8:35 "Look, you got the mossy moss, too. Is probably one of my favorite lines. It honestly sums up all my hikes. As a side note, mosses are some of my favorite plants and the fact that they're already bouncing back is one of the many reasons to love bryophytes. Their reproductive spores are almost indestructable in nature, and their charcoal brothers make great lil substrates for em. Charcoal is very water absorbant, on top of that mosses get all the water they need for the day from morning dews. :P
I'm a botanist in California and I believe that restoring a beaver population to California would completely restore the ecosystem in 10-20 years. It would slow down water, it would increase the water tables, it would sequester more carbon, and it would create a natural fire break. In the 1850s a hunter was credited with killing 1800 of the local population in a single day. There were once millions here. They are a keystone species.
I don't know when he filmed this but it has rained a couple of times this/last month. Also raining right now as I type this on 11Dec. But I don't know how it compares to how much its 'supposed' to.
Thanks for doin these. I got covid back in August cuz my ass had to work retail and apparently yankee candle is an essential business. Anyway my lungs are still fucked and I can't do anything strenuous without weezing and I been missing my hikes. Really enjoyed the calm dismal feeling here & was really impressed by the fibrousness of the Sequoia bark.
You need to come back every year and make a record of how or if the forest recovers. There is hope. Mt. St. Helens looked a lot worse 40 years ago and it came back. It was changed, but it did come back.
The trees you see are 3-4th growth since c.1865. the entire Last Chance Road area was logged Hard c.1930's. Newell Creek, feeding Loch Lomond, near Skyline and Bear creek was stripped in the 1950's. Lived in these areas.
@@lmpnchi9416 I remodeled two "Okie homes" in east Salinas, 1996. 1200sqft, simple little neighborhood. Built of redwood. And I saw no knots! Trim was redwood, everything. Andrew the oak floors had planks over 12 ft long and the short ones were 2ft!! For Oakies in 1940ish. Today such a home would cost around $200-$500 sqft. Redwood sells for $5bdft now! One 2x4x8ft= $30+
Went to San Jose State and the Cruz's were my happy place to run off to every weekend. Even knew where to find some albino Redwoods along railways and branching out of old growth. As soon as I left the forest burned. Hurts to see....lets get some rain!
I remember going to fifth grade science camp and seeing an albino redwood in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Now I’m in high school and, due to that experience, I’m completely fascinated with our local native plants. It’s such a special landscape; I hope us humans can get our shit together and protect it!
That sandstone clearing reminds me of the sandstone glades we have around here in Alabama. There are some pretty cool plants that hang out around there.
I’m 16 and have lived in California my whole life, but only remember a few years with good rain. I’m genuinely afraid that I’ll return home in the future and find out the forests/savannas are gone from how dry this state is
When I was in Mendocino county I loved mushroom foraging, and black trumpets are friggin delicious. Love your channel dude, and love all the details I can personally relate to. - Edit- Jesus, as the video goes on it depresses me more and more.
For those that like to compound their depression, quite possibly the perfect youtube channel. Thank you! For talking normally, for not crying like a baby. Yeaaah.
Do you narrate while you’re walking? If so, that’s an impressive amount of knowledge inside an “amateur botanist”’s brain haha. Love the vids man thank you
@@sixeses I agree. Nothing better than seeing someone actually out in the real world vs in a classroom. Growing up the old overhead projectors and then the later Power Point presentations both made me sleepy.
@@skratchvideos4968 When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Thank you. Used to live just outside Big Basin Park. Hearing the sound of one those bastards uprooting and falling on a rainy night is enough to make yuh move. We did.
