At 9:10 marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) is shown as part of Asteraceae. Isn't it in Ranunculaceae?

@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

Жыл бұрын

It is! Don't know how the mis-id got in there. Happens. My bad. Fuck it. Thanks for catching it.

@phillydterminaldisease6578

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HAHA NEEEERDS 😂😂😂🎉

@asteria4279

Жыл бұрын

​@@phillydterminaldisease6578 damn right! Nerds be the BEST! 🤣

@EvolutionWendy

Жыл бұрын

❤️🌻 somebody's paying attention, Tonys just checkin on us🌻❤️

Imagine just 1 billion a year taken out of the defence budget to support this sort of activity in urban rivers across the U.S. The benefits would be enormous.

@snigwithasword1284

Жыл бұрын

Fiat currency babeee. Federal funny money doesn't exist until it's spent. We could have our bombs AND our bare minimum restoration projects if we wanted.

@swayback7375

Жыл бұрын

Or education Or infrastructure Or affordable housing or healthcare or whatever “improvement” measly citizens want… But if they took 1 billion out of the defense budget for every little thing… well then eventually the US “defense” budget might go low that we couldn’t recruit new soldiers or send bombs overseas indefinitely and indiscriminately. What then buddy? What then!

@fishmonger6879

Жыл бұрын

What about part of the $150 Billion we gave Ukraine ?

@zuresei

Жыл бұрын

@@fishmonger6879 do any republicans fight for native plant restoration? i feel like the republicans despise the green party, so this deflection kinda doesn't make sense to me. would republicans have *ever* voted for the benefit of the climate if we just squeezed the Ukraine aid? is that what we're supposed to believe?

@easytherecowboy6978

Жыл бұрын

@@zuresei IKR? In my opinion, I count that Ukraine aid as military spending too because we been sending new weapons that we haven't been able to test. However, it is slightly more acceptable morally because its in active defense of a non-agressive ally, not to some random weapons contractor that will either hoard it or reinvest in more weapons designed to eliminate lives.

Makes me happy that things like this exist. Also, "maybe it gives your boss another day or two" is the best endorsement of this project.

Best crossover of native plant educators. So good to see these guys get to speak at length with someone on their level about the project. Hoping the river walk expansions for the Salt Shed and Lincoln Yards will include natural borders and rehabilitation considerations despite being the busy side of the fork.

Yay! I used to work with Phil years ago in ecological restoration. It is super cool to see what he is doing now getting this kind of attention, and it is also super cool that you guys got to meet.

The wild hibiscus is so much more beautiful than the gross dinner plate hybrids.

I'm an Illinois native and I could name a dozen spots along the Mississippi that could use this kind of treatment. If this project succeeds in Chicago of all places there's potential it could influence smaller municipalities to try something similar.

@boa1793

Жыл бұрын

@Dinosore, It might be more satisfying to keep the government out of it and educate. Make a video. Give a few talks/presentations in the area. People would love it because it expands their awareness.

@boa1793

Жыл бұрын

@Dinosore, White pride is scary. Some conservatives, though, in my area (Northern Wisconsin) are getting into saving the environment as important. It can be neutral. It depends on how you present it and how you argue it when they start saying commie plot or there ain’t no global warming. “Communists have nothing to do with this. This is our river and we want to be pleasant enough to use.” “Global warming doesn’t have a lot to do with our dirty river. Don’t you want to fish in it? Don’t you want to walk by the flowing water?” “You can contribute by taking your trash to the next can, your garbage to the landfill.” I really get into figuring out ways of getting rid people have blinded themselves to shift their beliefs.

@boa1793

Жыл бұрын

@Dr. Pyssinshytz, I disagree. They try to conserve what is good for them. I don’t see them conserving for the whole of humanity. They might believe they are doing for nature.

@carstarsarstenstesenn

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean by "Chicago of all places?" This project is already succeeding and has been for years now. You haven't been paying attention if you think otherwise

@carstarsarstenstesenn

Жыл бұрын

@@Dr-Pyssin-Shytz I think you're mixing up conservatives with actual conversationalists. This isn't about political ideology. Get that bipartisan bullshit out of here

Thanks, guys. That was lovely. We had a Chicago moment.

It's incredible how even after a century of abuse on an industrial scale, so much managed to survive, and how much it's able to bounce back with just a little work.

It's ironic, humans made it so nasty that wildlife could be unharrassed. Thanks guys for giving a shit!

@thomasgaertig9453

Жыл бұрын

The Chernobyl of Chicago

hell yeah, glad you got to talk to them. the whole project is fucking amazing and should expand to run the entire length of the channelized river

I see u guys everywhere since chonkasaurus. Even on da weadther channel real gniice.

