Chase a Wild Buffalo Stampede With These Heroic Cowboys | Short Film Showcase
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- The bison-sometimes referred to as a buffalo-is a living symbol of the American West. Despite once roaming the plains in numbers greater than 30 million, this iconic animal has recently come dangerously close to extinction. By 1900, extensive hunting and fur trading had reduced their population to less than one thousand. Although much progress has been made over the past century, conservationists are still working diligently to bring back the magnificent beast of the plains.
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In this short film by Josh Chertoff and Alfredo Alcántara, saddle up with a Colorado rancher who's risking everything to preserve the endangered species. Equal parts environmentalist and cowboy, Duke Phillips is not your average conservationist. Join him and his crew of horsemen on a thrilling ride as they herd thousands of wild bison for their unique conservation initiative.
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These people live in the wild and devote their lives to save and preserve a species. It's hard to think of a more beautiful and noble life.
Not debout there life we geting some where
My sell i love to triet that meat
The counting it whene
True Earthlings.
Or BOMBING OVERSEAS
Having cut/herded cattle myself on horseback this is seriously no joke.. takes a lot of skill, critical thinking, planning, and you have to be able to make split second judgments in order to keep everything running smoothly
How did you get into it, cause that's my dream job and right now I'm kinda stumped.
@@iumdunno8219 try applying to be a ranch hand! Lots of ranches will offer housing if you tend to the horses and cattle.
@@iumdunno8219 find a rancher/farmer with cattle and bug em to let you help, then bug em to pay you after you prove you're worth paying, then when you've learned what you can on your feet learn to ride, then learn to rope, then buy your horse and hire out for day cowboying, keep your ear to the ground and maybe you'll get a chance at hiring on a ranch
This was so cool to watch, I never thought about ranchers being stewards of nature.
s0fa same. I don’t hunt deer or anything either, but I came to realize it’s a necessary thing to conserve the deer population.
s0fa we are because Mother Nature gives us her land so we have to respect her thankfully on our ranch in Georgia we have way to many deer and other wildlife but we have to help out by manage the population through hunting
Who else would be? Sure not TNC, those land grabbin' SOB's will bite those boys someday, they always do.
@@kirkcattlecompany6803 yes sir! I help my grandpa on his ranch. Where we raise blueheeler pups and brangus cattle.(and kinda ride colts for people)
Most ranchers care more about nature than city people
Seeing a bunch of cowboys wooshing pass is like one of the coolest things ever
On my great-great grandfather's world war one enlistment paper, he stated his job as "cowboy". He owned a ranch in Montana. I think it is cool that this way of life still exists.
My great grandfather also enlisted as a "cowboy" by trade. Enlisted WW1 Calgary,AB.
I live in Montana and most ranches are on the east Side, did the papers say which part he live in?
@@ravioli-bamboli They did not say
that guys mustache is gorgeous
But the question is, how dose he eat?
@@loumightwearahatt.1897 he take the food with spoon open his mouth and close it
@@direwolfhunter7055 but the mustache is in the way.
What about using dogs to help?
The dog gona hold the mustache up?
Thank you ranchers for all that you do! The bison is a beautiful animal that cannot go extinct. If you'd have me I'd help ya'll out any day.
Homeboy's mustache is legendary
Who instantly wanted to become a cowboy?
Slack Morris, or cowgirl
Serie de hartland
I’m already a cowboy
Yup! Or a cowgirl ;) There was a cowgirl in there, did you see her ?@@bvjenner2922
I love this job. i'm from bali
4:35 I wish that part was extended a bit more, glorious
Yeah
What ignorant comments by many, which unfortunately is far too usual. We are here, the bisons are here. So there are two choices- kill them all, or try to sustain them the best of our ability. Congratulations and thanks to the Nature Conservancy and the cowboys involved.
these guys raise animals to be slaughtered for a living
Andrew York sounds amazing
or leave them alone and let the nature regulate itself
just don't invade buffalo's land and don't populate grazing landscapes
how come people are so expansive they ruin everything and than they need to call it "land stewards"
"Killing them all" The lack of morals here is outstanding, The Bisons were here first. And can't your logic be applied to any foreign invader that colonizes a land?
"Hey Australian Aboriginals,We are here, the Europeans, the Aboriginals are here. So there are two choices- kill them all, or try to sustain them the best of our ability."
Doesn't seem right does it? What really seems to be the issue is human ignorance of habitat destruction and overhunting. An actual solution is for habitat restoration and let nature take it's course, letting the Bison population re-grow, rather to try to control the population, always keeping them vulnerable to being endangered.
@@DEUnknownPLAY3R I had a stroke reading your comment.
If the bison population get too high, it can't be sustained and there will be a famine among the population after a year or two.
Unless humans leave the area completely, the population has to be artificially controlled.