I moved in 2007. I honestly never thought I'd leave there ever. I know it's part of why I like watching your Channel. You run around in a lot of areas that I stomped around in growing up. LOL! Or not! I'm a Campfire Girl. Smokey the Bear and Woodsy the Owl were our mascots. And I'm still a grizzly, regardless of how far I get from Cali... so many fires. I think it was 2004 when my girlfriend and I drove hundreds of miles trying to get her daughter to an area where there wasn't smoke because of her asthma. I still have the very deep memory of tiny fire tornadoes all along the Pasadena Freeway. Typography resembling an apocalypse scenario. It's only gotten a lot worse since... I wonder how many times back then it had to do with power companies and not just some careless passer bye or lightning strike. The rest of us just believing in the process... Tears streaming down my face. All of us grew up watching that indigenous man cry as we trashed the way... i know,.... blah, blah, blah, go suck a prick😘 ...💖 love you man! Thanks for bringing me views of home😭 PS those seeds were definitely hope. PSS. LMAO🐦 that's exactly how the poison oak and poison ivy get all over the place here in TX. And as you well know, that shit's everywhere here😎
I live in Michigan. We saw haze from the wildfires from my back balcony in Grand Rapids. It was surreal. I've only been to California twice. The trees are incredible there - a lot of rare and beautiful species that really touched my soul. I really hope they can survive us. Whenever I think about climate change and my effect on the planet as a consumer, I think of California in particular (not that we don't have our own environmental problems in Michigan). Bless it.
Good afternoon my loudmouth botanist friend That Forest that you started with your video is absolutely freaking gorgeous I would love to hang one of my hammocks and tarps and just relax like crazy in a Downy goodness of warmth and coziness yes I have down under quilts and down over quilts
They should’ve done prescribed burning in these forests in the winter before the freak dry lightning storm came through during record dryness and heat in summer. Tan oaks are such good acorn producing trees.
Those butano cypress were super interesting! I wanted to gather a bunch of seeds and sprout them. The coast redwood forests are my favorite places. Grew up going to them quite often. Thank you so much for the look post fires.
I love the way you say post apocalyptic! My way of getting some positivity out of our situation here. Also I love the smoky the bear comment at the end!
I am glad that you are showing this. Have you thought about doing a walk about near the Carr fire location, where Whiskeytown was wiped out? This is the first year I've seen green in a long time. When I first saw it after the fire I thought it would never recover.
I don't know when this was recorded, but looks like the rain is finally coming to parts of the bay area, not sure if its going to rain a ton in the Santa Cruz area, but the bay area should be getting a good deluge tomorrow and through the weekend, followed by another likely rainfall the following weekend. Last year the rain started in mid November, but this year its only rained once since mid November sadly. The plants are all confused. Lots of green sprouts everywhere, but not sure how many can hang on if the rain isn't more regular.
I don't know how you could bear to walk through such destruction, musta felt like a funeral. Man is such a destructive species, it's a wonder we haven't been wiped out yet. We seem determined to kill everything, need lots more folks like you to offset the idiocy. Really enjoyed the recent podcast, this grandma's first one.
My old stomping grounds. This area had not burned in a long time. As you mentioned, precipitation has decreased quite a bit. At current annual rain rates it’s doubtful that Redwood can maintain viable populations in the southern parts of it range. ~ The Tan Oaks were, and are still, in big trouble before the fires due to Sudden Oak Death disease and oak beetles, which also attack the dominant Coast Live Oak. California is going to be a much poorer natural landscape if it looses it’s forest.
You’re near home. I hope you feel you had a good tour. We had fun because you brought us along. Some of those underground roots were burning for a long time and missed often by the firefighters, so they weren’t put out at first.
If you ever make it to Alaska, I'd love to hear you rant about the Bark Beetles. They're killing the evergreens because it's not getting sustained cold enough during winter-- has to be -30F for two weeks straight to save the trees.
I could certainly be wrong but in an ecosystems class I took they mentioned the frequency of fires in California's forests specifically is far *lower* than it would be in a healthy ecosystem. Our forests are adapted to more frequent, lower-intensity fires that stimulate the growth of the buds and lignotubers displayed in the video. Contrast this with chaparral ecosystems which are better prepared for these infrequent, high-intensity/severity fires. How any of this interacts with the super late and sparse precipitation we're seeing I'm not entirely sure, but certainly the current policy of fire prevention isn't doing our California forests any favors by creating these huge events burning decades of built-up debris.
Looks like he climbed Ocean View Trail up to Butano Ridge, where he walked down the fire road. (Edit: Technically, I think that's part of Pescadero Creek Park.)
I lived in Eureka where a tract of logged land was bought with the intention of building a golf course. They thought they'd burn the stumps and start construction! Miss the redwoods...
