That millipede (Harpaphe haydeniana) is actually really interesting, and important. It's one of the only members in the pacific northwestern wet coniferous ecosystems that can eat dry needles on the forest's floor including needles from cupresidae species. They help in recycling the nutrients within the forest.
@@tomjones6944 My pleasure. It’s a start, someone else could do a much better job-but it needed to be done. All in love, of course. A dago kind of love.
All righty, you’re getting into the coastal forests, my home ecosystem, so prepare to have your information corrected/amended! 1. Lysimachia latifolia has a variable number of petals, typically 6 to 8. There is one with 7 visible in passing shortly after the one with 6 is shown. 2. That is not a salmonberry flower! It is a thimbleberry (Rubus nutkanus) flower. Notice how the leaves are not compound, and the plant is entirely thornless. Salmonberry flowers are also a different color (pink to magenta, depending on individual, almost never white). 3. That “beautiful bird call” is a varied thrush. 4. The millepede is Harpaphe haydeniana, a common coastal forest species. 5. Picea sitchensis goes further north than BC; it ranges all the way to Alaska (as the name applies; Sitka is a town and island in coastal Alaska). 6. The coastal polypodium is P. scouleri, the leather fern. It is strictly limited to the immediate coast. 7. California condors were once found at least as far north as Oregon and Washington.
Says the dude wearing boots made from dead cows and petrolium while ranting to himself on a device constructed from even more petrolium products and rare earth metals. Dont get me started on the batteries made from child labor and strip mining. But cutting down a tree that can be replanted is evil..... "I support loggers".
Omg I was just saying that-- my dad built log homes for 20 years, we're from Oregon. He knows lumber like few people on earth. He says the company that took 80% or so of the Sequoias actually LOST MONEY doing it. This is how I became quite familiar with the sheer destructive scale of human stupidity, at a very young age.
Having grown up in California, gone to school in Santa Cruz, and vacationed in northern California my whole life. It pains me to see these giants felled. They are older than humanity itself. Yet the arrogance of man tells us that these are better used for a homes hard wood floors. These trees speak to you when you walk amongst them. They are giants with living souls. I am no hippy, but we must protect them at all costs. Future generations needs to be able to experience their majesty.
I'm being like, real pedantic here I suppose. But none of those trees are "actually" older than humanity... they aren't even older than some of the earliest civilizations. Mesopotamia was like.... 15,000 years ago or more. The oldest trees (Bristlecone pines) are only hitting 5000 or so years, currently.
And. Cedar is not used for "hardwood flooring"... Cedar is used for things exposed to the weather. Decking. Fences. Siding and roofing. Also. Trees. No matter how old. Are a renewable resource. For every tree fallen. 3 must be planted....
"has anyone ever sexually harassed an elk before?" goddamn bro all the speech around this redwood forest is pure gold. Gold that you can't mine. Wisdom. If I had the gift of speech that you have I'd go places.
Largest living thing on the planet (besides fungi) is there. General Sherman tree. Maybe he'll talk shit about how the trees are named after government and military figures.
TONY, I LIVE RIGHT HERE !!! I met my gf in Klamath and I was born in Eureka 🥺 I've been waiting for you to make a video on our ecosystem FOREVER 😵 you're my botanist hero 🙏🙏🙏
I've been waiting a year for a PNW episode to drop. We haven't got the most spectacular flora, but it's noteworthy. So glad you're finally covering it.
One of the most beautiful places on earth. When I grew up there and then traveled to southern California and New Mexico, the realization of how much BARREN BORINGNESS is in the rest of the world was honestly kinda traumatizing. I had hoped those forests went on forever.
Salmonberry flowers are gorgeous rose/ purple red (one of the earliest spring flowers) --- looks like you've got thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus --- the white flower--- So glad to see you in our home territory--- thank you!
The leaves are also totally different. The salmon berries have a compound leaf where the lateral leaves look like a butterfly if you ignore the terminal leaflet, while the thimbleberry leaves have incredibly soft and velvety leaves that are kinda maple shaped.
I was munching salmonberries at silver creek falls one field trip in 4th grade and the other kids were aghast, looking at me like I might drop dead any second. More for me!
