Plant Extinction, "Green" Energy, & Perineum Deli Platters

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  • Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
  • Thanks to Janel Johnson, Patrick Donnelly and Naomi Fraga for help in production of this video. To help save this species (and force Ioneer to put their open pit mine somewhere else nearby where the biological impact will be less devastating) please check out the following link :
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    Eriogonum tiehmii is a rare buckwheat known from a remote little corner of Nevada. It is an edaphic specialist, which means it is restricted to a special type of soil rich in lithium and boron, having evolved a very specific and special ability to be able to tolerate these generally barren white chalky soils of the high desert. This plant's affinity for these kinds of soils maybe what ultimately dooms it, as %70 of its population is due to be wiped out by a proposed open-pit lithium mine that an Australian mining company named Ioneer wants to develop on the site. If it passes, this plant would be doomed and this beautiful and geologically interesting area would be scarred forever.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 636

  • @NosebleedPolitics
    @NosebleedPolitics 3 роки тому +155

    *The Silver Peak Range*
    1:44 "Tiehm's buckwheat" _Eriogonum tiehmii, Polygonaceae_
    2:07 lithium and boron rich sedimentary deposits
    2:42 lacustrine environments
    3:17 "Tiehm's buckwheat" flower
    3:53 searlesite, borosilicates
    5:12 edaphic specialist
    5:47 collapsed mine
    5:59 arthropod fossil?
    6:10 holotype location
    6:26 Dr. James Reveal (1941-2015)
    *1 mile south*
    6:49 horned miner _Scombridae_ sp. can
    6:57 "Barneby's beardtongue" _Penstemon barnabyi, Plantaginaceae_
    7:06 staminode
    7:28 alluvial deposits
    7:40 Louie
    7:45 "pinyon pine" _Pinus monophylla, Pinaceae_
    7:47 "juniper" _Juniperus_ sp., _Cupressaceae_
    7:48 "prince's plume" _Stanleya pinnata, Brassicaceae_
    8:45 _Enceliopsis nudicaulis, Asteraceae_
    9:27 "paintbrush" _Castilleja chromosa, Orobanchaceae_
    9:49 "Kearney's buckwheat" _Eriogonum nummulare, Polygonaceae_
    9:58 caespitose, prostrate
    10:54 "prince's plume"
    11:53 "Tiehm's buckwheat"
    12:09 extirpation
    13:17 involucre
    14:25 edaphic specialist evolution
    14:48 allele
    16:40 pedicel
    17:09 tepals
    18:45 eriogonum self-pollination
    21:54 Jack and Louie
    22:52 "sagebrush" _Artemisia tridentata, Asteraceae_
    23"05 Jack
    23:06 "Newberry's milkvetch" _Astragalus newberryi, Fabaceae_
    23:35 "Barneby's beardtongue"
    25:23 "spiny menodora" _Mendora spinescens, Oleaceae_
    26:13 "Tiehm's buckwheat"
    26:14 "Buckwheat in the Boardroom", original piece by CPBBD
    27:14 "ground nama" _Nama aretioides, Boraginaceae_
    29:17 "paintbrush"
    30:15 bedded chert
    30:35 "Tiehm's buckwheat"
    31:43 Jack
    31:49 "winterfat" _Krascheninnikovia lanata, Amaranthaceae_
    32:11 "Kearney's buckwheat"
    32:21 "pink phlox" _Phlox stansburyi, Polemoniaceae_
    32:39 salverform corolla
    33:23 "Fendler's sandmat" _Euphorbia fendleri, Euphorbiaceae_
    33:48 "cushion buckwheat" _Eriogonum ovalifolium, Polygonaceae_
    34:13 "blazing star" _Mentzelia_ sp., _Loasaceae_
    34:47 "desert milk weed" _Asclepias erosa, Apocynaceae_
    35:09 "cat's eye" _Cryptantha_ sp., _Boraginaceae_
    35:18 "Frémont's phacelia" _Phacelia fremontii, Boraginaceae_
    *Subpopulation #3*
    35:52 lacustrine sedimentary bedding
    37:41 "Tiehm's buckwheat"
    38:03 former mine
    39:23 "shadscale" _Atriplex confertifolia, Amaranthaceae_
    39:36 paleozoic limestone
    43:23 plant ID tag
    45:25 mining ditches
    46:39 horned miner hole
    48:00 stipitate glands
    48:21 Al Scorch voicemail (link Al Scorch - Working Dream: ua-cam.com/video/dNUgqDAHfxI/v-deo.html )

    • @nicktheworld5356
      @nicktheworld5356 3 роки тому +2

      lmao what's the point in time stamps for a video like this?

    • @NosebleedPolitics
      @NosebleedPolitics 3 роки тому +28

      ​@@nicktheworld5356 If you're searching for meaning in your own life you're gonna have to bang your own two brain cells together to figure that one out. If you're looking for the rest of the world to have meaning based off of your needs you're gonna have a life filled with questions just like this.