Nice video! I'm a little further south, but the redwoods seem to be coming back pretty well. Any chance of another visit to see how the cypresses are doing? That'd be fun to see! Thanks!
I remember as a kid and young adult visiting the redwoods and sequoias. I remember the guide saying that either/or can grow in all 50 states or the lower 48. I know I identified some sequoias growing in my hometown Downers Grove, IL back in the 2000s they gotta be at least 60/80 years old
I spent some time up in Sax-Zim Bahg and the first thing I did this morning after returning was watch CPBBD. Awesome vid. Depressing AF but that is the truth of the matter and so your knowledge and opinions are greatly appreciated.
"We here at CPBBD [...] are almost at the forefront of safe and law abiding practices." in the same breath: "I almost fell in dat f***ing tree cavity and broke my ass."
There's a tree on a park near me that I use to utilize the bark as it's like co coir. Takes a little breaking up but my plant roots love it but I soak it in a dilute canazyme for 2 days and it's just amazing constant potassium source and it breaks down rapid .havnt managed to identify the tree yet .they all look the same wen I search.
"This area needed a fire, bad..." I did not realize that a forest fire was a good thing... Thanks for giving me something to google. TIL about "cleaning the forest floor."
Looks like this is close to Portola state park, one of the few wild places in California I've gotten to spend time in. Sobering footage. I'm glad there are signs of life. But for how long . . . edit - One possibly happy thought is if Climate change makes it too inhospitable in places for Redwoods, maybe that Cypress species can expand its range again . . .
*Coastal redwood forest*
0:40 "tanbark-oak" _Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Fagaceae_
0:45 "coast redwood" _Sequoia sempervirens, Cupressaceae_
1:17 Miocene sandstone
1:42 "black trumpet mushroom" _Craterellus cornucopioides, Cantharellaceae_
3:41 Jack
4:20 floral scent volatile organic compounds
6:15 "huckleberry" _Vaccinium ovatum, Ericaceae_
8:07 "sudden oak death" _Phytophthora ramorum, Peronosporaceae_
8:49 hypoxylon canker of shade trees, _Biscogniauxia atropunctatum, Xylariaceae_
*"Toppa Da Ridge"*
10:10 "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
10:20 "Pacific madrone" _Arbutus menziesii, Ericaceae_
*"Redwood Splints as Shanks, Cal-fire Doing Donuts"*
10:42 Jack
10:26 _Pyronema omphalodes, Pyronemataceae_
11:48 sandy bottoms of the coastal uplift
*"What Kind of Knob Purchases Mylar Balloons?"*
13:20 exemplary anthropocene artifact, biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate
13:35 "coast redwood"
14:50 "tanbark-oak"
15:30 _Notholithocarpus densiflorus_ var. _echinioides_ , _Fagaceae_
*"Coast Redwood Bark Exposé"*
16:10 axillary buds
17:19 "pampas grass" _Cortaderia selloana, Poaceace_
17:32 sandstone outcrop
18:20 "tanbark-oak"
*"Droppin Downna Ridge Nice"*
19:45 "Douglas fir" _Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pinaceae_
*"Beaten to Death by Total Safety Culture"*
20:28 brief CPBBD Safety Briefing
31:37 "Butano cypress" _Hesperocyparis abramsiana_ var. _butanoensis, Cupressaceae_
21:54 _Chlorogalum_ sp. or _Toxicoscordion_ sp.
25:50 "Tiny Dancer" rendition
25:35 "Butano cypress" cone
*"Cypresses as a Case Study for Paleo-relictual Biogeography, Prick"*
26:49 relictual
*"Thin Top-Soil & the Trees That Love It"*
28:15 miocene sandstone escarpment
28:35 mossy moss
28:40 pyrophytic cypress
29:22 John Silba, link to Bulletin of the Cupressus Conservation Project pdf with an obituary for John Silba: www.cupressus.net/bulletin/08/BullCCP04_1.pdf
31:56 "flannel bush" Fremontodendron californicum, Malvaceae
32:13 Jack
32:25 "manzanita" _Arctostaphylos andersonii, Ericaeace_
32:35 safety song
*"Da Manzanita Root Cavity"*
32:50 manzanita burrow
33:08 Arctostaphylos sp.
