Hill Country Land Trust, Inc.
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Riparian Zone Management (Healthy Waterways)
Riparian zones may occupy a very small percentage of the overall landscape, but their importance to sustaining the entire habitat and the creatures that live there requires a very special management and stewardship approach. In this video we take a look at what constitutes a healthy, well-functioning riparian area, and how landowners can better understand how to protect and enhance these valuable areas.
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Hill Country Woodlands
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In the fifth of our educational videos on land management for the Texas Hill Country, Hill Country Woodlands explores the challenges of restoring and maintaining healthy woodlands. This video examines examples of declining and healthy woodland areas to show landowners specific methods to encourage diversity in their woodlands. Please visit us at www.hillcountrylandtrust.org/hclt-videos.html to ...
Hill Country Land Trust - Bergman Testimonial
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Gillespie County, Texas landowners Kim and Pam Bergman share the story of how they acquired their property and became passionate about helping their land return to a healthy, diverse, landscape. In 2013, the Bergmans worked with the Hill Country Land Trust to place part of their property in a conservation easement. A conservation easement insures that the place they love so much will be protect...
Hill Country Land Trust - Prickly Pear Management
Просмотров 47 тыс.8 лет назад
Please visit our website at www.hillcountrylandtrust.org for more information on Prickly Pear Management and to upload our FAQ Fact Sheet.
Hill Country Land Trust - Managing Cedar (Ashe Juniper)
Просмотров 22 тыс.8 лет назад
This is the first in a series of short educational videos on land stewardship and conservation produced by the Hill Country Land Trust - Prickly Pear Management. This video is hosted by well-known range specialist Steve Nelle. You can also download a pdf of more detailed guidelines on managing prickly pear by visiting www.HillCountryLandTrust.org

Комментарии

  • @TrustworthyExpert
    @TrustworthyExpert 2 месяца назад

    well it looks like crap leaving dead trees all over. I have a 30 acre hill. I am going to try to make swales on the hill side to catch the water I like the idea of planting native grasses though.

  • @matthewcain2880
    @matthewcain2880 3 месяца назад

    What an idiot, working against nature instead of working with

  • @jcadams8232
    @jcadams8232 3 месяца назад

    If you do a conservation easement, always be sure to reserve the natural asset credit that the land trusts won't tell you about. You don't want your natural asset credit to be sold to a foreign sovereign wealth fund like China that can come back and require extra requirements to make the credit qualify as a credit on the Chicago Commodities Exchange. Also, the IRS is known to come back and revalue the land at a lower price and require back taxes and penalties to be paid. Beware that American law recognizes that perpetuities are against the wealth of the country and against public policy. Given that there are no written records preceding American development, there is no way to claim some certain vegetation existed then or how long prior to the existence of written records. Cedar makes good fence posts.

  • @bobadingo
    @bobadingo 3 месяца назад

    I'm in the process of replanting 31000 cedars in order to replenish the land that was stripped by idiots.. .

  • @clayhopewell4409
    @clayhopewell4409 4 месяца назад

    Unleash the goats!!

  • @bobadingo
    @bobadingo 4 месяца назад

    Humans did not exist yesterday and they won't exist tomorrow ever again and planet Earth with its life forms will resume.. .

  • @growmance2191
    @growmance2191 5 месяцев назад

    I use to have a big pickerly pear cactus . Her name was Satina Picky Picky, as a house plant for many years and won two ribbons at the county fair as she was huge even one year stuck a skeleton in her she has 1inch thorns . Sadly had to rehome her cause I had small siblings at the time. I miss her and may end up buying a couple pads online and trying and regrow one .