    • @nicktheworld5356
      @nicktheworld5356 3 роки тому +2

      @@NosebleedPolitics 😂😂😂 lmao whaaaat?! Bro why the fuck would anyone need to know when you can find "mining ditches" in this video.
      👀👀 BRUH WHERES THE MINING DITCHES AT👀👀

    • @NosebleedPolitics
      @NosebleedPolitics 3 роки тому +22

      @Umesh It's helpful to track geological features because they often define botanical niches. Many plants will follow human disturbance alone and tracking that can be helpful for understanding the local ecology. Our actions are making a huge impact on the landscape and as important as it is to understand limestone bedding as substrate, it's also becoming important to understand human development land as a substrate. A mining ditch is an area where material from a mine has been extracted and transported across a leveled track over a period of time. In order to arrive at a place and understand that you have to be able to recognize its history. This process is something novel to the Anthropocene and can be understood in the same way we understand any other geological process. Documenting these areas comprehensively and truly understanding their dynamics is tedious work that most of the world simply isn't capable of doing. It isn't the process of defining value and then looking for it in the natural world, it is seeing the natural world as it presents itself and observing what patterns emerge. I have my own reasons for doing this work, and I make it public because I've gotten feedback that they're useful for a variety of reasons. Studying, revisiting what they're interested in, and just finding the dogs. For the lesser known plants you can search their name on UA-cam and CPBBD videos will come up, I suspect from the auto-transcript that is generated by UA-cam being connected to the search function. From that point, one may use my comment to find the exact plant they were looking for. I see these comments as complementary indexes for lasting documentation of fading landscapes. There is some irony in that you are inquisitive and asking good questions. If only you were earnest in seeking answers. Hopefully this comment is for you, but I can hedge my efforts on the knowledge that passers-by will also see this.
      Now let's rewatch 43:37-44:15 for the effect of that mining ditch.

    • @KimChi-iy7jd
      @KimChi-iy7jd 3 роки тому +6

      Thank you very much! 🙏🏼😊💜

  • @wiblet
    @wiblet 3 роки тому +366

    when i feel bad about myself i pretend im a plant being described by this guy

    • @MrBraffZachlin
      @MrBraffZachlin 3 роки тому +16

      does he say you are a" bi-pedal ape who doesn't value anything that doesn't directly benefit it"? lol 3:14

    • @williamchamberlain2263
      @williamchamberlain2263 3 роки тому +13

      Parasocial relationships are getting weird, but comforting.

    • @warmgreytenpercent
      @warmgreytenpercent 3 роки тому +7

      Healthy coping amiright?

    • @hewhoadds
      @hewhoadds 3 роки тому +39

      “look at that beautiful bastard… hairy too!”

    • @seanfilderar2377
      @seanfilderar2377 3 роки тому +12

      something about ovaries

  • @saccers
    @saccers 3 роки тому +212

    I come home from a walk in the desert and get to sit down and watch another man take a walk in the desert.

  • @danielpirone8028
    @danielpirone8028 3 роки тому +183

    From MMA to chert to deli trays to Al, this one has it all

    • @FlyingBalcony
      @FlyingBalcony 3 роки тому +21

      I just can't imagine living life before youtube, this channel is a philosophy, knowledge and entertainment goldmine. 3 in 1!

    • @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
      @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt  3 роки тому +83

      My fear is that many will not watch the last 60 seconds of the video for The encore

    • @unvexis
      @unvexis 3 роки тому +16

      @@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt It was worth it.

    • @joefrancis759
      @joefrancis759 3 роки тому +13

      @@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I haven't seen it yet, but tbfh I always stay for the money shot

    • @DoubleHaulCharters
      @DoubleHaulCharters 3 роки тому +1

      😀

  • @petercactus3460
    @petercactus3460 3 роки тому +42

    Grinding up 500 year old Joshua trees broke my heart. There's a price to pay for the way we live

  • @foolishandthewise
    @foolishandthewise 3 роки тому +164

    Your perspective about how humans live make me feel less crazy. Its good mental health care. Thank you. Our values are way off.

    • @categorille8330
      @categorille8330 3 роки тому +26

      it's values, sure, but it's mostly the exploitative systems that are based off of and reinforce these values which are at fault. We need to fight these systems rather than think of all humanity as bad. We can do better.

    • @philiphammar
      @philiphammar 3 роки тому +1

      💯

    • @foolishandthewise
      @foolishandthewise 3 роки тому +21

      @@categorille8330 I absolutely don't think that humanity is bad. I think it is very complex but in my opinion the economic system is set up to reward those that are willing to play along. Since most people are good at falling in line and doing what others are doing, we just reinforce that it is for our kids and keep pushing the lie to each other. It is clear not only can we do better but we could exploit that same thing in humans to be fit in. In a real commnunity it doesn't make sense to complete. Your kids will do better if you cooperate with others. I know some people with think this is polyanna-ish or whatever. Cynical thinking is so pervasive like our fearless plant expert said in this video. I know humans want to do better but there isn't much space to do that right now. It is accepted to be brutal while at work as long as you contribute to charity or signal to others that you care while outside of the business world. How confusing!? No wonder people go nuts. It is such a fake way to live and deep down we know something isn't right. Just pondering here...what do other people think?