*"In Seed Form, Only"*
33:33 soil seed bank
34:13 "manzanita"
38:09 timber harvesting
*"Scrub Jay Bonus Footage to brighten your up real quick after the somewhat bummer nature of the previous footage"*
39:45 "California scrub jay" _Aphelocoma californica, Corvidae_
Mossy moss yeah
8:35 "Look, you got the mossy moss, too. Is probably one of my favorite lines. It honestly sums up all my hikes.
As a side note, mosses are some of my favorite plants and the fact that they're already bouncing back is one of the many reasons to love bryophytes. Their reproductive spores are almost indestructable in nature, and their charcoal brothers make great lil substrates for em. Charcoal is very water absorbant, on top of that mosses get all the water they need for the day from morning dews. :P
Pretty sure that's Louie, not Jack.
@@pvtpain66k Youʻre probably right. I canʻt edit the comment now. Sorry Louie.
LEGEND
I'm a botanist in California and I believe that restoring a beaver population to California would completely restore the ecosystem in 10-20 years. It would slow down water, it would increase the water tables, it would sequester more carbon, and it would create a natural fire break. In the 1850s a hunter was credited with killing 1800 of the local population in a single day. There were once millions here. They are a keystone species.
Maybe you can come back after a rain and show us how drastic the changes are. Love your vids!
I want to see 1 year, 2 year and 5 years later.
I certainly hope we start getting more rain. This coming winter is likely to involve LA Niña, which isn't rainy here.
I also want an update. Unless they are gone...
Thanks for checking out the Redwoods, I care about them quite a lot.
Looks like the rain is coming today. Good luck, little seed buddies.
I'm ready for some green and flowers to come back.
I don't know when he filmed this but it has rained a couple of times this/last month. Also raining right now as I type this on 11Dec. But I don't know how it compares to how much its 'supposed' to.
Bless the rains down in Cali!
Thanks for giving us 40 minutes of hopium. Haven't seen much news out of Cali since the fires.
Thanks, for the bonus blue bird friend feeding.
California Scrub Jay - they're so bold they'll come and beg from your plate when you're camping. Way cuter than their obnoxious Stellar Jay cousins
Thanks for doin these. I got covid back in August cuz my ass had to work retail and apparently yankee candle is an essential business. Anyway my lungs are still fucked and I can't do anything strenuous without weezing and I been missing my hikes. Really enjoyed the calm dismal feeling here & was really impressed by the fibrousness of the Sequoia bark.
Keep working on it and you will get there eventually. You can recover fully.
Whe you're well enough, come visit the redwoods, there are some hikes (or walks, really) that aren't strenuous at all
Thanks again, Uncle Plantfondler.
Thank you for posting this video walking through a burnt forest in my home state of California. It was very interesting, never done that before.
I learn something new every time you drop something new... Great material! Love the way you talk about the plants, you truly love them.
Hope you got back okay Joey. Thanks for another stellar episode.
your in my backyard yo, I could have gotten you a burrito and gone for this hike with ya. would have given me a wider survey on the post burn mycology
You need to come back every year and make a record of how or if the forest recovers. There is hope. Mt. St. Helens looked a lot worse 40 years ago and it came back. It was changed, but it did come back.
Thank you for taking us to this very special place! It wasn't an easy trip.
It's amazing how there are some green shoots on the side of Mount Mordor!
For the good of my soul please never change for nobody and don't stop making your amazing videos 🌱
Yeah, I used to do my best work in the dark!😁😁 Stay safe, and Thanks for the truth, no matter how depressing it may be.
Love these videos you glorious bastard
The trees you see are 3-4th growth since c.1865. the entire Last Chance Road area was logged Hard c.1930's. Newell Creek, feeding Loch Lomond, near Skyline and Bear creek was stripped in the 1950's. Lived in these areas.
If our grandparents only had a clue, rather than insatiable need for ranch houses and consumer goods......
