Descent with Modification
Added 2019-09-20 17:23:18 +0000 UTCTook a guest on an ascent up to see a very rare and cryptic "fern" (actually a member of the Ophioglossaceae) last night at 9,000 feet on a dormant volcano in the Cascade Range. He insisted we turn back before nightfall, and I'm glad he did, because I would've kept going, hiking 1900 feet back down through volcanic boulders and thick brush on a steep slope. Some of the youngest rock in California here, only 240 years old (since it cooled to a solid state from a liquid one). We were not able to make it to the location of this rare plant as we ran out of daylight. We ascended nearly a third of a mile straight up in only a mile and a half as the crow flies.
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Better safe than sorry. You can make another attempt another day.
2020-02-04 19:00:28 +0000 UTCYea brother.!!!! Wanted to say congrats on 100k YouTube subscribes also. Keep em coming!
2019-10-18 23:38:53 +0000 UTCcongrats on hitting 100k!
2019-10-16 12:26:27 +0000 UTCMakes me happy to hear. I'm glad. Getting people excited about this stuff is why I do this. Thanks all of you for the kind words.
Anthony J Malone
2019-10-10 23:40:49 +0000 UTCYour channel is awesome, I've learned more about plants watching your videos then from a college course and years of trying to identify plants on my own. I picked up 'Botany in a Day' and have been studying. It really opened up a whole new way of seeing the world.
2019-10-10 20:52:10 +0000 UTChttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt/id1458563601?i=1000449292869
Daniel Pirone
2019-10-08 00:34:59 +0000 UTCshit - sorry - not sure how to make links work correctly on this platform.
Daniel Pirone
2019-10-06 01:59:44 +0000 UTCIf you have ever been curious about structural morphology of plants and the occasional overtly fractal ones: check out this book : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Algorithmic_Beauty_of_Plants - now a free PDF http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf
Daniel Pirone
2019-10-06 01:58:09 +0000 UTCJust wanted to say - listening to your recent podcast, where you mention the youtube comments getting to you - If it will keep you making the videos and reaching out / educating / sharing - then abso-fucking-lutly turn off the comments. My parents where into botany, and when I was younger, I worked with a student of E.O. Wilson (Dr. Tom Ray) to explore things like undirected evolution and social-hyper-parasitism patterns ( in software - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation) ) ... I had lost my connection to a lot of this, but your videos ( and postcast, etc ) have really brought it all back - and I am much less depressed as a result - THANK YOU! If you are ever out near Seattle - would be happy to schedule a meet up of like minded folks ...
Daniel Pirone
2019-10-06 01:00:06 +0000 UTC
