I, for one, sure do appreciate your billy goat hike to show us these stunners. Smiled through the whole vid, spectacular vistas, cool geology, beautiful plants, what's not to love?
That's a really lovely area with a surprisingly diverse range of unique plants. This is another place where I wish you were able to use a microscope to see the microbes.
@@jensenchavez265 any alpine flowers to look at. But really I'm in Montana. I have a brother in Prescott. Guess you have a phone so I'm sure you will be OK. If not yell on here. I'll check back to see how you are doing. Stay safe I suppose it's hotter than hell.
@@richardp6461 Lots of flowers popping up right now, past few days have had a lot of rain. I'm not far from Prescott but about a 2 hour drive up into the mountains next to it. Thankfully the weather has been cool but the mosquitoes are huge and especially numerous lol.
You don’t care for alpine plants? I thought you’d love those little guys. They’re such specialized little buggers living in an extreme environment of wild temperature swings and intense sunlight, and so many of them live in crap soil, right up your alley. They’re also usually where people aren’t, which is a bonus. And that tiny, low growing willow? How about that?
Thanks Tony. 6 weeks into lockdown with another 4 ahead just announced today. Appreciating your work more than ever now. Good on you and thanks again for sharing.
You have a good rest of your evening as well. Alpine environments are my absolute favourite places to be. Here's hoping you and your camera make it to the actual alps some day!
That was great. You are in my backyard now, and I'm seeing things I've seen all my life, and never knew the name of some of them. I was hoping you'd come across some pink mountain Heather. It's a favorite of mine. Looks like you timed that pretty well. To be in a high mountain field full of bangers pretty much all going off . Excellent work my friend. I live in Montana I'm going to find one of these mountain tops (that isn't on fire right now) and have a look. Thanks Joey, I think it's my favorite episode. I've been listening to your podcasts from this area and I'm loving it. I owe you.👍
So, I just found this alpine plant channel and I’ll comment that it’s really cool to hear an eastern city (New York?) U.S. accent describing these western beauties! So many plants are given new cuss word names I'll have to take a Taxonomy class again!
Damn! This was a great one! I like the warmer tropical or arid spots but damn you find some GREAT montane areas, these reduced plants are outstanding !
I saw this Huge red fuzzy bee the other day, the size of a locust... I think their nest was nearby. I've seen the nest for years now, but never thought thats what it was. I always thought it was a fungal infection... its a huge bulge in a still living tree. Either they hollowed it out and the tree grows around the nest, or they put tree bark over the nest so it is camouflaged. It almost looks like a wasp/bee hybrid. It's shaped like a Japanese wasp, but fuzzy like a bumblebee. I've seen some wingless bees or wasps before that are fuzzy and red like it was, but this thing was different. My dad saw it also... And there's a shit ton of Jimson weed there also, I'm gonna collect a seed pod in a few months and grow it over winter inside
You know you're watching too many of Tony's videos when each time you see a broad yellow flower, you hear the words, "This is in the sunflower family, Asteraceae . . . "
So great to see you up in the Mighty Bighorns....great mountains hope you checked out the Pryors (they would have been to your Northwest). Did you check out the Medicine Wheel?
Townsendia Montana gorgeous little guy, I am a big fan of alpine plants. They re diminutive works of art, and tough as nails. Krummholz!..thanks for the tour Tony.
Tony I love you man. I was born in Wyoming and never had the opportunity to see 95% of the species you described here. Thanks for exploring the botany out there. Keep going man.
What i wouldn't give to be scilently soft padding behind you inhaling all those alpine scents and feasting my eyes on all these stunning plants. Thanks for the video at least.
What beautiful country that is. Getting up close and personal with all the miniature flora is fascinating and very calming, I’d love to venture out there. The pikas are living the good life up there.
This is one of your very best videos. I just kept smiling when you pointed out one amazing species after the next. The babbling stream was the highlight. The colors, textures and the goddamn bracts!
Had to pause at 15 minutes to find out who Tom Skilling was. Ended up watching a 10-minute weather report from a location 15000 km away. Now THAT is a weatherman. Cheers Tony, gfys ♥️
Banger alert, this video. That was great. Your videos really do give me a much needed helping of peace of mind, even among banger nature films in general. Combine the beautiful films with the sensible, yet all too rare, sociopolitical commentary and you get a very unique therapeutic experience. Thx, Tone
Tom skillings hot dog stand 😂😂😂. I watch this channel because as a fellow Chicagoan and botanist your accent makes me feel at home. Keep it up pal. I’d buy you an old style and a polish any day
I'm ecstatic that you came to my area! I've seen these plants and flowers in person while hiking all over the Beartooth range over the years, thank you for showing everyone else the beauty and wildness of this area and every where else!!!
