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Short and sweet if you haven't heard the story before. Thank you.

Doesn't the return interval you stated indicate we should only be doing controlled burns on this area once every 80-120 years?

Love horned lizards! Grew up with the Texas variety. Didn't know there is a species in these Santa Cruz mountains. So cool.

What a delight to see your enthusiasm with the snake! For that matter, your energy about all the subjects is contagious.

That was cool!!

Where can I view the full-size photos?

Caring for, protecting & understanding our beloved forest. Much appreciation!

So much respect and love for all the firefighters that worked so hard. Thank you guys for sharing this and educating the public. I am always so happy to see you and hear of prescribed burns, especially after the CZU fire complex.

Good job!

Shure wish this beautiful town wasnt being ruined by demon freaks.

I found a rubber boa in the Sierras near Spaulding Reservoir

Are you referring to the Allen’s and Rufous just as orange hummingbirds because of the decision to stop using people’s names? It struck me as odd that you were so good about naming the species of plants and the gnatcatcher but not the hummers. I live in SLV and only learned about the Sandhills when I happened to turn down a random road. I haven’t hiked there yet. Thank you for this. I gasped out loud when you revealed that it was a rubber boa. Jeaaaaalous of that sighting. The snake run was such snake-nerd perfection. Solidarity fist bump. Are there local tarantula species up here?

YOu guys are an Awesome team.

Well done video. Next let's bring back the California grizzly (it's on your logo after all).

This Native American image on the right is truly remarkable. I don't know how the scholars interpreting it, but to me the cross symbols ( with and without circles ) look like the image of the sun, the solar image, and the interwoven lines look like a symbol of the DNA structure. This DNA structure symbol also appeared in the previous image of the Ohlone tribal basket ornamental patterns to honor the ancestors.

Dylan, great video thanks for sharing. You talk about being mindful about recreational habits and staying on designated trails. On the other side of Highway 9 (the UCSC side) there is a crazy network of mountain bike trails built by “volunteers”. There are no sanctioned trails in this area of Cowell. I wonder why managers do nothing about this? Also I went bike camping for two nights at Portola Redwoods State Park weekend before last. We did a hike out to the Peter’s Creek Loop. Beautiful place too! Saturday morning there was a researcher by the park HQ who was very upset about a fir tree that was cut down right next to the park HQ on Monday June 24th. This tree was supporting a colony of Pedicularis Dudleyi, or Dudleys Lousewort, a plant that's on the rare plants list too. A ranger named Andrew Dobbs happened to pull up. He was asked to provide a permit and CEQA approval to remove this tree by this gentleman and would not produce any of this information for him. None of the staff inside knew anything about this tree removal and were unable to provide this information either. A bunch of the Lousewort had been trampled and destroyed by the crew that did the tree removal. No protection was given to these rare plants and removing their supporting tree will most certainly kill them. This was very disturbing for me. I'm trying to figure out who to contact about this and would like any direction you can provide. This is also probably an example of improper land management, which you spoke of as well. It’s important to protect these plants!

Fascinating, info-packed film, deserves an award! I learned many new things…and appreciated the elements of hope following Redwood Forest fires, they otherwise make me feel so heart-broken.

Wow‼️ Great video

Awesome video!! Loved it, thank you. I found a rubber boa on a trail near my house about a week ago. I'd never seen one here before, so it was pretty exciting!

Great video!❤

So cool!

Just saw this! Beautiful video

I love this- well done!

Amazing content 👏

Stop burning our Forrest!

Even the Left doesn't believe that humans cause global climate change because they don't heed their own recommendations.

This is literally unwatchable

It can all be reversed with YOUR money.

We have climate change here in the Midwest also. In the summer, it’s hot, and then fall comes, and it cools off a bit and the leaves fall. Then we have winter when it’s kind of cold and it snows quite often and then we have spring when the snow melts and it warms up again. It’s been going on for a long time we like our climate change. We used to call it the change of seasons, which is what we still call it here. But I guess technically you could call it climate change.