  • @iMAGALiJARA
    @iMAGALiJARA 6 месяцев назад

    Being of Mexican descent, I'm trying to gather more information on properly harvesting and selling prickly pear for human consumption. I make salads, agua frescas, add it to tacos…I’ve even tried it at a couple bars as a mezcal flavor, which is refreshing :) I would love any resources on how to go about getting more educated on this because I have a lot on my property. Everyone keeps telling me to get rid of it, but I feel an attachment to the plant and want to do it justice. I might be weird but something is telling me to take care of it. I get as farmers it can be tackling task but idk… enough on my TED TALK😊

  • @tomscott3
    @tomscott3 8 месяцев назад

    I wish my land was "infested" with these plants. They yield copius amounts of delicious fruit! I say if you can't eat it, then it's a weed..... Very Best Regards, Tom Scott Author ● Speaker ● World's Leading Expert on the Corrupt U.S. Legal System _Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor_ _Our American Injustice System_

  • @Xavier_Reynolds97
    @Xavier_Reynolds97 8 месяцев назад

    Cnts are everywhere in Australia Nsw/Qld

  • @Jigsaw_knows
    @Jigsaw_knows 8 месяцев назад

    I'll do what I want on my land. You ingest your herbicides. Fools

  • @metalboarn6174
    @metalboarn6174 9 месяцев назад

    It's a big dream of mine to have a hill country live water ranch. Maybe out of reach at this point but I have some vacation rentals in the hill country that I may some day liquidate and put into one property for my family. I almost pulled the trigger last summer on 125 acres in Hunt, near some of my rentals but wanted more elevation changes and it wasn't live water.

  • @chetmyers7041
    @chetmyers7041 10 месяцев назад

    9:10 Can natural predators of deer be reintroduced?

  • @growingskyefamily5332
    @growingskyefamily5332 11 месяцев назад

    Is there anyone close to east texas that would let me come out and harvest some prickly pear? I need lots to make a cactus fence for livestock.

  • @phalypso
    @phalypso 11 месяцев назад

    Or you could simply leave them alone. Dozens of critters depend on those for food, juices and shelter.

  • @elizabethmcgreevy
    @elizabethmcgreevy Год назад

    I like the rock rake.

  • @AlanVoges-lb9nt
    @AlanVoges-lb9nt Год назад

    Always heard cedars suck up water depleting water supply, stunt or choke out live oaks and make great wildfire potential . The single trunk tree can be trimmed up to make nice shade trees but the big round bushy kind are a nuisance. Don’t mulch em if you want grass growing to replace the tree.

  • @markwolfshohl6562
    @markwolfshohl6562 Год назад

    I do all these. Thanks

  • @faintvids7352
    @faintvids7352 Год назад

    If you're an opuntia lover, watching this video will give you a heart attack 😅

  • @White80set
    @White80set Год назад

    Raised on the Lampasas County line off CR3300, falling into a prickly pear is forever burnt in my memories 😂

  • @shaneleslie8968
    @shaneleslie8968 Год назад

    Cactoblastis is on its way. It worked well in Australia

  • @countrysister700
    @countrysister700 Год назад

    I'm a town girl with country roots. No ag degree needed to understand this great video and the value of education, sweat and love being used to prepare our beloved state for the future.

  • @glennjames7107
    @glennjames7107 Год назад

    I see a lot of people commenting here about the wasting of prickly pear while trying to eradicate it from large pastures and lands. I don't think you guys and gals realize the amounts of prickly pear some of us are dealing with. Far too much to try and find other uses for it. To do anything with it one has to somehow remove the thorns, the most efficient method that I know of for thorn removal is burning. It can get very expensive, (propane, lots of it) and extremely time consuming. In other words,for the money and labor invested, it just isn't even close to being worth it.

  • @Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied

    ruclips.net/video/-vwKWQfu0lE/видео.html tree pair mulching

  • @onthefarside2096
    @onthefarside2096 Год назад

    Juniper has been a great thing for me for over thirty years. If you know how to use it, you'll be grateful for the juniper. Cut all the bottom branches and use them to heat your home or cook at your BBQ. The flavor is wonderful.

    • @CheezNrice4u
      @CheezNrice4u Месяц назад

      I’ve heard the opposite is true. Cedar burns really fast and isn’t safe to use inside the home fireplace. I’ve never heard of anyone cooking with it either?

  • @MistressOP
    @MistressOP Год назад

    our ag program are way to focus on killing instead of land management meaning making money / stewarding land. You can flame those pears during the wet season and use them as extremely high quailty feed when goats, and cows are taught to eat it after it's been fired. Don't waste good feed people that is drought bullet proof in prone drought areas.

