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Marvelous work you guys have done. Many times that I hear about how this continent was once Mother Nature at her finest before the Europeans came and ruined everything. Because of their descendants, the Americans, many indigenous populations were killed off or assimilated, the land and waterways were tainted and to top it all off, most of the animals that were the integral part of their respected ecosystems are either on the edge or wiped out entirely like the Passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the Florida black wolf and many more. Of course, the creatures that stands out the most are the bison and the prairie dog since both are the keystone species of this underrated landscape. This video shows that all kinds of natural spaces are important, even the grasslands because they exist for a reason and so does the inhabitants that they depend on. As much as I can be happy that such things are still around, I’d kill to have just even a glimpse of that distant past in its former glory. May God bless you all for preserving his creations and reward you by finishing the job Himself one day.
The military will never allow the west to thrive! I have lived in Colorado for the better part of a decade and have done land restoration the whole time. The problem is dam after dam and hydro diversion after hydro diversion. They reroute every main water source we have thousands of times to make reservoirs to send California water during drought and to make way for interstates and housing. Colorado has become a major heart attack in the health of the United States as a whole.
@@planet-wild I think it would be impossible to do this. There are too many legal issues, from water rights, conservation easements, tribal laws, and personal property issues associated. Not to mention the costs and expense of fencing, roads, bridges and other infrastructure issues. Some of that land is Federal and State owned too. It is a nice idea, but not very likely
Think forage instead of grass. It is the complexity that works above and below the surface. A savanna is the most productive form of land. There is a farmer, Mark Shepard, that brought together a bunch of ideas regarding farming that is based on the savanna. He calls it restoration ag. It's very wildlife, livestock and people friendly but produces a lot af food as well as increases farmer/farm resiliency.
@@kyokoyumi Weeds serve a lot of functions, such as breaking up hardpan soil, mining for minerals, fixing nitrogen, forming mycelium relationships, etc. Weeds are good too.
I was camping in a canyon in Kiowa grasslands in New Mexico and came across a herd of pronghorn. I had never seen anything like it in my life and didn't even know we had antelope species in the US. Knowing I got to see the 0.03% of the wild herds left makes it even more special.
Pronghorn are such strange creatures in a lovely way. They're actually more closely related to giraffes than antelope, which may explain some of it! Watching them move is especially surreal.
I saw one in the wild when driving through…Nevada, I think it was. They’re amazing, it was an beautiful experience. They’re actually not even true antelope!
Honestly I'm shook We have so many antelope here I literally had no idea they're scarce. Everyone deserves the chance to have a speed goat come wrek your garden
Don't forget about the beavers. They are the most important species of the west and the cure to the drought. They used to store more water than all the reservoirs of the west combined at full pool. The surface area was 10-20x what it is now which added a huge amount of water to the water cycle through evaporation. So much so that California used to have a summer monsoon season and the central valley was a massive forest not desert only 150 years ago. The Tulare Museum is a small preserve of what it used to be.
It’s a beautiful thing you’re all doing here. 💝 Is there a way to support this great cause for those with limited resources? One more thing I’d like to see is a ban on prairie dogs as pets.
@@t84t748748t6 not entirely true! beavers are still really important to glass plains because their dams/reservoirs usually act as a significant source of water near these grass plains!
As a native Kansan, I'm so happy to see this. The only national park in Kansas that isn't a historic site is the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas flint hills. The flint hills are mostly rangeland for cattle, but there are some small bison herds in protected areas that are slowly growing in number.
it is already restored. The lands they are buying were never destroyed. They are as natural as they ever were. The bison is the only single change. The ranch next door has cattle on the grasslands and they look very similar. With antelope, deer, elk, prairie dogs, predators and many more animals existing on the lands owned by others also. Bison and cattle are so closely related that they can successfully breed offspring. Cattle do the same job on a grassland landscape as bison do. This is a land grab. So come visit and see what a native grassland looks like. No need to wait
@@kshoey73No, cattle doesn't wallow. And it doesn't migrate. Also cattle can't withstand harsh conditions like the bison that evolved millions of years.
@@kshoey73 The objective does appear to eliminate rural infrastructure. This is also why they let wildfires just burn and burn.... even when it is arson. Not sure why, but the establishment sure hates everyone that can produce food, unless you are migrants working on Factory Farms. The owners of THOSE monstrosities can buy politicians at will.
I would like to note that european settlers didn't just overhunt bison, they attempted to exterminate them in the hopes that it would not only dishearten the natives into submission, but eradicate them entirely.
@@m4chines What is royally glossed over is the fact that the indigenous people's land that European settlers "stole" from them had been stolen by them as well. Native American tribes fought for land and dominance, wiping out other tribes long before Europeans got there but all you hear about is white man stealing land.
These types of videos make me cry tears of pure joy, seeing all the amazing work that people with the love of our Planet do day in and out will go down throughout Earths history as the best miracle that has happen, thank you, to all people who care for our world, truly.
Nobody knows who the first nations were. Tribes were constantly at war fighting over territories and there is no telling how many people from the past were eradicated by dominate tribes.
I love it. In Europe we have European bizons, which also have been rescued from becoming extinct, but there's no place for the growing population to live and there are growing local conflicts, because they basically live in sub-urban areas. Definitely creating the big protected area is a great idea.
@@marlan5470 saying that while The European Green Belt exists and european union being vastly more densely populated than USA is somewhat crazy and clueless.
@@lazurusknight2724 bruh u just commented twice without looking anything XD I literally gave u an example of one of the biggest wildlife corridors in the world XD besides the bigger density means we cannot put strips of land just where we want to. Besides, u know the vast amount of green projects and funding made by the EU are somewhat environmental friendly I'd say 🤨
@@reusablestinger3164 China is twice as densely populated as Europe, and yet it has way more nature than Europe and also has an insane amount of massive open grasslands with millions of large animals. having a high population density is not an excuse to destroy nature
4,5 meters of roots underground! I knew wild grasslands were good carbon sinks but thanks for making it clear with that simple fact. Hope bisons will return!
The Serengeti is a savanna and that should be differentiated from regular grassland. There is more productivity in a savanna than any other plant and animal system. We once had a savanna in the West and Midwest. That's what we need to strive for. It protects water and soil better than regular grasslands, as well as rebuilds soil faster...
You’re welcome! Grasslands are indeed powerful carbon sinks, storing approximately 34% of the global terrestrial carbon stock! The fact that they store carbon below the ground makes grassland carbon more stable and resistant to disturbances like fires. 🌱
unfortunately in my area the authorities have dug up old grassland to plant trees to combat climate change. They mean well but people need to be better educated because they have likely just made the problem worse.
actually fire flies are way more cool. and there are multiple species that can glow different colors but humans can only see the light in the dark......
Just remember, please don't try to pet the hairy cattle. Bison are short sighted and short tempered. They are massively strong and have no compunction whatsoever in tossing, goring, or trampling anyone of any age, size, sex, or intention who might possibly annoy them. Please, for your sake and theirs, enjoy them from a distance and leave them alone.
@@tessat338, plus, cameras have a zoom. You don't need to be close enough to ride them to get a good picture. Same with other wild animals. The world isn't a zoo.
I grew up in a farming town on the prairie. I had the privilege of visiting the Serengeti when I was 15, and I remember standing on a hill, looking out on the endless fields of grass and the infinite blue sky. Vast herds of wildlife roamed the landscape. It was beautiful. I started to cry, because I felt such a profound sense of loss. I thought: "this is what I should have grown up seeing." I became very angry at the injustice of it. I desperately wanted to look out upon the great plains and watch millions of bison graze among a sea of blue stem and yellow grass. I have faith that the prairie will return, and the bison will roam freely and uninterrupted from Texas to Alberta. We will track herds of bison like weather, and crowds will gather outside of town to watch the migration. The land belongs to the people. Change is coming.
