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!
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.
@@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 love your very interesting take on plants and geology and your occasional cynicism always gets me. Especially that little one about the granite countertops
"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.....
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 RU-vid. 😍 THIS GUY IS AWESOME!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.)
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.
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!
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🌈
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!
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.
25:50 I was hiking in the heat of august... and it was very rough terrain. It was certainly what I would call break your ass terrain... and uh... I did indeed break my ass. Consummate storytelling as you impart great knowledge on the dangers of trekking through harsh landscapes just to tell us about an example of the mysteries of a flower you're showing us here. You make me wish I went to college and had you as a professor in I dunno what the fuck. I guess that is the role you are taking on in my vicarious existence through the youtubes. I live under Mt Rainier's blast radius and so much the same could be said about the humanity up here. Purple robes.. geez. LOL
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.
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 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.
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".
THATS MY HOMETOWN! I’m cracking up oh my god the mount Shasta religion is SOMETHING ELSE I’m from the surrounding area and I have stood where you are standing right now!!
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
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.
