can have some people in those federal positions who force developers to conserve instead of working with them to see how little they can legally preserve
Too bad Trump signed that bill to completely allow corporation's to destroy or reroute any body of water, _with_ impunity!
🤬🤬 FFS! 🤬🤬
@@Digitalhunny Actually he just repealed a regulation by Obama that caused a lot of problems for farmers.
In Alabama, environmentalist is an alternative spelling of communist.
I hate what people do sometimes
We need to get politically organized and big so we can lobby against stuff like this, file lawsuits etc. we need solutions
Seriously. We also need to separate ourselves from the types of environmentalists that cause people to take the issues even less seriously, to the point where it makes people react in a way where they do things just to spite environmentalists.
@@Wolfspaine7N6100%, blocking roads or demanding taxes on the evey day working person, farmers etc. just antagonizes the public. We need to show developers, land owners etc. how nature can benefit them and everyone else
Maybe CCL? Sierra Club also does lots of lawsuits
Do you know how much that would cost?
Yep. Nobody cares about grasslands/ prairie habits. Just use it for something "better" . I feel that's what's happened with most of the plains states
Yes, it's disgusting, I've seen it happening all my life! I've watch development even take a hill down with large ponderosa pines on it to make a car sales lot in Colorado. It made me sick passing on the highway each week seeing it happening. I was shocked!
@@mare7829 Ah yes I blamed the californias😊
Unfortunately saving the environment has become politicized, it’s a shame that the same culture that claims to love outdoor activities like hunting and fishing, can simultaneously turn a blind eye to destruction like this.
I find a lot of the national dialogue on conservation very confusing re: how the political lines get drawn. In my state, conservation is a bipartisan to conservative concern - never left. I mean, it's literally CONSERVation?? 🤔
@@tylernaturalist6437 we need to change that, left right politics should have nothing to do with it
@@YellaSpiceFamilyI wish people in my red state have a damn
Wtf is wrong with people?!? Greed. That's all it is. Horrible!!!
Thank you for highlighting this atrocity. 😢😢😢😢
We WILL be better, but by the time enough of us care to shift power ENOUGH... I'm not sure how much will be LEFT for us to be better FOR
🥺🥺🥺🤬🤬🤬🤬🥺🥺
Start a lawsuit good for the people no evil deeds that's very sad
Suburban sprawl is one of the biggest destroyers of ecosystems 😔 and it all gets turned into ugly sterile lawns.
I like living in the suburbs because it gives me a lot more space to sit on my phone in the air conditioning and complain about cities on social media. Ahhh the great outdoors! #civilization
And the symptoms of it they call global warming, so it always goes unaddressed
This doesn't even look like housing though, it's pitiful
destroyer of ecosystems AND cities! weve got the math to prove it unfortunately
Time to lawyer up?
Scarring the landscape ... it's heartbreaking
Even worse, I’d liken our treatment of this continent’s native habitat to a body that has been almost completely scarred, and yet they’re still trying to gouge out the few remaining places that haven’t been scarred, and for what? In the long term, really, for what?
Sickening
That's absolutely disgusting. I'm so sorry.
Keep fighting the good fight, every little bit of what you do helps.
Want my tax dollars back…. What an incredible waste and disrespect.
What a terrible shame. Land conservation is SO important.
I know your pain brother, we are gonna fight for and preserve what we have left
Huuuu makes you think that when you put a dollar sign on something it's viewed as a dollar sign not as something to be enjoyed for generations to come.
Govt doing what govt does best: do what we say, dont expect us to follow the same rules!
Clear cut for soulless apartments no one wants. Leave us something behind damn
Terrible news! Just shows laws need to change in order to save the environment and endangered species! Plants and animals that are threatened or endangered need further protection! I’ve heard plants in Alabama don’t get properly protected, and seeing all this destruction makes me sick to my stomach.
Hot take.
Enviromentalism, is never political.
Enviromentalism should be something we all, fight for, the world we live on, is not worth destroying for $$$.
Shouldn't be political but it is. As soon as an environmental group gets money it attracts people who want to use that money for pet politicians. I love the environment but find it hard to give since it helps politicians that want to send more bombs to Ukraine.
Makes me sick. We are the ones who should have the money to buy hundreds of thousands of acres and turn it back into a native, diverse ecosystem
It's already miserable and sad ... The cherry on the top of this turd-sundae? They're gonna be ugly- @$$ houses too 😮💨
Sounds like Alabama to me
They will pay money and get out of it
They dug it up and hauled it away, called it the progress of man. John Prine
They do not care. I’ve been doing similar work since 1979. They do not care. Not one bit. I wish I was wrong …
Ecosystem diversity is dwindling every year. This is sad and shameful. What’s going to be left for the generations to come?