@@MaxMoser-hd5wg obviously large-scale farms /are/ a neccesity with our current population size and city densities, but that doesn't mean we can't downsize considerably. For example, home and community gardens can produce fruits and vegetables. Organic, regenerative farming practices can be used to produce higher and more nutritious yields. We can stop subsidizing an excess of maize that ends up as cattle feed and ethanol. In addition, the prioritization and further development of wildlife corridors is vital for a bisonful future.
Something you have to keep in mind: American Bison were preserved by ranchers. The last remaining bison were privately owned and re-introduced by conservationists (local ranchers) in the west. The men and women who lived and worked the land were the ones who preserved it. It was not a conservation club or big money from the city.
@@leowillis8188 And? Your great-grandpappy was probably a slave-owner and grapist, your grandpappy a klan lyncher and your daddy one of those who threw rocks at Civil Rights protestors. Should we shit on you for their sins? Lets give these people their due. They did more for the enviroment than both you and me in our lifetimes combined.
@@leowillis8188 people aren't their ancestors. how can you see people trying to preserve life and say "oh yeah but it was their great grandparents fault it happened in the first place 😒"
Ranchers are the reason that Bison are labeled as cattle and not wild animals in Montana. I come from a family of ranchers in central Montana, so i am not pointing fingers. But Bison destroy every fence they come across and so there are lobbyist every year stopping the release of wild bison on lands.
I think it’s an awesome idea to give companies/ bosses the possibility to fund for their team! Hope this supports your growth and enables more successes! Thank you for your work, it’s awesome to see nature and diversity coming back in those areas!
I shed a tear and have a bit of hope restored every time you release a video, maybe there's hope yet. To this story, I have read accounts where it was hours you had to wait as a bison herd passed, not a few thousand, but hundreds of thousands to millions in one heard.
Videos like this are like a dose of happiness. I just worry sometimes if it is not too late to save the fauna and flora around us. It keeps disappearing so fast. :(
I promise you, it’s never too late to turn it around… these days all we need is a complete genetic sample! But seriously, to my original statement, we may not be able to restore things to a perfect 1:1 with what it looked like 200 years ago. But nature is by definition resilient, and by even taking small steps the wilds will respond. We’ve done it in places all over the world. Barring the erasure of the biome via nuclear blast or massive chemical release, nature is just sitting there waiting for us to stop blocking its regrowth so it can grow back in where we pushed it off!
I've been following and donating to American Prairie for years and I'm thrilled with progress they've made and continue to make! It exciting and heartening to watch! 😍👍😍
i live near some preserved tallgrass prairie, and it just breaks my heart that 0.1% of my state's prairie is left. i don't go in the preserve often to avoid ticks, but looking in, you can see just so much life. the little red-winged black birds, pheasants, and wild turkeys love it, and if you hang out there at night, you can hear the coyotes doing their roll calls.
You're helping North America!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! The prairies are oh so important. I'm so happy someone that is doing something FOR the environment, FOR the animals is getting the spotlight. This gives me so much hope. Thank you so much!
I'd love to see you guys work with DUSTUPS , who's right by the Rio Grande in Texas. He's been trying to rewild and turn the literally most remote area of Texas back into a desert forest by doing water catchment and reseeding of native species. LOVE everything you guys do, let's give this planet back to nature and learn to live symbiotically with it!
If we give the whole planet back to nature, do you know what that means for you? Are you a part of nature or am I a part of nature? Serious question here.....because if we are not a part of nature then there is no room on this earth for you or me. If you believe that humans have ruined the world, then start the biggest earth saving movement possible. Eradicating humans from the planet could start with you? Set an example for all those people who have determined that animals are more important than people. Or do you just want all other humans to go away besides the ones you know or care about???
I've watched a few of his videos - he seems disillusioned about what the land there is meant to do. A desert is not a bad thing, and I don't remember seeing him show any evidence if the land there had been changed in the past. Changing it from its natural desert state into a "desert forest" (which, from some research, isn't a biome that actually exists) is just doing the land harm
8:32 my dumbass thought of bald eagle when you mentioned America's iconic mammal. Think I'll need some more sleep and remember that birds ain't mammals
This is so wonderful to see! I just inherited 40 acres of mixed prairie and piñon/juniper woods in SE Colorado surrounded by desolate, over grazed properties where cattle are free to range. There are several prairie dog towns and pronghorn roaming around, so I plan to have fences for the first few years to keep out the cattle and teach my goats where their home is while we build back the soil and grasses (lots of native grasses and flowers, but patchy due to the cattle, so it needs rehabilitation), then hopefully the cows will stop coming around and I can remove most of the fencing to encourage more wildlife onto my lush patch of prairie! Maybe the older ranchers around me will see what I've done and change some things, or their land will be bought by people who want to make a difference ❤
This is such an important mission, just like all the other Planet Wild missions. This one made me cry when I saw all those bison skulls. How could we ever have done that is beyond me.
I went to South Dakota and I hope they change their mindset about bisons. They literally kill them in bulks if they grow any more than their ‘desired’ population. It is so frustrating to see that there is no protection of any wild life in the US and the hunting/killing is government funded. Look at the decline in wild horses, wolves, beavers, polar bears, minks, elks.. the list is endless! Unless the government is shook to the core, I don’t think there will be any change. Hoping for awareness and change in regulations which still feels pretty far-fetched with the hunting mentality. :)
@@bogtrottername7001 According to me, the most invasive of all species is humans. No ‘invasive species’ harms nature as much as we do. What do you think should be done of us?
@@btanna5591 Humans are a great example of how much invasive species can cause damage, therefore we should not add more to the problem (also, comparing a human being to a wild animal for this problem isn't feasible or productive). Two wrongs don't make a right. We can't really control the human population or expansion, but we can control what we do ...which is not introducing more species that cause massage damage because they aren't supposed to be there, but they are because of us (feral horses & cats destroying Australia ecosystem, released goldfish and snakes out-competing native predators, invasive hogs reeking havoc on both person and other animals, etc...) so we must fix it to prevent native flora, fauna and overall natural habitats from harm and in many cases, extinction. We can co-exist, but there is damage that needs to be repaired for the good of our planet, and the decisions to repair it will not be easy. I see the 'invasive human' argument point a lot, but it doesn't lead to any healthy progress / conclusion, so I hope this makes sense and is helpful virtualhug👍
I really appreciate that you've emphasized that grasses are vital, and the grass lawns we see in the USA that are largely sterile and don't do much. I've turned my front yard into a food forest, and I love to see how much stuff grows in there now. Gone is the grass, and what's come to life in that yard has been a real joy to see.
One organization? There are farmers and ranchers that are Regeneratively grazing cattle and some bison to produce native perennial grassland. Areas in the Chihuahuan desert are being brought back from desertification with the use of cattle. The Regenerative farmland is reincorporating cattle and other animals so that food is still produced, but the soil is healed and is more wildlife friendly as well.
@@Tahra555Regen farming > standard farming and feed lots or worse, real estate development. Pretty hard to go back to natural grasslands once pavement kills the ground. Of course reigning in capitalism so that we didn't need every single centimeter of land to be "productive" would be the best option but compromises exist in the meantime.
@@Tahra555 lol, you do realize factory farming relies on regular ranches for calves, EXTREMELY high water intake, especially for alfalfa feed, and is one of the highest polluters of both air, soil and water in their respective environments? Please, oh I beg of you please, give me sources for your factory farming stats because I am laughing so hard just trying to imagine where you're getting these numbers. I'm talking about regen farming for CURRENT farms, like the initiative in Mexico. They are trying to convert awful beef calf feeder ranches into more sustainable land.