    • @mjade1673
      @mjade1673 3 роки тому +1

      Yes. Shouldn't even be called "values" anymore.

    • @philiphammar
      @philiphammar 3 роки тому +1

      @@foolishandthewise nicely put

  • @anthropomorphizedrock
    @anthropomorphizedrock 3 роки тому +34

    that fucking voicemail at the end just made my week 😂
    These videos give me life. I’m glad someone can be out there to sing to these plants, and show them off a bit

  • @DanKillam
    @DanKillam 3 роки тому +38

    Thank you for profiling this plant with such love, and sharing why it is special. So much of the news coverage has just described it as a little scrubby unremarkable plant, not showing it in flower or discussing its unique ecology.

  • @ZAELish
    @ZAELish 3 роки тому +54

    It is so bloody short sighted. I mean beyond preserving biodiversity there is also the potential for such plants in things like bioremediation.

    • @katiekane5247
      @katiekane5247 3 роки тому +2

      Seems a common theme with hominids lately 😔

    • @evilsharkey8954
      @evilsharkey8954 3 роки тому +4

      They should bank a whole bunch of seed and plant the whole area when the mining is done, and the ground is nothing but lithium boron wasteland.

    • @ZAELish
      @ZAELish 3 роки тому +9

      @@katiekane5247 one of the reasons there are so many regulations in place in some places. One thing the EU is good for at least if the actual member states actually enforce them that is. It reminds me of the fishing quotas definitely nowhere near a perfect system but without them a lot of fish would nearly go extinct

    • @Tipi_Dan
      @Tipi_Dan 3 роки тому +3

      @@evilsharkey8954 There aren't "a whole bunch of seeds". Additionally, the fine characteristics of every local microenvironment , including unique soil characteristics at each locus, are not reproducible through human manipulation. Ever try to dig up a wild plant and grow it in your garden? In desert environments, governing environmental conditions that permit one plant to germinate, grow, establish, and reproduce at one micro-locus are so fine-tuned as to be beyond human comprehension, let alone replication.
      Fuggetaboutit.

    • @evilsharkey8954
      @evilsharkey8954 3 роки тому +1

      Tipi Dan, I’m not the type of person who poaches wild plants for my garden. It’s hard enough to get garden plants to be happy since so many places sell stuff that doesn’t thrive in the local area, even for one season.
      I’m hoping they go mine somewhere else, but we all know how much influence the almighty dollar has in such matters. In the likely event that they tear up some of the natural environment, they should be required to harvest seed from the populations they’ll destroy and add it to the remaining populations to keep them diverse.

  • @hgarnica33
    @hgarnica33 3 роки тому +22

    I worked as a Rangeland technician for BLM in central NV, and your plant knowledge beats pretty much anyone I have met and worked with ... we could've used you in our surveys! My favorite plant that I came across out there is the Matted Buckwheat (Eriogonum caespitosum) very similar.

  • @GoAwayStupidAI
    @GoAwayStupidAI 3 роки тому +76

    I definitely agree with the idea: Our technology has outpaced our psychology.

    • @jokers7890
      @jokers7890 3 роки тому +1

      I understand and agree with your general point. To add to it, it is our temporary stage of development. Meaning, our social development (psychology) WILL at some point in future development become the primary force for global human societal development. The stage we are at now, yes the political economic development is primary still and will be for some time. I am guessing in the next 200-300 years humanity will achieve such fully integrated global political economic development (capitalism), that we will move to a new stage in which our social development (our minds/consciousness) will for the first time take control [some form of real socialism (i.e. planned political economy)].

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 роки тому

      we should've learned our lesson with social media - but we didn't.

    • @PueMonTen
      @PueMonTen 8 місяців тому

      200 years is nothing. that is wishful thinking. We can hope sometimes in the next 200 thousand years to finally realize

    • @_general_error
      @_general_error 2 місяці тому

      I'd say it the other way around. It's our physiology which needs to change for our technology to improve in the right ways and at the right pace. But generally yeah, it's tech which is ahead of our thinking...

  • @BeetleBuns
    @BeetleBuns 3 роки тому +35

    shouldn't having a locally unique species automatically protect an area from all development? You'd think that would be a great policy to have

  • @alexandraskau5826
    @alexandraskau5826 Рік тому +2

    Home means Nevada
    Home means the hills
    Home means the sage and the pine.
    Out where the Truckee silvery rills
    Out where the sun always shines.
    There is the land that I love the best
    Fairer than all I can see.
    Out in the heart of the golden west
    Home means Nevada to me.
    Thanks for the panoramics and appreciating those desert plants! Now I’m missing Nevada!

  • @LtGameboy
    @LtGameboy 3 роки тому +58

    kinda reminds me of the story of Plectostoma sciaphilum; it was a snail that lived on one limestone hill that a cement company mined out, and erased the entire species, But hey who needs a unique species endemic to a tiny area when you could get an extra 20 bucks for cigars right?

    • @Bee-nf5yx
      @Bee-nf5yx Рік тому +2

      What an astonishingly beautiful genus of snail! I've never heard of them before. I wonder how many species have been made extinct without being known. So many, I'm sure.

