What a great episode, you’re such an awesome teacher. Your kids seem like a burst of energy and fresh air.....I’m so sorry about your daughter. Thanks so much for the wonderful tour.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nena. Life goes on. We all lose people in our lives but to lose a child (cancer), leaves a hole that will never heal. Glad you enjoyed this. Happy New Year!

Sorry for your loss -- I hope everyone feels a little better after leaving her ashes in a place that beautiful.

It’s amazing how some trees can withstand fire and continue to thrive. Survival instinct, it is such a powerful drive in all living things.

Sad and Beautiful at the same time, seeing the fire damage. The forest and the tree's are magnificent beings. Thank You, for the tour. Also Condolences to you and your family.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

What a GREAT look at the forest! Even 18 months after the fire it still looks so vulnerable, yet strong with life. Aren't we all, though. Aren't we all...... I'm watching in October 2023. I'm also thinking we would all love an update video! But only if you're up to it, of coarse. Those of us who can not get to the great redwoods would be able to see through your eyes just how far the forest has come in 2 more years. (Unless it has burned again since then? It's too painful for me to keep up with the millions of forest fire acreage that has burned in the last decade.) However, I would love to be able to forage in that forest for those beautiful Turkey Tails and all the other healing mushrooms we could find! But really, simply taking in the gorgeous trees up there would be all the medicine I would need. How grounding it must be up there... I'm thousands of miles away from the majestic redwoods now. But as a young child, my family and I used to go camping every year up in a California redwood forest. Those redwoods left an impression that has stayed with me my entire life. I daydream about returning to them someday... Even though I'm thousands of miles away, I did find a nice little house with 3 VERY OLD Live Oak trees! I estimate them each to be over 200 years old. But of coarse, that's only from instructions on the internet! I'm no expert! Their true age could be quite different! What I know for sure is they are really very large trees. I just wanted to add that I believe me having spent my formative years visiting the redwoods is the big reason I bought this house, just so I could be near these old mother trees! Truth be told, the trees are better than the house. And that's fine with me! I spend more time with the trees than I do inside the house anyway! I wish I could find an arborist here in Texas who cares about the trees the way you do. I do believe you are one in a million! Thank You for taking me along on your hike. Even though I'm not actually there in that forest, seeing it on video is the next best thing, and it still feels good seeing the redwoods again. ❤

❤️. Thank you, Blair. Great video. Sad to see the beloved Big Basin after fire but also heart warming and hopeful representation.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Miss you girl!❤️

Thank you for this video. My brother took his life there down China Grade in April of 2019. We are from Milwaukee and flew out for a couple weekends searching for him.. Long 12 hr days searching high and low.. Some of the most beautiful terrain we’ve ever encountered.. Probably a few areas rarely ever explored. On our last day, being saddened and dejected, we found him.. this was 4/20/19… Thank you for showing us the park now, as we all back here knew about the Fires.. My brothers final resting spot is there and we buried some memorials under the tree in his last moments.. I will be back as soon as this park re opens…

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

So sorry about your brother. My son Trent and I hiked that park together to the falls before it all burned. You may enjoy this. kzread.info/dash/bejne/anpsttZ8qJnZZag.html

Greetings from mossy green Ireland. Great to see the green coming back

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Never been to Ireland but it’s on my bucket list!

Old redwood foliage gone but epicormic growth bursting from the trunk, amazing

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I was pleasantly surprised

Sad but beautiful story Blair. Thank you for everything.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year to you

I've been going out with the Big Basin Volunteer Trail Crew all year, mostly to Fall Creek but just recently finally into Big Basin again. (Making tons of burn piles from the dead, unburnt material anywhere near trails.) It's pretty bleak, but indeed the redwoods that mostly stayed standing are exploding with new growth. All that sunlight reaching the ground is going to have things growing back in new, unusual ways. It'll look full and green within a few years I think, but it'll be a very, very long time before it again looks "mature" like we're used to seeing it!

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

If you have photos of inside the park I would like to see them. Blairglenn@gmail.com

This is why I love this channel! So sorry to hear you lost a daughter. I have five kids and couldn't imagine losing any one of them. I hope thi trip provided healing for your family.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt, yeah losing a child stays with you always. Not fair. Happy New Year!

@matthewtaylor2185

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn Happy New Year

@mandyinseattle

2 жыл бұрын

I have my mother's ashes to leave in the redwood forest because that's what she wanted and surprised me by asking. I won't part with them all though. : )

@mandyinseattle

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn I imagine it's the hardest thing in this life. Thank you for your video and your optimism.

Thank you for a positive look at such a sad disaster. I hate to see forests damaged or destroyed...whether through natural or man made causes. Hopefully we will find a way to protect this valuable resource in the future. The quality of all life depends on it.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I will continue to check to see how quickly it evolves, hopefully, for the better.

Thank you for sharing. It is a hopeful sign.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed

Sorry to hear about the loss of your daughter.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it’s been a couple of years now. I took Jacy to Big Basin about three months before she died. A very short walk to a bridge over a creek was huge for her.

