Exploring Underrated National Parks in Southern Illinois
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ย. 2020
- Exploring Underrated National Parks in Southern Illinois: Everyone knows about the Grand Tetons. But few people know about the hidden gems of the Mark Twain National Forest. In this video, we skip seeing well known national parks and instead, discover & explore several underrated national parks located in Southern Illinois. All in one day.
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Mabel looks so comfortable and cute in your carry pouch. That fruit is called an Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera), commonly known as a hedge apple. It is not normally edible to humans, but squirrels seem to love it.
Hi Bubba. I grew up calling them "bow dark" which I thought referred to the fact that the wood makes good bows (and boat paddles.) Later, I found out that the french name is Bois D'Arc which does mean bow wood. I am currently looking for a chunk big enough to make a joiner's mallet.
@@ImnotChuck. We had these in Kentucky when I was growing up, and the wood is very hard and durable
13:00 That's an osage orange. Farmers would plant them to separate fields and act as wind blocks. The fruits are not edible, but if you dry them out they will act as an insect repellent for your crawl space. The wood is a beautiful orange color and is prized for making wooden bows (like bow and arrow). Take a couple oranges home in a plastic bag and let them dry out. They turn brown and crunchy, but do deter millipedes and silverfish bugs.
A nice fun venture .. I love your dogs they are always very good company....
Those are hedge apples are the end of the video. Some people use them as an insect deterrent in their homes.
“Whattdya think Marty?”….*man mumbles* 😂
good memories i walked alot of them trails too fun times happy holidays
Nice! Thanks for commenting, happy holidays to you too!!
Shawnee is an amazing beautiful place. My favorite place to go here in Illinois. Lots of great places. The Iron Furnace has a great history. I joke alot with people about how polluted the Ohio River is. If you're ever in Shawnee again, you'll have to check out Garden of the Gods. And you pronounced Illinois correctly, most people outside of Illinois pronounce the s at the end of Illinois.
Hi Marty & Sally, It is amazing seeing a lovely piece of Americana each time you visit a park and enjoying the great outdoors! Seeing the iron ore furnace was very enlightening, Ohio river and bigfoot's crossing. I am sure Mabel enjoyed the excursion and looked very comfortable touring along with you. I agree, the hedge apples looked green and your dogs having a good workout is always good. may your journey be safe and thank you for sharing! Bob :)
in okla we call them horse apples , the sap in them was quite sticky . us kids would have horse apple fights , they hurt when you got hit .
There are videos of folks still making iron from ore and charcoal in such furnaces. You end up with a melty lump of iron that needs a lot of work when the process is over. Up at Galena Illinois they had a similiar process to get get lead out of the rock ore. Bit of lead would be solidified at the end of the run.
*Loved* the video!
So beautiful & peaceful!
Mabel is so adorable!
*Safe travels!* ⚘⚘
Nice video Sally and those hedge apples the dairy Farmers try to keep the cows from eating them because it does something or makes the milk taste nasty thank you for the video my friend I hope it warms up for you guys stay safe 👍🌺✌️
Headge apple,iron wood, Osage orange tree, one fence post of this wood will outlast two post holes.
We have a lot of iron ore furnaces here in Tennessee too sally. If you look around the area, you can find the slag, which is the blue glass like stuff they took off the top after the iron ore was melted. It was called pig iron, because the melted iron ore went into troughs that looked like a sow w/her piglets, branching off in several branches. Ty for the video! We also have hedge apples here too. I read up on them & they are not native to this area, but farmers used to plant them to keep out certain animals & to provide a hedge or windbreak.
The tree fruit was an osage orange. Not edible for humans.
my ancestors were farmers first thing they did was build the moonshine still
I would imagine the natives really enjoyed the area.
A mock orange. Don't eat...
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