I am an electrical engineer. I currently work as an environmental scientist collecting samples. I could be making more money but I love going out into the field for work. Bet you could find work as a field tech somewhere, most normal people hate it lmao
Both informative AND amusing. My beloved junior high botany teacher, may he RIP, would be publicly appalled by your colorful language (but secretly smiling!) You are a rare gem!
@@Forticus55 A hike through the city pointing and laughing at all the fucking idiots wasting their lives chasing money and destroying themselves and the planet through negligence or actual malice.
I started a prairie in the parking of my yard in a small town in Iowa. Native wildflowers mixed with some other wildflowers and grasses. Had to fight city to have it but I won so now I have an awesome flower patch that I don’t have to mow! Keep it up, love the content!
Thank you for fighting the city. Most of these sycophants and shills in municipal government seem to have no clue as to what the fuck they're doing or what makes a healthy, vibrant community anyway. They were accountants and shoe salesmen in their former lives before politics. No offense to either.
Wonderful video. I loved the explanation of the rocks and soil present there to understand a little bit more the geologic-botanical relationship. Congratulations and move on showing more plants from North America.
I love your very interesting take on plants and geology and your occasional cynicism always gets me. Especially that little one about the granite countertops
Really enjoy your channel. How I ended up here, have no idea. Not really a plant person but this has been fascinating. Who knows, maybe I will. And I do love the cynical asides. The granite counter tops. Amen.
We need to get this guy a go-fund-me going so we can send his ass to the Amazon Rainforest. A ticket to Columbia is only about $500 round trip, and I'd love to see him narrating a sloth encounter or some shit.
NB taken out all my subscriptions which are permanently begging for money, how many of them actually need all the money they beg for. You are genuine and much appreciated!
So when Tommy got whacked and Henry went into Witness Protection, apparently Jimmy moved out west and learned about plants and shit now he makes videos on TH-cam. 😍 THIS GUY IS AWESOME!
I put you on to escape from all the shit of the world. Thanks for your breaks back to nature and philosophy from the constant news I beat myself up with daily. I like your style and outlook and all the important sounding words you say🌈
More great shit, as usual. Would love to see you do something up here in Alaska. Maybe a walk through the tundra. I also hear there's a lot of the serpentine and ultramafic stuff down by Healy on the north side of the Alaska Range. Keep up the good work!
Iliamna bakeri is reminiscent of another California malva, the Chaparral Mallow, Malacothamnus fasciculatus in that it is an indicator species of a fairly recent fire event. It usually gradually disappears from the post burn site over time because it gets crowded out by other native flora. (A botanical channel you and some of your viewers might enjoy is Audio Guides to the Outdoors. It covers the botany and ecology of the Mt. Diablo area in central California.)
Fun little factoid: Croton Setiger actually makes a very good tinder for survival when the leaves are dried. Crush them up and they turn into a a cottony fluff. Damn things stink like pot though when it burns.
And that, folks, is Sierra Pacific Industries. The third largest private landowner in the U.S. 1.7 million acres in Wash., Oregon and California. Thank Red Emmerson for locked gates, clear cutting and "forest management".
Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside, CA has some perplexing designs in friable chrysotile rock walls next to some trails. The design is of intersecting cross-hatching with swirls in the center of each grid. Like a hashtag with a zero in the middle compartment. Still curious 15 years after seeing it and it still has me jazzed! I reviewed the literature and some journals but came up with bupkis. Ever been up there amd seen that? Wonder what process caused it? If you're ever out that way, well, it's just a thought.
I love Mariposa lilies. Once in northern New Mexico I came across fields of at least hundreds of thousands of them in full bloom. They were white, pink and purple with yellow furry throats. One of the most colorful is traffic cone orange with a black throat with 3 glowing turquoise crescent moons. The Dutch hybridize them for gardens. I have seen the bulbs for sale. I have also seen the seeds for sale in native plant stores.
I got to tell you as a jazz guitarist who almost went into biology as I ended high school(know Florida well,but not latin names) I'm in awe of your smarts & brain power. I always thought of myself as a smart high iq'd snob but thanks to you now feel as dumb as the rocks you describe !. Love your videos even though much is over my head.
You have become my new favorite scientist, intensely passionate about the natural world presented before us if we just lean in and look. Irreverent toward the forces that seek to destroy what took nature millions of years to perfect through adaptation in an ever changing environment. You make geology and plants so real.
