Never fails. "Okay, Tony. Tell me somethin' I don't know." Cactus grow in North Dakota. And Yucca. North Dakota was once a forest of redwoods. Some members of the Rose family have nitrogen fixing bacteria symbiosis. Cattle dogs will dive head first down a ravine in hopes of treats.

Plant daddy makes me feel less alone

This man will inspire millions of people to fall in love with the details of nature and enjoy the art of guerilla gardening

"Unfuckwithable". Vocabulary expansion is not why I come to this channel, but it is one of many reasons why I stay. You give us so much, Joey.

I dreamed of being a botanist for years! Now that I know it doesn't pay I'll just stick with watching this channel.

When batton rouge was founded, a giant pile of petrified tree trunks sat nearby on the mouth of the Mississippi. It was big enough to use as a landmark for navigation.

Waiting for the Hawaii video. Gotta see the native forest before it's all gone!

North Dakota is beautiful, especially during the winter with a full moon overhead and hills of snow around you. Just be prepared for the thundersnow storms. Also, cows live better than the average human. Possessing more rights and collective autonomy over the course of their lives than your average human worker drone.

I love the blue of that flax flower...

Little by little, this channel is becoming my Sanity Fix. If I can make it ‘til the next show, I’ll be Fine. Many Thanks for what you bring to my world, Joey.

Those petrified redwoods are amazing.

I've been watching this channel for over a year or so now and never would I have ever imagined that Tony would visit my ultra-bland homestate of North Dakota. It's a miracle!

I appreciate the botanical edutainment. You've made my grown man hobby of plant collecting far more interesting. Thanks fam...

Thank you Joey for taking us to this very interesting place. I enjoyed looking at the patterns made by the petrified tree rings stacked like cards frozen open in a shuffle. Or maybe like a roasted onion?

I'm blown away by all the cactus!

You gotta love a PETM shout-out. All good things must come to an end, and maybe PETM was the end of the metasequoia forests. Read the PETM wiki for a good perspective on the temperature of earth over the last 65m years. ND was great fun as a kid living on Minot AFB. To my everlasting regret Mom threw away our collection of several thousand desert rose crystals found just north of the original elementary school. The metal turbine vents would blow off the roof and down the street like tumble weeds. Ah, good times.

I love the Dakota's there beautiful ! My dad once brought his friend a science teacher home a buffalo flop he shalacked it and keept it on his coffee table! ☺️😂😂😂 I've been all over the dakotas the badlands are awesome and the black hills custer state park go to silvin lake and walk down the path between the rocks and down to the old groth forest its awesome ! Like a mideavel forest ! Beautifullllll

The hypothetical "do you remember dat?" Always gets me 😌

I feel kind of bad for being more fascinated with paleobotany than regular botany, but thank goodness there's a healthy amount of both in this video

Joey, shout endemic plant binomials at me; it's the only way I can feel alive.

Yes I'd like to do time travel and see the landscape including the buffalo in their time.. Thanks for posting and best wishes.

Thanks Bro! I grew up in Bismarck ND and this definitely brings back great memories.😊✌

Wow that Metasequoia trunk… so fucking awesome.

Dude man. If I knew you were close, I'd give you lodging

Lignites....nice!!

I appreciate terminology repeated. Badlands: Red Shirt Table, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota

Ha ha I love your dogs. They're so cute

Thank you!

Touching bison patties? That's a like.

What a beautiful landscape! I'm going on a work assignment to the Black Hills in a few weeks, and I'll be there for a while, so maybe a trip up to ND could be in order. Thanks for the inspiration!

When I 1st started listening I was baffled & skeptical of this guy, but someone recommended it so now I LOOOVE this guy! Being a plant & nature addict with a passion for geology, I can't stop!! Gonna give him a like AND subscribe!

Beautiful scenery. And such biodiversity that most people would overlook or be completely oblivious to. Amazing, those well preserved fossil tree rings.

Great job Joey....

Yes I try to imagine what the forest looked like where I live outside Ottawa Ontario Canada. Best wishes to you and blessings to you and all you hold dear.

wow! One of the best. thank-you!

Welcome to ND

I did a double take about you being in McKenzie county, ND. My home state albeit I’m typically in eastern ND.

I was just in North Dakota! This answered many plant questions I had while hiking. Thank you so much for what you do, I think it's awesome and very inspiring.

Good one

That artemisia cana is neat, never seen it before. I got a pressure washer you can borrow, runs on 110V

liked the wild licorice and the juniper trees

If you’re heading east you should check out the sheyenne natn’l grassland a half hour south of Fargo. one of the few tall grass prairie preserves left and a real nice bur oak savanna.

Jack is living his best life

I may or may not have screenshot the scene with Jack in the tall grass and sage right near the end. It also may or may not be my current desktop wallpaper. Awesome stuff!

And I love this channel ❤

You make good videos Tony.

love to see you visit the beautiful south american plateau someday.

Whatever the planet looked like it was probably fucking amazing. That is something we can not destroy, no matter what happens it will be fascinating.

man I love your vids.. "LAGS"

I had no idea you could find cactuses in North Dakota. Thanks for the great content!

