I cannot explain how happy I am to see you doing this amazing preservation and protection service. you are a hero my friend. I find your channel to be extremely entertaining. much love. keep doing what you do
You're protecting some truly beautiful land. I've worked on projects where the rental skidsteer did the same shit. It sucks to have to throw away a work day, but at least it was a good opportunity to take us all on a tour 😍
An oak savanna nearby me has many of those small fenced off areas to keep the buffalo out to study how they change the land. Its also has an awesome population of red-headed woodpeckers. One of the coolest ecosystems around.
Man I really do enjoy YOUR videos because I learn something. You and my dad are the only people I have ever heard use the word (duff) he was from Chicago like you. It just sparks my curiosity when I’m 66 and have only ever heard 2 people use that word. Anyhow,great video thanks for YOUR work.
It's going to take some tricky engineering to set up a wildlife watering station at the sanctuary and, at the same time, keep those pigs from using it too.
Thanks for this, it's a treat to see folks out there getting going on Our Pre-serve. Iffn I were a more monied person, or lived closer, I'd be begging to volunteer. Peace y'all, from eastern VA
Will you plant native plants where invasives get destroyed? I wonder if that would be possible as a project for the area? Whatever the intent is. This project is in the best hands on earth for conservation.
Where the fuck is this? I lived outside of Laredo back in the mid to late 1950's as a kid by el Arrory Chacone and the scrub looks different. At least to my old eyes and memory. It's hard to escape the irony of what you are doing. But then again a sanctuary attempt in the hands of someone that really gives a shit is worth a go. Regards. Jose
I hope you see this, u are fckn hilarious .’x, what a trip to hear someone talk in normal language as he is caring about nature. Hugegmfane. “No offense To the black beush” “Cool snakes”
Now this, is what the internet is about. I'm floored. How cool Tony you're like a walking botanical encyclopedia. I agree about the swine. You're a gem, dude, somebody real.
U back from Chile already? just keeping some type of upload schedule up i guess. Hope you had fun can't wait to see those videos came to check rn. Nice piece o land u got there
It's December 26,2024 and it's 82 degrees F. Another CVS Pharmacy or a Ross Dress For Less. Nooooo! Texas caliche is like a natural cement. A great looking biome that needs saving.
Damn i wish i could come out and help you with this, and put my shameful garden landscaping experience to do some good work for gahhhhhd. Too bad im in Australia otherwise id be giving you all the free time i have, to help this great project. Much love from Melbourne xoxo
You mentioned creating a species list for the property. I've been trying to do that on I-nat. for my property. It isn't working as good as I would like. Are you using another software, or do you know how to do this with I-nat.? Any tips or trick you can share will be apricated.
Don't be too against paying people, even yourself, for labor. Corruption is a B, and it might not be feasible initially, but pouring into a project can be more sustainable when people get a consistent (small) reward for their time and work at some point. Helps prevent martyrs from taking over and can be a first step up into a professional career for people who come along. Hell, maybe you can pay people in literal pork for a while?
Feral pigs in the Western US, and apparently the South, are a different thing. Some of them are descended from pigs that were released or escaped in the 1800s even. They are huge and dangerous and mean and destructive. I adore pigs, they're cute. But these are a different thing.
Have you considered using volunteers in your commentary. Showing their enthusiasm and why they are there is a good way of spreading good news. Volunteer videos on youtube are popular. To get people involved, or to get donations in. And you cannot do it all yourself.
1:34 thanks for telling the real truth of why "invasives" move into territories that weren't previously explored by said species always that good ol word (disturbance) and now yall are causing even more of it. Still love watching your videos even from an evolutionary biology standpoint I may not agree with you on the "invasive species thing", but I will jot deny your superior understanding in botany which is also just biology.
“invasives”??? is buffelgrass not a nonnative plant that outcompetes natives and makes it less biodiverse? also, even if they do not build any structures on the property land still needs to be cleared so the cars dont catch the whole area on fire
The land we are clearing was already cleared 30 years prior and buffelgrass infltrates plenty of land that hasn't experienced any disturbance, just like many invasives do. You don't need to agree with me, lol, you don't need to comment or do ecological backseat driving either
@@NUCLEARNIRVANA999 The takeover of disturbed land by ruderal invasive plants is typically in the context of agriculture, not a small plot being monitored by professionals. I'm sorry but your logic on why something wouldn't be native just doesn't make sense, we don't get to change the definitions to make the work easier because one plant is surrounded by another invasive that makes its life cycle harder. The goal of a project like this is to return the land to a state where that maintenance doesn't need to take place because the native community is planted to outcompete the invasives. Your examples of prairies and forests need a little more context and really don't relate to this project in any way. Native prairies need fire once in a while but the current issue is that the garbage invasives increase the fire temperatures to the point that the native bunchgrasses can't survive and everything just gets pasted over with Bromus or Cenchrus the moment the fire goes away. Pseudotsuga outcompetes oaks in areas of fire exclusion and deforestation, ie crap land management. I hope this explained it a bit, I'm in the midst of a bout of bronchitis after 5 days of flu so I'm a bit woozy haha. Have a good evening.