    • @ericjenkins5815
      @ericjenkins5815 Рік тому +2

      That also happened with a coal mining company and a carnivorous snail that lived on one peak in New Zealand. They chopped off the whole top of the mountain for coal that wasn’t even profitable and destroyed all its natural habitat. Now it just lives in fridges in captivity, though like half of them died when one of the fridges broke. A pretty tragic story.

  • @marktaylor4458
    @marktaylor4458 3 роки тому +33

    We love to name anyone that does their job, a hero. You are one of the true heroes.

  • @lucyb15
    @lucyb15 3 роки тому +16

    what a sweet plant! the fuzz on the stem is especially endearing.

  • @bethlebee589
    @bethlebee589 3 роки тому +56

    As a producer, I would absolutely offer you a nature documentary gig lol

    • @lisakukla459
      @lisakukla459 3 роки тому +1

      I like this idea!

    • @violetly_
      @violetly_ 3 роки тому +8

      Holy shit, a nature doc by him would be so awesome. His presentation would probably get more people interested in this stuff (or at least be less obnoxiously boring and sterile like most nature docs are unfortunately)

    • @thomaswright2426
      @thomaswright2426 3 роки тому +1

      I’d definitely watch that

    • @mathdesm9306
      @mathdesm9306 2 роки тому +3

      Please have it made in a civilized part of the world where they don't censor FUCK

  • @katrinanatura7937
    @katrinanatura7937 3 роки тому +19

    Another awesome video!! Please make more re-greenification planting guides applicable to different environments/soil types + tips and tricks to ensure the survival of newly planted plants

  • @sagetmaster4
    @sagetmaster4 3 роки тому +20

    36:46 beautiful example of how localized deformation can be according to the competence of the lithology. The chert directly adjacent to those thinly laminated mudstones are much less deformed and the nearby granites would be even less so. This is despite the fact that the region as a whole experience similar stresses
    Edit: I guess it would be more accurate to call them laminated micritic limestones due to the carbonate content (or marlstones if the clay fraction is high enough)

  • @williamjarvis7949
    @williamjarvis7949 3 роки тому +27

    You forgot to mention that these paleo-lakes are caldera basins. The associated volcanic activity causes the Li enrichment.

    • @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
      @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt  3 роки тому +15

      Miocene volcanics, yes. But why all the lithium in volcanics. Same situation in Chile I suppose, leeched out of the andesite. In the case of the Great basin the comparatively thin crust causes geothermal activity which is why most of the lithium comes to the surface, with hot water

    • @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
      @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt  3 роки тому +9

      *thin crust due to extensional tectonics

    • @williamjarvis7949
      @williamjarvis7949 3 роки тому +9

      The volcanic enrichment comes from small degree fractional melting. Li is a very incompatible element in most rock forming minerals and therefore goes into the melt whenever the rock barely gets hot enough. Typically more associated with rhyolitic magmatism.

    • @williamjarvis7949
      @williamjarvis7949 3 роки тому +9

      This paper gives a good overview of the enrichment processes of Li in these environments:
      Https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00234-y

    • @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
      @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt  3 роки тому +18

      @@williamjarvis7949 ok, stop. It's makin me too hot. I got to go put a bucket of ice on my crotch now

  • @myoung14
    @myoung14 3 роки тому +4

    Worked all day with Al and then came home to this gem. Thanks for putting these out there. I've learned a lot about plants and rocks and shit and you sound like my dad so I count it as family time.

  • @tylernardone3788
    @tylernardone3788 3 роки тому +8

    Patrick Donnelly and Naomi Fraga are great follows on Twitter. Super cool to see you work with them and on this particular story!

  • @larryclark1518
    @larryclark1518 3 роки тому +5

    Tony, thanks so much for another great visit. ……And……. the therapy session is the shining co-star here!!! I know, I feel a lot less homocidal after the visit.

  • @lindashankland5056
    @lindashankland5056 3 роки тому +36

    I always appreciate the money shots. Fascinating geology out there as well, I don’t want to see it all destroyed for “progress”, or any other reason. I say leave it be, they can dig elsewhere.

    • @LeslieDugger
      @LeslieDugger 3 роки тому

      The world has many other beauties . This progress will help us all in the long run

  • @lellalytle5085
    @lellalytle5085 2 роки тому +2

    I can't say enough for the knowledge you convey on this channel. Immersive! We cannot keep pushing for "advancement" before we have wisdom!!

  • @feedbackart
    @feedbackart Рік тому +2

    Loving your work. Your monotribe about surviving in harsh environments is about tolerance. Thank you for sharing your consciousness.

  • @pembrokecardigan6849
    @pembrokecardigan6849 6 місяців тому +1

    I enjoy ALL of your videos, but this one made me laugh AND cry the most. As a healthcare worker trying my best every day to provide medical care to patients IN SPITE of what the people in the ivory tower want, I come home every night seething with anger at the system. Your comments about the CEOs of these faceless conglomerates took my mind off my troubles for just a bit. Thanks!