  • @craigalexander4532
    @craigalexander4532 Год назад

    I watch these videos just so I can go to the hill country every now and then.

  • @starstairs5715
    @starstairs5715 Год назад

    U can eat prickly pears geez don't need no chemicals or poisons

  • @starmhz1
    @starmhz1 2 года назад

    Thank you so much for this video. I would encourage everyone I know to watch it and learn from it. What is the name of the tree in the cage at around 7 minutes 34 seconds? Do you have a scientific name? Thank you so much again for this video.

  • @josephreyna8989
    @josephreyna8989 2 года назад

    A little disappointed it wasn't mentioned that prickly pear (nopal) is a common food in Hispanic culture. Might as well make some good use of the cactus instead of just killing it.

    • @TheJman7830
      @TheJman7830 2 года назад

      in mexico my grandpa would burn the spines off for cows to eat in the winter. seems like a waste of potential

    • @TheJman7830
      @TheJman7830 2 года назад

      takes too much hard work I guess. i notice most people prefer the easy route for everything

  • @nolebloodedfarmer7445
    @nolebloodedfarmer7445 2 года назад

    damnit i dont wanna kill pasture, i want to just find a way to mechanically remove and compost a shit ton of prickly pear.

  • @oliviagraham9523
    @oliviagraham9523 2 года назад

    Great video thank you. I have a question recently moved out to a ranch in New Braunfels in cactus has taken over was thinking about using a bucket loader to clear the land then use pasture guard would you recommend that if I wanted to keep it from coming back planning on keeping some cactus in some of the other pastures? Would like to get some cattle relatively soon so don't want to have to wait a year that's the reason I wanted to use a tractor.

  • @frankytrevor7
    @frankytrevor7 2 года назад

    Thank you, for destroying an edible plant for humans and animals and at the same time poison our planet, for your selfish gains

  • @johndeere3486
    @johndeere3486 2 года назад

    Thank you for this excellent video I wish Billionaires would fund work like this, not missions to Mars to just recreate the same systems on another planet at infinitely more cost

  • @BB-sg8ik
    @BB-sg8ik 2 года назад

    If you have a pond, expect it to go dry if you remove the prickly pear

  • @mrmaniac3
    @mrmaniac3 2 года назад

    Healthy riparian zones are essential to a resilient environment. I've noticed one in particular over the years next to a highway interchange built in the late 1960s south of my hometown of Chico, California. This area always caught my eye when travelling on the highway and road next to it for its striking foliage. The trees and bushes there are beautiful. Similarly, of course, the creeks through the town of Chico itself have riparian areas of their own, one of which being the phenomenal Bidwell Park. Another area is the Butte Creek Canyon, which was mined in probably the early half of the last century, where tailings were deposited in a north to south back and forth pattern. Those tailings these days are a relatively healthy habitat covered in good vegetation next to the creek. I hope to learn more about my area's particular riparian zones and how we can help cultivate their success.

  • @jaredhill8721
    @jaredhill8721 2 года назад

    I hate this. Prickly pear is a native plant. Cacti store water through drought. Wildlife depend on the prickly pear. Removing native species on a large scale will have negative consequences on the land. Instead of removing the plants completely, plant the pads in more preferable locations. Let the native populations continue to live on the land like the landowners do.

    • @mamelu711
      @mamelu711 2 года назад

      I have seen texans demonize Huizache, Mezquite, and Nopales things that grow on my ranch in Mexico and literally dont damage any sort of harvest where it be corn or cattle. Anglos are just wierd i guess lol

    • @frankytrevor7
      @frankytrevor7 2 года назад

      This isn't land conservation! they are destroying an edible plant for humans and animals and at the same time poison our planet, for their selfish gains

    • @joesoccerfan4628
      @joesoccerfan4628 Год назад

      You raise a good point. Juniper is a native plant. Mesquite is a native plant. Pricklypear is a native plant. Oftentimes, the best management in certain circr=umstances is to reduce the dominance of these plants in favor of increased diversity of other native plants. This video is targeted towards pricklypear infestations in the Llano Uplift portion of the Edwards Plateau where cactus goes bananas.