"I don't give a sh^& about grasses, but I'm trying". Preach on. 4 years ago was supposed to be my "summer of grasses", because I've ignored them. I'm finally on it. Keyed out 3 in the last week (one was a sedge). I was surprised to see sori on the fern. I thought the dried thingies sticking up were past non-photosynthetic sporophylls, and assumed the green ones were sterile. What are they? If I start my own channel, should I play up my rural New Hampshire/Maine accent? : )
I sympathize with you! Grasses, bamboo, palms, ferns, and even conifers are so difficult to key out that sometimes it is best left to experts!! Try as I might, the similarities are way more easy to notice than the differences!!! Does take a great deal of effort and intense study to meet the challenge!!! Therefore I always honor and respect anyone who makes the attempt!!! Hat's off to you.....
I want to tell someting about ferns, if anyone is still reading. In the video he is saying that ferns reproduce with spores, like fungi, but something important to remember the spores of ferns are not like those of the fungi. What makes a spore a spore? That it has only one cell and coating to it, unlike the multicelled and coated seed. So the word spore is a scientific term. It doesn't mean they are alike.
Beautifully done, How awesome was that view of the thistle and Mount Shasta? VERY! I am happy to say that it ain't just eye candy, I have learned many new vocabulary words. Dainty bastard, ass breaking, pistol, metamorphic, and so on. Once again, Beautifully shot . Thank you!
These videos are awesome and very informative. In addition to all of the great banter about botany and geology, I love to treat these videos like geoguesser. Given the context at about 24 minutes, I'd say this one was probably shot in the area around (41.5725, -122.2116). That's the only location I could get Shasta and the hills to align correctly.
I can just tell this guy never gets bored and it’s amazing. I just want to pick at his brain and have a conversation with him like wow I just feel like he’s such an intellectually stimulating person and it’s kinda hot 🤷🏻♀️
If you ever want to go for a hike In central BC, Canada, and have a look at volcanoes and plants a little further north, I would love to have your commentary
Your awesome your actually making me interested in plants and rocks. It's a hard thing to do when you get posh guffs trying to educate you on plants etc saying that I've always had a interest in plants trees fossil crystals rocks etc.
We get a flower that comes up in the same circumstances in Australia and it’s got pink flowers too. Flannel Flower. I doubt it’s related. Not surprising though cause a heap of species are over here are fire dependant.
Personal theory, megafauna like wooly rino and mammoth had extensive migration path and would disperse seeds either by transport into fur mats or by herbivory/droppings. I bet they'd be responsible for some of the now widely disjunct populations of some now near extinct plants.
I just found this channel and very rarely comment on videos but oh my god this is my new favorite channel
Same.
Same!
Same!
I was just thinking this. Haha
Yeah, buddy! My new favorite channel too.
"Especially the new-age creeps in purple robes"... ha! Love it.
I looked down when he said it. Dammit, I'm wearing a purple robe. Sonofabitch.
He leafed out the cryptozoologists..
Crushed by hot racks!
i've worn the needle off to my ipad replaying the intro to Shasta so many times✌️️👍finally somebody who is politically correct
@Stephen Murphy Mossy oak robes? or Realtree?
I always thought botanists were the happiest scientists, he's just happy to see a flower. After a long day in the lab I need a drink or 10.
I am an electrical engineer. I currently work as an environmental scientist collecting samples. I could be making more money but I love going out into the field for work. Bet you could find work as a field tech somewhere, most normal people hate it lmao
They’re alive! WE’RE ALIVE! it’s so nice to have a reminder.
at this point I don't even want him to fix the early cutoff between scenes. Makes me smile every time.
I think it's "part of the show"
I'm sure you heard his take on other people's (your) opinions of his contributions to life in general?. He says it just before the video cuts off.
I wish all my Professors were like you. I would learn way more.
Both informative AND amusing. My beloved junior high botany teacher, may he RIP, would be publicly appalled by your colorful language (but secretly smiling!) You are a rare gem!
Really going through some shit right now and for 30 mins you pulled me out of it. Thank you
Thats it, less homicidal and suicidal. No lie.
Here 5 months later at 1am and same. It's just like taking a break from the bullcrap.
Tell me about.........hang in there....
