Chris Best - State Botanist for Texas
Added 2024-10-10 18:44:29 +0000 UTCChrist Best is the State Botanist with US Fish and Wildlife Service for the state of Texas, a position he has held for 30 years. He has extensive knowledge of plants in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, specifically. He has worked with numerous rare and endangered plant species including Physaria thamnophila, Asclpeias prostrata, Thymophylla tephroleuca and many more. He has also worked with mycorrhizae on cactus roots, propagating rare and endangered species, and navigating the sometimes tenuous relationship with private landowners in the state. In this episode we talk about propagating rare plants, fostering symbiotic relationhips between roots and beneficial fungi and bacteria in the soil microbiome by intentionally innoculating plants in propagation, endangered plants, peyote conservation (or lack there of), how geology can affect the plant species that occur in an area, and what random but interested people can do for plant conservation. To
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Love the serendipity. Same thing keeps happening to me and it makes it all feel like it’s meant to be. One + year ago I was just some dumb ass who started an Inat, then one day at work I stumble upon some botanists standing around a flower, turned out to be P deamii. One of those dudes was the State botanist and now a year later I have gone out and collected specimens with him and have also gone to a lot of talks and things are just lining up. The best part is everything is starting to click also!
Zeebes
2024-10-30 13:19:35 +0000 UTCI haven't finished listening to this one, but so far there's some great insight into some of my issues growing stuff in Arizona. I've seen the same issue, for instance, with plants from pots that are fine at first but don't thrive, and when they die I find the roots haven't left the original potting medium. Before AZ I lived in Ontario, Indiana, and Illinois, Great Lakes with fairly rich soil--none of this caliche nonsense--so I hadn't run into that particular problem before!
Candice
2024-10-12 06:00:27 +0000 UTCThe thing that he missed their are validly criticizing the US government, then why we have it "" so good" it's because we exploit all these other countries and destabilize them. That's a fact. There's not even a question about it. There are some very detailed books which would explain to him why he sees the vast difference being that we have it's so good and not they are like that because of the United States. He needs to read at the very least, Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano or killing hope by William Blum or overthrow. I forget who I said it. It might've been actually Hitler, but someone said that the thing in the United States does Sowell is blurs the line and keep people distanced or removed from each other US citizens don't see what's happening like a clear segregation that still exists, slavery still exists. We have the most incarcerated population in the world every year police kill, more innocent people, then the year prior, 98% of police that kill people see not even any repercussion, and then he get pensions, We are so distance from the actual country we live in how much better it could be, if people sit up against it, and how the whole world is suffering because of this imperialist empire which is quite literally nothing but a military industrial complex at this point.
Mitchell
2024-10-12 01:51:19 +0000 UTC