@@lmpnchi9416 I remodeled two "Okie homes" in east Salinas, 1996. 1200sqft, simple little neighborhood. Built of redwood. And I saw no knots! Trim was redwood, everything. Andrew the oak floors had planks over 12 ft long and the short ones were 2ft!! For Oakies in 1940ish. Today such a home would cost around $200-$500 sqft. Redwood sells for $5bdft now! One 2x4x8ft= $30+
Went to San Jose State and the Cruz's were my happy place to run off to every weekend. Even knew where to find some albino Redwoods along railways and branching out of old growth. As soon as I left the forest burned. Hurts to see....lets get some rain!
I remember going to fifth grade science camp and seeing an albino redwood in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Now I’m in high school and, due to that experience, I’m completely fascinated with our local native plants. It’s such a special landscape; I hope us humans can get our shit together and protect it!
That sandstone clearing reminds me of the sandstone glades we have around here in Alabama. There are some pretty cool plants that hang out around there.
Thanks for the lesson & walk. Love yuz Tony, Jack & Louie.
Beautiful channel... this is a gem
So many great points made in this video. Thank you for this!
You ROCK! Thank you for sharing your immense knowledge with us - it's always fun to watch your videos. Keep em coming!! 😊
The day you posted this vid Santa Cruz got rain. You are a good omen my guy
So close to home! My entire family was devastated to hear about all the fire damage, especially Big Sur, my parents have been going there for decades.
Thanks for showing this. This was the fire that made me leave California, glad the Redwoods are still alive
I’m 16 and have lived in California my whole life, but only remember a few years with good rain. I’m genuinely afraid that I’ll return home in the future and find out the forests/savannas are gone from how dry this state is
Blessed ending. It feels good to laugh and smile.
Very very interesting, thank you for the post. Hopefully rain will come. Respect from England .
When feeling quite sh1tty these videos always save the day
When I was in Mendocino county I loved mushroom foraging, and black trumpets are friggin delicious. Love your channel dude, and love all the details I can personally relate to. - Edit- Jesus, as the video goes on it depresses me more and more.
Thank you / really needed this.
For those that like to compound their depression, quite possibly the perfect youtube channel. Thank you! For talking normally, for not crying like a baby. Yeaaah.
Do you narrate while you’re walking? If so, that’s an impressive amount of knowledge inside an “amateur botanist”’s brain haha. Love the vids man thank you
Yeah keeps the editing minimal which is just how I prefer it
@@sixeses: And they include a healthy dose of entertainment.
@@sixeses Better!
@@sixeses I agree. Nothing better than seeing someone actually out in the real world vs in a classroom. Growing up the old overhead projectors and then the later Power Point presentations both made me sleepy.
@@skratchvideos4968
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Thank you. Used to live just outside Big Basin Park. Hearing the sound of one those bastards uprooting and falling on a rainy night is enough to make yuh move. We did.
I moved in 2007. I honestly never thought I'd leave there ever. I know it's part of why I like watching your Channel. You run around in a lot of areas that I stomped around in growing up. LOL! Or not! I'm a Campfire Girl. Smokey the Bear and Woodsy the Owl were our mascots. And I'm still a grizzly, regardless of how far I get from Cali... so many fires. I think it was 2004 when my girlfriend and I drove hundreds of miles trying to get her daughter to an area where there wasn't smoke because of her asthma. I still have the very deep memory of tiny fire tornadoes all along the Pasadena Freeway. Typography resembling an apocalypse scenario. It's only gotten a lot worse since... I wonder how many times back then it had to do with power companies and not just some careless passer bye or lightning strike. The rest of us just believing in the process... Tears streaming down my face. All of us grew up watching that indigenous man cry as we trashed the way... i know,.... blah, blah, blah, go suck a prick😘 ...💖 love you man! Thanks for bringing me views of home😭 PS those seeds were definitely hope. PSS. LMAO🐦 that's exactly how the poison oak and poison ivy get all over the place here in TX. And as you well know, that shit's everywhere here😎
I live in Michigan. We saw haze from the wildfires from my back balcony in Grand Rapids. It was surreal. I've only been to California twice. The trees are incredible there - a lot of rare and beautiful species that really touched my soul. I really hope they can survive us. Whenever I think about climate change and my effect on the planet as a consumer, I think of California in particular (not that we don't have our own environmental problems in Michigan). Bless it.
