I honestly can't believe garden stores are sleeping on all these beautiful native plants. They are so beautiful anyone would love to have them in their garden.
Mowed it twice. I'm sure some older country boy was looking at it & thinking, "Gotta git rid of them weeds." He can't help it because that's the way it's been for generations. Change can come slowly.
He's doing a great thing.... and he's right about the nursery/horticulture industry. Sadly, my industry has lead the charge in destroying the ecosystem and nobody even realizes it's happened. In Brazil, we can see the Amazon Rainforest charred by the fires of deforesting efforts, and everyone complains. In the US, a far greater level of ecological disaster has happened but folks don't realize it because they see plants growing. They don't realize that the ecosystem has been replaced or fragmented so badly that it can't function. 40,000,000 acres of lawn in the US, by conservative estimates, means 40,000,000 acres of a non-native species that is host to almost no biological life that supports the food web above it. No caterpillars means no songbirds because songbirds use caterpillars to feed their chicks in the nest.
@@dtreeman The only reason you say that is because you've been trained by a lifetime of media to think it. The 'few' you speak of ... includes you. You demand the best wages for yourself, a "living wage", but then demand the lowest possible prices for goods you buy. How is that not greed? All around you, the local ecosystem is being destroyed by planting of non-native plants that are scientifically documented to create a black hole in the food web, but you don't see that as a great crime because everything's green and there are still a few birds in the air. The rainforest, though, oh, that's a tragedy alright. A smoking ruin is easy to see and recognize as 'bad'. The green lawn.... no so much.
Excellent comment. Yes, the nursery industry is cheating me out out local native beauty! If you don't have the right milkweed for the monach butterfly it will starve and be gone.
@@marywhalen5096 Exactly. Not only "native beauty", but "sense of place". What a horror it is to drive all over my quaint southern town and see the landscape filled with non-native plants that are all the same. A thousand Crepe Myrtles line the driveways. Hundreds of Bradford Pears shade the medians. English Ivy, Chinese Wisteria, Japanese Honeysuckle..... It used to be that my area had a "sense of place" precisely because it had a landscape that you couldn't find anywhere else. Now, you can drive hundreds of miles in any direction and find the exact same plants used in every landscape, all purchased from huge growing operations that sell their wholesale destruction to the big box stores. The grand old oaks die, but they are never replaced by more oaks. The giant Pecan tree in my yard is more than 60' tall, the tallest I've ever seen, yet there are no more like it to be found. It's bad enough that we allow our local ecosystem to be destroyed by letting more and more people in to the area so more and more houses and roads need to be built, but to then increase the damage a thousand fold by planting mass-produced non-native species that rob people of that special Sense of Place.... truly is that a horrible thing.
Excellent channel!! I hope you subscribe! He was building a outdoor classroom and someone came and mowed the whole thing down. WE NEED MORE AWARENESS ON PRARIES
Growing up, there used to be 1 house that only had native plants in their front yard. We all dismissed her as being crazy, but as an adult now, I realize she was preserving our future and I want to be like her
I absolutely adore this man, and I love watching his videos and learning about native grasses and trees. I wish more people cared about native plants and our natural eco system. 💚🌱
The one thing that is important to remember when you say “providing cover” for insects is that many insects require very specific native plants for either reproduction or food. So while you may be providing generic habitat and helping the density of bioactivity if there are not native plants in the environment you are crossing off hundreds if not thousands of native insects. This is not a criticism, but an observation. I wonder if this is an area that is worth experimenting with. For example, when we think of clover as a cover crop almost everyone has white clover in mind or some other invasive but there are dozens if not hundreds of native clovers that thrive in different environments (it can be difficult as native seed is often less available and more expensive). It may not be possible or functional as many of the forages you listed were cultivated through artificial selection over thousands of years in Eurasia and that process just didnt happen with as many species in the Americas (corn and squash being the big exceptions and maybe others i dont know about). At the ene of the day you have to make a profit and im grateful that you and others have found a way to do that with less inputs and pesticides, i just hope we can keep an open mind for continued improvements Kyle Lybarger has a youtube channel in Alabama has a channel worth checking out about native grasslands
I like his channel. Another, Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't is a good one - he has content for other parts of the country, particularly northern midwest.
He is trying and has been for years, if only the cities and counties would stop destroying all these precious places just because they can get paid for mowing it..... the lied and manipulation that have been going on and continue to go in around America are disgusting and sad.
His TH-cam channel, Native Habitat Project, is excellent! He makes it easy to learn about the wonderful prairies Alabama had and can have again.
One of my favorite TH-cam Shorts! 😎✌️
I enjoy his knowledge on grasslands and Savanna's!!
I am heartbroken that someone mowed his prairie.
Now there is a name on the popular face. He rocks!
I honestly can't believe garden stores are sleeping on all these beautiful native plants. They are so beautiful anyone would love to have them in their garden.
You think that’s bad, they continue to sell the very plants that outcompete and kill our native ones. And we pay them to do it.
We too want to preserve our natural grass and forests ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Oregon
Been watching is vids for a while and SO glad that he is getting media attention! Fantastic!
Yeahhh that’s our guy!! Definitely support this project, he knows his stuff!
Devastated that they mowed one of his projects. You should do an investigation!
Mowed it twice. I'm sure some older country boy was looking at it & thinking, "Gotta git rid of them weeds." He can't help it because that's the way it's been for generations. Change can come slowly.
This is great and important work... go Kyle !!
So happy to see this made the news!