@calnative4904

Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen it in a few online news stories

I pulled all the wild mustard out of my yard last spring and this year had only one plant! Here (Ontario Canada) they have an app in case you find any invasive plants in parks or protected areas so you can report and help map the data. I really think they should have a dating profile option on there because finding love is hard, but finding other people who enjoy botany, eradication of invasive species, and data mapping/collection is even harder

@qwopiretyu

Жыл бұрын

Truly if someone tried to pick me up with "do you wanna go catalog invasive species?" I'd be hard pressed to stay faithful

@TuzeTea

Жыл бұрын

@@qwopiretyu lol exactly why the app would be helpful for those of us who would find that pick up line alluring

@FDLHtv

Жыл бұрын

What's the app for finding invasive species?

@lmpnchi9416

Жыл бұрын

Young garlic mustard is also delicious

@gluetubeserver

Жыл бұрын

Tell us the app!!

Howdy partner, just wanna let you know that my coworkers and I (foresters/arborists) saw your last Chicago River video on the local news here in Kansas! There was a whole segment deal and interview with ya, it was pretty righteous to see you on the news over here! Keep up the good work, botany does pay!

Baby snappers are so cute. They are like little dinosaurs with their spikes and pointy mouth. They look like toys until they move.

Chicago native here and I’m saying I’m fairly sure I’m related to Nick and Phil. Like in the Chicago way. They’re like 2020’s Celozzi and Ettleson but their parents are from Berwyn or Romeoville and now they’re over in Hyde Park or whatever. I love these guys, not in a weird way. If you need help with plants give me a heads up.

My mind definitely seems to think nature reclamation projects are a positive endeavor to be emulated as often as is possible.

Bioremediation & beavers in a swale along the Chicago river, there's a song in there somewhere. Your trip home brought attention to the cause, what a wonderful thing 😊

Joey’s shock and disbelief at each species, “you’ve seen hummingbirds …. On the Chicago river” “You’ve seen eagles ….. on the Chicago river” 🤣

I love Jewel Weed, when it’s in a natural environment. I was told, and correct me if I am wrong, that if you break the stalks and rub the juicy gel on your skin, it soothes bug bites and non native Poison Ivy. It looks a lot like aloe gel when you crush it. I see it some times here on Long Island , NY. I saw it more often when I was a child in the 70’s. Doesn’t seem too aggressive here, maybe because it doesn’t get too hot here.

Go Urban Rivers, great idea to have habitat in a river👏💪it came to me the idea of puting plates with the name of the native plants,information to people and families that come to visit the habitat,..., banks, people sit and admire the habitat...

@JustinDeRosa

Жыл бұрын

Yo....

I t will always be Sears tower to me no matter what some knob names it today and since I lived in Toronto back in the 80s the "Skydome" is still the Skydome weather knobs like it or not. Corporations suck for their continual nonsense about what we paying customers should put up with-news flash -we the costumers are always right so GFY. I could go on but hey I said my piece. Tony the work being done along the Chicago River is a good thing as it means some people at least care and wildlife has a chance to flourish and that I can support! Tony you rock,man!!!

@Alsatiagent

Жыл бұрын

I still call it the Skydome too. I'd love for Joey to check out the Don River Valley, its many ravines, and the Brickworks which was once an open pit where I used to whip bottles into. One spring when the guard was away (late 70s) I walked down in to it to find bullrushes and baby toads everywhere. The next there were turtles (domestic but still). Then they landscaped it all burying untold numbers of hibernating turtles but the spring after that there were two large snappers who still live there decades later. A third has joined them since. I've got photos of them mating in the pond and they are producing young snappers who are doomed as they can't make it over a curb they built around the ponds. They also have to deal with Blue Herons, and Racoons. Not to mention their cannibalistic parents. For couple of years there was a solitary beaver and muskrats. I've seen deer, coyotes and the largest Eastern Milk snake that I've ever come across. Dunnp bout the botany though. They got Milkweed.

I'm so glad people are doing things for the plants even though they can't eat them.

Floating bioswales, I’ll be damned, that’s clever.

I wonder where else they're doing these river restoration projects? we're just getting underway with one on the gowanus in NYC, and it only took about 20 years.

In the past few years, I’ve been inheriting my father’s family photos going back a few generations. One was taken (probably by my great-grandfather who was a barber on the far South Side) in 1915 on a small river excursion tour boat, that looked like it could only fit maybe 50-75 people at most. It was kept, I am sure, because it was a photo of the half-submerged Eastland, taken in the few months before it was salvaged from the main branch. (That must have been a grisly rubber-necking stop on the tour.) Now, after watching your video, I have to wonder just how bad the pollution was in the river that day and how bad was the smell to those tourists and locals.