  • @JMag1
    @JMag1 3 роки тому +1

    My favorite misanthropic botanist. These videos have given me a new appreciation for the natural beauty that surrounds us. Especially the under appreciated plants that comprise such a large part of the landscape yet somehow go completely unnoticed by the masses of bipedal mouthbreathers that trample them underfoot while engaged in their weekend warrior outdoor activities.

  • @seanc6128
    @seanc6128 3 роки тому +6

    I'm not tired of seeing any of it, it's all awesome really. I'm glad I'm not the only one who still gets the Cheers theme song popping in their head.

  • @StalkerMercenary
    @StalkerMercenary 3 роки тому +8

    I don't know if it'll help at all but I sent an advocation for preservation of these unique plants.

  • @brodysantana4254
    @brodysantana4254 3 роки тому +9

    Your voice , & content as a whole .. .helps with my anxiety . Very well .

  • @rubes8065
    @rubes8065 3 роки тому +7

    Thank you so much for this video. I was hoping you might discuss this topic and you did! Also, you live such a fun, purposeful life. A salute you. Also I’ve always loved your channel, and I’m a teacher, and if I made my own UA-cam channel, I wish I could call it, “Crime Pays but Being A Teacher Doesn’t.”

  • @perez1883
    @perez1883 3 роки тому +3

    🥰😘😍Thank you for this channel. I’ve always loved the desert, but now I’m really looking at plants and identifying them when I’m out and about. It’s very humbling and a great reminder of how insignificant our first world drama really is.

  • @Chadyroo1
    @Chadyroo1 3 роки тому +6

    Signed and donated to help protect this ecosystem and Eriogonum.

  • @mrjoeusa2002
    @mrjoeusa2002 5 місяців тому

    Your knowledge of botany is impressive! Not to mention the geology knowledge you mix in. I thank you for what you do. I will keep watching.

  • @Xternal123
    @Xternal123 3 роки тому +5

    Nice man, you gotta save the edaphic specialist! Pretty cool to see stuff thrive where it shouldn't.

  • @joefrancis759
    @joefrancis759 3 роки тому +16

    On the bright side for that tough little buckwheat, it's going to be one of the top candidates for the reclamation spp list and probably will be the propaganda child for the company through a fully funded 'recovery' program that could end up being run by someone who genuinely cares that exponentially increases its population. Yeah, the boardroom sandwiches can be pretty good.

    • @moosetracker88
      @moosetracker88 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, the bright side is the amount of research that is being infused into this species to figure out how it works. At the end of the day the mine will likely move forward but there won't be many (if any) corners cut. I'm excited to see how it all pans out

  • @mr.wookiesack
    @mr.wookiesack 3 роки тому +5

    I bet the company could protect a couple miles of buckwheat. And then replace the plants after they reclaim the land. Its worth it. We should be tough on the companies and make sure they are cleaning up, and turn it into a reserve after they mine it.

    • @mr.wookiesack
      @mr.wookiesack 3 роки тому

      @Loner Wolf its not worth mining a couple miles of desert and then clean it up? The wildlife lives on the very thin outer layer of the earth not in the minerals beneath it. We have covered huge landfills and made them into mountains. I think we can replant some lithium loving plants. We have regulations and a stable government that can check on their work. Other countries dont have the infrastructure to do that. Its totally worth it! If we dont, another country will mine their resources with no regulations to fill the market causing even more environmental damage.

    • @rgzhaffie
      @rgzhaffie 3 роки тому

      Any shthead who sits on one of these boards should have to qualify first for the position by demonstrating their proficiency at propagating rare native plants.

  • @chrisstearns10
    @chrisstearns10 3 роки тому +9

    Your a living legend Tony!!

  • @freto_cognito9001
    @freto_cognito9001 3 роки тому +4

    Jeez, stupidly beautiful video my brother. Keep up the amazing work! No seriously, don't ever stop!

  • @v8mufflerboy84
    @v8mufflerboy84 3 роки тому +16

    Activist investors have just taken seats on the Exxon board, that is a good way to make a difference and be heard.

  • @jimhaus
    @jimhaus 2 роки тому +2

    You said that amaranth name so fast that I thought you were joking! I was shocked when I read that was really the name, lol. Thanks for all you do!

  • @sweetpeabee4983
    @sweetpeabee4983 3 роки тому +3

    Learned recently that they apparently also use some lithium-bearing ore minerals in makeup products. They're among the stuff used to replace talc now because of that whole Johnson & Johnson "asbestos-contaminated talc products" shit that happened. Idk if that's a better or worse use of lithium ores than battery tech haha.
    This was cool stuff btw. Learning a lot, ofc, as per usual!

  • @corvidsam
    @corvidsam Рік тому +1

    I love these videos (in Nevada especially) because they demonstrate the absolutely crazy diversity found in the Mojave and adjacent areas! While these deserts may initially look barren or just scrubby and boring, they have some of the highest plant diversity in the world (iirc)!

  • @atomicthumbsV2
    @atomicthumbsV2 3 роки тому +2

    I'm so glad you've done a video on this. Last year finally got to camp in a camping spot in coyote pass I'd found in 2017, and I got home only to find that they wanted to built an open-pit mine right fucking there AND it was gonna render a rare flower extinct. fucking infuriating!

