Meet the Guardian of the Albino Redwood Trees

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Hidden deep in the woods of the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a small cluster of unusually pale, phantom trees. These “ghost trees” are albino and extremely rare. Out of the roughly 400 albinos in the world, there are 13 in the park. Due to threats to their ecosystem, only a select few people know of the trees’ exact locations. Dave Kuty is one of them. As the unofficial caretaker of the albino trees, his love for these redwoods has followed him the past 40 years. Venture out with Dave to get a glimpse of the mysterious ghosts of the forest.
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@johnhudson920 5 лет назад

I live 4 miles away from that park, I didn’t even know albino plants existed.

@souffle420 5 лет назад

Then they're doing it right, hiding those trees out of public.

@SumanRoy.official 5 лет назад

cause u live 4 miles away

@arcadioflores8982 5 лет назад

i know where all the albinos are it is what happens when you are a true santacruz local

@5thgen691 5 лет назад

Every living thing could be albino..

@freestockfootagebymotionpl9981 5 лет назад

I've visited many times and this is the first I've heard of them as well. It does make sense to keep their locations secret.

@joshsmit779 5 лет назад

I like this guys choice to work a cooler but more humble paying job after retiring. That's a good way to keep the elderly happy and healthy.

@qwakyyy 5 лет назад

That guy is blessed for working there...

@kokonana4086 5 лет назад

Sounds like he's working his dream job in an enchanting forest. Awesome!

@entvisual 3 года назад

*ALBINO REDWOODS* literally one of the most magnificent looking trees I’ve ever seen, Protect it at all costs!

@entvisual 3 года назад

@KingdomOfEngland_927 2 года назад

Yes

@Eternity10515 5 лет назад

God... Mother Nature is so beautiful it makes me cry

@britann9539 5 лет назад

Omg yes

@Miimu5210 5 лет назад

Mother Nature makes me cry as well, but not through my retinal orifice.

@ynwk2577 5 лет назад

The closest way it makes me cry is when I get allergic reactions to some plants and pollen.

@Mannalon31 5 лет назад

Maybe the next generation know about nature not just gadgets city life.. Coz these trees are our planet lungs

@frenchthighs534 5 лет назад

*I AM THE LORAX AND I SPEAK FOR THE TREES*

@sortof3337 5 лет назад

ha ha ha. I remember that book. :) He does kinda look like Dr. Seuss

@hulick6910 2 года назад

and for some AAAAing reason, The trees speak Vietnamese

@britann9539 5 лет назад

I feel fluttery, like i just fell in love. How beautiful. GBS is such an awe inspiring channel. How do they not have over 10 million subs? It baffles me some of the channels that have millions and millions and millions, yet this channel doesn't. So much production value, and education and awe. And then theres watching someone eat taco bell 😂 I'm curious though now, how do ghost trees produce glucose without the chlorophyll 😮? Gunna nave to Google this now.

@saanshi 5 лет назад

He is our saviour... I love this guy

@imranrashid8628 5 лет назад

Mad respect. We gotta make sure our trails/parks stay healthy and protected

@benrtinez36 5 лет назад

As a Native American I respect you

@olfenite 5 лет назад

Great video and I’m happy this man is getting some recognition for his work, but hope it doesn’t come with any consequences. I know he keeps the locations of the trees secret, but knowing that they’re along a railroad in Fenton, CA is probably more than enough information for someone determined enough to find them.

@tombrody9208 3 года назад

Dear Matthew, the park volunteer (David Kuty) also gets recognition by publishing articles on scientific journals. See, for example, Pitterman, Cowan, Kuty (2018) The water relations and xylem attributs of albino redwood shoots. PLOS ONE. Volume 13:e0191836. Best regards, Tom

@dahliazuo1362 5 лет назад

“I couldn’t be open with people because they would destroy it” god this is so true, and I feel so bad for it. So many times these people want to share what they’re passionate about but can’t because they knew it would be destroyed if they do. It’s so sad.

@dreamchaser3012 5 лет назад

"Keeper of the Ghost Trees" is going to look really cool in his CV

@xandaven8654 5 лет назад

I remember riding my bike past that Albino Redwood when it was first growing. Amazing to see it pop up on my RU-vid feed.

@sleepycats5311 5 лет назад

Oh! He is a very unique person and I just love him! I can't believe he exist.

@indiedee 5 лет назад

"I could not be open with people because they would destroy it." A very noble thing to do. It's sad to want to show people something so special and they don't respect it. He's a good man.

@unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 лет назад

Those ghost trees Are awesome.

@robertvelasco6582 5 лет назад

Captivating! You can almost feel the forest breath

@CybranM 5 лет назад

Aargh, I want a longer video on those trees.