Arthur Morgan sees Bison:
"Okayyyy, BOOWAH"
The image of them at 4:14 on horseback is beautiful...poetic almost
Damn, America is beautiful!
if only it wasnt strip of its native people
Oorah
Ya sadly it doesn’t all look like this. These bison have very limited land to roam these days thanks to road systems, borders, and cities
@@mizar_copernicus138 lol it will be like a 3rd world country
@@ice-tgaming4609 when
What did the buffalo said to his son before he left for school? Bison.
lol, that's pretty good bro
Stoopid
Bye son 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂good one
Never heard that one before.... going to nick it for sure... 😂
@@dimepapi6801 It is an epic pun... as puns go it has to be up there with the best..Short and pithy.
I hope with all my heart the American bisons 🦬 never goes extinct.
Absolutely incredible! I am a farm boy from South East Australia (Southern highlands) and have always dreamt of being a ranch hand in the states. Australia doesn’t have this tendency for huge properties (ranches) like this. More divided into several ownerships from 500-1000 acres. To have a job like this would be an absolute dream. Hopefully one day I can share the glory to be a ranch hand, horse rounder in a place like this. Amazing video. Very enjoyable.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Black-Reaper lol, just made that mission XD
Bison Expedition
Black-Reaper red dead are true story
i have a godamn plan
U could do this when u finish the game cos theres a buffalo herd near the farm
Such a gorgeous shot.. especially when the cowboys riding their horses.. *SuchIntenseMoment*
Fun fact : Fort McMurray, Alberta Canada... you all know where that so called dirty oil comes from? The oilsands? Have reclaimed the land back better than it was before and has herds of woodbuffalo grazing on it. Truly a beautiful sight 💕
That's amazing!
I Danny Bahee said the same thing about I think it the standing rock, I'm a Navajo it's like something from morther earth
We keep building more and more civilization, what a mess we are making of things.
This is the most American thing I’ve ever seen.
Yeehawww!
I've been riding all my life and grew up on a small livestock farm in England- i'm used to herding sheep and beast on my horse but by god this is something different entirely, its absolutely incredible
what a beautiful life they live
I wish I could give this a 6 stars. It is a great video.
excellent job they are doing , i wish like the rest that more land was opened up for them as well as other wildlife
Looks like sooo much fun. Opening up on a horse next to a majestic animal must be magical.
Back in the forties, a Tulsa oilman attempted to develop a herd of American Bison. He built a very good fence around about 200 acres of good grassland, with several water sources, a tree shelter belt, etc. Brought in several cows before introducing a four-year old bull.
That bull left the truck, passed through the chutes into the open pasture. His "harem' was off in trees, but a neighboring rancher had a cow "in season" across the road.
The bull moved to the fence across from that cow, lowered his head and hooked the entire fence over his shoulders -- walking under and across to walk through the standard barbed wire fence to introduce himself to the cow. The offspring was a rather unusual looking hybrid.
While still acknowledging the failures of historic American westerners over hunting these incredible animals for disgraceful reasons, the story of Duke and his fellow ranchers is indeed heroic. It acknowledges the importance of producing sustainable solutions for conservation and economic goals. Truly inspiring.
Jessica Brumbaugh lemme guess u r vegan 😂
What a tough yet very satisfying life. What Id do to return my family to a simpler time. Great stuff.
Me and the boys going atfer our bounties:
What a great short film!! I got to see the Bison in person when in Yellowstone just a few days ago & had an absolute great time there checking out the Bison as well as the park❤️!!!
The natives used to wait for the bison to come by there part of North America to ride beside and hunt these magnificent creatures
I went to thumbs up this, and then I realized, "Oh wait, I already did!"
Real cowboys.
Wrong...
Dan not really true, though. That’s like saying “the automobile was invented in Germany, so there’s no real auto body workers in America”
Dan not even cuh it’s a shared culture
@@dlr7383 cowboy culture came from Spain bud
Dan um nope
I love wild buffalo and horses
4:34 beautiful angle kudos to who ever filmed that shot
those cowboys are really heroic and they living an adventurous life...! I like them and their life living very much...!!
I know this is a video about Buffalo but I mean how beautiful are those horses, and loved seeing border collies and Quarter horses.
Great video, great story. Thank you Nat Geo, Duke, and the Nature Conservancy for daylighting this story.
I think this is THE quintessential American image: the cowboy, riding mighty and high on his horse, herding wild buffalo. It is exciting, beautiful, sublime, even spiritual. Real men doing what God intended for them to do.
Beautiful place. It is good to know that some people is working hard for helping this amazing animal that almost disseapered by the indiscriminated hunt. Good job guys.
This video is very interesting, because helped me to understand the importancy to protect a specie in exctintion as the bison or Wild Buffalo, known in Colorado, USA.
These men look so iconic
theyre livin the american dream. honorable career
Some of the comments are here are very uneducated or unrealistic. Well done and keep it up ranchers!
4:13 Immediately I hear Pippin singing "Edge of Night"
Beautiful Country!
*Mustangs* must be great for that job!
Mustangs are useless. Theyre not bred with any purpose. A quarter horse is ideal.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MINDSET!!! IT SHOULD GO GLOBAL!!!
