The Pika conversation is gold

Tony: What are ya doin out here, guy? Pika: MYEHHH

your channel provides so much information WORTH knowing. a pearl in youtubes dirty harbour!!!

One of my favorite places on earth, nobody is there. It almost perfect.

I, for one, sure do appreciate your billy goat hike to show us these stunners. Smiled through the whole vid, spectacular vistas, cool geology, beautiful plants, what's not to love?

The Crow tribe has one of the last wild herd of buffalo on the Bighorn mountains

Thank you for the guided tour of the flora up there.

Absolutely love this content

That's a really lovely area with a surprisingly diverse range of unique plants. This is another place where I wish you were able to use a microscope to see the microbes.

Another excellent video brother!

stuff I never seen but in books...excellent!

Thanks Tony. 6 weeks into lockdown with another 4 ahead just announced today. Appreciating your work more than ever now. Good on you and thanks again for sharing.

thanks for the gumball Popeye! made our Sunday special with alpine beauties.. watch this and fully comprehend "hunker down"

What an amazing place, somewhere to spend a few days away from the human tumor eh? Thanks for taking us there Toni!

I really agree about the native bees. Like a lot of plants, they don't get much respect--yet they are absolutely essential.

“Clematis on The BigHorn”- starring Hairy Carpals. Coming soon to an adult theater near you!!😉😁

What a happy haven you’ve found! Thanks for sharing!

I learn more from these videos than I did from graduate school. Thanks Tony

I wish I could like this video twice just for drawing my attention to the existence of Sci-Hub. Thank you!

I'm watching this stranded on top of a mountain having lost my keys on a hike. Good times lol

Hey Tony, May you live long and keep talking those scientific names with that exceptional memory of yours!!💮

Ahhhh yeah! Awesome new botanical walkabout, with a Fuzzy rubber hot dong stand on top, lol. Cheers, from Southern Oregon. ❤️🙏

You have a good rest of your evening as well. Alpine environments are my absolute favourite places to be. Here's hoping you and your camera make it to the actual alps some day!

Wow what an ending that little runoff is like the miniature rainforest. Absolutely beautiful

Nice intro. Monument plant is my favorite flower. Such subtle beauty!

You don’t care for alpine plants? I thought you’d love those little guys. They’re such specialized little buggers living in an extreme environment of wild temperature swings and intense sunlight, and so many of them live in crap soil, right up your alley. They’re also usually where people aren’t, which is a bonus. And that tiny, low growing willow? How about that?

Thx for risking life and ass to bring us the bangers. Great episode! Gfy have a great day

thanks 4 your hiking efforts many stunning money shots beautiful flowering alpine plants

Good morning ya silly bastids💪

This one was spectacular... way to go. Loved the pika too... he cooperated by doing the pika scream thing, I could actually hear his call.

beautiful place, beautiful plants, beautiful commentator

Townsendia Montana gorgeous little guy, I am a big fan of alpine plants. They re diminutive works of art, and tough as nails. Krummholz!..thanks for the tour Tony.

That was great. You are in my backyard now, and I'm seeing things I've seen all my life, and never knew the name of some of them. I was hoping you'd come across some pink mountain Heather. It's a favorite of mine. Looks like you timed that pretty well. To be in a high mountain field full of bangers pretty much all going off . Excellent work my friend. I live in Montana I'm going to find one of these mountain tops (that isn't on fire right now) and have a look. Thanks Joey, I think it's my favorite episode. I've been listening to your podcasts from this area and I'm loving it. I owe you.👍

So, I just found this alpine plant channel and I’ll comment that it’s really cool to hear an eastern city (New York?) U.S. accent describing these western beauties! So many plants are given new cuss word names I'll have to take a Taxonomy class again!

Hey Tony Thanks for the beautiful video. Bye and gfy, Hahaha

Come to Scandinavia :-)

BEST VIDEO YET, love the alp8ne plants! And the pikas! I've become so inspired, thank you tony!!!!

Love that area. On our way back soon!

Tiny willow! Wow, Thank you Joey. I have always loved the alpine environs. The Pika looked like a baby one.

Damn! This was a great one! I like the warmer tropical or arid spots but damn you find some GREAT montane areas, these reduced plants are outstanding !

Omg I love the conversation with the lil critter ♥️

Tony I love you man. I was born in Wyoming and never had the opportunity to see 95% of the species you described here. Thanks for exploring the botany out there. Keep going man.

Fantastic landscape and plants, brilliantly filmed.. Thanks

that Townsendia parryi was absolutely stunning. Highlight of the video.

What i wouldn't give to be scilently soft padding behind you inhaling all those alpine scents and feasting my eyes on all these stunning plants. Thanks for the video at least.

This is one of your very best videos. I just kept smiling when you pointed out one amazing species after the next. The babbling stream was the highlight. The colors, textures and the goddamn bracts!

Tom skillings hot dog stand 😂😂😂. I watch this channel because as a fellow Chicagoan and botanist your accent makes me feel at home. Keep it up pal. I’d buy you an old style and a polish any day

What beautiful country that is. Getting up close and personal with all the miniature flora is fascinating and very calming, I’d love to venture out there. The pikas are living the good life up there.

