This is incredibly interesting! I observe slime molds fairly regularly wandering the moutains around santa cruz and have always wanted to know more more and even more about them. This video answers so many questions I had and many I didn't even know that I had!
@csn583Ай бұрын
And we still can't even pass a bill to prevent forced slave labor in this state today.
@bradleygallant6152 ай бұрын
Cool! Thank you!
@jmcsquared182 ай бұрын
4:35 Are you sure that tree is the "largest" coast redwood? Photos of that tree showing the upper trunk reveal a clear split indicating that it is likely a fusion and not a single stem. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought in order to qualify as a size champion, it can't be multistem.
@kayladrew70363 ай бұрын
Thank you for encouraging the discussion on California native traditions, culture, and continued lineage.
@williammoyer90634 ай бұрын
Short and sweet if you haven't heard the story before. Thank you.
@RACCOONSQUID4 ай бұрын
Doesn't the return interval you stated indicate we should only be doing controlled burns on this area once every 80-120 years?
@davidd70424 ай бұрын
Love horned lizards! Grew up with the Texas variety. Didn't know there is a species in these Santa Cruz mountains. So cool.
@DebMorgan-rr6yn4 ай бұрын
What a delight to see your enthusiasm with the snake! For that matter, your energy about all the subjects is contagious.
@kristilee6714 ай бұрын
That was cool!!
@KorrakotK4 ай бұрын
Where can I view the full-size photos?
@Nanda-fy3qo5 ай бұрын
Caring for, protecting & understanding our beloved forest. Much appreciation!
@lowlee785 ай бұрын
So much respect and love for all the firefighters that worked so hard. Thank you guys for sharing this and educating the public. I am always so happy to see you and hear of prescribed burns, especially after the CZU fire complex.
@gequitz5 ай бұрын
Good job!
@willbaker85055 ай бұрын
Shure wish this beautiful town wasnt being ruined by demon freaks.
@GinaVega-l4rАй бұрын
🔥👹🔥
@ricknielsen30595 ай бұрын
I found a rubber boa in the Sierras near Spaulding Reservoir
@pango-y8j5 ай бұрын
I've only seen one in southern Oregon. It was Big. Supposedly had them in the Bay area but I never saw one there. Cool you saw One in the mountains 🌍🧬🌍
@lowlee785 ай бұрын
Are you referring to the Allen’s and Rufous just as orange hummingbirds because of the decision to stop using people’s names? It struck me as odd that you were so good about naming the species of plants and the gnatcatcher but not the hummers. I live in SLV and only learned about the Sandhills when I happened to turn down a random road. I haven’t hiked there yet. Thank you for this. I gasped out loud when you revealed that it was a rubber boa. Jeaaaaalous of that sighting. The snake run was such snake-nerd perfection. Solidarity fist bump. Are there local tarantula species up here?
@trumpetmano5 ай бұрын
YOu guys are an Awesome team.
@hu_b5 ай бұрын
Well done video. Next let's bring back the California grizzly (it's on your logo after all).
@IngaMinno5 ай бұрын
This Native American image on the right is truly remarkable. I don't know how the scholars interpreting it, but to me the cross symbols ( with and without circles ) look like the image of the sun, the solar image, and the interwoven lines look like a symbol of the DNA structure. This DNA structure symbol also appeared in the previous image of the Ohlone tribal basket ornamental patterns to honor the ancestors.
@GTFB666 ай бұрын
Dylan, great video thanks for sharing. You talk about being mindful about recreational habits and staying on designated trails. On the other side of Highway 9 (the UCSC side) there is a crazy network of mountain bike trails built by “volunteers”. There are no sanctioned trails in this area of Cowell. I wonder why managers do nothing about this? Also I went bike camping for two nights at Portola Redwoods State Park weekend before last. We did a hike out to the Peter’s Creek Loop. Beautiful place too! Saturday morning there was a researcher by the park HQ who was very upset about a fir tree that was cut down right next to the park HQ on Monday June 24th. This tree was supporting a colony of Pedicularis Dudleyi, or Dudleys Lousewort, a plant that's on the rare plants list too. A ranger named Andrew Dobbs happened to pull up. He was asked to provide a permit and CEQA approval to remove this tree by this gentleman and would not produce any of this information for him. None of the staff inside knew anything about this tree removal and were unable to provide this information either. A bunch of the Lousewort had been trampled and destroyed by the crew that did the tree removal. No protection was given to these rare plants and removing their supporting tree will most certainly kill them. This was very disturbing for me. I'm trying to figure out who to contact about this and would like any direction you can provide. This is also probably an example of improper land management, which you spoke of as well. It’s important to protect these plants!
@brynnbate10436 ай бұрын
Fascinating, info-packed film, deserves an award! I learned many new things…and appreciated the elements of hope following Redwood Forest fires, they otherwise make me feel so heart-broken.
@riskey67886 ай бұрын
Wow‼️ Great video
@AnaHiatt6 ай бұрын
Awesome video!! Loved it, thank you. I found a rubber boa on a trail near my house about a week ago. I'd never seen one here before, so it was pretty exciting!
@mendynoma42726 ай бұрын
Great video!❤
@KaliFraser6 ай бұрын
So cool!
@KaliFraser6 ай бұрын
Just saw this! Beautiful video
@patricialarenas66706 ай бұрын
I love this- well done!
@joevelasquez27576 ай бұрын
Amazing content 👏
@christopheralan56666 ай бұрын
Stop burning our Forrest!
@Absaalookemensch6 ай бұрын
Even the Left doesn't believe that humans cause global climate change because they don't heed their own recommendations.