Just stop mowing your lawn and after 3-5 years you'll have a yard full of native plants. I've not mowed mine in 5 years and this year it EXPLODED with milkweed, joe-pye weed, native ferns, several species of goldenrod, asters, oaks, some apple trees, and a host of other plants that have either blown in or been seeded from animal visitors. Look up "kill your lawn" for more info.
this is genuinely incredible. Most times the future of earth feels completely hopeless due to humans never ending greed and the cancerous destruction that follows everywhere we go. knowing America has some hope is a nice breath of fresh air.
APF is privately run for billionaires to have a giant bison hunting reserve. It's a tax evasion scheme set up and backed by billionaires. Any real public hunting allowed is just the deer, elk, and small game. They get an extra tax deduction for allowing public hunting. The real value for them is a private bison ranch since they're considered livestock. They give out about 2 dozen public harvest permits each year, but they actually harvest hundreds more for their own benefit. Bison meat is 5 times the price of cattle. They drip feed a few permits every year and dodge billions in taxes using this scheme. The US National Grasslands project has 8.7 million acres of prairie land throughout the country where bison also roam free. If APF were serious they would hand over their land to US Forest Service. While billionaires lobby congress to open mines and oil wells on your public lands, they gaslight you with nonprofits like this claiming to protect wildlife.
This is missing so much context, they're allowing humans to hunt bison because human were one of the natural predators of bison back in the day, and currently the only natural predators that actually lives on the prairie.
Yes I believe you are correct. This is a land grab by globalist billionaires. They always mask this shit as compassion, empathy and to benefit the environment. When that is not the actual motivation.
@@snackportraits7436 You can hunt on US national land for wild bison with a draw tag same as everyone else. This “restoration project” is so the elite wealthy can get bison specially for themselves without the 10-20 year wait for a tag.
Once while driving south to north in Wyoming a large Pronghorn stood on a rock cut along the highway. 40 years later I can still visualize the majesty of that one animal.
Thank you PlanetWild! This is so meaningful. I hope one day I’ll be joining those teams that devoted to environmental protection❤❤ I can’t wait to see the future of America Prairie. 🙏🙏💕
Thanks for making this! So many people don't know that the American native grasslands are the fastest disappearing habitat in the world! (I think it's also important to realize that not all ranchers are the "bad guys" instead, they are just trying to make their living like everyone else. Many ranchers have a deep respect and love for wild places.)
This makes me incredibly happy that there is a project like this going on! I have wanted to do something like this for so long but never had the ability to. Thank you guys so much for starting this it’s truly incredible!
What a fantastic way to restore our natural environment for the greater good for all and the planet! Thank you for showing us your ability to preserve what the world needs more of!!!!
Thank you for covering the APR! They are doing great work! Hopefully this is just the start of more restoration efforts around the country to heal our environment.
Love every mission! Sadly, I am not able to support you financially, but I am helping by liking and commenting on every video and spreading the word 😊 Cheers!
AMAZING! My first mission to watch and contribute to as a member and it's in my "backyard" ❤️❤️ Thanking you for teaching me about this endeavor and for helping it to flourish
I just can't thank you enough for what you're doing. This is amazing. I feel so proud of you and your team for restoring our native lands back to the original landscape and so we could enjoy the beautiful native plants and the wildlife. Again, thank you. Thank you so much! You are nature's Best, Heroes.
Fun fact: Prairie dog communication is actually incredibly advanced, being able to not just distinguish between humans, dogs, wolves and hawks, but also describe them and their appearance. Like the short blue human vs the tall red human. Showcasing advanced language processing abilities, similar to early human species.
I couldn’t be more grateful and happy to hear about what you are doing. So glad to see the, destructive in every way, feedlots be transformed it into a protective area where a healthy prairie biome can thrive. Thank you so much. 😊❤🎉
Pronghorn are such beautiful animals I saw about 2 dozen of them all in different groups while driving from my hometown in Nebraska to Colorado Springs
Keep on with these missions and save our planet! ❤ We need people like you until everybody understands, how lucky we are to live on this planet. Moreover, our duty is to protect it respectively.
PLEASE keep up the good work! From what I understand, most people don't understand the importance of conservation. Hell, I only found out the specifics early this year. AND I'M A MAJOR ANIMAL LOVER
I absolutely LOVE this project, I didn´t think this would be possible but some wonderful people are already doing it. Thank you for bringing those wonderful news to us and for supporting the project 🌱
3:22 Recently visited Colorado and had a chance to go to the Museum of Western Art. Highly recommend! So many paintings were of the grasslands and showed such lush greens and golds, meanwhile going half an hour away to the nearest mountain view of the plains is just brown, grey, brown, even the places no one lives or is using. It's so sad. I have great hopes for this project, especially as the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado is facing immediate good results.
Yay- a project I knew was needed in the US, and also one I hadn’t heard of! Forest projects are focused on more, with state and national parks often including forested areas. And the parks are often broken up by roads and parts are sold to be developed into suburban areas, both commercial and residential. I live in one of those areas, with portions of a state park being a several minutes apart (by car). It means I grew up with amazing wildlife in my backyard, literally, but also the increased roadkill. Whitetail deer, red foxes, skunks, groundhogs, gray squirrels, rabbits, Eastern box turtles, black rat snakes, and garter snakes have all been in my mom’s backyard. A red tail hawk was often seen at the top of a tree from our kitchen window. Cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees, juncos, sparrows, wrens, downy woodpeckers, blue jays, bluebirds, robins, and hummingbirds all visited or nested in our yard at some point. Crows and various types of blackbirds (including red-winged blackbird) came and went, Canadian geese migrated overhead. Evenings brought fireflies and bats.
I'm not entirely sure it was necessary. I live in Wyoming, and there's nothing but millions of acres of uninterrupted grasslands. We have wild horses, bison, etc. I'm just worried they're buying up ranches from people who are struggling financially, or even pressuring them to sell. Also, we eat the cattle from local ranches. If one were to go missing, it's mean a lot of food gone.
@@spracketskooch The organization they’re working with has been doing this for 20 years, so it doesn’t sound like it’s happening overnight or putting additional strain on those in the area. Mossy Earth is very careful to work with those who have a positive relationship with locals. Cattle farming has changed a lot since the 1800s, when the Great Plains got broken up into cattle ranches and cattle drives went from the northern states down to the southern states. My understanding was that overall, demand for beef was going down over the last several decades, leading to a decrease in cattle farming, but I’m not in one of the Plains states, so my info might be over-generalized or from a biased source. I remember the concern about American bison going extinct and an increase in bison farming to remedy that. We even have a bison farm in little o’Delaware.
@@it3ly800 True. A connected issue is deer overpopulation, so hunting is regulated to decrease the population. But there isn’t an easy way to ensure animals safe passage with every suburban road, so it falls on drivers to pay attention, although animal crossing and speed limit signs can help. I wish driver’s education courses included learning some typical animal behavior, such as high activity times, both seasonal and when in a day. I’m sure statistics about roadkill could help inform drivers of what to look out for.
YES! It is our world! And we love to see it flourish! 👏🥳❤️ I love the possibility to also join planet wild as a team, I will definitely mention it in a team meeting!
This is exciting news! I did get to see American bison in Oklahoma in April of this year. They are simply massive beasts. Thank you for all you are doing to preserve the American wilderness!
This organization is doing wonderful work. I drove through Nebraska and S Dakota this summer and I was stunned at awesome vast and awesome the grassland was.
Tears of Joy, MA in Global Sustainability here. I have been saying for a long time, returning the buffalo to the grasslands could be a large part of capturing carbon. Crying tears of joy to see this project happening! We could return that land to the rightful owners, bet we would see these large herds again, they could sell us meat and hides. In a couple generations it would solve previously unsolvable problems.
