Ep. 139 - Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 139: Kyle Lybarger, Native Habitat Project

Kyle Lybarger, a 29-year-old consulting forester, father, deer-hunter, small creek addict and self-proclaimed “native plant nerd” of Hartselle, Alabama, is a major part of a new and wonderful current sweeping America. Kyle’s Native Habitat Project videos – simple, one-minute vignettes of obscure native plants, remnant grasslands and wildlife-vibrant native plant landscapes – have been downloaded millions of times. The Native Habitat Project is bizarre insects and forgotten plants, science from the heart and soul, love of place, sense of wonder, mostly right under our noses (some of Kyle’s most intact ancient grassland remnants were discovered by the local Dollar Store). For a nation exhausted by abstraction and thirsting for the irrefutably real, Kyle Lybarger’s life work is a tin cup of cold water from a deeper well.

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0:00.0	One of the things I think that why your thing is blown up so much is people looking for connection locally like microcosmically you know?
0:12.0	And it's because looking around and seeing
0:15.6	everything is useless and not looking has not worked for us. No, no. I mean it's just not a way to go through this life in what I call God's pocket.
0:28.0	Yeah, yeah, you know work around.
0:30.0	Yeah, I mean you know how many situations can you think back to it where you're like, wow, I wish that generation would have appreciated that animal or that ecosystem a little bit more, and maybe we would have that, maybe we'd still have it around today.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:45.0	It's like everybody knows that.
0:47.0	Everybody knows that we messed up, but nobody's thinking about,
0:51.0	hey, what are we doing right now? Hey everybody, Hal, hearing, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers
0:58.1	Podcasts and Blast.
1:00.1	Hey, I really wanted to thank Filsen for his long support of this podcast.
1:05.2	Without Filsen, I don't get to do what I want to do with it.
1:09.4	And I've had a mighty good time over the last couple years thanks to their support.
1:14.8	So I'd ask everybody to check out, Filson.com or your local outdoor retailers. If you know the history is for 125 years,
1:25.7	Philson's uncompromising commitment to quality
1:28.2	has defined their brand and their authenticity. They have built trust within that community to become more than just a clothing brand.
1:37.0	They are the stewards of an American outdoor tradition.
1:40.0	So if you look at old photos of the Alaskan Gold Rush and on through the 1900s, you'll see that
1:48.6	Filson has always produced some of the best wool products available anywhere and that tradition is carried on.
1:56.2	Check it out, there's new versions of the old proven wool cruiser
2:03.7	the wool vest. They got the old jacket shirts or jackshirts for anglers.
2:08.4	Fils' line of waterproof dry bags will keep all your gear
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