Need Recs for Nashville Glades Arkansas, etc
Added 2024-07-23 14:34:40 +0000 UTCHey all,
Rustbelt tour went well. Pittsburgh, Detroit and everywhere along the way. Back in Chicago now and about to take off but headed back through some habitat that's new to me, looking for little crumbs of the vestigial skin of the Earth of these places.
Headed back to the Texas Borderlands via Indiana/Louisville, Arkansas and other places I've spent little time before. Looking specifically for thin-soiled glade habitats and a few specific taxa such as the rare Penstemon deamii, Leavenworthia exigua, etc.
Any recommendations or places that you'd like to see featured in a video along the way? I'm especially interested in prairie remnants, glades, rocky habitats, etc.
If you live in along the way and want to go botanize or check out a cool habitat for an hour or two, let me know.
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My girlfriend owns ~130 acres in KY, part of which borders the Licking River. It’s a solid 2.5 hours from Louisville but a cool find. The family history of the land is ambiguous but as far as we know it never had cattle on it and was rarely used for tobacco crop (mostly because it’s a pain to get to with farming equipment so people didn’t bother). Mostly oak savanna and undisturbed young forest. Has a ~350 year old white oak and tons of native plants back there. The river bank in some areas is crazy steep and has exposed limestone. We found nodding trillium there this year
Alex Hall
2024-07-25 03:38:11 +0000 UTCAlso while you’re driving through southern Indiana, take a chance to absorb the wonderful invasive species and also it’s a great time for reactionary political flags and flag positioning. We can also visit the vast amount of parking lots I know of a recent clearcut to check out the aftermath.
Zeebes
2024-07-24 15:51:18 +0000 UTCOtter Creek park south of Louisville has limestone cliffs facing the Ohio river that may have interesting plants. There are also some large hardwood trees down near the creek.
Thomas Osborn
2024-07-24 15:02:38 +0000 UTCI’d offer our land that’s been undisturbed for decades next to a creek if you were coming to Louisiana. I always find something new when I go hiking through it
Zevon Roo
2024-07-23 20:53:33 +0000 UTCI live about an hour from and have spent a good amount of time in Pine Creek Barrens in Bullitt county, KY. It's about 30 mins south of Louisville. There's a nice barrens remnant and glade complex there that has a great population of Leavenworthia exigua var. laciniata, the Kentucky gladecress. Lots of other neat stuff there too, like Viola egglestonii, Clematis viorna, and Veratrum woodii.
Judson
2024-07-23 19:38:17 +0000 UTCThat sounds lit if you guys go hit me up lol
Matt McDonough
2024-07-23 17:26:25 +0000 UTCI would also recommend hitting up the Helena West West Helena area. I think it’s the Saint Francis national Forest in Arkansas and hitting up a guy named Jon at Quapaw canoe he as legit as you can get.
Zeebes
2024-07-23 16:45:03 +0000 UTCI’ve been scoping out the sandpit cave on those 80 acres and waiting for them to open that up to the public. Maybe we can accidentally find it together.!
Zeebes
2024-07-23 16:43:03 +0000 UTCDude you’re in my neck of the woods. I have some good Recs for sure. I’m not sure if deamii will still be in bloom but I know where some are. Just posted a banger ass orchid I can take you to also player. Got some good dope spots that I absolutely adore and treasure. Might be able to take you to a yellow Wood tree some hemlock remnants explore some bad ass road cuts and geology, which is fucking amazing here. Might be able to put you up for a night also. Or put in a few miles with you for real I’ve been waiting for this chance and would love the opportunity to show you my favorite parts of my fucking favorite STATE!. motherfucking Indiana! I have been putting in a lot of work to learn as much as I can. Zizzabizza@gmail.com
Zeebes
2024-07-23 16:42:22 +0000 UTCI love Hemlock Cliffs, near English. and Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, also you should reach out to the Central Indiana Land Trust, they just closed on 80 acres of Hoosier National Forest with sandstone barrens and a bunch of cool natural rock formations
Letters
2024-07-23 15:15:20 +0000 UTCApparently in Hammond IN there's a section of unprotected remnant dune land, the Briar East Woods, that the mayor is planning on destroying to build a bridge, along with even more single family housing. I'm not sure what plants are growing there, or if it's the kind of habitat you're looking for, but maybe some more visibility could help the people trying to save it right now.
Bobby Lynch
2024-07-23 15:00:54 +0000 UTCIf you happen to be passing through the Fort Wayne area, there is a fantastic prairie called Arrowhead prairie about 30 min south of town. Loaded with silphiums! I hike there quite a lot! My buddy Evan (Phacelia guy from the Chicago show) and I would totally be down to botanize there, just hit us up!
Matt McDonough
2024-07-23 14:39:15 +0000 UTC