What are the previously unsolvable problems? And how do we determine Rightful Owners? What would you need a buffalo hide for? Do you live in a mud hut and burn bison shit to stay warm in the winters? The natives that lived on the plains used dried bison shit to warm their teepees and cook some of their food. Do you know that if we returned "that land" to previous owners that 99.9% of US inhabitants would need to be removed? Doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe you could donate your house, your parent's house or any small plot your family may have to a Native American? I think you may start a trend with your peers. Or do you want me to donate my plot of land here in Montana so you can keep yours? I'm trying to determine if there is a difference between the land where I live and the land where you live? I believe that at some point in history both were untouched lands and it is very confusing to me to try and figure out why my 2 acres should be given back but someone owning a house outside New York will not face the same pressure? Also, my family ranched in Montana from 1910 until 2010, and we sold you meat and hides. Just not directly.
Okay, no denying that farmers are facing man-made crises, I don't want to overlook the needs of that community. But, they could adopt similar practices lease the land for the herds. They could also farm energy. There are solutions. As you bring up, every part of the bison is valuable. The tribes own and control the herds, potentially partnering with farmers. Guarantee they'd get a better deal than they are currently getting with these large corporations buying all the land and controlling the market. I believe every piece of federal land should be returned to existing tribes, they determine how and future use. We pay taxes on the land we inhabit to the tribes and give them 51% control over governing the US. Yes I lose power in this scenario, you might too, but we shouldn't be here, we shouldn't own anything. It wasn't ours to settle or own, or divide.
Who are the rightful owners? I say the rightful owners is anyone prepared to utilize the land in ways that promote biodiversity and economic productivity together. I would love to see vast swaths of untamed wild prairie with the full complement of wildlife, Indian tribes restoring their languages and cultures and becoming stewards of the land, and old ramching families getting their family ranches back having lost so much of it to corporate interests and also being good stewards.
Whose “we” that shouldn’t be here or own anything? Are you a communist? Or are you a WEF globalist who thinks we should own nothing and be “happy”? There is e ough space out there for the Indian tribes and white cattle ranching families and in addition I also want to see large swaths of land owned by neither but reserved for wildlife because the notion that Indians always took care of the earth and lived in total harmony with it is bunk.
@@BigJFindAWay If you have to ask who the rightful owners are, it seems an impossible conversation. The people who the land was stolen from, criminally fraudulently through a network of lies and paper trails. With dead family members paving the roads they walked to the perceived useless corners of the land they owned, shuffled against their will for decades if not hundreds of years while their culture, history, political systems and lives were erased. And they are still here. Ability does not equate to rightful in this instance. That erasure destroying the ecosystem and potentially being one of the largest increases of CO2 emissions released because it broke one of the largest natural carbon sponges on the globe. So as we killed their people, we killed ourselves.
I live in south central Oklahoma and our wildlife is pretty stunning! All day I look at deer, turkeys, bobcats, coyote, vultures, roadrunners, opossums, raccoons, red birds, blue birds, white birds. Wow! Lotta stuff out there.
60000000 to 325, that’s just … I don’t know how to put it into words, like how? Why ! The barbaric hunting and extermination is a crime against earth. Those photos are haunting.
I grew up in Kansas, right in the middle. So I've seen my fair share of these animals, but knowing they're getting their habitat back to themselves is heartwarming ♥ I hate our history, but we can be better.
I live where this is happening. There are zero feedlots on any of the lands being purchased. That was one of many lies told in this video. There actually are no feedlots existing on any lands that they want to buy. Its a BS story to get you to support them
10:53 I would love to join the restoration efforts as I live in the panhandle of Oklahoma and I’ve tried to reach out over 200 times to local ordinances we have a very unsuccessful bison situation where we have bison on the outskirts of town but there’s a shooting range in there and they’re having to feed them because the hydrology is not properly set up and the habitat is not created to support them necessarily and over the years we’ve lost about half of the population. Nobody knows that locally but I do and I’ve kept up with it and tried to reach out to make an impact we’ve made an impact at plenty of other locations locally so we have proof that we understand the concepts of nature and understand how to restore natural ecosystems. But the biggest concern is that the shooting range is there which I believe is why they ignore all request. It’s actually supposed to be an Oklahoma refuge area for wildlife and the shooting range is not supposed to be there. They got approval locally and just did it.
I live in Western Montana, a good distance away from where this project is. I’m glad they’re buying old ranches where rich out of staters would otherwise move in and inevitably gentrify the area. This is a very real threat, where they’re making some of our communities an exclusive stomping ground for the upper crust’s ultra-elite. We are an otherwise poor state that deeply respects our nature and public lands, so this a great opportunity to make the Treasure State the Treasure State!
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Marvelous work you guys have done. Many times that I hear about how this continent was once Mother Nature at her finest before the Europeans came and ruined everything. Because of their descendants, the Americans, many indigenous populations were killed off or assimilated, the land and waterways were tainted and to top it all off, most of the animals that were the integral part of their respected ecosystems are either on the edge or wiped out entirely like the Passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet, the Florida black wolf and many more. Of course, the creatures that stands out the most are the bison and the prairie dog since both are the keystone species of this underrated landscape. This video shows that all kinds of natural spaces are important, even the grasslands because they exist for a reason and so does the inhabitants that they depend on. As much as I can be happy that such things are still around, I’d kill to have just even a glimpse of that distant past in its former glory. May God bless you all for preserving his creations and reward you by finishing the job Himself one day.
What about the black footed ferret they arguably got the worst out of all the prairie creatures
Feedback about joining: I shouldn't have to download an app and give my personal information just to use my membership.
The military will never allow the west to thrive! I have lived in Colorado for the better part of a decade and have done land restoration the whole time. The problem is dam after dam and hydro diversion after hydro diversion. They reroute every main water source we have thousands of times to make reservoirs to send California water during drought and to make way for interstates and housing. Colorado has become a major heart attack in the health of the United States as a whole.
@@planet-wild I think it would be impossible to do this. There are too many legal issues, from water rights, conservation easements, tribal laws, and personal property issues associated. Not to mention the costs and expense of fencing, roads, bridges and other infrastructure issues. Some of that land is Federal and State owned too.
It is a nice idea, but not very likely
thank you for explaining that grass is not just some useless lawn, it is so much more.
Think forage instead of grass. It is the complexity that works above and below the surface. A savanna is the most productive form of land.
There is a farmer, Mark Shepard, that brought together a bunch of ideas regarding farming that is based on the savanna. He calls it restoration ag.
It's very wildlife, livestock and people friendly but produces a lot af food as well as increases farmer/farm resiliency.
It is fascinating! Glad to know that you liked the mission, and thanks for your feedback ☺
The useless lawn is a bunch of weeds. Grass is *grass.* Even grains like wheat, barley, corn, and rice are *grass.* :)
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Weeds serve a lot of functions, such as breaking up hardpan soil, mining for minerals, fixing nitrogen, forming mycelium relationships, etc. Weeds are good too.
I had NO idea that the Rout systems are 15 feet deep! WOW! I love the fact that the systems are still there, we just need to help it come back🙏🏻❤️🙌🏻🇨🇦
I was camping in a canyon in Kiowa grasslands in New Mexico and came across a herd of pronghorn. I had never seen anything like it in my life and didn't even know we had antelope species in the US. Knowing I got to see the 0.03% of the wild herds left makes it even more special.
Pronghorn are such strange creatures in a lovely way. They're actually more closely related to giraffes than antelope, which may explain some of it! Watching them move is especially surreal.
I’ve been seeing them in the Denver metro area since 1981.. there’s a herd of pronghorn a few miles from my house.. see them every day..
I saw one in the wild when driving through…Nevada, I think it was. They’re amazing, it was an beautiful experience. They’re actually not even true antelope!
Honestly I'm shook
We have so many antelope here I literally had no idea they're scarce.
