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The Great Snake Migration Of LaRue Road
Twice a year, LaRue Road closes down to vehicular traffic to allow hundreds of snakes to cross between LaRue swamp and limestone bluffs that they overwinter in. I'm here to investigate why this seems to happen here, and only here!
Music & Sound Effects:
Bio Unit - Flotation: nultielrecords.blogspot.com/
All sound effects from epidemicsound.com
External Videos:
"If You're Scared of Snakes, Don't Watch This | National Geographic": ua-cam.com/video/-jTxiWmSpk8/v-deo.html
www.pexels.com/video/snake-on-the-rocks-5246807/
Sources & Further Reading:
"Geology of Illinois": www2.illinois.gov/dnr/education/Documents/OnlineIntroIllinoisNatRes(5-6).pdf
"A Floristic Study of a Southern Illinois Swampy Area": kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/4608/1/V59N02_089.pdf
"Comprehensive Plan for the Illinois Nature Preserves System - Part 2": www.genesisnurseryinc.com/assets/Schwegman%20Divisions.pdf
"Natural Areas of the Shawnee National Forest": www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd575423.pdf
Interactive Map of the Natural Divisions of Illinois: idnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=5dfe0dbec6634b7488bb10cc482372a4
"Guide to the Geology of the Garden of the Gods Recreation Area, Shawnee National Forest, Saline, Gallatine, Pope, and Hardin Counties, Illinois": library.isgs.illinois.edu/Pubs/pdfs/ftgb/ftgb2009B-gardenofthegods.pdf
"The Shawnee Area - An Inventory of the Region's Resources": www2.illinois.gov/dnr/publications/documents/00000744.pdf
"LaRue-Pine Hills/Otter Pond Research Natural Area": www.nrs.fs.fed.us/rna/il/shawnee/larue-pine-hills-otter-pond/
"LaRue-Pine Hills": www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3833926.pdf
"The Fish Population of a Spring-Fed Swamp in the Mississippi Bottoms of Southern Illinois" Source: Ecology, Vol. 26, No 4 (Oct., 1955), pp 552-528
"Fieldbook of Illinois Mammals"
Source: Illinois Natural History Survey, Manual 4
Link: www.originalwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2019/03/Hoffmeister-and-Mohr_1957_field-book-of-Illinois-mammals_reduced-size.pdf
"Herptofaunal Survey of the Pine Hills Area of Southern Illinois"
Source: The Quarterly Journal of The Florida Academy of Science, Volume 21, pp 207-228
Link: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/129616#page/7/mode/1up
"The Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois"
Source: Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin Volume 28, Article 1
Link: iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/inhs/article/view/167
"Snake Migration - Illinois's Shawnee National Forest is famous for its Snake Road.": www.nationalgeographic.org/article/snake-migration/
"Chillin' and Sliding: Snake Migration in Vermont": www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/education/2020/10/05/echo-science-spotlight-vermont-snake-migration-and-hibernation/5884367002/
"Do Rattlesnakes Migrate?": baynature.org/article/do-rattlesnakes-migrate/
"RED-SIDED GARTER SNAKE MORTALITY ON PTH#17 AT NARCISSE WMA": www.carcnet.ca/english/snake_mortality.html
Misc. documents received directly from the U.S. Forest Service:
Geology of Pine Hills
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Shawnee National Forest and Southern Illinois
LaRue Pine Hills Appreciation Day Pamphlet Map
Maps of species ranges taken from Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes (Second Edition) and Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America (Fourth Edition)
Paleogeographic maps by C. R. Scotese: www.earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates/
Special thanks to the following individuals for their input on the scripts and drafts of this video:
Suzanne Hirsch (Public Affairs Specialist | Shawnee National Forest)
Mark Vukovich (Wildlife Biologist | Shawnee National Forest)
Scott Ballard (Southern Region E&T Recovery Species Specialist/Herpetologist | Illinois Department of Natural Resources)
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How do desert dunes get made? I'm here to answer that! Music Credit: "Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources: Lancaster, Nicholas. Geomorphology of Desert Dunes. 1995. McKee, Edwin Dinwiddie. A Study of Global Sand Seas. 1979. pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/dunes/ Tchakerian, Vatche. Desert Aeoli...
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Photo credits: Broad-Winged Hawk: www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=310865&picture=hawk Warbling Vireo: www.birdphotos.com/photos/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=243502 Green Frog: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Male_Green_Frog_-_Hunterdon_County,_NJ.jpg

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @rudigarcia5689
    @rudigarcia5689 24 дні тому

    sick explanation

  • @kevinlewallen4778
    @kevinlewallen4778 27 днів тому

    What an excellent, informative video! Years ago I learned that much of this region had been clear cut just prior to park establishment, and I wondered just how recovered the forest is. Is Brown, Wild East, your source for that question, which you discuss at 03:42?

  • @kassidyrae18
    @kassidyrae18 2 місяці тому

    This deserves to go viral!