I grew up just a few miles from there. I spent tons of time searching for fossils and looking at the cool plants. Thanks for putting some names to the plants I love
Tony: “Now you know I love sketchy limestone escarpments, you know I do!” Me, in my head: Oh I bet he’ll find something good. Tony: “HEAVILY GLANDULAR- what a banger plant”
Hi, I have been watching your videos for years now and I really enjoy them. I was wondering whether you ever plan to travel to Portugal/Spain to shine your light on the vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula?
The alpine plants are really very beautiful looking and I would love to visit the higher places in the mountains but for now,Tony you have presented an excellent video of those plants and I thank you.
Wow I ❤ this one. Thank you. Because of you, I identified a buckwheat (thats as far as I got) and when I sniffed the flower I swear it smelled like kasha vanishka!! It did!! Who knew there were so many kashas??
Would love to see you hunt down some Frasera fastigiata in the Nez Perce area. Beautiful plant, beautiful flowers, beautiful location. Such a small habitat range.
Hey there, I love the videos. Ur personality is definitely needed these days so thank you for putting it out to the world. Now I do have a question for u. With the ever increasing human tumor growing on the earth, where would u prefer to see farming for our food. I know you would rather leave the lands to endemic species. Not everything we eat grows in the same environment or microclimates. Don’t want to clear cut the land for greenhouses or monocultures. A video with how you would personally like to see it done if you had the ultimate last say on the subject.
Tony? You mean "To NY" is what the Italian moms write in the package when they send their greasy kids there ! :-) Thanks for the video keep 'em coming !
I was hiking in the Stanislaus National forest today and saw some of these same glorious bastards here in California. From these videos I learned what phenotypic traits to look for and a bit about the phylogeny and BAM I was like thats a buckwheat, polygonaceae! Or look at that involucer and that capitula with those florets and that corolla, must be an asteraceae! 🤓
The Pika conversation is gold
Tony talks to animals like a Disney princess with a foul mouth.
I think Tony can talk to his own shadow 😂❤
Tony: What are ya doin out here, guy?
Pika: MYEHHH
your channel provides so much information WORTH knowing. a pearl in youtubes dirty harbour!!!
One of my favorite places on earth, nobody is there. It almost perfect.
Lets hope many places like these stays that way, we as humans have such a tendency of messing up nature.
The Crow tribe has one of the last wild herd of buffalo on the Bighorn mountains
I, for one, sure do appreciate your billy goat hike to show us these stunners. Smiled through the whole vid, spectacular vistas, cool geology, beautiful plants, what's not to love?
Thank you for the guided tour of the flora up there.
That's a really lovely area with a surprisingly diverse range of unique plants. This is another place where I wish you were able to use a microscope to see the microbes.
Absolutely love this content
I'm watching this stranded on top of a mountain having lost my keys on a hike. Good times lol
Where ya at I'll come get you 🙃
@@richardp6461 central Arizona but I'm good. I've got plenty of food and water and the Mrs. is bringing me a new key on monday. My thanks though
@@jensenchavez265 any alpine flowers to look at. But really I'm in Montana. I have a brother in Prescott. Guess you have a phone so I'm sure you will be OK. If not yell on here. I'll check back to see how you are doing. Stay safe I suppose it's hotter than hell.
@@richardp6461 Lots of flowers popping up right now, past few days have had a lot of rain. I'm not far from Prescott but about a 2 hour drive up into the mountains next to it. Thankfully the weather has been cool but the mosquitoes are huge and especially numerous lol.
I'm glad for the rain and cool Temps. The flowers too. Is it going to be easy for your wife to find you. What time do you think she will arrive?
Another excellent video brother!
stuff I never seen but in books...excellent!
I really agree about the native bees. Like a lot of plants, they don't get much respect--yet they are absolutely essential.
“Clematis on The BigHorn”- starring Hairy Carpals. Coming soon to an adult theater near you!!😉😁
thanks for the gumball Popeye!
made our Sunday special with alpine beauties.. watch this and fully comprehend "hunker down"
What an amazing place, somewhere to spend a few days away from the human tumor eh? Thanks for taking us there Toni!
I learn more from these videos than I did from graduate school. Thanks Tony
Wow what an ending that little runoff is like the miniature rainforest. Absolutely beautiful
Come to Scandinavia :-)
You don’t care for alpine plants? I thought you’d love those little guys. They’re such specialized little buggers living in an extreme environment of wild temperature swings and intense sunlight, and so many of them live in crap soil, right up your alley. They’re also usually where people aren’t, which is a bonus. And that tiny, low growing willow? How about that?
I wish I could like this video twice just for drawing my attention to the existence of Sci-Hub. Thank you!