He's doing a great thing.... and he's right about the nursery/horticulture industry. Sadly, my industry has lead the charge in destroying the ecosystem and nobody even realizes it's happened. In Brazil, we can see the Amazon Rainforest charred by the fires of deforesting efforts, and everyone complains. In the US, a far greater level of ecological disaster has happened but folks don't realize it because they see plants growing. They don't realize that the ecosystem has been replaced or fragmented so badly that it can't function. 40,000,000 acres of lawn in the US, by conservative estimates, means 40,000,000 acres of a non-native species that is host to almost no biological life that supports the food web above it. No caterpillars means no songbirds because songbirds use caterpillars to feed their chicks in the nest.
@@dtreeman The only reason you say that is because you've been trained by a lifetime of media to think it.
The 'few' you speak of ... includes you. You demand the best wages for yourself, a "living wage", but then demand the lowest possible prices for goods you buy. How is that not greed?
All around you, the local ecosystem is being destroyed by planting of non-native plants that are scientifically documented to create a black hole in the food web, but you don't see that as a great crime because everything's green and there are still a few birds in the air. The rainforest, though, oh, that's a tragedy alright. A smoking ruin is easy to see and recognize as 'bad'. The green lawn.... no so much.
Excellent comment. Yes, the nursery industry is cheating me out out local native beauty! If you don't have the right milkweed for the monach butterfly it will starve and be gone.
@@marywhalen5096 Exactly. Not only "native beauty", but "sense of place". What a horror it is to drive all over my quaint southern town and see the landscape filled with non-native plants that are all the same. A thousand Crepe Myrtles line the driveways. Hundreds of Bradford Pears shade the medians. English Ivy, Chinese Wisteria, Japanese Honeysuckle.....
It used to be that my area had a "sense of place" precisely because it had a landscape that you couldn't find anywhere else.
Now, you can drive hundreds of miles in any direction and find the exact same plants used in every landscape, all purchased from huge growing operations that sell their wholesale destruction to the big box stores.
The grand old oaks die, but they are never replaced by more oaks. The giant Pecan tree in my yard is more than 60' tall, the tallest I've ever seen, yet there are no more like it to be found.
It's bad enough that we allow our local ecosystem to be destroyed by letting more and more people in to the area so more and more houses and roads need to be built, but to then increase the damage a thousand fold by planting mass-produced non-native species that rob people of that special Sense of Place.... truly is that a horrible thing.
I've been watching him for awhile now. Put in some native shrubs over the past couple years
I love this man.
Woo! This guy should really blow up. Way to go!
Cool guy. Good mission
Great guy, great information. More people need to be moving this way. Hope legislators follow suit! The ecosystem keeps us all alive.
He's really doing fantastic work. I've learned so much from his channels and i hope they find the person that mowed his outdoor classroom.
I love this guy.
Excellent channel!! I hope you subscribe! He was building a outdoor classroom and someone came and mowed the whole thing down. WE NEED MORE AWARENESS ON PRARIES
I saw that and was equally enraged and saddened. You could hear the heartbreak in his voice.
Growing up, there used to be 1 house that only had native plants in their front yard. We all dismissed her as being crazy, but as an adult now, I realize she was preserving our future and I want to be like her
Keep up the good work, sir.
Kyle is doing the Lord's work, truly.
YES i watch him all the time. Hes inspired me greatly
Great guy, loving learning from his vids
Respect from Canada 🇨🇦
Kyle is the man with a plan !
You are inspiring folks all over the USA! Thank you and Keep it up Kyle!
I have learned so much from Kyle & the Native Habitat Project! I’m converting my landscaping to Oregon & North American native plants!
He is awesome !
Love him
Love what he’s doing
YESSSSSSS
hes awesome i watch his vidoes
hey its that guy I watch
He a super start
I absolutely adore this man, and I love watching his videos and learning about native grasses and trees. I wish more people cared about native plants and our natural eco system. 💚🌱
Love him😮❤❤❤❤
I love this guy’s content
listen to kyle, make your lawn a part of your native ecosystem!!
🎉🎉🎉
This guy is awesome.
great that his message is getting out there :)
Love what he does. Big fan of his channel.
Congratulations Kyle, love your channel and the knowledge you put out there. Great work
Great channel, so informative and doing good work for humanity
The one thing that is important to remember when you say “providing cover” for insects is that many insects require very specific native plants for either reproduction or food. So while you may be providing generic habitat and helping the density of bioactivity if there are not native plants in the environment you are crossing off hundreds if not thousands of native insects. This is not a criticism, but an observation. I wonder if this is an area that is worth experimenting with. For example, when we think of clover as a cover crop almost everyone has white clover in mind or some other invasive but there are dozens if not hundreds of native clovers that thrive in different environments (it can be difficult as native seed is often less available and more expensive). It may not be possible or functional as many of the forages you listed were cultivated through artificial selection over thousands of years in Eurasia and that process just didnt happen with as many species in the Americas (corn and squash being the big exceptions and maybe others i dont know about).
At the ene of the day you have to make a profit and im grateful that you and others have found a way to do that with less inputs and pesticides, i just hope we can keep an open mind for continued improvements
Kyle Lybarger has a youtube channel in Alabama has a channel worth checking out about native grasslands
I like his channel. Another, Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't is a good one - he has content for other parts of the country, particularly northern midwest.
I love this guy!
This needs more views.
Protect wildlife!
Habitat is essential. Without habitat restoration of the flora the fauna are lost already
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Lets go
The exact same thing is happening in Europe only the other way around...
He is trying and has been for years, if only the cities and counties would stop destroying all these precious places just because they can get paid for mowing it..... the lied and manipulation that have been going on and continue to go in around America are disgusting and sad.
Love this guy! Keep up the great work