I am so glad I found this channel, holy hell.
The first couple minutes of dialogue was strangely poetic.
If you could love a man from just him talking, it's this guy
I feel smarter just listening to this guy and he's hilarious as well!? Best effing channel on youtube!!!
Came for the accent, but stayed for the anti-auto-dependent-tract-housing shit talking. The plant stuff is nice too.
Love you dear, laughed my head off. You are wonderful.
Came for the flowers, stayed for the rant! LOL!
I came for the rant, and stayed for the flowers an' shit.
cncshrops I know. This fucker needs to do some guided fuckin hikes.
@@Forticus55 A hike through the city pointing and laughing at all the fucking idiots wasting their lives chasing money and destroying themselves and the planet through negligence or actual malice.
I started a prairie in the parking of my yard in a small town in Iowa. Native wildflowers mixed with some other wildflowers and grasses. Had to fight city to have it but I won so now I have an awesome flower patch that I don’t have to mow! Keep it up, love the content!
Thank you for fighting the city. Most of these sycophants and shills in municipal government seem to have no clue as to what the fuck they're doing or what makes a healthy, vibrant community anyway. They were accountants and shoe salesmen in their former lives before politics. No offense to either.
that hot rahk
not rock *rahk*
Liquid rahk
But he nails pyroclastic
Lots of geology in this video! Wonderful!
IKR? Even on geology vids you don't get this much explanation and knowledge!! Love his words!
Wonderful video. I loved the explanation of the rocks and soil present there to understand a little bit more the geologic-botanical relationship. Congratulations and move on showing more plants from North America.
Don't miss the mini-rant at 20 min in -- trying to keep this raw material in my brain for my next camping trip.
I love your very interesting take on plants and geology and your occasional cynicism always gets me. Especially that little one about the granite countertops
Very interesting topic. Thank you for sharing! I love how you present this information
I wish you had been one of my geology or environmental science professors. You really know you stuff and your passion is unparalleled
"That's the safe word when you're in the Euphorbia dungeon" got me.
"a safeword when you are in the Euphorbia dungeon" that's gold, Jerry!
Knowing the vast mind-boggling array of species in the euphorbias, euphoria dungeon is certainly an apt description!!!
Really enjoy your channel. How I ended up here, have no idea. Not really a plant person but this has been fascinating. Who knows, maybe I will. And I do love the cynical asides. The granite counter tops. Amen.
I learn so much from this channel :)
We need to get this guy a go-fund-me going so we can send his ass to the Amazon Rainforest. A ticket to Columbia is only about $500 round trip, and I'd love to see him narrating a sloth encounter or some shit.
I love how this guy gets so excited out in the field
NB taken out all my subscriptions which are permanently begging for money, how many of them actually need all the money they beg for. You are genuine and much appreciated!
So when Tommy got whacked and Henry went into Witness Protection, apparently Jimmy moved out west and learned about plants and shit now he makes videos on TH-cam. 😍 THIS GUY IS AWESOME!
I had to watch the first 40 seconds a few times. Good picture you painted.
I put you on to escape from all the shit of the world. Thanks for your breaks back to nature and philosophy from the constant news I beat myself up with daily. I like your style and outlook and all the important sounding words you say🌈
More great shit, as usual. Would love to see you do something up here in Alaska. Maybe a walk through the tundra. I also hear there's a lot of the serpentine and ultramafic stuff down by Healy on the north side of the Alaska Range. Keep up the good work!
I would love to see that too! Alaska is such a mystery to me and probably most others... Likely many as yet undiscovered plants as well!!!
Love from Illinois-- I wanna get as excited about meeting a plant as you my man, amazing.
Iliamna bakeri is reminiscent of another California malva, the Chaparral Mallow, Malacothamnus fasciculatus in that it is an indicator species of a fairly recent fire event. It usually gradually disappears from the post burn site over time because it gets crowded out by other native flora.
(A botanical channel you and some of your viewers might enjoy is Audio Guides to the Outdoors. It covers the botany and ecology of the Mt. Diablo area in central California.)
That was my question too! They seem so similar and I wonder if it is the result of yet another name change.....
i love Shasta, a sacred place a wonderful part of the planet. a young friend of mine has climbed it several times.
"Liquid raack laying libertarians to waste." Beautiful.