@paulbennett4548

2 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Nova Scotia, your video just popped up on my home page. Thank you for the update on your area, the mainstream media never follow up. I really appreciate you're thoughtful presentation, it brought home to me that we humans collectively have such a short time reference. The forests and all the ecosystems work on time lines we can barely comprehend. It was wonderful to see the regeneration all ready, Our condolences on the loss of your daughter it has been three years this month since we said farewell too our daughter, I think she sent me your video not the algorithm :o) stay well stay safe

Here in the canaries whe had big fires in the recent years, the canary pines sprout after the fire same as the redwoods, its eerie to walk between the burnt trunks but see the green sprouts its a sign of hope

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I have seen those Pines die back in bad frosts and sprout back. Most Pines don’t sprout back.

@arnoldmmbb

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn yes!! They are one of the few pines that sprout from the trunk after fires or pruning, the sprouts are short and blue juvenile needles sure you have seen them in the trees

Great video of Big Basin. Unfortunately, the trees on the coastside of the mountain are completely cooked. Not sure if you have driven up hwy 1 through san gregorio and pescadero but its just charred toothpicks up in the hills. I just did a job for a resident on Empire Grade. They were told the fire actually burned through twice where they are at. Nothing looked as healthy as where you were (I'm guessing upper 236). Glad to see a part of the forest made it.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, been along the coast a few times. Road through La Honda still looks good.

Thank you

Happy New Year. 🤩🤩🤩

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

You too Shane

I call it the phoenix cycle myself, the weak and dead burn up, afterwards the strong burst forth with new life. It's gone on for millions of years before us, and hopefully it'll continue long after us, if we don't completely deforest the planet.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Hope not

Thanks for sharing maybe you could visit again to see if the redwoods would look like a normal redwood tree

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I will revisit at least once a year

Blair, we are getting rain. had it all today and most of tonight, some tomorrow and snow tomorrow

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

Hey old timer hope you had a good Christmas and happy New Year great video love it thanks bud we just had a big fire last year and the new growth and regeneration of the trees is beautiful

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

“?Old timer”?

@stewartsharpe9258

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn sorry Aussie expression lol

@stewartsharpe9258

2 жыл бұрын

It's a way us Aussie show respect to elder

@stewartsharpe9258

2 жыл бұрын

Meaning I look up to you tremendously as an aborist and an older climber your knowledge and widsom and passion for what you do

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

@@stewartsharpe9258 I can relate to the truth but have a hard time admitting it

get out and hike thru the burned area & film ......... June 2024..My son just visited the park and came home to tell me..BOO ..As a kid he come to park to visit me working there early 80`s ..we are saden

@arboristBlairGlenn

Ай бұрын

I’m kinda afraid to see it now

The West really needs a break from so many fires of catastrophic intensity. I really hope we can catch a break soon.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Scary times

@hippiebits2071

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn It's one of those things a person wishes they could revisit the earth 50 years later and see how it all worked out.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

@@hippiebits2071 not sure I want to know the future

It’s a wonderful world.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

The redwoods are probably the best example of how evolution has allowed them to tolerate the fires that would kill many other species. Nature truly is amazing. I love to go into the forest and just slowly take it all in. We live on a miraculous planet that most people are too consumed with celebrity and TV to appreciate the beauty and wonder of it all. Stop and smell the forest. Life for us is so short. 🌲

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy taking folks on hikes and showing them what they don’t normally see.

The real tragedy is all the Redwood trees PG&E has marked for removal after all the fires. I have seen thousands of Redwoods with very minimal burns on them that will recover from the fire just fine, but because they have burned bark they are marked for removal. Some of them are bigger then 5’ DBH and I’m sure have been through a fire before in that life span and obviously survived just fine. This is happening just North of you in the Walbridge Fire scar also from 2020. Take care and happy new year.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Logging trucks daily

As in all things it's the cycle of life. Wish I could go for a walk in the woods but it's freezing cold out where I'm at. Also I'm sorry for your loss, I can think of nothing worse.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Tough around the holidays.

The frequency of fire out west is directly linked to how severe a fire will be in area, the longer between fires the more severe they will be, bc the more fuel they have to burn. Fire is a part of the ecosystem it will always happen, the only thing we control is the frequency, which is linked to the intensity, which people have done a very poor job at managing that. Before modern times the landscape would burn every 5-10-15 years with low-medium intensity fire that stayed close to the ground not reaching a trees canopy. Not Like these 100ft-200ft flames burning the whole tree to ash. It was part of the natural cycle that kept things in check. That prevented large scale catastrophic fires

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

Big Basin is one of my favorite places in the world, my world at any rate. Haven't been there in a couple of decades, or much of anywhere else as I don't get around well anymore but still love the place. There is a certain feeling you get in there that is special. Hate to see the place burned up but I guess that is the way of the forest, devastation, rebirth, renewal, reconfiguration of the species mix, it's sad but natural.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Here ya go John. From my family collection. Big Basin kzread.info/dash/bejne/d4p1xpuxlcufmaQ.html

@JohnBare747

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn Thanks Blair, the good old days. My uncle had a cabin, well a big house really, just outside Bolder Creek and one faction of the extended family or several would meander in and out over much of the year but especially the summer it was usually at capacity in the summer months. Side trips to most anywhere in the area were enjoyed by all. This was in the mid 40's to late 50's. Before that during the War Years we rented a house on the creek it was called "Bernie's Happy Home". The kids spent most of our time at the pool, Forest Pool I think it was called. I'm just old enough to remember the food rationing and the unavailability of a lot of things, we had to make do but Grandma grew up during the Depression and was an old hand at doing just that.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnBare747 do you remember swimming in Ben Logan where the river was damed up?