Everyone deserves the chance to have a speed goat come wrek your garden
i’ve seen them in pagosa springs colorado! oklahoma, where i’m from, has a great scenic road you can drive on to see bison in their habitat
Don't forget about the beavers. They are the most important species of the west and the cure to the drought. They used to store more water than all the reservoirs of the west combined at full pool. The surface area was 10-20x what it is now which added a huge amount of water to the water cycle through evaporation. So much so that California used to have a summer monsoon season and the central valley was a massive forest not desert only 150 years ago. The Tulare Museum is a small preserve of what it used to be.
no beavers on grass plains because the eat trees
If its one thing we can learn, there are A LOT of important species. And a bunch of keystone species. And too many of them are missing
It’s a beautiful thing you’re all doing here. 💝 Is there a way to support this great cause for those with limited resources?
One more thing I’d like to see is a ban on prairie dogs as pets.
@@t84t748748t6 not entirely true! beavers are still really important to glass plains because their dams/reservoirs usually act as a significant source of water near these grass plains!
@@t84t748748t6 Beavers don't eat trees. They'll eat the bark and leaves and twigs but they aren't eating wood. They eat grass and plants primarily.
Good to see someone is actually making America great again.
JD VANCE 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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@@rubenestrada7095 lol
Don’t worry the plan is to fill this land with illegal immigrants because we have so much unused land
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Whatever leftoid
As a native Kansan, I'm so happy to see this. The only national park in Kansas that isn't a historic site is the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas flint hills. The flint hills are mostly rangeland for cattle, but there are some small bison herds in protected areas that are slowly growing in number.
Oh! I been there! Only three times sadly. Been ages since I was there last. I’m happy to know that the bison are doing well
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@@TopGreaser???? What does that have to do with anything???
@@TopGreaser Dude, don’t keep me guessing…finish the sentence! My white what?
@@TopGreaser And your R*cist!
I can't wait to see the restored American Serengeti when it's fully restored to its rightful glory. Thank you for all you do!
it is already restored. The lands they are buying were never destroyed. They are as natural as they ever were. The bison is the only single change. The ranch next door has cattle on the grasslands and they look very similar. With antelope, deer, elk, prairie dogs, predators and many more animals existing on the lands owned by others also. Bison and cattle are so closely related that they can successfully breed offspring. Cattle do the same job on a grassland landscape as bison do. This is a land grab. So come visit and see what a native grassland looks like. No need to wait
@@kshoey73No, cattle doesn't wallow.
And it doesn't migrate.
Also cattle can't withstand harsh conditions like the bison that evolved millions of years.
@@kshoey73 The objective does appear to eliminate rural infrastructure. This is also why they let wildfires just burn and burn.... even when it is arson.
Not sure why, but the establishment sure hates everyone that can produce food, unless you are migrants working on Factory Farms. The owners of THOSE monstrosities can buy politicians at will.
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 your just wrong tho cows can survive in the cold and heat just like bison
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 that’s a ridiculous statement. Who financially supports and gains from this action/group .
I would like to note that european settlers didn't just overhunt bison, they attempted to exterminate them in the hopes that it would not only dishearten the natives into submission, but eradicate them entirely.
this !! the role that colonization plays into both social and environmental damage is often glossed over
@@m4chines What is royally glossed over is the fact that the indigenous people's land that European settlers "stole" from them had been stolen by them as well. Native American tribes fought for land and dominance, wiping out other tribes long before Europeans got there but all you hear about is white man stealing land.
i think it is wrong to call them "european settlers" since most were born in America and were Americans.
At this point in history many people were genetically mixed Indian and European.
Much different way than how the native tribes eradicated the tribes before them.
These types of videos make me cry tears of pure joy, seeing all the amazing work that people with the love of our Planet do day in and out will go down throughout Earths history as the best miracle that has happen, thank you, to all people who care for our world, truly.
Im of the first nation, its heals my soul to see the brother and sister buffalo returning
though i do have to side eye white Americans suddenly giving a shit to clean up their mess
Nobody knows who the first nations were. Tribes were constantly at war fighting over territories and there is no telling how many people from the past were eradicated by dominate tribes.
@@GenesisGarden-l9s What dominant civilizations did not?
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I love it. In Europe we have European bizons, which also have been rescued from becoming extinct, but there's no place for the growing population to live and there are growing local conflicts, because they basically live in sub-urban areas. Definitely creating the big protected area is a great idea.
How about creating wildlife corridors, where they can traverse the highways that are everywhere in Europe?
@@marlan5470 saying that while The European Green Belt exists and european union being vastly more densely populated than USA is somewhat crazy and clueless.
@@reusablestinger3164 Responding this way while not providing any suitable alternatives is somewhat crazy and clueless
@@lazurusknight2724 bruh u just commented twice without looking anything XD I literally gave u an example of one of the biggest wildlife corridors in the world XD besides the bigger density means we cannot put strips of land just where we want to. Besides, u know the vast amount of green projects and funding made by the EU are somewhat environmental friendly I'd say 🤨
@@reusablestinger3164 China is twice as densely populated as Europe, and yet it has way more nature than Europe and also has an insane amount of massive open grasslands with millions of large animals. having a high population density is not an excuse to destroy nature
4,5 meters of roots underground! I knew wild grasslands were good carbon sinks but thanks for making it clear with that simple fact. Hope bisons will return!
The Serengeti is a savanna and that should be differentiated from regular grassland. There is more productivity in a savanna than any other plant and animal system.
We once had a savanna in the West and Midwest. That's what we need to strive for. It protects water and soil better than regular grasslands, as well as rebuilds soil
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You’re welcome! Grasslands are indeed powerful carbon sinks, storing approximately 34% of the global terrestrial carbon stock! The fact that they store carbon below the ground makes grassland carbon more stable and resistant to disturbances like fires. 🌱
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unfortunately in my area the authorities have dug up old grassland to plant trees to combat climate change. They mean well but people need to be better educated because they have likely just made the problem worse.
Honestly, the Bison is one of the coolest creatures on earth. The American Bison in partiuclar is such a beautiful beast!
actually fire flies are way more cool. and there are multiple species that can glow different colors but humans can only see the light in the dark......
Just remember, please don't try to pet the hairy cattle. Bison are short sighted and short tempered. They are massively strong and have no compunction whatsoever in tossing, goring, or trampling anyone of any age, size, sex, or intention who might possibly annoy them. Please, for your sake and theirs, enjoy them from a distance and leave them alone.
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Really, they look so friendly @@tessat338
@@tessat338, plus, cameras have a zoom. You don't need to be close enough to ride them to get a good picture. Same with other wild animals. The world isn't a zoo.
I grew up in a farming town on the prairie. I had the privilege of visiting the Serengeti when I was 15, and I remember standing on a hill, looking out on the endless fields of grass and the infinite blue sky. Vast herds of wildlife roamed the landscape. It was beautiful. I started to cry, because I felt such a profound sense of loss. I thought: "this is what I should have grown up seeing." I became very angry at the injustice of it. I desperately wanted to look out upon the great plains and watch millions of bison graze among a sea of blue stem and yellow grass. I have faith that the prairie will return, and the bison will roam freely and uninterrupted from Texas to Alberta. We will track herds of bison like weather, and crowds will gather outside of town to watch the migration. The land belongs to the people. Change is coming.
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Yours is such a heartfelt story. Thank you for sharing it. From your mouth to God's ears!
If you don’t like farms stop eating
That’s such a beautiful story.
@@MaxMoser-hd5wg obviously large-scale farms /are/ a neccesity with our current population size and city densities, but that doesn't mean we can't downsize considerably. For example, home and community gardens can produce fruits and vegetables. Organic, regenerative farming practices can be used to produce higher and more nutritious yields. We can stop subsidizing an excess of maize that ends up as cattle feed and ethanol. In addition, the prioritization and further development of wildlife corridors is vital for a bisonful future.