@NUCLEARNIRVANA999 Yo, Nuke---if you use a cell phone or drive a motorized vehicle, um you personally contribute to ecological destruction, jes' sayin. Peace & love, y'all
I cannot explain how happy I am to see you doing this amazing preservation and protection service. you are a hero my friend. I find your channel to be extremely entertaining. much love. keep doing what you do
Hear hear!
@@swiles Hear hear hear ✅️
im on the look out for some agave's.... i hope we get some
You're protecting some truly beautiful land. I've worked on projects where the rental skidsteer did the same shit. It sucks to have to throw away a work day, but at least it was a good opportunity to take us all on a tour 😍
I love learning about plants and listening to your musings on everything in the universe. Keep up the good work my friend!
Very nice! The energy is contagious!
An oak savanna nearby me has many of those small fenced off areas to keep the buffalo out to study how they change the land. Its also has an awesome population of red-headed woodpeckers. One of the coolest ecosystems around.
Tony you are awesome and do wonderful work...Congratulations.
Can't wait to see what this place will look like 5 to 10yrs from now.
Edit: That soil is very aesthetically pleasing to look at.
Man I really do enjoy YOUR videos because I learn something. You and my dad are the only people I have ever heard use the word (duff) he was from Chicago like you. It just sparks my curiosity when I’m 66 and have only ever heard 2 people use that word. Anyhow,great video thanks for YOUR work.
That is very handy tool for clearing paths, and a good workout for the fore-arms, i bet they were burning hehe ❤
Look at doing stabilized compressed earth block buildings on the property!
It's going to take some tricky engineering to set up a wildlife watering station at the sanctuary and, at the same time, keep those pigs from using it too.
Loving the videos! Always fills my botany fix. I hope to be majoring in something related that i can buy a house with😘😘😘
If I had a passport, I'd go and help clear the bufflegrass.
Thanks for this, it's a treat to see folks out there getting going on Our Pre-serve.
Iffn I were a more monied person, or lived closer, I'd be begging to volunteer.
Peace y'all, from eastern VA
Will you plant native plants where invasives get destroyed? I wonder if that would be possible as a project for the area? Whatever the intent is. This project is in the best hands on earth for conservation.
Course he will! he put some shit in a BAYYYG in that other video and he'll sprinkle it where it needs to go
Where the fuck is this?
I lived outside of Laredo back in the mid to late 1950's as a kid by el Arrory Chacone and the scrub looks different.
At least to my old eyes and memory.
It's hard to escape the irony of what you are doing.
But then again a sanctuary attempt in the hands of someone that really gives a shit is worth a go.
Regards.
Jose
me too bro, I'm all about that crust and that duff
Always love the fungi shoutouts
Fungi are pretty great
Just what‘s needed in IL January
Ever looking for volunteers? I'm a longtime fan from Brownsville and would love the opportunity to help get Thornscrub Santuary into an "oasis".
I hope you see this, u are fckn hilarious .’x, what a trip to hear someone talk in normal language as he is caring about nature. Hugegmfane. “No offense To the black beush” “Cool snakes”
Now this, is what the internet is about. I'm floored. How cool Tony you're like a walking
botanical encyclopedia. I agree about the swine. You're a gem, dude, somebody real.
@@timothymoran3975 Yup 😻
U back from Chile already? just keeping some type of upload schedule up i guess. Hope you had fun can't wait to see those videos came to check rn. Nice piece o land u got there
Is it bacon time? Sounds delicious.
That lichen was stunning! Wow!! Love seeing the process of the sanctuary.
Any idea how future fencing to keep pigs/people out will impact native wildlife?
Bufflegrass is very invasive where I live too
Big brig! Made in the USA. Happily use it in NZ.
It's December 26,2024 and it's 82 degrees F. Another CVS Pharmacy or a Ross Dress For Less. Nooooo! Texas caliche is
like a natural cement. A great looking biome that needs saving.
Is that an area that normally sees fire?
Crime pays BBQ.
Omg yay!
Do you need volunteers? I have an RV, some plant knowledge, and time.
When is the wild pig roast fundraiser? I’ll be there
Damn i wish i could come out and help you with this, and put my shameful garden landscaping experience to do some good work for gahhhhhd. Too bad im in Australia otherwise id be giving you all the free time i have, to help this great project.
Much love from Melbourne xoxo
Too bad there’s no such thing as trained rental lions to deal with the pigs. I wonder if jaguars will eventually move back into the area.