@JohnBare747

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn Not specifically.

@JohnBare747

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn The cabin we stayed at before we had a family cabin was right on a very popular swimming hole on the river so we did not go anywhere else to swim at that time. I remember there was a big cliff there that people dived into the swimming hole and a lot of fishermen hung around there too.

Do you recommend another forest close by that didn't burn where we might hike and hug a redwood? I'm ready to take a hike by myself. Your daughter is funny!

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

If you drive over to the coast via 84, through La Honda, you will see a lot of beautiful old redwoods.

nice

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Hope

Wow

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Very very sad. Park won’t open for years. Maybe not again in my life.

I hate to be cynical and/or pessimistic, but I fear that the recent heavy rains are nothing more than an anomaly. It’s quite possible next year’s fire season completes the job. It was 82F on Christmas day here in Fort Worth, TX and Colorado is experiencing their own CZU as I type this! Humanity passed that tipping point years ago😡 🔥

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I will take the rains as they come but you may be right

@shreychaudhary4477

Жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn praying for rains here in the bay area!! We haven't had enough this season :(

can you gather some tanoak saplings and seeds and plant them somewhere far away to help them survive the disease?

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

They hopefully will develop SOD resistance but time will tell. I’m watching certain trees. If those trees have more resistance then offspring acorns may also show resistance. Hope

fire is needed it makes opportunities

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Unless it’s your home that burns

@imchris5000

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn its not always a desired opportunity but it is one

Wish I could go for a hike in the woods! Sadly I’m currently attached to a oxygen tank thanks to Covid and the big mean doctors won’t give me a more portable unit until I’m below 3 liters. Until then I’m stuck at home praying I don’t catch This new strain of Covid as I’m not sure my lungs will survive a 3rd round.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that. Maybe some of my videos will help get you outside in your mind.

It is surprising what nature can tolerate and overcome.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Not always but eventually some trees will replace the burn. Sadly, it’s generally beyond our short time on the planet. A redwood can live for 4000 years and we only live for 80 or 90 years. We destroy the old growth trees for fence boards.

When you're ready for the truth about this fire I'll be waiting. Its not what you think. Thx for the nice video though.

@arboristBlairGlenn

Жыл бұрын

What truth?

@robertbrame9052

Жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn this fire along with 26 others that ive documented were directed energy weapons. Notice the auto glass of vehicles in the aftermath. They were melted out. That doesn't happen in a forest fire. The aluminum rims should not be melted either. On hwy 1 there is a grove of Blue Hum Eucalyptus trees. They turned brown but did not ignite. Leaves touching ground as fire went right past. Many other anomalies i won't post here. Forensic Arborist speaking. 27 aftermaths analyzed. And 75 trips to them. Ive all the evidence. None of these fires were normal. The last normal forest fire was the 2013 Yosemite fire.

@arboristBlairGlenn

Жыл бұрын

@@robertbrame9052 but, I watched the lightning ignite the forest. When I see something happen, then that is what I know to be true.

@robertbrame9052

Жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn you did see lightning. Materials after the event tell a different story. Leaves from Redwood, Tan Oak, Calif Bay didn't combust like normal. Extreme water loving trees burned from the inside out. I speak about all these fires at a few places in Santa Rosa and locally around Castro valley. Nobody can dispute my evidence. Im an old mtn man that's studied the calif flora for 47 years and have cooked on campfires the whole time. These fires aren't normal around the state and world. Its blatant to me. When you're ready I'll bring my forensic work to Your area and teach. Mist firemen have no clue same as all the Arborists i know.

I need to have you back down, all the houses have been cleaned up. I think we only lost one small redwood(not counting the little clones) but are still struggling to get anyone willing to remove the other trees with root damage.

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I have wondered about your area.

The living structure of trees die at 127 degrees Fahrenheit

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing the insulating bark protects

@hippiebits2071

2 жыл бұрын

Interested in your source. That number seems a bit low considering some urban desert micro climates probably come close to approaching that number fairly routinely.

@tetekofa

2 жыл бұрын

@@hippiebits2071 My source is my Ecology Professor Albert Meier Ph.D WKU

i am not worried at all about redwoods and fire.. they get burned so many times in there long lives..we will long be gone and there will still be redwoods..

@arboristBlairGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of them didn’t survive this fire. Thousands of these trees are being cut down and logged. Many have fires in their root balls. This was an intense heat this time. Low, quick fires are much less of a problem.

@martinspijker9661

2 жыл бұрын

@@arboristBlairGlenn that sucks..do they have some sort of replanting thing?