  • @taylorjohnson4943
    @taylorjohnson4943 3 роки тому +1

    What a gem enjoy these tours of interesting habitat.

  • @EcoGreensFarm
    @EcoGreensFarm Рік тому

    Studying plants that have the ability to thrive in harsh climates seems like a good idea.
    We apes could learn a lot from these lil guys.

  • @senor9786
    @senor9786 3 роки тому +1

    i almost threw up laughing at the voice mail and woke up my kids laughing and got yelled at by there mother...... give this guy a proper show!!!!!!

  • @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis
    @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis 3 роки тому +5

    pretty cool that an mma guy became the curator of a college herbarium

  • @philiphammar
    @philiphammar 3 роки тому +1

    As a Scandinavian, I wish I could visit a warm desert environment like this one day in my life... seems so nice.

  • @Jordan__Sloan
    @Jordan__Sloan 3 роки тому +3

    Thanks man for turning me on to plant identification. I always looked for them, just never cared to know the names. I’ve been finding some blooming cacti out here in north eastern New Mexico, nothing like a blooming cacti

  • @ROTALOT
    @ROTALOT 3 роки тому +1

    Such a sweet tough plant I could cry. I lived across a mile wide dry creek bed from some selenium mud hills. No plants, just big brown selenium wands scattered all over. Maybe something was growing but I never saw it because it looked like a rock.

  • @jamieellohengee2667
    @jamieellohengee2667 2 роки тому

    The scenery in this video is incredible. I really enjoyed the commentary, too! Thanks for all your hard work!

  • @hankweiser9859
    @hankweiser9859 3 роки тому +1

    I wish I was as intelligent as you are my man. I wasn’t even that interested in plants until I run a crossed your channel, now I’m planting seed and learning to keep plants alive.

  • @adaml102
    @adaml102 3 роки тому +3

    I've been holding this in for too long, botany may not pay but horticulture does.

  • @BackRoadsWine
    @BackRoadsWine 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for laying it all out there big guy.

  • @Wonderhussy
    @Wonderhussy Рік тому +1

    I've been following the buckwheat v. ithium standoff and to be honest, I'm kind of on the fence, because I sure do like me my rechargeable devices! But you did such a great job presenting and defending this little plant's right to life...and I love you for getting so passionate about a landscape other people might just write off as a wasteland. Thank you!

  • @douglascoleman5588
    @douglascoleman5588 Рік тому +2

    In a middle school science class, we started calling each other boron in place of moron. It kind of stuck and I still think it's funny.

  • @amyoconnell3936
    @amyoconnell3936 Рік тому +2

    I hope I'm not too late, but If like to suggest that these plants are important because they might have something to teach us about management of lithium: ways to recycle it and neutralize is toxicity when discarded. Maybe they will become popular houseplants.

  • @geelee1977
    @geelee1977 3 роки тому +9

    Thank you for all the money shots. Never tired of the moist fuzzy staminodes ✌️

    • @richardp6461
      @richardp6461 3 роки тому +2

      Makes ya want to dry one out and smoke it

  • @aquaticaaficionado2004
    @aquaticaaficionado2004 2 роки тому +1

    Love that you share the history of botanists as well as the field knowledge. So many in fields of science don't know the shoulders they stand on. Really wish desalination plants would be built and use evaporation fields to collect boron and lithium from what is left after waste water evaporates. Would solve a lot of our problems (freshwater, "rare" earth, and wouldn't increase salination with returned waste water).
    Keep up the great work. +1 on the value systems.

  • @nonoluigi
    @nonoluigi 3 роки тому +18

    While the best solution is obviously to preserve the ecological site, I always wonder in your videos whether the proper soil and greenhouse growing conditions of the geologically dependent plants you show us would allow them to live off-site. Is it just about soil or is there more at play? When appropriate, I would love to hear what you know about such strategies relative to the threatened plant being shown, especially since the idea is sure to be the first comment out of the flabby-jowled board members eyeing the deli carte as visions of lithium dollars dance in their heads.

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 роки тому

      I definitely agree - just because they're going to dig underground doesn't mean that the plant species would go extinct!

    • @therealalexjones6369
      @therealalexjones6369 2 роки тому +1

      He says numerous times there are other places to mine lithium

    • @therealalexjones6369
      @therealalexjones6369 2 роки тому

      greenhouses cause condensation

    • @saoirsecameron
      @saoirsecameron Рік тому

      @@extropiantranshuman what part of “open pit mine” escaped you?

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman Рік тому

      @@saoirsecameron the part where they can fill it back when they're done

  • @vermillionj1
    @vermillionj1 3 роки тому +24

    I always learn so much from you! MMA fighters finding rare buckwheat.... Fantastic! Thanks for bringing awareness to this species. So much learned n I'm only ten mins in 😂.

  • @ZacharyRodriguez
    @ZacharyRodriguez 3 роки тому +1

    You're an outstanding human being. I appreciate you showing me rare fauna in all it's glory while you had the opportunity. Before our country's broken value system takes the opportunity away.