I just have to ask: what does that soil smell like, especially when it’s just starting to rain?
Will the trails be ADA? Pretty important
@brandonpape3990 knowing these guys imma guess Yep
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I'm guessing pigs that are starving and eating peyote to stay alive are probably not going to be too overly tasty.
You mentioned creating a species list for the property. I've been trying to do that on I-nat. for my property. It isn't working as good as I would like. Are you using another software, or do you know how to do this with I-nat.? Any tips or trick you can share will be apricated.
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Fuck yeah
"Thorn Scrub" is my sock account
Wouldn’t a few goats 🐐 make short work of the buffle grass??
Does dog piss deter pigs like it does deer?
Don't be too against paying people, even yourself, for labor. Corruption is a B, and it might not be feasible initially, but pouring into a project can be more sustainable when people get a consistent (small) reward for their time and work at some point. Helps prevent martyrs from taking over and can be a first step up into a professional career for people who come along. Hell, maybe you can pay people in literal pork for a while?
I want my own skidsteer with a mulcher shredder on it. But alas I am poor.
You can rent em cheap that's what I did. Why don't you rent one and take it to the landscaping at your local retail plaza?
People release pigs for the same reason they release cats. Cute when little and many people suck 😕
Thanks for the tour, this should keep you busy!
They were brought to the continent for food by colonists a long time ago
Feral pigs in the Western US, and apparently the South, are a different thing. Some of them are descended from pigs that were released or escaped in the 1800s even. They are huge and dangerous and mean and destructive. I adore pigs, they're cute. But these are a different thing.
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What's an indigo?
Have you considered using volunteers in your commentary.
Showing their enthusiasm and why they are there is a good way of spreading good news.
Volunteer videos on youtube are popular. To get people involved, or to get donations in.
And you cannot do it all yourself.
I don't eat domestic pork but I would probably eat feral pigs just because I like native plants and animals more than I like not eating pork.
So many invasive species around the world going underutilized. Don't mind a meal of marinated then fried Tilapia myself.🎣🍽😋
Jesus. Last 3 videos "PIGS!!" 😓
Pigs and fire ants have decimated animals like quail and other ground nesting birds and native critters. Looking forward to the future desert eden.
Yoooooooooooo
If it was white brush, you wouldn't be messin with it.
@The_Savage_Wombat mmmmm... peace & love fam
One can hear your heart bleeding in this one. All the beauty everywhere you look at. Bulldozing is not your thing.
Hotdogs 🌭 anyone?
Test
@@highpoweredsupernova Results? ♡♡♡
Don’t put your fingers in that rusty bastard.Looks just like Palisades before they torched it.
Too bad it’s illegal to sell wild game meat 🍖 because that would be a great way to raise money for the project. Uncle Joey’s smoked bacon 🥓 😂
Quick, get your arse down to Panama and do a botanical survey before Trump Agent Oranges the whole place.
1:34 thanks for telling the real truth of why "invasives" move into territories that weren't previously explored by said species always that good ol word (disturbance) and now yall are causing even more of it. Still love watching your videos even from an evolutionary biology standpoint I may not agree with you on the "invasive species thing", but I will jot deny your superior understanding in botany which is also just biology.
“invasives”??? is buffelgrass not a nonnative plant that outcompetes natives and makes it less biodiverse? also, even if they do not build any structures on the property land still needs to be cleared so the cars dont catch the whole area on fire
The land we are clearing was already cleared 30 years prior and buffelgrass infltrates plenty of land that hasn't experienced any disturbance, just like many invasives do. You don't need to agree with me, lol, you don't need to comment or do ecological backseat driving either
@@NUCLEARNIRVANA999 The takeover of disturbed land by ruderal invasive plants is typically in the context of agriculture, not a small plot being monitored by professionals. I'm sorry but your logic on why something wouldn't be native just doesn't make sense, we don't get to change the definitions to make the work easier because one plant is surrounded by another invasive that makes its life cycle harder. The goal of a project like this is to return the land to a state where that maintenance doesn't need to take place because the native community is planted to outcompete the invasives. Your examples of prairies and forests need a little more context and really don't relate to this project in any way. Native prairies need fire once in a while but the current issue is that the garbage invasives increase the fire temperatures to the point that the native bunchgrasses can't survive and everything just gets pasted over with Bromus or Cenchrus the moment the fire goes away. Pseudotsuga outcompetes oaks in areas of fire exclusion and deforestation, ie crap land management. I hope this explained it a bit, I'm in the midst of a bout of bronchitis after 5 days of flu so I'm a bit woozy haha. Have a good evening.
@NUCLEARNIRVANA999 Yo, Nuke---if you use a cell phone or drive a motorized vehicle, um you personally contribute to ecological destruction, jes' sayin.
Peace & love, y'all