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The Botanist with 500K Fans Who Bought the Rarest Ecosystem in Texas (www.youtube.com)
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spoilerMost people drive through South Texas and see nothing — scrubby brush, dry heat, thorns. I used to see it that way too. Then I met Joey Santore.

Joey is a botanist, illustrator, and the voice behind Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't. A few years ago, he did something most people only talk about: he acquired a piece of Tamaulipan Thornscrub — one of the rarest ecosystems in North America — and started protecting it.

Less than 1% of this ecosystem is formally protected. Most of what remains sits on private ranch land, unrecognized or actively cleared. We spent a day walking his land to understand what's actually out there, and why it matters.

00:00 — What Most People Miss in South Texas

01:00 — The Tamaulipan Thornscrub

01:45 — Walking the Land with Joey Santore

03:00 — The Goliad Gravels

04:00 — Plants That Wait

06:00 — Peyote and the Plants Worth Protecting

08:30 — Javelinas, Feral Pigs, and Evolutionary History

11:00 — Why This Place Is Worth Paying Attention To

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[–] [S] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Especially with his recent series targeting bad landscaping, he's precisely the kind of plant scientist I'm trying to become. There are plenty of right-wingers who are angry about plants in bad and unscientific ways, but there aren't enough left-wingers angrily advocating for plants in good ways with scientific grounding. It's such an easy in-road for us in greater urbanism advocacy.

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