Working at a feed yard around cowboys crazy how you can just grow into having respect for them
Maravilloso trabajo
Marcela Morales tiene toda la razon
This is Extremely Fantastic......Great job!!!...Cool Cowboys...🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽
Thank you for sharing 💜💫🦋 beautiful video and very educational.
Rdr2 brought me here and I’m not disappointed whatsoever
This is my America what a gift from God
What gift, the cowboy is a Mexican/Spanish tradition since Mexico was colony and after. The land that’s different.
@@braxeld4551 and your point is… ?
@@vadersmustache not very bright are you?
Cowboys are so cool
Guys,be proud that you have a dashing and
feisty life
Waow he born in Venezuela, cool i'm from Venezuela. Its hard to live now in Venezuela, it become hard to chase your dreams.
Chamo😜✊🏿saludos desde Panamá
Cause of socialism innit
Why cause the favelas
Favelas are from Brasil. Nothing to do with Venezuela!
@@KATIUSHKACHILE Favelas bedeutet alles, was arm ist, okay, alle Südamerikaner in den Favelas kamen von Sklaven
great effort
That jeep looks badass
When you play red dead redemption once...
“Get out of my land cameraman” John Doton
I've never been so happy to hear that someone know who he is
The original people of the lands, job as far as I'm concerned. Cowboys nearly wiped the herds and native tribes out of existence in the 1800s. I read a book called Bury my heart at wounded knee.... So sad but true historic accounts of those times.
They are such impressive animals. I love them ❤️
I’m a Native Americans and bisons are like spirts for us and when the guys in family go haunting it’s a beautiful but sad thing to see one killed. We never kill the babies or the mothers only male.
This is what I call living
Love your videos. Wish I could visit. Ride near Bison is the only thing on my bucket list. Thank you
I miss my childhood we used to have a horse and Buffalo i really miss those days
I wish we would all ride horses how beautiful and good for the environment 1day gods will today ours right luv u tio Richard canizales yosametti Sam Rise in peace
Imagine the herds, that people saw years ago and numbers were measured by how many hours or even days it took for the herd to pass!!!
Could Duke Phillips III be any more bad ass?
lordhuebi ?
lordhuebi what do they do with the buffalo dear im a new sub..??
who is that?
Greetings form Poland! I am going to see it next month:-)))
Were you able to come? I know covids messed things up, I hope you enjoyed it if ya did!
Absolutely awesome video !!!
Great job. Congratulations to all the people involved.
Awesome video and story
GREAT VIDEO THEY LOVE ANIMALS 100 %
We share this world with all the magnificence of nature. What right do we have to destroy any of the earths creatures !!! Humanity is the most intelligent creature and also the most capable of being the most destructive or creative. Because of this we owe it to nature to be good stewards of our recourses.....including our wildlife.
my deapest respect,robert from belguim
Robert Neven your people have a lot to answer for regarding king leopold. The world will never forget the horrors you visited on men, women, and children.
@@gomasonpatriot1 Why should they be resonsible for the actions of someone who died over a hundred years ago?
@@gomasonpatriot1 bro shut up, stop crying about something that happened centuries ago
So cool bison in there own habitat never seen one in my life time as these guys are doing a great job as the numbers have to be controlled dangerous job for sure for rider and horse.
I ride horses in fields all the time and it is the best life I could possibly have
indigenous land remember that
The only thing I was thinking about the whole time was bison beef jerky
I bet you were you gluttonous slob
Unbelievably cool.
I’ve pushed cattle but never Buffalo, I learned a great deal that I didn’t know about Buffalo! 👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Now this is my dream one day, going out there with a few friends and our horses and just having fun with cattle.
Is that footage from america?
I wonder how many of those bison Brian Shaw eats every year...
As a kid in high school there was a buffalo farm on country road 15 in Lodi Ohio down the road from our school. I used to stop and watch them I wonder if it is still three.
beautiful. I am part of the land and the land is part of me.
Bit cheesy
Wow their galloping looked beautiful, right now I don’t own my own horse but when I do I’m going to do a lot of barrel racing maybe some roping possibly pole bending, I’m going to try and do as much as me and my horse can but make it fun.
Is there anyway I could get an in on the song that plays at 08:11. Truly magnificent
This looks so fun
Thats so badass. Suddenly our 180 head of cattle doesnt look that bad
This Is quite interesting
Beautiful scennes!!!
A vida que eu queria pra mim pois adoro cavalos
thats good we need to save every animals. we are the ones who put almost every animals to the brink of existence. so we owe them.
A buffalo can run upto 30 mph. It can out sprint a horse. That’s why Indiana relayed.
How many are lucky enough to have worked modern cattle herds, wild longhorns and wild Buffalo heards. From my childhood growing up in a city situation and graduating a major university, my bucket list no my lifestyle dream has always been to become a true cowboy! I train the horses that can stand a real round up from fisrt day to cutting and branding/ inaculating. I have spent more nights than I can count under the stars with a heard chasing wolves and grizzlie bears. My God has given me all I truly want from this life here on earth. When i get to Heaven lets you and I chat shall we.