I saw this Huge red fuzzy bee the other day, the size of a locust... I think their nest was nearby. I've seen the nest for years now, but never thought thats what it was. I always thought it was a fungal infection... its a huge bulge in a still living tree. Either they hollowed it out and the tree grows around the nest, or they put tree bark over the nest so it is camouflaged. It almost looks like a wasp/bee hybrid. It's shaped like a Japanese wasp, but fuzzy like a bumblebee. I've seen some wingless bees or wasps before that are fuzzy and red like it was, but this thing was different. My dad saw it also... And there's a shit ton of Jimson weed there also, I'm gonna collect a seed pod in a few months and grow it over winter inside

Banger alert, this video. That was great. Your videos really do give me a much needed helping of peace of mind, even among banger nature films in general. Combine the beautiful films with the sensible, yet all too rare, sociopolitical commentary and you get a very unique therapeutic experience. Thx, Tone

This channel the perfect mix of science, art, and vulgar humor

Great Footage and Wicked Cool Plants...!🤙🏻

So many beautiful plants😍... Love it

Beautiful. The higher you go, the more microscopic you gotta be.

Had to pause at 15 minutes to find out who Tom Skilling was. Ended up watching a 10-minute weather report from a location 15000 km away. Now THAT is a weatherman. Cheers Tony, gfys ♥️

dont stop what u doing brother excellent video. you inspiring people to get more in touch with plants and nature much love

Thanks Tony!

So great to see you up in the Mighty Bighorns....great mountains hope you checked out the Pryors (they would have been to your Northwest). Did you check out the Medicine Wheel?

You know you're watching too many of Tony's videos when each time you see a broad yellow flower, you hear the words, "This is in the sunflower family, Asteraceae . . . "

Not far from the Medicine Wheel! I bet you checked out Natural Trap too....Can see the Pryor Mts!

I'm ecstatic that you came to my area! I've seen these plants and flowers in person while hiking all over the Beartooth range over the years, thank you for showing everyone else the beauty and wildness of this area and every where else!!!

Absolutely grandiosity at 10 thou!!! Who would'a thunk it!!!

I used to date a guy name Harry Carpals.

Anudder clyaasic! Thanks tony!

A truly stunning video

So happy you made it to the alpine world, Tony! You need to see that Kelseya in bloom, it's a stunner.

One of my favorite places, did you check out the Medicine Wheel? Sort of a native american stonehenge.

Who the heck disliked this video???

7:32 Caught me totally off guard. 😆🤣😂😹 Still laughing !

Brother, I don’t know how others will try to package you but it might as well be a fight to the death because you are too damn good.

Thunder and rain way off in the distance. The best views. Love your channel.

Love your videos! 12:34 aren't beetles but pentatomid bugs - maybe Chlorochroa

So cool. I've walked around all over those mountains.

I grew up just a few miles from there. I spent tons of time searching for fossils and looking at the cool plants. Thanks for putting some names to the plants I love

Thanks for this great vid Tony! Loved the christmas rant hehe

Tony: “Now you know I love sketchy limestone escarpments, you know I do!” Me, in my head: Oh I bet he’ll find something good. Tony: “HEAVILY GLANDULAR- what a banger plant”

I, too, yell at the wildlife. Great vid, love seeing the places you take us.

That was a good one! Thanks.

Great video - can't beat a big chunk of limestone for biodiversity. Thanks.

Loved this! I've always wanted to go there.

Again, super helpful! Thanks!

So many flowers! This is amazing, precious and soo beautiful. Thank you. Sorry for my multiple comments. It's an impulse control problemo.

That’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen!

The alpine plants are really very beautiful looking and I would love to visit the higher places in the mountains but for now,Tony you have presented an excellent video of those plants and I thank you.

These are all my favorites. Thanks to you and thanks to god for you and for the thin film of rocks and dirt that everything grows in

KZfaq finally recommending quality content, Thanks Tony!

Terrific channel

The pika chirping 🥰 a lot of beetles are they the primary pollinators for that high of an elavation?

among your best videos IMHO

Your random "Christmas" rant got a loud chuckle out of me.

Herbaceous alpine flowers give me wood.

Wow I ❤ this one. Thank you. Because of you, I identified a buckwheat (thats as far as I got) and when I sniffed the flower I swear it smelled like kasha vanishka!! It did!! Who knew there were so many kashas??

Tony? You mean "To NY" is what the Italian moms write in the package when they send their greasy kids there ! :-) Thanks for the video keep 'em coming !

Getting pretty close to my neck of the woods, Southern Alberta. We have all the foot longs and fuzzy calyxes you need! Are you allowed to cross the border???

I like to prove how dumb I am by second guessing at least the family or genus name.

great show

Hi, I have been watching your videos for years now and I really enjoy them. I was wondering whether you ever plan to travel to Portugal/Spain to shine your light on the vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula?

What a good little clematis. This is a great episode.

Beautiful!

I was hiking in the Stanislaus National forest today and saw some of these same glorious bastards here in California. From these videos I learned what phenotypic traits to look for and a bit about the phylogeny and BAM I was like thats a buckwheat, polygonaceae! Or look at that involucer and that capitula with those florets and that corolla, must be an asteraceae! 🤓