Beautiful big trees
Good afternoon my loudmouth botanist friend
That Forest that you started with your video is absolutely freaking gorgeous
I would love to hang one of my hammocks and tarps and just relax like crazy in a Downy goodness of warmth and coziness yes I have down under quilts and down over quilts
They should’ve done prescribed burning in these forests in the winter before the freak dry lightning storm came through during record dryness and heat in summer. Tan oaks are such good acorn producing trees.
A "wiseguy" botanist, brilliant, listened with great pleasure!
Those butano cypress were super interesting! I wanted to gather a bunch of seeds and sprout them. The coast redwood forests are my favorite places. Grew up going to them quite often. Thank you so much for the look post fires.
these videos make me so happy thank you please swear more
Yes I know there's a lot of burnt trees and dirt but I see a lot of beauty in there
Nice to see you and Jack in my back yard. Not getting out too much, but it's great taking a tour witchew!
I love the way you say post apocalyptic! My way of getting some positivity out of our situation here.
Also I love the smoky the bear comment at the end!
Peter Francis Geraci hahahahaha love that Chicago call back
Enjoyed this! Greetings from Corralitos
Come to the Southeast / Appalachia! I'd love to see you do a vid out here. (Just don't come in summer, the bugs will make you regret it)
Thanks for this video. That was cool. (Thanks for all the videos.) It was nice seeing the cone popped open from the fire.
I am glad that you are showing this. Have you thought about doing a walk about near the Carr fire location, where Whiskeytown was wiped out? This is the first year I've seen green in a long time. When I first saw it after the fire I thought it would never recover.
I don't know when this was recorded, but looks like the rain is finally coming to parts of the bay area, not sure if its going to rain a ton in the Santa Cruz area, but the bay area should be getting a good deluge tomorrow and through the weekend, followed by another likely rainfall the following weekend. Last year the rain started in mid November, but this year its only rained once since mid November sadly. The plants are all confused. Lots of green sprouts everywhere, but not sure how many can hang on if the rain isn't more regular.
It's a drizzle forecasted, nothing significant as of now.
really enjoyed seeing the Cypress grove. the rain will come. ✅✌️😎👍
Watching this as the rain falls on the bay area, granted it ain't much but we'll take what we can get.
I don't know how you could bear to walk through such destruction, musta felt like a funeral. Man is such a destructive species, it's a wonder we haven't been wiped out yet. We seem determined to kill everything, need lots more folks like you to offset the idiocy.
Really enjoyed the recent podcast, this grandma's first one.
I actually just looked up the weatheer radar. It's raining a little north of San Francisco. So there's that.
Just hit the east bay south of Oakland, here's hoping it keeps drizzling for a good soak.
Comment 3 years later, would love an update about how the forest is coming back. Love your channel.
Really enjoyed your hike & commentary. Very informative.
I love your vids! Makes me feel like I'm there.
My old stomping grounds. This area had not burned in a long time. As you mentioned, precipitation has decreased quite a bit. At current annual rain rates it’s doubtful that Redwood can maintain viable populations in the southern parts of it range. ~ The Tan Oaks were, and are still, in big trouble before the fires due to Sudden Oak Death disease and oak beetles, which also attack the dominant Coast Live Oak. California is going to be a much poorer natural landscape if it looses it’s forest.
Who are you. I probably know you. I’m in La Honda. PHS
Pretty interesting that Monterey cypress is only wind pollinated california cyprus, not too far from santa cruz
What a treat. Many thanks.
thanks so much for your documentation, really something to see the area post fire
I love your video! Much love from a non-profit chair in San Antonio tx 8)
Thanks for this! I know some people need to hear that the forest ecosystems are not gone forever
thanks for sharing
Threeish years later. I would love to see that butano cypress grove now. So cool just to know that exists.
I'm sad to have just discovered you a couple days ago and now seeing this video I realize we were in the redwoods at the same time
You’re near home. I hope you feel you had a good tour. We had fun because you brought us along.
Some of those underground roots were burning for a long time and missed often by the firefighters, so they weren’t put out at first.