  • @stillwaterpaiutedecoys5744
    @stillwaterpaiutedecoys5744 3 роки тому +1

    “Home means Nevada to me” is the state song and the tule duck decoy is the state artifact.

  • @jillianvanliew
    @jillianvanliew Рік тому

    @Tony I'm sure those plants loved your Cheers rendition sung to them!

  • @marcdenton2996
    @marcdenton2996 3 роки тому +1

    Trying to find native Nevada species to plant in my 17.50 acre HOA community. Original landscape planted ‘shit’ that mostly died. Trying to replant ‘water-wise’ desert threatened & unusual plants. Doing somewhat not-so-unauthorized plantings. Digging holes with 5 pound hammer & spade chisel. Great way to learn botany & geology. If I would have had a enthusiastic professor like you I would have stayed in college.

    • @helenpatterson3858
      @helenpatterson3858 3 роки тому

      Good luck recreating the soil content 👌
      Seriously. Good luck.

  • @ritawatermann1327
    @ritawatermann1327 3 роки тому +1

    Thank-you for recording these beautiful specimens before they get wiped off the face of the map. Humans......sigh ☹️

  • @MrChainrule
    @MrChainrule 3 роки тому +2

    The Cheers theme cover caught me off guard, bravo!

  • @thegardenoffragileegos1845
    @thegardenoffragileegos1845 3 роки тому +1

    Fungus podcast a few weeks ago was really awesome and ahead of others who covered Massaspora.

  • @markchinguz4401
    @markchinguz4401 3 роки тому +8

    Interesting journey from mma to botanist

    • @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
      @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt  3 роки тому +26

      Would be if it wasn't bullshit but I just made it up because it makes the story more interesting. Arnold Tiehm really is a well-known botanist but never - I am sad to report - had a career in fighting.

    • @markchinguz4401
      @markchinguz4401 3 роки тому +8

      @@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt damn, you got me.
      Might explain why you didn't complain about the plants' name
      I thought it was really cool that those things were so different, but also thought that many people have incredibly different interests.

    • @lionscircle4700
      @lionscircle4700 3 роки тому +8

      I met Arnold Jerry Tiehm back in the late 80's at a Fugazi concert at the Gilman. He was the doorman at the time and let me in without a concert ticket when I handed him a five spot.

    • @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
      @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt  3 роки тому +14

      I ate acid with Jerry Tiehm outside of a megachurch in the suburbs of Phoenix in the early 00s. We thought it'd be funny to go inside while "tripping balls" during their Friday service because that's when they have the band play and everybody holds their hands up with their eyes closed while screaming "our god is a sexy god" but we ended up getting locked inside after closing, setting off the burglar alarms at 3 in the morning while we were fucking around chasing each other with fire extinguishers and laughing our asses off. I don't know how we didn't get arrested that night.

    • @markchinguz4401
      @markchinguz4401 3 роки тому +7

      I started a death metal band with arnold robertus jerry tiehm. It started out great and we were getting more and more well known. But he started getting absolutely wasted on cheap whiskey every time we'd play a show. He'd vomit all over the stage and said that's what made his vocals so good.
      We disbanded after a while because nobody would book us anymore. He changed his name, and now he has a late night talk show called Jimmy Kimmel.
      Edit: he and I shared my wife at our wedding night. 9 months later, she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, we are both blond and the boy has dark hair. But I raised him as my own

  • @blankregistration7301
    @blankregistration7301 3 роки тому +1

    I was this this many days old before I had even thought of someone exposing themselves to a game camera. thanks!

  • @Bootsz2010
    @Bootsz2010 Рік тому

    This is one of my favorite videos of yours! 🌞

  • @gammayin3245
    @gammayin3245 3 роки тому +1

    Exploring the wild lands of Northern Nevada was always exciting when I lived there - 20 plus years. Desert or grasslands have breath-taking beauty whether you like to get close up and photograph the flora or keep a respectable distance and watch the fauna. And like 98% of the time you have that lung-expanding clean air, sunshine and cobalt sky. (Deep breath of sage!!) I came from California and so I always thought that the plants were environmentally stunted versions of the wildflowers I knew in California. I really appreciate your mind-blowing natural history talks. BTW - as we live in a world of spectrum and bell-curved humans, it will take quite some time (likely decades) for all humans to elevate to your knowledge level. Thanks and GFY.

  • @benjaminastormiscomin3229
    @benjaminastormiscomin3229 3 роки тому

    Australian native plant breeder recently breeding ariocarpus. I love your shows mate. Wow bro u are great at what u do. Thankyou for your information.

  • @ryansmiley5495
    @ryansmiley5495 3 роки тому +1

    I love every bit of knowledge you have. What would you do without plants to enjoy.. I hope we never find out.

  • @hxctalent
    @hxctalent 3 роки тому

    Good to see you safe/uploading after what happened yesterday in San Jose.

  • @GEOsustainable
    @GEOsustainable 2 роки тому

    This is the environment we need to be studying, as it will be our reality in about 25 years.