Something you have to keep in mind: American Bison were preserved by ranchers. The last remaining bison were privately owned and re-introduced by conservationists (local ranchers) in the west. The men and women who lived and worked the land were the ones who preserved it. It was not a conservation club or big money from the city.
Yes and no, because part of the ranch-preserved bisons have been crossed with cattle, which ruins their genetic
Sure but their ol grandpapies wiped them out
@@leowillis8188 And? Your great-grandpappy was probably a slave-owner and grapist, your grandpappy a klan lyncher and your daddy one of those who threw rocks at Civil Rights protestors. Should we shit on you for their sins?
Lets give these people their due. They did more for the enviroment than both you and me in our lifetimes combined.
@@leowillis8188 people aren't their ancestors. how can you see people trying to preserve life and say "oh yeah but it was their great grandparents fault it happened in the first place 😒"
Ranchers are the reason that Bison are labeled as cattle and not wild animals in Montana. I come from a family of ranchers in central Montana, so i am not pointing fingers. But Bison destroy every fence they come across and so there are lobbyist every year stopping the release of wild bison on lands.
I think it’s an awesome idea to give companies/ bosses the possibility to fund for their team! Hope this supports your growth and enables more successes! Thank you for your work, it’s awesome to see nature and diversity coming back in those areas!
Thanks for the feedback! Great to have you on our channel🙌
I shed a tear and have a bit of hope restored every time you release a video, maybe there's hope yet. To this story, I have read accounts where it was hours you had to wait as a bison herd passed, not a few thousand, but hundreds of thousands to millions in one heard.
Videos like this are like a dose of happiness. I just worry sometimes if it is not too late to save the fauna and flora around us. It keeps disappearing so fast. :(
I promise you, it’s never too late to turn it around… these days all we need is a complete genetic sample!
But seriously, to my original statement, we may not be able to restore things to a perfect 1:1 with what it looked like 200 years ago. But nature is by definition resilient, and by even taking small steps the wilds will respond. We’ve done it in places all over the world.
Barring the erasure of the biome via nuclear blast or massive chemical release, nature is just sitting there waiting for us to stop blocking its regrowth so it can grow back in where we pushed it off!
@@ArmchairDeity So is 1820 the goal for environmental reclamation? And who set this 200 year goal?
The best time to plant a tree was yesterday. The second best time to plant a tree is today. We can't give up.
@@GeishaBoiChicago beautiful said
It’s never too late until it’s gone. It’s still there and we will make restore the planet
I've been following and donating to American Prairie for years and I'm thrilled with progress they've made and continue to make!
It exciting and heartening to watch! 😍👍😍
i live near some preserved tallgrass prairie, and it just breaks my heart that 0.1% of my state's prairie is left. i don't go in the preserve often to avoid ticks, but looking in, you can see just so much life.
the little red-winged black birds, pheasants, and wild turkeys love it, and if you hang out there at night, you can hear the coyotes doing their roll calls.
You're helping North America!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! The prairies are oh so important. I'm so happy someone that is doing something FOR the environment, FOR the animals is getting the spotlight. This gives me so much hope. Thank you so much!
Not just helping North America, helping and inspiring the World....
I'd love to see you guys work with DUSTUPS , who's right by the Rio Grande in Texas. He's been trying to rewild and turn the literally most remote area of Texas back into a desert forest by doing water catchment and reseeding of native species. LOVE everything you guys do, let's give this planet back to nature and learn to live symbiotically with it!
If we give the whole planet back to nature, do you know what that means for you? Are you a part of nature or am I a part of nature? Serious question here.....because if we are not a part of nature then there is no room on this earth for you or me. If you believe that humans have ruined the world, then start the biggest earth saving movement possible. Eradicating humans from the planet could start with you? Set an example for all those people who have determined that animals are more important than people. Or do you just want all other humans to go away besides the ones you know or care about???
YES, the way we meant to live.
Thanks for your feedback and reference - we'll take a look 👍
I've watched a few of his videos - he seems disillusioned about what the land there is meant to do. A desert is not a bad thing, and I don't remember seeing him show any evidence if the land there had been changed in the past. Changing it from its natural desert state into a "desert forest" (which, from some research, isn't a biome that actually exists) is just doing the land harm
@@zlypyyou haven’t watched the beginning of his journey. That land is degraded from overgrazing through cattle farms. That’s the outset of it all
8:32 my dumbass thought of bald eagle when you mentioned America's iconic mammal. Think I'll need some more sleep and remember that birds ain't mammals
This is so wonderful to see! I just inherited 40 acres of mixed prairie and piñon/juniper woods in SE Colorado surrounded by desolate, over grazed properties where cattle are free to range. There are several prairie dog towns and pronghorn roaming around, so I plan to have fences for the first few years to keep out the cattle and teach my goats where their home is while we build back the soil and grasses (lots of native grasses and flowers, but patchy due to the cattle, so it needs rehabilitation), then hopefully the cows will stop coming around and I can remove most of the fencing to encourage more wildlife onto my lush patch of prairie! Maybe the older ranchers around me will see what I've done and change some things, or their land will be bought by people who want to make a difference ❤
Thanks for sharing this amazing video.
This is such an important mission, just like all the other Planet Wild missions. This one made me cry when I saw all those bison skulls. How could we ever have done that is beyond me.
I know it's very sad
I went to South Dakota and I hope they change their mindset about bisons. They literally kill them in bulks if they grow any more than their ‘desired’ population. It is so frustrating to see that there is no protection of any wild life in the US and the hunting/killing is government funded. Look at the decline in wild horses, wolves, beavers, polar bears, minks, elks.. the list is endless! Unless the government is shook to the core, I don’t think there will be any change. Hoping for awareness and change in regulations which still feels pretty far-fetched with the hunting mentality. :)
@@btanna5591 I agree but horses are an introduced and invasive species.
@@bogtrottername7001 According to me, the most invasive of all species is humans. No ‘invasive species’ harms nature as much as we do. What do you think should be done of us?
@@btanna5591 Humans are a great example of how much invasive species can cause damage, therefore we should not add more to the problem (also, comparing a human being to a wild animal for this problem isn't feasible or productive). Two wrongs don't make a right. We can't really control the human population or expansion, but we can control what we do ...which is not introducing more species that cause massage damage because they aren't supposed to be there, but they are because of us (feral horses & cats destroying Australia ecosystem, released goldfish and snakes out-competing native predators, invasive hogs reeking havoc on both person and other animals, etc...) so we must fix it to prevent native flora, fauna and overall natural habitats from harm and in many cases, extinction. We can co-exist, but there is damage that needs to be repaired for the good of our planet, and the decisions to repair it will not be easy. I see the 'invasive human' argument point a lot, but it doesn't lead to any healthy progress / conclusion, so I hope this makes sense and is helpful virtualhug👍
The first mission I’ve helped to fund!! Nice work
In love with this video and planet wild!! Amazing to see that every little action DOES counts. Happy and proud to be a member of the community :)
I’m from Montana. It’s cool to see that the America prairie reserve is finally getting its flowers.
I really appreciate that you've emphasized that grasses are vital, and the grass lawns we see in the USA that are largely sterile and don't do much. I've turned my front yard into a food forest, and I love to see how much stuff grows in there now. Gone is the grass, and what's come to life in that yard has been a real joy to see.
One organization? There are farmers and ranchers that are Regeneratively grazing cattle and some bison to produce native perennial grassland. Areas in the Chihuahuan desert are being brought back from desertification with the use of cattle. The Regenerative farmland is reincorporating cattle and other animals so that food is still produced, but the soil is healed and is more wildlife friendly as well.
We could and should be doing this. With microchipping cattle, we could merge multiple herds and allow them to act naturally on the grass lands.