If you ever make it to Alaska, I'd love to hear you rant about the Bark Beetles. They're killing the evergreens because it's not getting sustained cold enough during winter-- has to be -30F for two weeks straight to save the trees.
It's a La Niña year this winter - which means an extra dry winter in California. It's gonna be a hell of a fire year summer 2021
I could certainly be wrong but in an ecosystems class I took they mentioned the frequency of fires in California's forests specifically is far *lower* than it would be in a healthy ecosystem. Our forests are adapted to more frequent, lower-intensity fires that stimulate the growth of the buds and lignotubers displayed in the video. Contrast this with chaparral ecosystems which are better prepared for these infrequent, high-intensity/severity fires.
How any of this interacts with the super late and sparse precipitation we're seeing I'm not entirely sure, but certainly the current policy of fire prevention isn't doing our California forests any favors by creating these huge events burning decades of built-up debris.
I love all your videos and learn a lot from them, but I think this one should almost go viral.
Beautiful ❤️🍄🌻🌳❤️
Is this all in Butano State Park? Looks like they have some rain forecasted for tonight, hopefully.
Looks like he climbed Ocean View Trail up to Butano Ridge, where he walked down the fire road.
(Edit: Technically, I think that's part of Pescadero Creek Park.)
I lived in Eureka where a tract of logged land was bought with the intention of building a golf course.
They thought they'd burn the stumps and start construction!
Miss the redwoods...
Live in Fortuna. Just got back from my morning hike and bowl with my dog. Glad I was born here. Plus it’s a geologist dream to live here too.
Nice video! I'm a little further south, but the redwoods seem to be coming back pretty well. Any chance of another visit to see how the cypresses are doing? That'd be fun to see! Thanks!
Biochar production in full swing. Nature is showing the way.
That was art.
I lost it at “Peter Francis Geraci” 💀☠️😂
You can't really say "as the crow flies" anymore. The crows and ravens follow the roads. It's good for them. Think about it. Great channel, thanks.
Carrion
Thanks!
I remember as a kid and young adult visiting the redwoods and sequoias. I remember the guide saying that either/or can grow in all 50 states or the lower 48. I know I identified some sequoias growing in my hometown Downers Grove, IL back in the 2000s they gotta be at least 60/80 years old
What shoes do you wear? You go on mountains and through deserts and forests and I'm truly curious
Redwings, for about 15 years. The quality has gone to shit since they started making 3/4 their stuff in China, but the American made ones last.
Oh word, thanks for the reply! I work at a hiking shoe store so that's good to know. Btw love ur vids, stay safe
10:22 you talking about the road? loved that book and the movie wasnt bad either
I love your content so much! How do you know so much about California botany?
He reads & observes & reads some more. Anyone can do it!
I spent some time up in Sax-Zim Bahg and the first thing I did this morning after returning was watch CPBBD. Awesome vid. Depressing AF but that is the truth of the matter and so your knowledge and opinions are greatly appreciated.
"We here at CPBBD [...] are almost at the forefront of safe and law abiding practices." in the same breath: "I almost fell in dat f***ing tree cavity and broke my ass."
great segment ✅✌️
That was great in so many ways.
hooray for the rain :)
always love to see the scrub jay.
Collected a few Monterey Cypress pods last year. Anyone know the best way to germinate them?
Tan oak
The magical link between chestnuts and oaks!
I hope they can get a gentle soaking rain soon. it is good to see how how much survived the fires.
There's a tree on a park near me that I use to utilize the bark as it's like co coir. Takes a little breaking up but my plant roots love it but I soak it in a dilute canazyme for 2 days and it's just amazing constant potassium source and it breaks down rapid .havnt managed to identify the tree yet .they all look the same wen I search.
Terrific, thanks.
"This area needed a fire, bad..."
I did not realize that a forest fire was a good thing... Thanks for giving me something to google.
TIL about "cleaning the forest floor."
Within moderation to many fires and you just end up burning the saplings
Looks like this is close to Portola state park, one of the few wild places in California I've gotten to spend time in. Sobering footage. I'm glad there are signs of life. But for how long . . . edit - One possibly happy thought is if Climate change makes it too inhospitable in places for Redwoods, maybe that Cypress species can expand its range again . . .