I've recently discovered Crime Pays and for sure this friggin guy over here over there has become my favorite thing on youtube, thanks for the entertaining knowledge about the world we are all so blind to because we're too damn lazy or dumb to do the research, I'm fascinated sir
Spot on in regards to your Arcadia statement. Had my purse stolen from a locked car while I was rock climbing on the coast. They threw a rock through the window... And that was close to 30 ya
He is correct.. we have been lied to about our world history… if you look closely, the history timeline doesn’t make sense, … google the TARTARIANS!!! It’s explained in the unbelievable buildings… made by people living in wood huts????
there aren't that many hippy tweakers in Arcata, that's where rich people move to escape them. The highest density of hippy tweakers in the county surely is in Eureka, possibly between between the jail and the Somoa bridge. Sometimes they throw rocks at you as you drive past.
it blows me away that we get to enjoy these awesome videos. reminds me of a bio class I took in college where we did nature walks each week and the professor would identify all of the plant and animal life we would see.
The beautiful bird call in the background that he comments on around 24:57 is a Varied Thrush. They sing absolutely gorgeous songs. I love this video, I love the PNW.
Hi Tony, I think there’s an error in this one. At minute 6.23 you’re talking about the salmon berry, but then at minute 6.54 you show the flower of the thimbleberry. I live in the Pacific NW and have both plants growing rampantly on my land. Salmonberry doesn’t taste that good (but it has a beautiful pinkish/coral flower) but thimbleberry - the white flower - is quite tasty although messy and falls apart once you pick it. Thanks for your wonderful and instructing videos.
Hmm I've eaten thimble berry since I was 3 feet tall. Tastes good to me, (texture is tiny seeds with sweet and watery fruit) guess it's an acquired taste. The natives mix it with salmon berries, strawberries or soapberry and make a fruit leather or drink.
I like thimbleberry also. I think it tastes like a sour candy. I've tried salmonberry and trailing blackberry also. I think the salmonberry tastes like a slightly less sweet trailing blackberry. You can find all these near the Bay Area.
Dang I just spent the last week there, thinking the whole time I wish you had a video of this place. Now here it is! Much love, and thank you for your work.
This channel is really interesting. I studied horticulture for 5 years and I love going walks and identifying plants, im also a gardener so I see a lot of weird ones but your knowledge is clearly on another level, very impressive and with the geological knowledge as well. If you're ever planning to visit the UK, I would highly suggest Scotland, the highlands and galloway forest park. Also, around april-june we have insane numbers of bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in woodlands. Would be great for a video.
Finally went to Scotland last year in May. One of the most beautiful places ever. I could just stay in those forests forever.. or in Morar, that place is just crazy. And the "mountains" in the north-west are so majestic. I have to come back one day to do a more hiking/treking style trip.
Near Fulton (Santa Rosa) you will see redwoods scarred by fire in 2017 which are now looking like pipe cleaners with masses of stubby recovery shoots coming out all along the length of the scarred trunk. Further up Mark West Springs Road approaching Petrified Forest (worth the $12 entrance for your better than normal roadside attraction) you will see clumps of pipe cleaner redwoods on top of the ridgeline. Check it out a mixed evergreen forest in recovery.
"Tree hundred feet" 🤣 I lived in Mendocino for twelve years, headed back for a visit in a month. I highly reccomend you check out Leonard Lake Reserve, the place, not the mass murderer. If you do you will never forget it. Stunning never harvested redwood forest. Breathtaking.
I had to come back to this video and comment. Now every time I see an old redwood when I hike (San Mateo County) I say, "Look at that big old bastard!" I am so glad I found your videos, so much entertainment and knowledge. Please visit some of the preserves in San Mateo, La Honda would be cool, you can take the dogs.
