Thank you for your enthusiasm about these unique place. I hope this place can be protected for future generations

Superb video and story! I can't believe I haven't seen this one. Keep up the great work.

Love seeing this and hope this message spreads!

Im so excited that my daughter will be working on this initiative. It's so important to preserve our ecological systems.

My heart aches for the lost habitats

It's sad to see our native grasslands disappear, but we do have the opportunity to plant these native grasses and wildflowers in our yards. I recommend Native American Seed - they're a company out of Junction, TX that sells native wildflower seeds.

Love to see this. Here in the Piedmont of South Carolina, I'm struggling to find native plants that are native to this area. There's one small nursery that has a small selection, but that's about it. Getting a local "ecotype" is very important, imo, but we need more universities to step up to the plate and at least help to make seeds available to property owners like myself who wouldn't mind growing a few things to help out. Plant Delight Nursery, in North Carolina, has a wonderful collection of almost unheard of native plants that they offer for sale, and the prices reflect what you might expect for such rare things. Sadly, even they can't make hardly a dent in the problem since they're just as constrained by business requirements as anyone else. Where do you get Smooth Purple Coneflower (Echinacea laevigata)? It's native to my area, and threatened, but the only time you hear any mention of it is a single piece on the Clemson U Extension website. Trying to find seeds or pots ready to plant is like finding hen's teeth! I'm "teaching" folks to take it slow and steady. While I'm not keen on using cultivars, that's often the only option since you can't get straight species locally, or you can't fit the straight species into your site requirements. I'd rather see people plant Carex pensylvanica "Straw Hat" than not plant any Carex pensylvanica at all. I'd rather they put in Panicum virgatum "Cheyenne Sky" than yet another stupid chicom grass. People want a plant rather than seeds, for the most part, so it's up to us to make those plants available. If we are going to save the ecosystems, we need to borrow from Dr. Doug Tallamy's "Homegrown National Park" idea, and spread things out over the millions of acres that are currently in turf grass and other home and commercial landscaping. And that means we need plants ready to go in the ground. Last year, I planted some Panicum and Carex in my yard. I also have pots on the porch filled with Rudbekia, New York Aster, Tickseed, and Shasta daisy. None of the plants are local ecotype because the local ecotype is just not available. Even the Asclepias tuberosa that I grew from seed is from a plant that I found in a convenient "native" planting in town, and very likely that plant was bought at a store that sourced it from some far off area. In other words, the situation is ridiculous, and we need to do better. The one thing I really like about Plant Delights Nursery in North Carolina is that they are offering plants for sale that are simply unheard of in the Trade. Sure, they have to pick their battles wisely, and I understand that their selection isn't native to my area, but who else is offering plants that are even close to where I live? Seeds and potted plants from the midwest or northeast are available online, but that's as far from my local eco-type as you could get. Where's Clemson and USC in all this? Where are the local Horticulture school programs when you need them? Right now, I need local Pachysandra procumbens, Asarum canadense, Allium cernuum, Packera obovatum or aurea, and wouldn't mind a dozen other plants. But you cannot find anyone who has them for sale or trade. That's a big problem and I'm not sure how we fix it.

And look at the Goat's Rue next to the rock!

I just got my fist cup plants. Looking forward to attracting the wildlife with them. Such a beautiful plant. Thanks for the video 🌼

Awesome dude!

Amen to to the prairies

Fucking insane we need to protect these places. Why do people desire to destroy this planet.

This is a good visual on thermal cover. Thank you.

Thanks for showing this off. I'm looking to plant a ton of pollinator friendly plants in my Alabama backyard and I enjoyed seeing the plant so I know where best to put it.

Awesome informational video, thanks!

Hey man..............good work..........bring back as much prairie as you can, god bless

Cool what state is this in..? What time of year??

God I wish more people knew about this. Tired of suburbia and car centric development and the forest myth killing off our grasslands. Downright depressing how nobody has done anything until recently.

You guys should collaborate with the native habitat project.

You should collaborate with Kyle Lybarger

They are blinking in intervals like Christmas lights. 😂 I guess that is one way to tell them apart from the other wild plums.

Is loblolly pine a savanna tree species? I understand it will act like a longleaf or shortleaf pine, but was it historically part of savanna ecosystems? I learned that the original range of loblolly was restricted to following stream banks due to fire intolerance. However this opens a can of worms, that I love. In the modern south we do loblolly plantations. How do we use what we have to most effectively bring back pine savannas? I suppose many sites should be transformed into this in order to cause the least amount of disturbance and not totally restart the stand. Great video and great food for thought.

Very interesting!

So cool this is one of my ancestors!

I've been harvesting the growth and using it as mulch in my chaos garden around where i planted rivercane rhizomes and a very high intensity of all kinds of grains and brassicas and a lot of native sedges too, the biomass is at least useful. I've got a few plants come up from seeds but I think I got them all pulled and the river cane will eventually take over. I think I might dislike bermuda more

That is amazing. I hope y’all are able to acquire it.

These are one of my favorites. I have six in pots right now to transplant and just last week a hummingbird (not realizing I was nearby) came to feast on them. <3 They are wonderful.

Hey Jeremy, could you spotlight Helianthus porteri in a video?

Just discovered Southeastern Grasslands Initiative. Grasslands are mostly overlooked by those interested in environmental issues.

Hello. Have your group discovered any new species in the area this year?

Was prescribed fire used in that restoration effort?

A ticks paradise.

I’m in the Mid Atlantic and I love this. I heard Dwayne Estes on the Native Plants Healthy Planet podcast. Keep up the excellent work.

Hello. Did you find any new species this year?

Where is this piece of savannah located? It looks like it is in the wiregrass gap?

Can this be uploaded to the Facebook page?

Instead of just documenting species in areas that will soon be destroyed-like the example towards the end of the video that was about to be wiped out in 30 days-why not attempt to transplant those species and/or cultivate them (even through tissue culture if necessary) to save them from extinction? Even taking samples of the soil from the site may save seeds stored in the seed bank that have not yet germinated.

I learned the "Myth of the Squirrel" a bit differently. The huge trees were in savannas with prairies, the trees so far spaced that you could drive a wagon through without cutting one tree but the limbs so huge and sprawling that a squirrel could travel for miles without touching the ground.

The graceful architecture of Big Bluestem. 😊

Thank you for the perfect education! Long Live our Grasslands!