What a happy haven you’ve found! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Tony, May you live long and keep talking those scientific names with that exceptional memory of yours!!💮
Thanks Tony. 6 weeks into lockdown with another 4 ahead just announced today. Appreciating your work more than ever now. Good on you and thanks again for sharing.
You have a good rest of your evening as well. Alpine environments are my absolute favourite places to be. Here's hoping you and your camera make it to the actual alps some day!
This one was spectacular... way to go. Loved the pika too... he cooperated by doing the pika scream thing, I could actually hear his call.
Ahhhh yeah! Awesome new botanical walkabout, with a Fuzzy rubber hot dong stand on top, lol. Cheers, from Southern Oregon. ❤️🙏
Thx for risking life and ass to bring us the bangers. Great episode! Gfy have a great day
Love that area. On our way back soon!
That was great. You are in my backyard now, and I'm seeing things I've seen all my life, and never knew the name of some of them. I was hoping you'd come across some pink mountain Heather. It's a favorite of mine. Looks like you timed that pretty well. To be in a high mountain field full of bangers pretty much all going off . Excellent work my friend. I live in Montana I'm going to find one of these mountain tops (that isn't on fire right now) and have a look. Thanks Joey, I think it's my favorite episode. I've been listening to your podcasts from this area and I'm loving it. I owe you.👍
beautiful place, beautiful plants, beautiful commentator
Good morning ya silly bastids💪
Nice intro. Monument plant is my favorite flower. Such subtle beauty!
So, I just found this alpine plant channel and I’ll comment that it’s really cool to hear an eastern city (New York?) U.S. accent describing these western beauties! So many plants are given new cuss word names I'll have to take a Taxonomy class again!
Damn! This was a great one!
I like the warmer tropical or arid spots but damn you find some GREAT montane areas, these reduced plants are outstanding !
Ha, I guess you were thinking the same thing.
I ended up pretty jazzed about em
I saw this Huge red fuzzy bee the other day, the size of a locust... I think their nest was nearby. I've seen the nest for years now, but never thought thats what it was. I always thought it was a fungal infection... its a huge bulge in a still living tree. Either they hollowed it out and the tree grows around the nest, or they put tree bark over the nest so it is camouflaged. It almost looks like a wasp/bee hybrid. It's shaped like a Japanese wasp, but fuzzy like a bumblebee.
I've seen some wingless bees or wasps before that are fuzzy and red like it was, but this thing was different. My dad saw it also...
And there's a shit ton of Jimson weed there also, I'm gonna collect a seed pod in a few months and grow it over winter inside
dont eat those Datura seeds or you ll fly through the spirit world in a plant and animal filled rainbow ether!!
You know you're watching too many of Tony's videos when each time you see a broad yellow flower, you hear the words, "This is in the sunflower family, Asteraceae . . . "
Love your videos! 12:34 aren't beetles but pentatomid bugs - maybe Chlorochroa
So great to see you up in the Mighty Bighorns....great mountains hope you checked out the Pryors (they would have been to your Northwest). Did you check out the Medicine Wheel?
Townsendia Montana gorgeous little guy, I am a big fan of alpine plants. They re diminutive works of art, and tough as nails. Krummholz!..thanks for the tour Tony.
Tiny willow! Wow, Thank you Joey. I have always loved the alpine environs. The Pika looked like a baby one.
Tony I love you man. I was born in Wyoming and never had the opportunity to see 95% of the species you described here.
Thanks for exploring the botany out there.
Keep going man.
Not far from the Medicine Wheel! I bet you checked out Natural Trap too....Can see the Pryor Mts!
thanks 4 your hiking efforts many stunning money shots beautiful flowering alpine plants
One of my favorite places, did you check out the Medicine Wheel? Sort of a native american stonehenge.
What i wouldn't give to be scilently soft padding behind you inhaling all those alpine scents and feasting my eyes on all these stunning plants. Thanks for the video at least.
What beautiful country that is. Getting up close and personal with all the miniature flora is fascinating and very calming, I’d love to venture out there. The pikas are living the good life up there.
Hey Tony
Thanks for the beautiful video.
Bye and gfy, Hahaha
Omg I love the conversation with the lil critter ♥️
BEST VIDEO YET, love the alp8ne plants! And the pikas! I've become so inspired, thank you tony!!!!
that Townsendia parryi was absolutely stunning. Highlight of the video.
This is one of your very best videos. I just kept smiling when you pointed out one amazing species after the next. The babbling stream was the highlight. The colors, textures and the goddamn bracts!