Sounds like some strongbadisms
omg mountain mahogany is my favorite. I've seen some big ol ones S of Tahoe. Specifically above Star Lake
As someone who lives there can confirm that we're all new age creeps in purple robes
What about the white robed cultish religious nuts? There must be a few running around there as well.....
I have found these flowers with hairy flowers all over the santa monica mountain range. Cool story bro! Keep it up
Fun little factoid: Croton Setiger actually makes a very good tinder for survival when the leaves are dried. Crush them up and they turn into a a cottony fluff. Damn things stink like pot though when it burns.
Do you ever get over to Mt. Lassen? That's an amazing place! Thanks for the lovely views!
And that, folks, is Sierra Pacific Industries. The third largest private landowner in the U.S. 1.7 million acres in Wash., Oregon and California. Thank Red Emmerson for locked gates, clear cutting and "forest management".
Gin would not exist without Juniperous catpissei.
Luckily the cat box terpene is not prevalent in da berries dere.
This channel is awesome!
Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside, CA has some perplexing designs in friable chrysotile rock walls next to some trails. The design is of intersecting cross-hatching with swirls in the center of each grid. Like a hashtag with a zero in the middle compartment. Still curious 15 years after seeing it and it still has me jazzed! I reviewed the literature and some journals but came up with bupkis. Ever been up there amd seen that? Wonder what process caused it? If you're ever out that way, well, it's just a thought.
I am so glad I found this channel! You make everything you are explaining so interesting and down to earth.
"peepuls" love ya man (no homo). keep going. never stop. ever. You are the highlight of humanity. you make life ok again. thanks.
Can’t wait to see the progression of this channel I say it will be mainstream within the next couple of years
I love Mariposa lilies. Once in northern New Mexico I came across fields of at least hundreds of thousands of them in full bloom. They were white, pink and purple with yellow furry throats. One of the most colorful is traffic cone orange with a black throat with 3 glowing turquoise crescent moons. The Dutch hybridize them for gardens. I have seen the bulbs for sale. I have also seen the seeds for sale in native plant stores.
Lucky you!!! Glorious bulbs!!! The orange one is very rare.....
I think it is Calochortus Kennedyi.....
I got to tell you as a jazz guitarist who almost went into biology as I ended high school(know Florida well,but not latin names) I'm in awe of your smarts & brain power. I always thought of myself as a smart high iq'd snob but thanks to you now feel as dumb as the rocks you describe !. Love your videos even though much is over my head.
That’s one great camera zooming ability! Those ferns had no warning.
What do you think about the “big” earthquake to happen in PNW? Love your videos.
You have become my new favorite scientist, intensely passionate about the natural world presented before us if we just lean in and look. Irreverent toward the forces that seek to destroy what took nature millions of years to perfect through adaptation in an ever changing environment. You make geology and plants so real.
Such a nice birthday present. Give 'em hell, Tony!
You should film the New growth where the fires around Redding happened
"I don't give a sh^& about grasses, but I'm trying". Preach on. 4 years ago was supposed to be my "summer of grasses", because I've ignored them. I'm finally on it. Keyed out 3 in the last week (one was a sedge). I was surprised to see sori on the fern. I thought the dried thingies sticking up were past non-photosynthetic sporophylls, and assumed the green ones were sterile. What are they? If I start my own channel, should I play up my rural New Hampshire/Maine accent?
: )
Troy Tryclay Yes! Accents are also where it’s at!
do it
fellow mainer here, if you find some bangin plants, upload that shit!!!
Subscribed -- ready for those videos to start coming out ;)
I sympathize with you! Grasses, bamboo, palms, ferns, and even conifers are so difficult to key out that sometimes it is best left to experts!! Try as I might, the similarities are way more easy to notice than the differences!!! Does take a great deal of effort and intense study to meet the challenge!!! Therefore I always honor and respect anyone who makes the attempt!!! Hat's off to you.....
This guy is definitely the kind we want to paying more attention too
What a succinct description of the Mt Shasta population
I want to tell someting about ferns, if anyone is still reading.
In the video he is saying that ferns reproduce with spores, like fungi, but something important to remember the spores of ferns are not like those of the fungi.
What makes a spore a spore? That it has only one cell and coating to it, unlike the multicelled and coated seed.