@stockie561 5 лет назад

This guy is so nice and taking care of the environment for us in the future may god bless you

@edgarlikescorn5684 5 лет назад

Perfect for spooktober

@matshagstrom9839 2 года назад

There is a thriving albino redwood at a campsite in Big Sur. It’s next to the check in office and everyone who camps there ends up standing next to the albino redwood tree. I’m sure lots of people poke at it and even drive their cars into it because of its location. You can see it by searching Fernwood resort in Big Sur. Despite being accessible to thousands the tree is thriving and is not been hurt. Allowing people to learn and see these trees is probably a better approach. They tend to be fairly vigorous due to not needing light but will for the same reason never become large trees. Have faith let others touch trees.

@freestockfootagebymotionpl9981 5 лет назад

Stories like this are the reason I watch Great Big Story. Thanks!

@1a2b3c4d5e18 5 лет назад

Aww it’s sad that he wants to share to the joy of albino trees but he can’t do that anymore because then people hurt the trees...

@SlitheringDemon 5 лет назад

Trees.. My profile pic is a tree No its a levitating tree No its a bonsau i a ball!

@unknown-fz1kc 5 лет назад

Real life *_Lorax_*

@MTecs 5 лет назад

Future Videonatic Yep a pretty much complete real life representation, he has the beard and all.

@MTecs 5 лет назад

and ofcourse the love for trees :)

@sy01mamabear83 5 лет назад

WOW! I had no idea there were such a thing as Albino Redwoods! They are breathtakingly gorgeous and delicate, what lovely treasures! 💞

@ethansmith6627 5 лет назад

For everyone asking about how albino redwoods can survive without chlorophyll there's a national geographic article about it that mentions Dave Kuty: www.nationalgeographic.org/news/white-wonders/ "The albino plant behaves a lot like a parasite, because it’s dependent on the parent plant for everything. The healthy parent tree towers high above the albino redwood, which is just about a meter (3 feet) tall. The albino tree is attached to the parent tree at the roots. It gains all its nutrients from the parent tree, even though the parent tree uses most nutrients itself. "

@vnette9777 5 лет назад

I love trees!💚🍃🍃🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

@dragonballsy 5 лет назад

I lived 150 Feet up in the Redwood Trees of the Santa Cruz Mountains on an old platform that was suspended from wires. The drought made some of the branches too weak to hold my weight and so I stopped climbing up, because: Some of them broke and the dew from the fog, made them slippery.

@xxzxozkxlxton1344 5 лет назад

Skyler Allen Smith really?

@mrconsistencyza7334 5 лет назад

What a brilliant human being..if only more could be like him

@angua65 5 лет назад

This guy made my day better after this morning started with reading of bunch of low lives killing wild life in Africa... I love woods, Mr. Kuty has a great job :)

@warmac88 5 лет назад

Wow, love nature and I love to have that kind of job. :)

@Trund27 5 лет назад

How splendid!!

@danstiver9135 5 лет назад

Wait, so if they don’t have chlorophyll, how do they survive? The only other plants I know of that don’t have chlorophyll are parasitic plants that live off of other plants (even most carnivorous plants have some chlorophyll). How do these plants make energy?

@adriandatura 5 лет назад

I'm only guessing so this is probably a stretch but if these albino trees cannot conduct photosynthesis, then they probably are indeed getting most of their nutrients straight from other trees. And not in a parasitic way, forests are actually Nature's super computer in a way as trees can "communicate" and interact with one another through a sort of fungus.

@zander_lim 5 лет назад

They’re parasitic and you can see in the video they’re connected to another tree so they get their nutrients from that tree. My grandpa knows the location of at least one of them so I’ve visited them.

@mitchellbrown2594 5 лет назад

Redwood trees “link up” their root systems in forests. The trees at the bottom of the hill pass water from streams to the trees at the top of a hill. The trees on the hill use the water and sunlight to create sugar, which they pass to trees in shade at the bottom of a hill.

@danstiver9135 5 лет назад

Mitchell Brown Cool!

@Nick-kh5xs 5 лет назад

I am likely wrong, but evolution could have them die for a long time.

@pineapplelord2422 5 лет назад

its dark but yet beautiful

@Loogiemistress 5 лет назад

Wonderful!

@bjoybeads 3 года назад

I'm astounded!

@Miimu5210 5 лет назад

For those of us who walk the metal hallways, who stare at the blue screens 8 hours a day, who live and breath the staleness of a world made of brick and mortar and concrete, take a moment in the day to enjoy the embrace of the natural world, even for a brief moment. A day will come when the ingenuity of man will overtake our innate appreciation for nature, when children will be born more familiar with the sterile and artificial, and not the natural and earthy. I risk sounding like some new-age hippie pushing a "hug-a-tree" agenda, but I say this as someone who stares at a computer screen for most of my waking days: the power of immersing yourself in a force that has been in action for billions of years is both humbling and elevating.

@Soupandsandwich 5 лет назад

god bless this man and his love of trees

@sxerosie 5 лет назад

Bless him ❤

@obeytweety 5 лет назад

It’s almost 2AM and I’m disappointed I’ll be able to sleep after this

@saragorn5033 5 лет назад

It is 12:09 where I live an I'm also worried how much I need to research before work tomorrow

@lukthere2 5 лет назад

amazing

@ellisellis9117 5 лет назад

👌👌👌

@wangkong905 5 лет назад

This is so freaking cool

@koma-san2692 5 лет назад

wonderful

@netkrash 5 лет назад

I had no idea and never occured to me that a tree could be albino, now I need to know how do they grow at all..