  • @brigid89
    @brigid89 3 роки тому +1

    Always great to hear a naturalist? Ive been west of there visiting the bristlecone pines. Facinating area. Keep up the show .

  • @tlaloc4kids
    @tlaloc4kids 3 роки тому +6

    41:23 is absolutely a money shot, holy shit

  • @JenniferLupine
    @JenniferLupine Рік тому +1

    Very educational! I hope they denied the mine… this is a special little flower… great close-ups! We have buckwheats in E Wa, near Yakima in the shrub steppe. Thanks for the video!!

  • @charonsiouxsie949
    @charonsiouxsie949 3 роки тому +4

    I'd love it if you would do a piece in South Dakota about a.k.a Paha Sapa, a.k.a Black Hills.
    There's megatons of geology and centuries of medicine in ecosystems that are now my new favorite thing in life, the botany of The Hills, ... But this chunk of planet, it's FOR SALE.
    I ask you for this because I think you might want to document what's left before it's all developed and paved, and national forest service makes safe for human occupation. Black Hills is the center of the universe for some folk, and Mecca for Mt. Rushmore fans, which was named after a lawyer.

  • @Bootsz2010
    @Bootsz2010 Рік тому +1

    I value your opinion and you really speak the truth. How would we ever know what was going on out there? You never read about this anywhere I can think of! Thanks!

  • @jakeofallterrains9048
    @jakeofallterrains9048 2 роки тому +1

    32:50 it's so cool to see something similar to what's in my neck of the woods in Appalachia. I recently discovered phlox divaricata on the hillside near my home.

  • @yvc9
    @yvc9 3 роки тому

    Never disappoints. One of the best channel on UA-cam

  • @hyperelliptik
    @hyperelliptik 3 роки тому +2

    This entire video and your commentary in it makes me think of the unofficial epoch of geologic time, "Anthropocene". Supposedly beginning at around 1950 when humanity and its society started to really *boom*, in terms of affecting the planet's climate and ecosystem. It's interesting to think about, and depressing. "Here we are in the middle of our existential reckoning" - (lyrics from the band Puscifer, pretty good stuff.)

  • @triciaroy
    @triciaroy 3 роки тому

    That detail about the flowers retreating back in order to self-pollinate reminds me of the immortal jellyfish that reverts back to an earlier stage of development if threatened, thus ensuring its regeneration. So fascinating.

  • @alexpetersen5
    @alexpetersen5 11 місяців тому +1

    It’s worth noting that lithium isn’t just for fancy gadgets; it’s a crucial tool if we want to stop burning stuff to cause climate change in any sort of timeframe that will preclude mass ecological destruction across the planet. It’s a nuanced thing

  • @Frank-dv4zu
    @Frank-dv4zu 3 роки тому

    always a treat to hear some Al Scorch

  • @DaddyBlueJay3207
    @DaddyBlueJay3207 3 роки тому

    You’re videos always make me feel better

  • @michaelself8543
    @michaelself8543 3 роки тому

    I like that you highlight the trade offs of modern life.

  • @ravedge7042
    @ravedge7042 3 роки тому +2

    Bro I love your shit...I have learned more from your channel about ANYTHING that I learned in school. Keep it up buddy!

  • @slocoast5
    @slocoast5 2 роки тому

    🐕 “He was just on a zoom call with his therapist” 😂
    i Love to kill time watching and learning on this channel.

  • @adam-mh5ou
    @adam-mh5ou 2 роки тому +1

    home means nevada, home means the hills
    home means the sage and the pines
    out by the truckee's silvery rills, out where the sun always shines
    there is the land that i love the best
    fairer than all i can see
    right in the heart of the golden west
    home means nevada to me
    a song seared into the brain of every nevadan elementary schooler
    protect thacker pass

  • @BongRipBing
    @BongRipBing 3 роки тому +2

    Around 18:25, Joey talks about the intricacies of Plant Self-Love, aka GFM.

  • @Totalinternalreflection
    @Totalinternalreflection 3 роки тому +5

    Ah lithium, that reminds me to take my meds.

  • @bluetoad2001
    @bluetoad2001 3 роки тому

    great segment, no filter is the best✌️✅😎👍

  • @qzh00k
    @qzh00k 3 роки тому +15

    Boron is a neutron moderator used in nuclear reactor chemistry and laundry soap.
    Uranium processing is worse

    • @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
      @CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt  3 роки тому +20

      Ooooh tell me more daddy

    • @markchinguz4401
      @markchinguz4401 3 роки тому +8

      This information is boron me

    • @1marcelo
      @1marcelo 3 роки тому +3

      @@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt I knew you're kinky and if you like daddies, it means I have a chance? 😍

  • @brendosapien
    @brendosapien 2 роки тому +2

    It seems like these plants might be natural concentrators of these 'precious' elements, how many wars could we not fight in order to afford to research deeper into phytomining with these kinds of extremophiles (as opposed to blowing up the area and making a mechanical mine)?

  • @bill8985
    @bill8985 Рік тому

    "I feel so nice being out here... really quells the homicidal thoughts. Makes me feel less like clubbing somebody."