  • @ali.k3846
    @ali.k3846 3 місяці тому

    Yu truly captured the "prairie " feeling in this vid Great work

  • @BlenDaniel-g5e
    @BlenDaniel-g5e 4 місяці тому

    1:19 what?

  • @derwinkle
    @derwinkle 4 місяці тому

    You could go to the great smokey mountains, or you could stand in a shopping center parking lot in Washington. Just about the same experience.

  • @Miaumiaupachamama
    @Miaumiaupachamama 5 місяців тому

    Revisited this video, its very good! Great job

  • @hawk4795
    @hawk4795 5 місяців тому

    This was very helpful I’m writing a report about different diverse landscapes this was very helpful 🤌🏼🌸

  • @s.unosson
    @s.unosson 5 місяців тому

    Biomimetics can be used as an argument against biological evolution. According to the theory, there is no inbuilt intelligence in evolution, only happy accidents, unlikely mutations that in real life destroy life and order.

  • @LoraDaylovesthemoon
    @LoraDaylovesthemoon 5 місяців тому

    Hi you clearly know a lot about this region, I'm currently doing research and this video was really helpful so thank you!! Do you have any additional references you could share so I can further my own research? I'm specifically looking at the 1900-1930s :) Thank you again.

    • @ReadTheUnderstory
      @ReadTheUnderstory 5 місяців тому

      My top recommendation would be the The Wild East book I listed in the video description 🙂

  • @colesimonson8692
    @colesimonson8692 5 місяців тому

    Something like 99.6% of tallgrass prairie has been plowed under and planted with row crops or destroyed by other means. I wonder if we’d accept that if it were any other ecosystem.

  • @mahbubfarhan
    @mahbubfarhan 6 місяців тому

    How are you not popular?

  • @ahmadtobas
    @ahmadtobas 6 місяців тому

    This is a great informative and honest video. As someone who has visited the smokies dozens of times and loves to go I think its important we acknowledge much of the park's difficult history.

  • @arehay
    @arehay 6 місяців тому

    This dude is showing images of places that arent The Smokies. Good info none the less

    • @ReadTheUnderstory
      @ReadTheUnderstory 6 місяців тому

      Hey, can I ask what parts of the video you're referring to?

    • @arehay
      @arehay 6 місяців тому

      @@ReadTheUnderstory 1:33 when showing the wolves. That species of wolves, to my knowledge, never occupied The Smokies either. Stock footage of red wolves from Carolina might have worked better. Also, sorry for being that guy.

    • @ReadTheUnderstory
      @ReadTheUnderstory 6 місяців тому

      @@arehay Fair point! Those are from Yellowstone.

    • @arehay
      @arehay 6 місяців тому

      @@ReadTheUnderstory All good, still love your content.

    • @ReadTheUnderstory
      @ReadTheUnderstory 6 місяців тому

      @@arehay It's all good man! I appreciate the criticism.

  • @n.m01
    @n.m01 6 місяців тому

    Your video is way more useful and informative than our professors lecture series! Thank you very much!

  • @bhagathrejanijayabhadran9418
    @bhagathrejanijayabhadran9418 7 місяців тому

    Informative mate. Thank you.

  • @GaylandAubrey
    @GaylandAubrey 8 місяців тому

    Wish could share with Grandma

  • @PlutoPupp
    @PlutoPupp 9 місяців тому

    Single handedly improved my research report thank you

  • @escuelaenlaspraderas762
    @escuelaenlaspraderas762 9 місяців тому

    Excelent!! Used for homeschooling❤

  • @TheAlison1456
    @TheAlison1456 10 місяців тому

    i was about to complain about how you didn't mention any sources, but it's in the description 7:40 dune competition 👀 8:15 this on isn't in the description. The Physics of Blown Sandand Desert Dunes by R. A. Bagnold

    • @ReadTheUnderstory
      @ReadTheUnderstory 10 місяців тому

      I don't actually use R.A. Bagnold as a source. However, most of my sources definitely rely very heavily on the foundation Bagnold set.

  • @Willy_Tepes
    @Willy_Tepes 11 місяців тому

    The problem is that sand dunes are not created by wind, they are created by water. This is obvious if you look at satellite images. There is also the issue of dunes that contain gravel and rocks as in Libya and many other places, these are clearly not created by wind. Only water can create parallel, straight dunes that go on for hundreds of kilometers. You can see the effect of water velocity on the deposition of sediment, and also interference patterns where waves have reflected off a coastline. The wind blown theory has never been experimentally proven. Star dunes and dome dunes are an effect of wave interference on a lake bed.

  • @CamNewtonFan69
    @CamNewtonFan69 Рік тому

    you have a good voice for videos

  • @CamNewtonFan69
    @CamNewtonFan69 Рік тому

    THANK YOU, im researching dunes for my Landscape Architecture class and this is super helpful

  • @choabao
    @choabao Рік тому

    how do u have only 248 subs this vids GREAT!!!

  • @Miaumiaupachamama
    @Miaumiaupachamama Рік тому

    loved it

  • @AlissonCeciliaKnellMannucci

    GREAT VIDEO!!!!