Grew up in this area in the 60s. 👍👍The hills in background at the mouth of the Klamath River is actually where we lived in Requa. Just to the left above river mouth is Squaw Rock of which I have a painting done by a native there. Thanks for the memories!!!! 💋
tom of finland, nice. when one of my friends fell off the wagon he showed up at my house one evening totally bug eyed and carrying an enormous tom of finland art book. thing is a good four inches thick and still occupies a place of honor on my coffee table
Dangit, was kinda scrolling through the video for time reasons, but now I gotta watch every last second to catch that Tom of Finland reference. Thanks for your comment! 😅
That bird sounds like it could be a varied thrush! One of my favorites, so ethereal in the foggy early AM when they call and reply to each other like long echoes with different notes.
I'm brand-new to this channel and am already a huge fan. "Massive cultural mental illness." Yes thank you!! My heart breaks to think about the forests that have been cut down for capitalism!
I've been fortunate 😔 to attend a sanctioned plant rescue in my county. Biggest Aesculus I've ever seen on the site. I hope terrain & creek boundaries preserve some crumbs here too. The ultimate in ironic tragedy are the names of streets in the expanding subdivision; Trillium Ridge, Mayapple Way etc. Should have called it Eustabe Woods 😠 Did find some Scutellaria elliptica near my house today, pleasant surprise. Thanks for bringing us along, wonderful as always.
love seeing videos on old growth trees, there's so much logging going on not only in Cali but also in places like British Columbia in Canada. its really sad that vids like these one day will be the only record of forests like these ever existing if things keep up at its current rate
I open a bottle of wine and watch these botanical excursions. I love the flora and fauna of California but your encyclopedic knowledge of plants inspires me to learn and enjoy all the natural world has to offer
Thanks for this awesome episode Tony! I live very close the where this was filmed, on a nature preserve in Trinidad called Seawood Cape Preserve. We have every thing featured in the video except for elk, which are a little further north at Big Lagoon and Stone Lagoon. The info in this video will help me feel like less of a dumbass when we do an upcoming field trip with members of the California Native Plant Society here at the preserve next week.
I went to Yakushima in Japan which is the island that had the forest the inspired the Princess Mononoke movie. They used to have giant millennia old trees. A huge forest of them. Now so few of them remain that they've named them and you can hike out to look at the last remaining handful. They look fucking beautiful but it's very sad at the same time to think they cut all that irreplaceable forest down for shit that probably ended up burned as you mentioned in this video.
the nostalgia in this is overwhelming. I walked 20+ miles in a day touring headwaters grove before it became a preserve. You even found a trillium that the hippies hadn't picked. No place like Humboldt.
I'm new to this channel, and I just want to say I love the fact that you found success while staying authentic to your true self (presumably). I used to cuss like you in my early videos, but people complained so much that I sold out and changed the way I talk. Now I just cuss vicariously through your videos 😜
Thanks for this channel. I stumbled upon some clorophyll-less parasitic flowers in my area earlier this year and i appreciate that this channel helped me understand and appreciate what i was looking at!
Lots of laugh-out-loud moments in this one, thanks Tony. It's true, Itai's do generally have nice arses. That excellent point about the houses made of the Redwoods they had cut down all being gone, whilst the trees they left are still there is a great argument against those who argue that our over-population isn't a problem (most of them secret Catholics). Even things we now consider normal to have, like houses and cultivated food, is inherently destructive in nature and over-uses finite natural resources. There simply is too many of us at the moment and we need to drastically change our behaviour until our numbers drop back down.
The entire human population can fit into 8 by 8 cells in Central Indiana. Complain about shitty engineering and lack of civil engineer input for developing. The only reason you think we suffer from overpopulation currently is because you can't comprehend the total available livable/development area we could put farms on 50% of the available landmass and not break a single brick
Nice job with MassiveOldBastardsXXX ! I planted a Blue Sequoia at the house in Edmonds, along with a Blue Spanish Fir, Quercas Dentata (wonderful !), Magnolia Glandiforas, several other Magnolias and then added a bunch more. A giant Gunnera right by the hose bib, rhodies of course and a I can't believe I forgot the name, a rhodie from china with 3' leaves, and you wouldn't believe the 15' Witch Hazel Tree in bloom in Dec/January. I can't believe we sold that place for a house in San Rafael.
You were so close to the Kalmiopsis herein Southern Oregon. Best time of year is right now, weather's been fine. Ran around the woods yesterday, a good portion around Hwy 96 (Klamath River) around Seiad Valley, everything is in bloom. Lots of succulents clinging on the rock up high. Beautiful stuff.