@ivannovotny4552 5 лет назад

What a beautiful magestic trees, perfect place to go for forest-bathing the Japanese style.

@usefulchickens 5 лет назад

The Redwood Forest is my very favourite forest

@naughtypub1234 2 года назад

I saw it yesterday!

@susan7948 5 лет назад

They protect the rest of the forest. That's amazing

@MartushkaMontanaXof-vd3ie Год назад

I first read about these in a book series I stumbled upon. There used to be a waiting list for people who wanted to try to grow one in their areas. I thought that the Great Lakes region would be a terrific place to try, then I lost my application when I got sick & had to move. Wouldn't it be great if they could be grown almost anywhere?

@charizardgarfild9405 5 лет назад

He knew that if he told them the location of the albinos, the people would destroy it. That's really sad but true nowadays.

@lmbarak 5 лет назад

Yay, ghost trees!

@nicky_tdbp5353 5 лет назад

This is really a great big tree....

@filmzen281 5 лет назад

*doesn't everything create its own shadow?*

@Grass_Man 5 лет назад

ooohhhh cool

@Trees001 3 года назад

How do they photosynthesise without chlorophyll?

@joshuae3189 5 лет назад

Real great story..

@serbialive 5 лет назад

Фантастично

@PlayMoGame 5 лет назад

Trees so tall they make their own shadows..... What??

@francislematt7079 5 лет назад

I wondered what he meant by that, too.

@britann9539 5 лет назад

Haha yah i was confused there aswell

@Eternity10515 5 лет назад

Mother Nature

@jefkoele-wijn8872 5 лет назад

Because they're white and don't have chlorophyll can they still somehow perform photosynthesis ? How do they live and grow ?

@kimfletcher7315 5 лет назад

Redwood trees often create new trees from the roots of adults so most of the albinos exist that way. Occasionally there is an albino branch on an otherwise regular tree 🙂

@AelwynMr 5 лет назад

They live off the sugar produced by normal trees, which they receive through the roots. This is normal in redwoods. The fenomenon is not rare, it has even been demonstrated in multiple species that older trees can recognise and selectively help out in this way only their close relatives.

@jeriahchua7357 5 лет назад

What a coincidence I dreamed about redwoods last night.

@joshsmit779 5 лет назад

When did you film this? Felton was so busy the other day I was getting mad.

@PondokKlene77 3 года назад

Forest Compassion for Plasma Nutfah Endemic

@E_lemental 5 лет назад

The real Lorax

@KrishK8055 5 лет назад

Not all heroes wear capes...

@MrPhsyco 5 лет назад

Imagine if you got lost in that forest at night

@saragorn5033 5 лет назад

I just curios how they smell, I have only seen one tree in my life,not an albino of course but I'm just curious

@sean668 5 лет назад

Where do you live?

@joshsmit779 5 лет назад

I'll probably end up seeing this dude in town now.

@zexchevanimatins1612 5 лет назад

Ghost forest = Creepy Pastas = GooseBumps = Frick I need to get the fudge out

@dotdankory 5 лет назад

woooOOOoooOOo

@twischta 5 лет назад

Someone, please explain to me why trees have to be so tall to create their own shadows? Do small trees not own their shadows? Are they only borrowing them? Does it mean small tree shadows aren't shadows at all?

@RustyyFork 5 лет назад

@SmoothCanoes 5 лет назад

Onya Pops

@sethjones5250 5 лет назад

How do they survive without chlorophyll?

@brocolli17 5 лет назад

And thneedville is San Francisco.

@Nhoj31neirbo47 5 лет назад

A botanical anomaly. If you are interested in learning more about the giant Redwoods there are some informative videos on the Trees and Forest #1, playlist on my channel. Enjoy.

@creatvemnds 5 лет назад

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 5 лет назад

If the trees don't have chlorophyll then how do they photosynthesize?

@marcelamrekajova5088 5 лет назад

I don't think it is clever to show the albino tree which grows next to railways, when the location is "kept secret to protect". Would not be better to show as example one surrounded just by trees?

@kimfletcher7315 5 лет назад

The tracks are actively used still and have people out there keeping people off the tracks (and most people don't care enough about a single albino tree to face down a full size stream locomotive luckily.)

@betmynamespookedyou4665 5 лет назад

Give it time and us humans will have cut down all these trees to make more tooth pics

@yourmomsucksameandick 5 лет назад

Henry Cowell is protected land and those of us whom live near there will fight people to protect said land and park.

@francislematt7079 5 лет назад

me just me. You need to know the reference to the Simpsons.

@adriandatura 5 лет назад

Severely disappointed in the people who desecrated those trees. This kind man simply wanted to share his fascinating treasure and they took advantage of it for a few seconds of amusement.