So the word spore is a scientific term. It doesn't mean they are alike.
please be my personal national parks tour guide😬
What a pretty purple lily! And I've never seen such a silver plant, either! That's a gorgeous tetradymia.
Mariposa lily. Nice. It looks like a butterfly.
Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly!
Dude where did you get all this knowledge from, your awesome
I can’t pronounce any of those words that you speak of keep up the good work 👍
This is officially my favorite channel ever
Beautifully done, How awesome was that view of the thistle and Mount Shasta? VERY! I am happy to say that it ain't just eye candy, I have learned many new vocabulary words. Dainty bastard, ass breaking, pistol, metamorphic, and so on. Once again, Beautifully shot . Thank you!
These videos are awesome and very informative. In addition to all of the great banter about botany and geology, I love to treat these videos like geoguesser. Given the context at about 24 minutes, I'd say this one was probably shot in the area around (41.5725, -122.2116). That's the only location I could get Shasta and the hills to align correctly.
Nice stalking technique. Might well done!!!!
I think the rock you picked up at 12:11 is a piece of petrified wood.
6:31 "what the fuck am I talking about?" i lol'd 🤣
Hi There. Love your channel. I am also interested in plant species, geology, and archaeology. Thank you. Love that mariposa Lilly!
For someone who went to school for horticulture, I totally get this guy and he is wonderful!
Dude this is my favorite intro to one of your videos haha. Damn that’s good
Youz do ah pretty gud jab of educatin da pep ole. Gud jab! I uh also lived in cacago and also salavate over da uh green dezinens uh ah da wurld.
usually im pretty good with words, but the way he presents his intro is beyond hilarious, the fact that hes a genius in plants is pure mindblowing
Listening to you while I'm vaping my favorite indica is the highlight of my day.
I can just tell this guy never gets bored and it’s amazing. I just want to pick at his brain and have a conversation with him like wow I just feel like he’s such an intellectually stimulating person and it’s kinda hot 🤷🏻♀️
a beautiful goddamn flower.
I found some of these lilies growing in my yard this spring -- pure magic !
If you ever want to go for a hike In central BC, Canada, and have a look at volcanoes and plants a little further north, I would love to have your commentary
Plants are beautiful.
I don't find your oratory prolix, at all.
God damn! You are wonderful.
I love learning about ethnobotany or anything botany
Destroy all the damn Star Thistles! They're wreaking havoc on our native plants.
Another cracking video!
Thank you to the fuck on reddit that brought me to this channel. It is now my favorite.
Your awesome your actually making me interested in plants and rocks. It's a hard thing to do when you get posh guffs trying to educate you on plants etc saying that I've always had a interest in plants trees fossil crystals rocks etc.
Ooooh, pretty flower! 5:26
Wow!! That was the best 30 minutes, EVER!! I learned so much! I live in Mt. Shasta. Not a 'Purple robe wearer' ;)
Great video
brilliant channel, superb scientist, keep pumping the content
We get a flower that comes up in the same circumstances in Australia and it’s got pink flowers too. Flannel Flower. I doubt it’s related. Not surprising though cause a heap of species are over here are fire dependant.
Personal theory, megafauna like wooly rino and mammoth had extensive migration path and would disperse seeds either by transport into fur mats or by herbivory/droppings. I bet they'd be responsible for some of the now widely disjunct populations of some now near extinct plants.
Amazing knowledge
I was walking around Sam's club with this playing in my earbuds. I don't usually shop with a grin.🙂
You are the tattooed Yoda of the plant world man
Your a riot !!! Thank you for sharing :)
This channel is amazing! Keep doing what you're doing!!!
LOVE that flower at 5:16 I love seeing flowers with symmetry of 3 like that. They look like some samurai's coat of arms symbol or something.
Oh my goodness. Get outta here! You are wonderful. You crack me up and educate at the same time.
I love the contrast of the crass talk and science knowledge/terminology dropping. (Reminds me of AvE.) And I'm a libertarian.
AvE is the reason a lot of people found this channel!
DR. Feelgood what’s AvE?
Yeah, look at your surroundings before our species put up a F***ing Walmart or an Arby's. LMAO
don't knock Arby's - its good food for clearing out the colon.
did you go to school for botany or are you self taught? I'm trying to get where you are as far as knowledge with plants goes
I love your channel. Subscribed.
"You're gonna have to look that up on your own, fuckface" LMAO