@Rozdraws6 ай бұрын
This is literally unwatchable
@michellesmithunroe24636 ай бұрын
Wow. I did not see that coming. It's unfortunate that the presentation was not only distracting from what I find to be a very interesting topic but left me feeling oddly like I've just watched an episode of Night Gallery. I read in the description that the music was supposed to be the song of the trees but I can say for certain that mine don't sing that way at all. 😵💫
@joelcornes20956 ай бұрын
It can all be reversed with YOUR money.
@libertyforever8366 ай бұрын
We have climate change here in the Midwest also. In the summer, it’s hot, and then fall comes, and it cools off a bit and the leaves fall. Then we have winter when it’s kind of cold and it snows quite often and then we have spring when the snow melts and it warms up again. It’s been going on for a long time we like our climate change. We used to call it the change of seasons, which is what we still call it here. But I guess technically you could call it climate change.
@Heavilymoderated6 ай бұрын
I live in the Midwest, too. It used to snow a lot in the winter when I was a kid, now it barely ever does. If it gets cold, it might last a week and then just jumps up to 60 or 80, in the winter. I’ve seen the climate change in my lifetime. If you don’t think you have, you’re either not paying attention, or you’re pretty comfortable with denial.
@Absaalookemensch6 ай бұрын
@@Heavilymoderated We're probably heading back into a natural cooling cycle, so you may get your snows back. It's actually better if we do warm-up a bit. It takes less energy to cool a house from 90s to 72 than to warm it from 30s to 68. Aircraft wrecks have been recovered from Greenland under 70-100' of ice. The glaciers are alive and well. In fact, polar ice pack is at a 20 year high. Even the Left doesn't believe in human caused global climate change because they are not heeding their own recommendations.
@libertyforever8366 ай бұрын
@@Heavilymoderated Your thinking of the last few years where it true that we have not had as much snow the last few years. And there have been some warmer days. But if you look at it over the long-haul, several hundred years, you will see that it’s gone up and down in the normal fashion. In 1998 we had 30 straight days below zero. The next couple of years it was warmer. Even each season has its cold and warm changes from year to year. It’s very possible this winter we will get a lot of snow. It’s all subjective and we never know what we’re going to get. To tell you the truth, I kind of like warmer winters!
@Heavilymoderated6 ай бұрын
@@libertyforever836 It’s more than that. Southern species are moving in and some of ours are moving north. Our way of life is going to change, like it or not. Don’t believe facebook, and don’t believe industry “science”. They’ve known what’s happening for decades.
@aqua_riumplant6 ай бұрын
I didn't know this park exists. Thank you for sharing :D the landscape looks so unique! :3
@PersianWombat6 ай бұрын
Stellar!!
@OoDoRFoO6 ай бұрын
Thank you to all the fungi for making existence possible for me
@jasonksepka74396 ай бұрын
What a fantastic video, I love your enthusiasm and how you are bringing awareness to such a unique environment.
@swithinbarclay47976 ай бұрын
For these gullied trails, might The Park want to permanently shut these down? Could work, and the plants generating duff, to fill them in. What more might you want to tell us the Ponderosas and Knobcones that not only hold their own, but sometimes mingle freely, within the Redwoods? And, are there, or are there NOT Coulters and BIG CONE Douglas Firs, in The Park? Some insist that there are. Along the Klamath and Trinity greater watersheds, are places where Sugar Pines and Ponderosa Pines make uncharacteristic dips in elevation, to share territories with the Redwoods up there, and sporadic Grey Pines, too. Coulters mingle with Redwoods in Big Sur.
@debijane67476 ай бұрын
Thank you! What a treat!
@paulaubrey37906 ай бұрын
Great video but i have to ask why is his top shirt button fastened, shoul only be fastened when wearing a tie, unless of course theres a personal reason
@hu_b5 ай бұрын
not aware of that one is it a law, social convention, park regulation, youtube guideline, ancient wisdom or ?
@acccardone76796 ай бұрын
That was a lovely, interesting, and informative video. Thank you for sharing it. You called it a park expansion. Where is it / how do we get there? I wish you had included a map so we had a better idea of where you are talking about. The major downside that I see about this park, as well as for attempting to keep everyone on the trails, is how the narrowness of the trails you showed. Those narrow trails make it impossible for mobility impaired to use and stay.
@GaiaCarney6 ай бұрын
Thank You for creating & sharing this informative video! I’d never heard of this ecosystem before 🤗 When a plant, like monkey flower, is threatened, do you gather seeds and attempt to propagate it?
@fugueine6 ай бұрын
There are many native plant nurseries and other groups in California that perform plant surveys and sustainably collect propagules to grow plants for habitat restoration and low water gardening. I was involved in that when working for The Watershed Nursery.
@stephaniekingdom44816 ай бұрын
This Gorgeous area has been my playground since 1978.... So very blessed
@barbaragodshall41716 ай бұрын
What a fabulous video. Never knew about the Sandhills before. Can't wait to see that part of the park also. Thanks.
@RACCOONSQUID6 ай бұрын
Shouldn't there be a couple coast redwood groves growing in the sandhills? I didn't see any in the video, but with all that coastal fog and occasional thick needle substrate, it should at least be encroaching on the outskirts right? Seems to me like this area has way more in common with El Dorado national forest than it naturally did in the past.
@shredchic6 ай бұрын
Yes, coast redwoods are adjacent to, and you even see the odd small grove in the creek beds of the sandhills! It's so unique.
@RACCOONSQUID6 ай бұрын
I've seen the ben lomond spineflower popping up around the carmel highlands! I'll have to mark it on iNat next time I'm out there! :)