Regenerative farming is bullshit (pun intended)
@@Tahra555Regen farming > standard farming and feed lots or worse, real estate development. Pretty hard to go back to natural grasslands once pavement kills the ground.
Of course reigning in capitalism so that we didn't need every single centimeter of land to be "productive" would be the best option but compromises exist in the meantime.
@@Tahra555 lol, you do realize factory farming relies on regular ranches for calves, EXTREMELY high water intake, especially for alfalfa feed, and is one of the highest polluters of both air, soil and water in their respective environments?
Please, oh I beg of you please, give me sources for your factory farming stats because I am laughing so hard just trying to imagine where you're getting these numbers.
I'm talking about regen farming for CURRENT farms, like the initiative in Mexico. They are trying to convert awful beef calf feeder ranches into more sustainable land.
How do you think these regenerative practices could be expanded to include more communities or areas facing similar challenges?
Yes! Planet wild in my own country! Can American Prairies also plant native milkweed for our declining Monarch Butterfly population?
Yes! So important! Everyone needs to do this in their gardens as well
Just stop mowing your lawn and after 3-5 years you'll have a yard full of native plants. I've not mowed mine in 5 years and this year it EXPLODED with milkweed, joe-pye weed, native ferns, several species of goldenrod, asters, oaks, some apple trees, and a host of other plants that have either blown in or been seeded from animal visitors. Look up "kill your lawn" for more info.
I don't think a garden is big enough to recreate the American wild west.
@@metal_pipe9764 They mean we should all plant milkweed; just got a monarch caterpillar in my Massachusetts garden thanks to a milkweed plant!
@@GuineaPig361 it's called a joke :D
Wow 😍Planet Wild is such a great team which is supporting countless eco systems. Thank you for restoring mother earth🥳
this is genuinely incredible. Most times the future of earth feels completely hopeless due to humans never ending greed and the cancerous destruction that follows everywhere we go. knowing America has some hope is a nice breath of fresh air.
APF is privately run for billionaires to have a giant bison hunting reserve. It's a tax evasion scheme set up and backed by billionaires. Any real public hunting allowed is just the deer, elk, and small game. They get an extra tax deduction for allowing public hunting. The real value for them is a private bison ranch since they're considered livestock. They give out about 2 dozen public harvest permits each year, but they actually harvest hundreds more for their own benefit. Bison meat is 5 times the price of cattle. They drip feed a few permits every year and dodge billions in taxes using this scheme.
The US National Grasslands project has 8.7 million acres of prairie land throughout the country where bison also roam free. If APF were serious they would hand over their land to US Forest Service. While billionaires lobby congress to open mines and oil wells on your public lands, they gaslight you with nonprofits like this claiming to protect wildlife.
This is missing so much context, they're allowing humans to hunt bison because human were one of the natural predators of bison back in the day, and currently the only natural predators that actually lives on the prairie.
Yes I believe you are correct. This is a land grab by globalist billionaires. They always mask this shit as compassion, empathy and to benefit the environment. When that is not the actual motivation.
@@snackportraits7436 You can hunt on US national land for wild bison with a draw tag same as everyone else. This “restoration project” is so the elite wealthy can get bison specially for themselves without the 10-20 year wait for a tag.
A project closer to home, and only on my second badge! That makes joining feel so much more impactful than I expected. Thank you for all you do!!
Planet Wild is awesome! 🎉😊
Thank you so much for highlighting this, i had no idea. Im so grateful for what you guys do and im so proud to be one of your backers
Up the fluffy cows - long may they run in peace and with their neighbours
Imagine being able to see these lands the way they were always meant to stay. Amazing!
Once while driving south to north in Wyoming a large Pronghorn stood on a rock cut along the highway. 40 years later I can still visualize the majesty of that one animal.
Thank you PlanetWild! This is so meaningful. I hope one day I’ll be joining those teams that devoted to environmental protection❤❤
I can’t wait to see the future of America Prairie. 🙏🙏💕
What an important project and amazing storytelling! Thank you for dreaming big 🌾
Fantastic! Even in cities native grasses are being planted in flood prone areas.
Absolutely love the work Planet Wild is doing, thanks for bringing us along.
Thanks for making this! So many people don't know that the American native grasslands are the fastest disappearing habitat in the world! (I think it's also important to realize that not all ranchers are the "bad guys" instead, they are just trying to make their living like everyone else. Many ranchers have a deep respect and love for wild places.)
This makes me incredibly happy that there is a project like this going on! I have wanted to do something like this for so long but never had the ability to. Thank you guys so much for starting this it’s truly incredible!
What a fantastic way to restore our natural environment for the greater good for all and the planet! Thank you for showing us your ability to preserve what the world needs more of!!!!
The land they are buying doesn't need "restored." It is pristine as it was in 1800. Its a large land grab funded by wealthy donors from overseas
Thank you for covering the APR! They are doing great work! Hopefully this is just the start of more restoration efforts around the country to heal our environment.
I support the amazing work u guys do restoring natural ecosystems and helping these species thrive!
Love this project and love the fact that a subscription for teams is now available. I'll definitely propose this to my employer.
Love every mission! Sadly, I am not able to support you financially, but I am helping by liking and commenting on every video and spreading the word 😊 Cheers!
Thanks! This support also means a lot to us ☺️
AMAZING! My first mission to watch and contribute to as a member and it's in my "backyard" ❤️❤️ Thanking you for teaching me about this endeavor and for helping it to flourish
Thank you Planet Wild!❤
I just can't thank you enough for what you're doing. This is amazing. I feel so proud of you and your team for restoring our native lands back to the original landscape and so we could enjoy the beautiful native plants and the wildlife. Again, thank you. Thank you so much! You are nature's Best, Heroes.
Fun fact: Prairie dog communication is actually incredibly advanced, being able to not just distinguish between humans, dogs, wolves and hawks, but also describe them and their appearance. Like the short blue human vs the tall red human. Showcasing advanced language processing abilities, similar to early human species.
You guys are AMAZING! Keep up the great work! Love and appreciation from the UK
I couldn’t be more grateful and happy to hear about what you are doing. So glad to see the, destructive in every way, feedlots be transformed it into a protective area where a healthy prairie biome can thrive. Thank you so much. 😊❤🎉
Things like this get me so extremely excited. Thank you for doing this to everyone involved!
Pronghorn are such beautiful animals I saw about 2 dozen of them all in different groups while driving from my hometown in Nebraska to Colorado Springs
While living in Yellowstone, I saw so many beautiful animals. I even had a herd of pronghorn run right past me within three feet of me.
Keep on with these missions and save our planet! ❤ We need people like you until everybody understands, how lucky we are to live on this planet. Moreover, our duty is to protect it respectively.
PLEASE keep up the good work! From what I understand, most people don't understand the importance of conservation. Hell, I only found out the specifics early this year. AND I'M A MAJOR ANIMAL LOVER
I absolutely LOVE this project, I didn´t think this would be possible but some wonderful people are already doing it. Thank you for bringing those wonderful news to us and for supporting the project 🌱
Wonderful, heartwarming and generous share from everyone! Thank you so very much!! All the best. ♥️🌺🌴
Thank you for your selfless act and preserving native wildlife.
God bless.
I discovered these people on Wikipedia! Glad they’re getting some attention :)
Happy to be a memberrr! So proud!
Really cool to see thanks guys for your hard work!
3:22 Recently visited Colorado and had a chance to go to the Museum of Western Art. Highly recommend! So many paintings were of the grasslands and showed such lush greens and golds, meanwhile going half an hour away to the nearest mountain view of the plains is just brown, grey, brown, even the places no one lives or is using. It's so sad. I have great hopes for this project, especially as the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado is facing immediate good results.
The idea of the painting through the video is so beautiful, love it. Conservation is like art in many ways.
Yay- a project I knew was needed in the US, and also one I hadn’t heard of!