This whole project is so effing cool! I really hope it's extra successful and the right people take notice so it can be done in more cities.

Good stuff. There are a few yards in my north side neighborhood that are just native prairie plants. I don't know why more people don't do it. Super easy to care for and you plant them once and they keep coming back every year. I got tired of buying new plants for our big planters out front and stuck some natives in there a few years ago and every spring they all pop right back up!

This would work really well in Detroit's Rouge River

@natewexler

Жыл бұрын

Do you belong to Friends of the Rouge? They might be interested!

The world needs more guys like this.

This shit is wild. Tell the aldermen that it is the "Midwest HighLine" and watch the funding roll in to do the whole river.

really awesome, kudos to all involved.

What an excellent show here! Really happy with these guys pushing forward and making something work. The argument that their efforts would be better at some rural or park area completely misses the mark. It's cleaning up where you are, giving people something to look at and play with besides the same old urban environs and then the old city park. There is an old saying about not going number 2 where you eat, and this is an approach to making the balance better. I don't live in Chicago, but a big hurray for them and whomever else is involved.

"........make us feel less like puking when in the bounds of human infrastructure........" 🤣🤣🤣 You made my day!! Week!!! Month..... 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦 Big thank you fer yer channel, eh!!! 🤘🤘🥰

I’d like to see this on the Hudson River near Albany NY ❤

@ZedaZ80

Жыл бұрын

I dare you to do it :0

This is great. You're preaching to the choir, But I hope that someone who had no idea will watch and understand.

This is an amazing thing happening! I'm so glad you heard about and shared it with us! Aquatic life is where my heart is happiest. I hope more of this happens around the country (and world)!!! Thank-you! My son lives on Chicago. I will share this with him.

I grew up on the South side 87th and Cicero I lived next to the river at 1 time and my buddy made up a song called Down by the green S*****city river

I SAW THE AD FOR YOUR NEW SHOW! CONGRATS YOU BEAUTIFUL MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!! i love everything you do bro. go change the world.

@katiekane5247

Жыл бұрын

New show? Do tell!

@laurakarr29

Жыл бұрын

What show is this? Spread the word.

@moominsean

Жыл бұрын

@@katiekane5247 It's called Kill Your Lawn.

Thank you very much for sharing this information and knowledge with us All!❤ So many Invasive plants, but I'm seeing the Natives are making a comeback!!🎉 Awesome that people are getting better at building back the Original Ecological River Plants and helping the Critters!! Those huge Alligator Snapping Turtles are Massive!!😮 I'd be so cautious about losing Toes and Fingers!! Beavers are awesome for making the Waterways Flow the way they should!!❤🎉 Thank You so Much Again for helping the Wildlife in Urban areas!!❤🎉 ~This is giving me a Lot of ideas for the piece of land and riverside I have just bought!! Seriously Congratulations!!🎉 Turning a shitty, filthy River back into as original as possible!!🎉 That's Fecking Awesome!! Namasté 🙏💞 Andréa and Critters. ...XxX....

What a great initiative from these guys. It's a beautiful thing.

ya know, sometimes people don't suck

This project is so cool . real proof of concept -- hey: Crime Pays Joey -- let's see an update in the summer like your hosts said when it's popping

Such a cool channel, such a cool project. Thank you for publicising it, I hope they get a lot of volunteers !!!

The generalist mussell that continues to populate is something to look further into before continuing this exact process but I love everything else I heard on this. I will look into Ohio river ideas.

So glad to see this. I've been reading more about bioremediation and the potential of aquaponic type systems and the use of plants to natural clean and filter water. Did not know about the clam/mussels filtration potential for our rivers here in the Chi. May the Chicago river wildlife forever be preserved. And may that Chicago accent of Joey also forever be preserved.

This is so inspiring to see. Seems like there's slow perspective shift happening, and its so nice to see that change happening. I'm working on a small 2 acre native wetland prairie restoration project about a quarter-mile from the headwaters of the Kankakee River. Stuff is only now starting to come up, and man does it feel good to see those first flowers. I'm prepping another 5 acres for seeding this fall. Crazy how even just a couple of hours a week can make such a big difference.

Thank you for staying with this shit, Joey. Thanks Guys!

That damn goose might just cut the time down for my boss.

Good shit! Kudos to the whole crew.

God bless these boys. This is an amazing thing here. I love to see it.