    • @johnkemp4370
      @johnkemp4370 5 месяцев назад

      I will point out that mesquite is native to old Mexico below the rio grande. It only came north of the river via the non-native species of horses , mules and donkeys. From about 1600-1800 the introduction of these animals spread the mesquite all the way to Colorado. Richard King had almost no mesquite when he first moved onto today’s king ranch. He saw the results of all the horses and mules he raised during his lifetime. Don’t believe me? Read James Micheners “Texas”.

    • @hughjanus8126
      @hughjanus8126 4 месяца назад

      lol, hush

  • @brianx2640
    @brianx2640 2 года назад

    I have lots of it on my property in Medina country, anyone know where I can find someone licensed to spray MezaVue? It kills this stuff in weeks, but you have to be licensed to spray it.

  • @barbarabrooks4747
    @barbarabrooks4747 2 года назад

    Which ones have edible pads? Can they be cooked to make the spines fall out and then feed them to chickens and pigs?

    • @hillcountrylandtrustinc.4321
      @hillcountrylandtrustinc.4321 2 года назад

      I burn the spines off before cooking. Here is a good site with information on feeding to livestock: agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/library/ranching/pricklypear-biology-and-management/#:~:text=Although%20pricklypear%20are%20tough%20and%20thorny%2C%20they%20are,that%20livestock%2C%20particularly%20cattle%2C%20will%20consume%20the%20plant.

  • @stuffilike923
    @stuffilike923 2 года назад

    thank you for this video, has given me some things to think about.

  • @rosmalinamalina9260
    @rosmalinamalina9260 2 года назад

    ❤️

    • @frankytrevor7
      @frankytrevor7 2 года назад

      This isn't land conservation! they are destroying an edible plant for humans and animals and at the same time poison our planet, for their selfish gains

  • @chargermopar
    @chargermopar 2 года назад

    You can also eliminate them by mowing. I have gotten rid of patches of them by using a skid steer and hydraulic mower after stacking with a rake.

  • @swansonfamilyfarm6833
    @swansonfamilyfarm6833 2 года назад

    Excellent video. Thank you.

  • @calripson
    @calripson 2 года назад

    Thanks for your great work.

  • @susyfrenzel
    @susyfrenzel 2 года назад

    Where do I find a schedule of your upcoming field days?

    • @hillcountrylandtrustinc.4321
      @hillcountrylandtrustinc.4321 2 года назад

      We currently have no field days scheduled.

    • @ruthannegarcia5932
      @ruthannegarcia5932 Год назад

      Please let us know if there is anything available. We're in lampasas county. Thank you for the video. Very informative

  • @craigalexander4532
    @craigalexander4532 3 года назад

    There’s is nowhere on this earth that is as beautiful as the hill country, to me. That is heaven on earth.

  • @craigalexander4532
    @craigalexander4532 3 года назад

    My dad was born and raised in Lampasas county and we live in Florida. I absolutely love that part of Texas. I subscribed to this channel just to get a peak at God’s country every now and then. Thank you.

  • @Nothandled
    @Nothandled 3 года назад

    How do we know if we are a live water riparian land area?

  • @eduardovinuesa7428
    @eduardovinuesa7428 3 года назад

    How come the Texas Hill Country can grow anything let alone high Oak Trees. There is absoluty no soil, Only a huge mass of sandstone. I would appreciate any info. Thanks

    • @chinesenoodles8005
      @chinesenoodles8005 2 года назад

      The hill country is very unique and the rocky soil just has to do with the fact that the hill country is a giant limestone uplift. Coupled with semi arid rain cycles it creates and ecosystem where only certain plants can thrive, and nothing can get too big as it just isn’t possible because there isn’t enough soil to sustain giant trees.

  • @detyelram2819
    @detyelram2819 3 года назад

    fucking NEVER use herbicides. wtf is wrong with y'all?