We care. They don't care it's all about money, I'm sick of these developments and cooky cutter neighborhoods going up over grasslands and meadows. I'm in Clark county Washington and now all I see is strip malls and cooky cutter hoods
The longer time goes on, the more I realize that Alabama just doesn't care enough anymore.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LAWSUIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for pointing this out in your area, disgusting
Always difficult to hear about land destruction. Everyone needs to look up their local land trusts (who conserve land) and donate. Raise the alarm when developers are threatening imperiled species. This is going on everywhere.
They're fast at throwing up junk housing or businesses. They come in, scrape that topsoil away and put a 10x10 foot grass area with a picnic table in it and call it good in between all those vinyl siding boxes. They came by this year to "improve" my road by killing everybody's front yard and old trees and gardens that apparently are in their "right of way" they took when they annexed us. It'll be a widened street with big biking paths 20 feet from my front door. Killed everything. I saved my native gardens and what I could and filled my entire back yard up with the plants. I'm trying to buy some land (50+ acres) out in no man's land to retire in. It's just a matter of time until our houses are big boxy buildings. Oh, but they said they are putting knockout roses all down the street so we can have some ugly usually dead thorny "flowers" to look at, lol. All of us will continue to fight, but it's hard. Sometimes you win, though. Keep up the fight for these people to at least try to work with us.
That’s always the worst, when people are informed and still actively choose to do harmful things. I’ve had way too many people shrug off my attempts at showing them the gestalt of planting plants that are listed invasives and just generally exotic to our ecosystem. I’ll do my best with my little suburban display garden and nursery though I suppose.
Thank you❤for this information😢
Preserve these grasslands.❤❤
Ugh, so sorry 😞 did they give any reason why they didn’t want to even try to conserve some?
Greed and vanity-is there any way that organizations can be impelled (EPA injunction, etc.) to collect seeds and transplant endangered and rare species prior to planning development?
I am sure if you report to the EPA and Department of Interior they'll put a halt if it's not already too late. In any case I hope you saved the seed
Can an EPA injunction require them to collect seeds and transplant endangered and rare species prior to planning development?
You are truly doing godly work.
Only takes 10-20 minutes to complain to the gov and not the comments section. They take action when enough people complain and take action. Ask Colorado 2a supporters when they tried to ban assault guns a few months ago and they got flooded with calls from around the country. Email sent✔️
P.S My local gov is selling 7.37 acres of what was once a school so it can be developed they are okay with a urban food forests so I assume prairies are good! They are willing to negotiate price based on project merit. Hopefully I can win and work on turning it into a prairie for the community to enjoy and it’ll be a win for the prairie state! I wanna thank you for inspiring me!
Who are you talking to, as in their job title? Also when you say negotiate price based on merit do you mean the price they want for the acreage?
@@Dooderduderthedudewhatdudes yes they are willing to sell the land for more or less depending on what you want to do. I’m just throwing out numbers but like they are willing to sell it for $1000 if you want to do something good like create an urban food forest. But if you want to build apartments they want $100,000. There’s an application for it where you can put your purchase price and what your project is.
I wasn’t talking about any one job title in specific just that it needs to be the group of people that can something. The people of colorado didn’t just call one person they flooded all the legislators.
@@etherico3041 Cool! Is that called a RFP, request for proposal or some such? I hate jargon but it helps navigate stuff like this. I had good preliminary talks with my county a few yrs back but had to move immediately after. Since then I have a hard time getting anyone to return calls from county planning/development kinda departments. That's why I asked about job title.
Good luck on your project!
For the algorithm ❤
I don't have any social media. How can I go about getting in touch with you? I'm about to clear a hillside in Shelby county what i have done several times before! I want to know if im destroying good. I have pictures from years past.
Why are you destroying the environment?
Never said I was.
@@Toodle.Pipp001 I appreciate nature more than most
@@plmbtired then what do you mean by clearing?
You should put the link somewhere easy to find
mceda.org/about-mceda/board-of-directors
mceda.org/about-mceda/board-of-directors
thank you
Say the name of the state senators and representatives that allowed this to happen with Federal money
They do t care and it's getting WORSE! EXHIBIT NORTHWEST TENNESSEE
Thank you.
The problem is that nobody really cares until it's happening in their backyard.