This was a fantastic episode. Your jokes had me in stitches, you showed us some cool ass plants, there was gorgeous scenery, and the always perplexing yet amusing interactions with wildlife. 10 out of fuckin 10 dude
Keep up the great work!!! You are a wealth of information and knowledge!!! I have seen many people on RU-vid growing seedlings of Red Wood trees.. even in England..
Thanks for explaining the connection "pine needles => acidic ground => blueberry plants thrive in acidic substrate"! There's a shit ton of blueberry plants around where I live. And a shit tone of coniferous trees. Fascinating.
I’ve been waiting for so long for this video!!! I’ve been living in the area and I’ve been doing my best to supplement this information, but nothing teaches like a walk through the forest.
Nice to see some California episodes again. I was just in Pinnacles on Thursday. There was still a surprising amount of stuff going off. I would love to see you do an episode from there sometime. Lots of badass geological things going on there as well. Plus condors!
When I lived in Willits in the early 80's (Mendocino county) I worked at a redwood lawn furniture company. I often wondered where they were harvesting trees from and how long the forest would be able to provide. Redwoods are slow growing trees. Now I wonder if the company still exists since I never see redwood lawn furniture anymore.
Love love love this one❣ Man I would have actually paid attention in school if teachers taught like you do you do. I just found out you're doing a 4 part course, hopefully catch the next one❣ Thank You❣
I like many others in the 80's were introduced to the majestic redwoods by watching Return of the Jedi. Many of those beautiful trees are long gone. Scenes requiring explosions were shot on private logging company land because the trees were scheduled to be logged and the State Parks, where other scenes were filmed, would not allow damage to their trees. So, explosion shot = clearcut very shortly after.
Coming away from FaceBk to RU-vid, specifically to visit your videos. Plants and trees I've been appreciating for decades, now actually know what they are and what to look for...at least somewhat more.
I am right there with you there about the logging.. it's unfathomable. I slept at a campsite with a 5-ft diameter trunk laying next to its stump... too big to drag out in the 1800's. Collective mental illness.
In the late 1800s they were dragging out 30' diameter logs. Either with steam power or mules or immigrants. Sad but true. Didn't matter much if a laborer or two got squashed.
I want to believe at least our mindset is a little better now. Back then, it was ridiculous, no one even had a single thought about *not* fucking up everything that moves. Now, things are still going to shit, but many people do care, and who knows. Maybe some of those people are the ones that raise the next ones, and so on.
hey Tony, I grew up out there! If you are still in humboldt county, there is a really great spot for orchids in Blue Lake off of highway 299. There is a population of Goodyera Oblongifolia, Calypso Bulbosa, Coralroot Orchids and Scoliopis Biglovii lilies.
With respect to rapid growth and urbanization of our natural resources, the same thing is happening on the east coast. I live near a national forest that is 150,000+ acres of diverse habitat, including longleaf pine savanna. It is surrounded by privately held land that used to be for timber harvests and game lands. Now they're clear cutting every damn where and putting up massive houses so rich people from out of state can move in and live close to the beach (I never understood the attraction of staring at a bunch of sand and water while slowly roasting in the hot sun, but I digress). Not to mention the mind-boggling amounts of trash and toxic waste that are illegally dumped along the forest service roads by the local rednecks. The forest may be a federally protected area (for now), but the fragmentation of the forest ecosystem is going to have some serious negative consequences in the long run. Enjoy the beauty while you can, folks.
Dang, I just missed you. I was still living in Humboldt County until the end of last year and kept hoping you'd do some videos of the area before we moved. Oh well. Anyway . . . I love redwoods and ferns! Thanks for making this video. I look forward to seeing what you post next.
I've lived in Humboldt since my early teens and never knew those were Sorel! I always thought they were just clover. Check out Fern Canyon if you get the chance
😂😂😂. I recently moved to Arcata after 35 years in west Sonoma county. You nailed it! Also some intense political divisions 🙄 I love it so far though. So much access to nature. It’ll be fine for a few years. Love your channel, I learn so much