Had to pause at 15 minutes to find out who Tom Skilling was. Ended up watching a 10-minute weather report from a location 15000 km away. Now THAT is a weatherman. Cheers Tony, gfys ♥️
This channel the perfect mix of science, art, and vulgar humor
Banger alert, this video. That was great. Your videos really do give me a much needed helping of peace of mind, even among banger nature films in general. Combine the beautiful films with the sensible, yet all too rare, sociopolitical commentary and you get a very unique therapeutic experience. Thx, Tone
Beautiful. The higher you go, the more microscopic you gotta be.
Fantastic landscape and plants, brilliantly filmed.. Thanks
dont stop what u doing brother excellent video. you inspiring people to get more in touch with plants and nature much love
Thanks Tony!
The pika chirping 🥰 a lot of beetles are they the primary pollinators for that high of an elavation?
Tom skillings hot dog stand 😂😂😂. I watch this channel because as a fellow Chicagoan and botanist your accent makes me feel at home. Keep it up pal. I’d buy you an old style and a polish any day
I'm ecstatic that you came to my area! I've seen these plants and flowers in person while hiking all over the Beartooth range over the years, thank you for showing everyone else the beauty and wildness of this area and every where else!!!
I grew up just a few miles from there. I spent tons of time searching for fossils and looking at the cool plants. Thanks for putting some names to the plants I love
So happy you made it to the alpine world, Tony! You need to see that Kelseya in bloom, it's a stunner.
So many beautiful plants😍... Love it
Tony: “Now you know I love sketchy limestone escarpments, you know I do!”
Me, in my head: Oh I bet he’ll find something good.
Tony: “HEAVILY GLANDULAR- what a banger plant”
Hi, I have been watching your videos for years now and I really enjoy them. I was wondering whether you ever plan to travel to Portugal/Spain to shine your light on the vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula?
So cool. I've walked around all over those mountains.
Thunder and rain way off in the distance. The best views. Love your channel.
Brother, I don’t know how others will try to package you but it might as well be a fight to the death because you are too damn good.
Absolutely grandiosity at 10 thou!!! Who would'a thunk it!!!
Great Footage and Wicked Cool Plants...!🤙🏻
Loved this! I've always wanted to go there.
The alpine plants are really very beautiful looking and I would love to visit the higher places in the mountains but for now,Tony you have presented an excellent video of those plants and I thank you.
These are all my favorites. Thanks to you and thanks to god for you and for the thin film of rocks and dirt that everything grows in
Great video - can't beat a big chunk of limestone for biodiversity. Thanks.
Herbaceous alpine flowers give me wood.
That’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen!
TH-cam finally recommending quality content, Thanks Tony!
So many flowers! This is amazing, precious and soo beautiful. Thank you.
Sorry for my multiple comments. It's an impulse control problemo.
Anudder clyaasic! Thanks tony!
A truly stunning video
Thanks for this great vid Tony! Loved the christmas rant hehe
I, too, yell at the wildlife. Great vid, love seeing the places you take us.
Wow I ❤ this one. Thank you. Because of you, I identified a buckwheat (thats as far as I got) and when I sniffed the flower I swear it smelled like kasha vanishka!! It did!! Who knew there were so many kashas??
That was a good one! Thanks.
Your random "Christmas" rant got a loud chuckle out of me.
7:32
Caught me totally off guard. 😆🤣😂😹
Still laughing !
Again, super helpful! Thanks!
Would love to see you hunt down some Frasera fastigiata in the Nez Perce area. Beautiful plant, beautiful flowers, beautiful location. Such a small habitat range.
I used to date a guy name Harry Carpals.
I like to prove how dumb I am by second guessing at least the family or genus name.
Who the heck disliked this video???
The pika!
Hey there, I love the videos. Ur personality is definitely needed these days so thank you for putting it out to the world. Now I do have a question for u. With the ever increasing human tumor growing on the earth, where would u prefer to see farming for our food. I know you would rather leave the lands to endemic species. Not everything we eat grows in the same environment or microclimates. Don’t want to clear cut the land for greenhouses or monocultures. A video with how you would personally like to see it done if you had the ultimate last say on the subject.
Tone I'd love to hear you make a rap song with all the weird ass terminology, bet you could get a killer flow goin'
Do it, Tony
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@@shtupped6058 woooo, that's nais!
bring the mixtape
Call him Necta or Stay Man
Tony? You mean "To NY" is what the Italian moms write in the package when they send their greasy kids there ! :-) Thanks for the video keep 'em coming !
I was hiking in the Stanislaus National forest today and saw some of these same glorious bastards here in California. From these videos I learned what phenotypic traits to look for and a bit about the phylogeny and BAM I was like thats a buckwheat, polygonaceae! Or look at that involucer and that capitula with those florets and that corolla, must be an asteraceae! 🤓
Terrific channel
I love this guys accent. He sounds like he's selling me a pizza. I'm sold.
I love alpine environments mid summer. Surprised you didn’t find any forget me nots.