If you knew there was an endangered species, should have brought a LAWSUIT to stop development.
Thank you for bringing awareness to our endangered ecosytems! They need our care and protection!
If Memaw can’t make money from it she’ll beat it until it makes money.
It’s literally illegal to kill population of endangered species.
And all those houses they're building they're probably going to sit vacant for a very long time because they're insanely overpriced cuz they're only building those subdivisions because it drives up investment.
Hey I can't figure out how to direct msg you . But if you ever come ANYWHERE in Louisiana. Please let me know I would love to help you with whatever you need! We need a program like what you are doing in every state. Please know you are changing the world and I can't help financially but I can with my time!
As much as outsiders who've never been here like to make fun of Alabama, we really have earned the description "Alabama the Beautiful."
The economic growth in North Alabama is fantastic for people who need jobs, but we need to find a way to handle it without destroying these precious ecosystems.
Like that Lynyrd Skynyrd song "All I can do is write about" goes
"I can see the concrete slowly creeping, Lord take me and mine before that comes"
Oh Im 100% sure they did know, they just don't care.
This is the reality of the age. And it's ramping up as the effects of ecological collapse and climate catastrophe get worse. Too dumb and desperate to care about what they're doing, but definitely feeling the resultant existential pressure. It keeps me in a quiet, depressive rage. Cities, counties, and states don't care. They only understand short term economic gains, and they want to appease the lobbyists of development companies. I feel so stupid with this kinda stuff, the layers of purposefully impenetrable laws and ordinances make my head spin.
How was this allowed to happen? Don't they have a process where they have to check for endangered species and then not be allowed to kill them if they find them?
Yep . The present administration is a sad excuse...
comrade, it started with Reagan.
@@LexYeenand Thatcher, pure, greed driven evil.
@@scottclark155 there hasn't been a single politician that genuinely cares about the environment. They need to be pressured to act like they care, which is why we need lobby groups
@@LaughingMan44 I'm involved in my state..hope u are to! N wen I pondered ur post..teddy Roosevelt maby? Hagd
Sent them an email. 🤘 Fuck unchecked development.
We have a similar thing in the UK with bats... they are protected. Woe betide you if you want to do something in a church tower. But there was an abandoned industrial unit next to my house that had bats. No problems in developing it. And for good measure they released hundreds of gallons of heating oil into the local waterway.
You are doing good work, any hate towards you or the work you is from small short sighted people
They know all too well what they are doing. I wrote Wetland habitat preservation plans on Michigan. If I'm writing a plan for habitat preservation I have to run archaeology reports to identify possible native American historic sites and past identification of rare plants. If I'm writing a report for row crop production at the same exact site they Don't have to look at those reports or even care.
The endangered species act wasn't designed to prevent the destruction of rare species and eco systems.
It was designed for the government to make money by charging wealthy corporations when they destroy them.
This needs to be on the news.
People don't even realize how important this is.
❤Save all we can
It is there property man , buy yourself some land to grow grass on it and stop going on about other peoples property man , you have jumped your rocker man . I love what you promote with bringing awareness to the plants and God knows I love and respect the land and plants but man you trying to take it to far .Get to gather a group and plant more of it and grow seeds to plant and divide the clumps you have but don’t grid lock 30 acres over a seed that needs spreed across tens of thousands of acres .
If the plants are federally endangered isn't there a way to get that company responsible in a lot of legal trouble?
Developers are utterly despicable.
makes a misanthrope PUKE😐😑🤨
How can we help? I’m asking for real.
It makes you wanna grow stuff and cry
Money 💰 it's all about the money
Ity not nice to mess with mother nature
More people, more scars across the land.
Commenting for the algorithm
Many dont care.... but I do
That's why you vote red.
Yay! You told us who to shake our fist at! 🎉
But what about the taxes?!!!!!
keep up the good, hard work
Keep up the fight for our earth…..
That is so abominably sad
We need to reign in the government.
Greed and corruption
Vote for progressuvez
Wokeism
Follow the money!!
It's shameful
Amazing work
Keep speaking up!
Peak Bureaucrazy.
Straight to jail
😢 now I'm sad😢
Again and again 😢
Hey man, I hate to be rude, but I see some changes in your face. Just make sure you're making good choices for taking care of yourself, or get help with it if you can't. You can't save any native habitats if you're dead.
Good luck man. I love your work. We need more people like you.
He's wearing the pain from all this. He cares more than any one of us. Give him a break.
Leave us a link
Lol chill bro
Shameful
Disgusting
So sad!!