Dam it would be cool to make miles of walking trail's on the river . Good for exercise and fishing and what the shit

SEARS TOWER YEA The whole "we tried to grow food but there was too much lead in it" part, holy cow. So right now native aquatic plants that can remediate some of that contamination is the best thing it's possible to do. Support native wildlife, native wildlife eats invasive wildlife, good times

Hey CPBBD, just wanted to say you've been an inspiration to me. Today I just received news that we got a $5k grant to plant 20 trees in the Nob Hill neighborhood in San Francisco. It started with me illegally planting two trees after being inspired by you. I just wanted to say that I appreciate you posting this stuff since it gives me motivation and hope knowing that I can make a difference. Thank you!

I’d love to see some videos on the Indiana Dunes/ the dunes eco systems that run up the coast of Michigan

A bald eagle being chased away by Chicago river ravens just makes sense haha

Beautiful work!!

I helped cut some of those trees on the upper embankment to help with the river habitat! Never a bad day to chainsaw trees without cleanup, with an additional benefit of adding habitat to the river!

Wooooow this is so amazing and the only kind of hopeful news I can take (cuz it’s the real kind of hopeful news, not the fake positive kind). Thank you Urban Rivers project + Crime Pays!

This filled me with such joy. Thanks to those fellas for starting something so positive. Look at all the momentum they've built up.

The big guy is a truly talented speaker. He could host a weekly TV show about this stuff. 👍🏼

I know where there's an old growth forest in West Park New York that nobody else knows about. I'd like to share my information with you.

@rockjockchick

Жыл бұрын

Keep it hidden. It will be safest that way. ❤

Really cool 👍

Legends we need this on every urban river on Earth. 😎👍

Reminds me of the chinampas in Mexico

I can not imagine how beautiful middle America was before industrialization

Fantastic!

Honestly Tony....When we feel stressed......We put on your podcast and settle right down......Your bloody Awesome.

Just FYI Chicago Water Reclamation actually does a lot of really interesting environmental projects out on the Chicago River and Cal Sag. On the Cal Sag they have this 'step channel' that helps re-oxygenate the water. They also have crews that go along the river and collect scrap.

the only 30 minute video i will watch on youtube. pure gold

More Beavers! 🦫

This makes me feel a whole lot less like curling up to die. Thanks Joey.

The plants will clean it naturally

This was so informative, I had no idea there were native mussels in the Chicago River and how quickly their ecosystem could be reimplemented. Urban reclamation projects are really fascinating, thank you for sharing!!

Nice, will have to go check this place out

I love it! I’m going to do some volunteer work with these guys

So glad you got to meet up with these guys! Good stuff.

The snapping turtles like to eat plants and fish, but they love Italian beef sandwiches, Lou Malnati's pizza, Chicago dogs dragged through the garden wrapped up with some fries, and of course an Old Style with a Malort chaser.

Great project and video. Big fan of the podcast and just found the channel. Cheers!

Thanks for getting more eyes on projects like this!

I would love to see some way of getting musk rats to get at the zebra mussels up here on lake champlain!! wow, strong work you guys

well done Tony, thanks

Sweet. Lots of cities are doing similar projects and it's great to see. Lots to learn on how we might scale these floating wetlands up and/or improve them.

This is real nice Tony! Thanks for taking us along!

This makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside... these days, that's a rare thing. Nice job fellas, and thanks for showing us Joey bud! GFY!

This is amazing! I live in a rural area with a lot of natural green spaces but there are some more urban-ish areas too. This was fascinating to think about the positive reclamation!

that jewelweed is nice though, you can use what you pull out to make a nice salve to soothe your toxicodendron assrash.

0:53 To be clear, that is Waste Management, a garbage management location, NOT a human (fecal) waste management location. Human waste is managed by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Showing this to us again in the summer is a must

Fuckin love this shit. Ecology. Education. People making shit that matters.

A lot of people down on that river but it has come a long way from where it once was. The variety of fish species I've caught and seen in there amazes me. Big Bluegills, white crappie, largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, and I saw a tiger muskie. If the hipsters keep up the good work they're doing, it can really turn into a biodiverse place!

Love to see projects like these

This is awesome. I saw floating walkways like this in Denver too when I visited

Wonderful project! Thanks for the vid :D

Chicago is lucky to have you as a native son, Oakland is lucky to have you as an adopted one.

A wonderful project . It deserves a lot of support .

Nice to see someone putting a band aid on the amputation once in a while.

@Wallychans

Жыл бұрын

Seems like a waste to do this in a s hole like Chicago... Try Washington State, Oregon, or something. Despite being large destructive cities, the folks are a lot more down to earth and wild life friendly than the folks in Chicago. Chicago is literally imploding.

This is a great video! Glad to see that this is working and can be implemented at minimal cost.

this was so informative and fascinating, thank you for covering this. i'm going to go plant some milkweed now

This is awesome!