  • @lollertoaster
    @lollertoaster Рік тому

    Very informative, well presented and I really liked the demonstration with the balls. Good job.

  • @AnnMitt
    @AnnMitt Рік тому

    Enjoyed this video. Well done 👏!

  • @FarihaNowshin-x7e
    @FarihaNowshin-x7e Рік тому

    That's amazingly helpful and useful for the relevant topic. One can not only understand the landforms but the continuous procedure of Dune formation. Would you please cover the other portions of Geomorphology?

    • @ReadTheUnderstory
      @ReadTheUnderstory Рік тому

      Thank you! What other topic(s) in geomorphology would you be interested in seeing covered on this channel?

    • @FarihaNowshin-x7e
      @FarihaNowshin-x7e Рік тому

      @@ReadTheUnderstory Thanks for responding. I would love to see other Geomorphological processess and landforms namely Glacial, Fluvial, Coastal etc.

  • @ryankessler9470
    @ryankessler9470 Рік тому

    Excellent video! Keep it coming!

  • @johnmarstonplays69
    @johnmarstonplays69 Рік тому

    Where is this exactly?

  • @johnmarstonplays69
    @johnmarstonplays69 Рік тому

    Nice timber

  • @eliseolopez2790
    @eliseolopez2790 Рік тому

    one example the transformation of butterflies

  • @FOX-3.0
    @FOX-3.0 Рік тому

    thanks dude

  • @jollygrapefruit786
    @jollygrapefruit786 Рік тому

    Imagine if there was a project where someone would snap a picture of a dune range from the exact same location and angle once a year, and the tradition would be kept up for thousands of generations, and eventually someone could watch eons of time as the dunes crawl across the land like a living organism.

    • @Willy_Tepes
      @Willy_Tepes 11 місяців тому

      Imagine if someone explored the effect of large continuous mass of water flowing across the landscape and how that would deposit sediment. The sand-blown dune theory is wrong. Look at some satellite images!

  • @jayakelumprabad-js9yr
    @jayakelumprabad-js9yr Рік тому

    Sir this is bundala srilanka 🇱🇰 natural sand dunes ua-cam.com/video/YbIe_EZDeDI/v-deo.html

  • @dfc8943
    @dfc8943 Рік тому

    this is great

  • @khurramsaleem2478
    @khurramsaleem2478 2 роки тому

    i don’t get it 😢😢😢😢😢😢

    • @Willy_Tepes
      @Willy_Tepes 11 місяців тому

      That is because the theory is wrong. It was water that created these dunes.

  • @sophiaking7391
    @sophiaking7391 2 роки тому

    This is amazing thank you!!

  • @Azib0
    @Azib0 2 роки тому

    Writing tomorrow, but this was helpful

  • @MilleLagerqvist
    @MilleLagerqvist 2 роки тому

    It pains me how this guy hasn’t got more subs! These videos are so incredibly helpful and interesting!

  • @DoahnKea_Tuber
    @DoahnKea_Tuber 2 роки тому

    Snakes definitely need a new P.R. Firm.... Fantastic Narration / Very Interesting!

  • @rafaelzakinov6415
    @rafaelzakinov6415 2 роки тому

    Great video, very informative, should be shown on Discovery channel and in schools 👍❤️

  • @karenebner8808
    @karenebner8808 2 роки тому

    Fascinating!

  • @TheAlison1456
    @TheAlison1456 2 роки тому

    I didn't know about the blue mussels and the web's UV reflection for birds, very interesting and cool, well done

  • @kellyw976
    @kellyw976 2 роки тому

    Great video, I really enjoyed it!

  • @theresareynolds3133
    @theresareynolds3133 2 роки тому

    Snakes terrify me

  • @JimHerbertOutdoors
    @JimHerbertOutdoors 2 роки тому

    Man what a cool video. Way better than my snake road vid 🙈 That glacial melt is suposedly what formed the kankakee sand deposits, was called the great kankakee torrent. Now it's home to bull snakes, racers & hognose. That kinda stuff is really interesting. I look for rocks and fossils everywhere i go. In kansas u can flip snakes under fossil filled rocks along the road. Gotta love when 2 hobbies combine into 1

  • @iquitos46
    @iquitos46 2 роки тому

    Living in Union County makes Snake Road an easy trip and great fun for me. While LaRue-Pine Hills has a great show so do several other places in this end of the state. Heron Pond Swamp in Johnson County feels like a Jurassic vacation. I believe it is the northern most Cyress/Tupelo swamp in the country and to be in the swamp gives a feeling of awe sadly lost by human misuse and abuse. I've seen lots of Copperheads and Cottonmouths in and along the trail. The swamp has a floating walkway extending into it and on a weekday with few visitors its a trip back into time. I liked your video a lot. Hopefully people will want to explore this area and also respect it. Good Show.

  • @carmenndestiny
    @carmenndestiny 2 роки тому

    Ur awesome lol ty