Fantastic video- thank you!

another good one mate,aussie aussie aussie

I love the videos you make there very informative. Also I'm in vages and growing native cactus bolth small and big and of course none native cactus to but its all for food/water. I got same native and a couple none native desert fruit trees. Oh im planting native trees the tall ones around lake mead to add shade wild life and hopefully slow water evaporation.

Cows in animal agriculture also get fed a lot of things they are actually allergic to, like soy. Makes them have the runny shits 24/7

Beautiful country, thank you.

Hey, great episode. Always interested in anything I can learn about upper Midwest native species, we're always looking for new stuff to put in the garden (or cultivate if it shows up on its own). If you find yourself in Minneapolis say hi, happy to guide you to the better burrito joints or whatthefuck.

Never thought it could happen, but this made me miss living in North Dakota

jeeez just a county away from me.... now i gotta go find these plants.

Honestly watching your stuff has helped me identify plants better suited for Utahs changing hot as f*ck climate.

loved imagining the old forest

I'd like to think you listen to jack when he is trying to show you the easiest route down or back to the truck. I'm out in the brush as much as you and I really work with my dogs on this and you can get to where you actually trust their judgement over your own.

cows aren't stupid, they're just children. they can get to be almost 30 but they get fully grown and wont get any more muscle when they are like 3. basically a teenager in their years!

I love snow berries! Just planted some in my yard. Come to the Beartooths

What a beautiful area !

Love your vids bro

My grandpa and grandma owned a giant property in North Dakota. They planted a ton of trees (thousands) around an immense lake they owned with that property. Today those trees should still be there and huge. My grandma sold it a few years back. But those tree’s were big when I was young so they should be huge now.

You coming to SD? 😁

nice this was close to home you almost made it up to Manitoba

Was very irritable needed this

The Dalea was sure neat.

wow - I had ZERO idea there were Metasequoia at any time, anywhere in North America!

another classic

My home state!!

At long last, quality religion

Look at that Lichen, someone has to do some pcr on that shit ! Liking this channel a lot 👍🏻

In my experience, most cattle are much smarter than most people.

One of the few states I haven't been to. Looks awesome.

been planting native orchids on my property in Wisconsin (cyps)

Thank you. Veri interesting!

North Dakota is so much better than South Dakota. Except for the dinosaurs

Roughly around the time of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, you had not one, but TWO big-ass basalt effusions going on -- one that generated the N. Atlantic Igneous Province, and one that generated the oceanic large igneous Province known as Siletzia (which now underlies most of western Oregon and Washington, with another big fragment up in Alaska). Siletzia seems to have been produced by the initial plume head of what became the Yellowstone Hotspot -- shat out a good 2 million cubic km of basalt. But the N Atlantic Igneous Province eruptions shat out over 6 million cubic km. So between the both of them, having both occured around 55+ million years ago, you gotta think that had something to do with the PETM.

Sup, I’m from North Dakota, the central/Missouri region and would love to take you on a tour of some of my favorite spots. From hiking trails to weeds, I’ve got you.

I never metasequoia I didn't like. My favorite (and largest) local example got cut down so rich people could expand their cottage into a small mansion. Makes me sick. Thanks for the video.

But, Does criminal botany pay?

Man, I really wanna see your take on the botany of the Flint Hills of northeast Kansas.

dude, I love you, almost as much as I love Fungi and Bacteria.

Some cowboy once told me folks all think horses are smarter than cows, but you don't see cows letting people ride them.

Super dry in the Northern Plains this year - poor plants are short !

Wait, what I've never seen a seed pod on a dalea purpurea or dalea candida ! The seeds are way easier to collect than harvesting a bean pod

Guaranteed good archaeology from there to Alzada - Ekalaka.

I got your deep dish right here!😘

I wanna go there dude

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Tribes like the Sioux, Nez Perce, and other groups burnt buffalo patties in their teepees almost exclusively when living on the plains because there aren't trees to chop down for firewood. It is shit but it isn't shitty I guess

Shepherdia canadensis. Soopalalie. Very culturally important plant up here.

Fuck yea! My home state!

Dude come to Saskatchewan, you're almost here! I'll make you a bannock with homemade saskatoon berry jam.

26:26 I wonder how you'd think of Sweden, there's mostly a monoculture forests of spruce and pine trees around, some mixed, the condition varying a lot between the owners, but there's so much of it that there's pockets of relatively untouched places too, but nothing quite like the best of American wilderness (of what is protected). I bet there's a lot of plants associated with invasives in the US, but for one thing one is free to roam almost anywhere, and seeing such aggressive and paranoid "no trespassing!" signs are completely alien to me, as we have a constitutional freedom to roam, but not directly in someone's yard of course. A large chunk of the population own a rifle but it's legally kept in a safe and definitely not loaded at all times, and unlikely to be aimed toward a person... To the north the spruce is native as Taiga, but the south should be largely covered with deciduous forest but it was almost all chased away for the more productive spruce and pine.

Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum... that's almost as good of a safe word as intersectionality

I’m respectful of your knowledge and knowledge. I’m a Catholic Oaklandlia! Oh dang it’s perfect for the botany! Please keep the the good vibes! 👊❤️Don’t do the stupid story about The Bigfoot’s! Oh lord Not🐢! 🙏❤️