I didn't know this park exists. Thank you for sharing :D the landscape looks so unique! :3

Stellar!!

Thank you to all the fungi for making existence possible for me

What a fantastic video, I love your enthusiasm and how you are bringing awareness to such a unique environment.

For these gullied trails, might The Park want to permanently shut these down? Could work, and the plants generating duff, to fill them in. What more might you want to tell us the Ponderosas and Knobcones that not only hold their own, but sometimes mingle freely, within the Redwoods? And, are there, or are there NOT Coulters and BIG CONE Douglas Firs, in The Park? Some insist that there are. Along the Klamath and Trinity greater watersheds, are places where Sugar Pines and Ponderosa Pines make uncharacteristic dips in elevation, to share territories with the Redwoods up there, and sporadic Grey Pines, too. Coulters mingle with Redwoods in Big Sur.

Thank you! What a treat!

Great video but i have to ask why is his top shirt button fastened, shoul only be fastened when wearing a tie, unless of course theres a personal reason

That was a lovely, interesting, and informative video. Thank you for sharing it. You called it a park expansion. Where is it / how do we get there? I wish you had included a map so we had a better idea of where you are talking about. The major downside that I see about this park, as well as for attempting to keep everyone on the trails, is how the narrowness of the trails you showed. Those narrow trails make it impossible for mobility impaired to use and stay.

Thank You for creating & sharing this informative video! I’d never heard of this ecosystem before 🤗 When a plant, like monkey flower, is threatened, do you gather seeds and attempt to propagate it?

This Gorgeous area has been my playground since 1978.... So very blessed

What a fabulous video. Never knew about the Sandhills before. Can't wait to see that part of the park also. Thanks.

Shouldn't there be a couple coast redwood groves growing in the sandhills? I didn't see any in the video, but with all that coastal fog and occasional thick needle substrate, it should at least be encroaching on the outskirts right? Seems to me like this area has way more in common with El Dorado national forest than it naturally did in the past.

I've seen the ben lomond spineflower popping up around the carmel highlands! I'll have to mark it on iNat next time I'm out there! :)

Amazing & wonderful!

Thanks for the video! One of my favourite habitats in one of favourite parks. First place I ever saw velvet ants and a huge variety of lizards. Looking forward to the next video :)

Great video!

@19:20, transform faults can also be formed by adjacent plates, terranes or blocks moving in the same direction, at different average speeds and rates; but the relative motion makes the fault appear that the land masses are in opposing directions, much like the lanes of a freeway in the same direction. I respectfully disagree with the status quo consensus that the Farallon Plate was consumed by pushing the plate North en bloc into subduction; imho, the South Gorda plate's accomodational distortion and lack of distortion in the North Gorda and JDF plates strongly shows no en bloc movement, just the Southern margin localized compressional truncation via the Pacific plate's oblique NW passive thrust of the ESE South Gorda plate. Franciscan meta-sedimentary and meta-igneous rocks can be found 90 miles North of the Or-Cal border @Bandon, Oregon's Merchants, Agate and Sacchi beaches; parts of Bandon's South Coquille river jetty is made from a local blue schist quarry. Blue and green schists, greenstone, gabbro and quartzite can be readily found as egg-sized to bread loaf-sized cobbles on these beaches; the hidden outcrops offshore these beaches indicate that the Franciscan Assemblage is indeed in (rear-end) collision with the Siletz Terrane, thus being the mechanism for the 1 degree per million year NW rotation of Western Oregon and Washington.

Great presentation answering some of my burning (excuse the bad pun) questions about fire recovery in our beloved Sanat Cruz Mountains! Thank you for your work...

Thank you so much for posting the recording!!! I missed the virtual meeting and grateful to watch Dr Russell's talk! 😀

He needs to stick the videography. He don’t know shit about true California Indian history. Why these Anglos think they can come in and tell OUR story GTFOH