Forest projects are focused on more, with state and national parks often including forested areas. And the parks are often broken up by roads and parts are sold to be developed into suburban areas, both commercial and residential. I live in one of those areas, with portions of a state park being a several minutes apart (by car).
It means I grew up with amazing wildlife in my backyard, literally, but also the increased roadkill. Whitetail deer, red foxes, skunks, groundhogs, gray squirrels, rabbits, Eastern box turtles, black rat snakes, and garter snakes have all been in my mom’s backyard. A red tail hawk was often seen at the top of a tree from our kitchen window. Cardinals, goldfinches, chickadees, juncos, sparrows, wrens, downy woodpeckers, blue jays, bluebirds, robins, and hummingbirds all visited or nested in our yard at some point. Crows and various types of blackbirds (including red-winged blackbird) came and went, Canadian geese migrated overhead. Evenings brought fireflies and bats.
I'm not entirely sure it was necessary. I live in Wyoming, and there's nothing but millions of acres of uninterrupted grasslands. We have wild horses, bison, etc. I'm just worried they're buying up ranches from people who are struggling financially, or even pressuring them to sell. Also, we eat the cattle from local ranches. If one were to go missing, it's mean a lot of food gone.
@@spracketskooch The organization they’re working with has been doing this for 20 years, so it doesn’t sound like it’s happening overnight or putting additional strain on those in the area. Mossy Earth is very careful to work with those who have a positive relationship with locals.
Cattle farming has changed a lot since the 1800s, when the Great Plains got broken up into cattle ranches and cattle drives went from the northern states down to the southern states. My understanding was that overall, demand for beef was going down over the last several decades, leading to a decrease in cattle farming, but I’m not in one of the Plains states, so my info might be over-generalized or from a biased source. I remember the concern about American bison going extinct and an increase in bison farming to remedy that. We even have a bison farm in little o’Delaware.
The roadkill here in the Eastern US is a problem. Something needs to be done about that too.
@@it3ly800 True. A connected issue is deer overpopulation, so hunting is regulated to decrease the population. But there isn’t an easy way to ensure animals safe passage with every suburban road, so it falls on drivers to pay attention, although animal crossing and speed limit signs can help. I wish driver’s education courses included learning some typical animal behavior, such as high activity times, both seasonal and when in a day. I’m sure statistics about roadkill could help inform drivers of what to look out for.
@@kellybraun7048 True
These kind of people are the real life superheroes.
I love you, PW!
YES! It is our world! And we love to see it flourish! 👏🥳❤️ I love the possibility to also join planet wild as a team, I will definitely mention it in a team meeting!
4:54 I think Bob would appreciate this cameo.
Happy to be a backer of this project and all future projects!!
Wow. I learned a lot. Great mission❤
Your doing so much for us thanks
Thank You For Doing This! You Guys Are Making The World A Better Place For All Creatures!
This is exciting news! I did get to see American bison in Oklahoma in April of this year. They are simply massive beasts. Thank you for all you are doing to preserve the American wilderness!
This is the best thing I've seen in years. Fight on!
I think this is fantastic. I would love a place to go to see them actually in the wild.
Very good work!
We love planet wild we shall help planet wild
Man I wish I could like this twice. Such an incredible and motivating objective.
This organization is doing wonderful work. I drove through Nebraska and S Dakota this summer and I was stunned at awesome vast and awesome the grassland was.
YES! This is fantastic!
Tears of Joy, MA in Global Sustainability here. I have been saying for a long time, returning the buffalo to the grasslands could be a large part of capturing carbon. Crying tears of joy to see this project happening! We could return that land to the rightful owners, bet we would see these large herds again, they could sell us meat and hides. In a couple generations it would solve previously unsolvable problems.
What are the previously unsolvable problems? And how do we determine Rightful Owners? What would you need a buffalo hide for? Do you live in a mud hut and burn bison shit to stay warm in the winters? The natives that lived on the plains used dried bison shit to warm their teepees and cook some of their food. Do you know that if we returned "that land" to previous owners that 99.9% of US inhabitants would need to be removed? Doesn't seem to make sense. Maybe you could donate your house, your parent's house or any small plot your family may have to a Native American? I think you may start a trend with your peers. Or do you want me to donate my plot of land here in Montana so you can keep yours? I'm trying to determine if there is a difference between the land where I live and the land where you live? I believe that at some point in history both were untouched lands and it is very confusing to me to try and figure out why my 2 acres should be given back but someone owning a house outside New York will not face the same pressure? Also, my family ranched in Montana from 1910 until 2010, and we sold you meat and hides. Just not directly.
Okay, no denying that farmers are facing man-made crises, I don't want to overlook the needs of that community.
But, they could adopt similar practices lease the land for the herds. They could also farm energy. There are solutions. As you bring up, every part of the bison is valuable. The tribes own and control the herds, potentially partnering with farmers. Guarantee they'd get a better deal than they are currently getting with these large corporations buying all the land and controlling the market. I believe every piece of federal land should be returned to existing tribes, they determine how and future use. We pay taxes on the land we inhabit to the tribes and give them 51% control over governing the US. Yes I lose power in this scenario, you might too, but we shouldn't be here, we shouldn't own anything. It wasn't ours to settle or own, or divide.
Who are the rightful owners? I say the rightful owners is anyone prepared to utilize the land in ways that promote biodiversity and economic productivity together. I would love to see vast swaths of untamed wild prairie with the full complement of wildlife, Indian tribes restoring their languages and cultures and becoming stewards of the land, and old ramching families getting their family ranches back having lost so much of it to corporate interests and also being good stewards.
Whose “we” that shouldn’t be here or own anything? Are you a communist? Or are you a WEF globalist who thinks we should own nothing and be “happy”? There is e ough space out there for the Indian tribes and white cattle ranching families and in addition I also want to see large swaths of land owned by neither but reserved for wildlife because the notion that Indians always took care of the earth and lived in total harmony with it is bunk.
@@BigJFindAWay If you have to ask who the rightful owners are, it seems an impossible conversation. The people who the land was stolen from, criminally fraudulently through a network of lies and paper trails. With dead family members paving the roads they walked to the perceived useless corners of the land they owned, shuffled against their will for decades if not hundreds of years while their culture, history, political systems and lives were erased. And they are still here. Ability does not equate to rightful in this instance. That erasure destroying the ecosystem and potentially being one of the largest increases of CO2 emissions released because it broke one of the largest natural carbon sponges on the globe. So as we killed their people, we killed ourselves.
It is so touching to see so many people intrested in restoring nature and our place in it. Lovely project, keep up!
I live in south central Oklahoma and our wildlife is pretty stunning! All day I look at deer, turkeys, bobcats, coyote, vultures, roadrunners, opossums, raccoons, red birds, blue birds, white birds. Wow! Lotta stuff out there.
I wish i could go back in Time and change everything 😢
Nice desire, but I personally think, the only way is to step forward and try to reverse the mistakes of the past by that.
60000000 to 325, that’s just … I don’t know how to put it into words, like how? Why ! The barbaric hunting and extermination is a crime against earth. Those photos are haunting.
It's crazy cuz they were hunted so viciously not only for their pelts and meat but also to starve native Americans tribes that relied on them.
I grew up in Kansas, right in the middle. So I've seen my fair share of these animals, but knowing they're getting their habitat back to themselves is heartwarming ♥ I hate our history, but we can be better.
Our history is feeding a lot of people.
I feel so stupid crying but it's so beautiful everything you are doing. It makes my heart so full!
I greatly support this initiative
YES PLEASE!!! I AM SO SO TIRED OF FEEDLOTS. PLEASE!!!! BRING BACK THE LIFE!!!!!!!!!
I live where this is happening. There are zero feedlots on any of the lands being purchased. That was one of many lies told in this video. There actually are no feedlots existing on any lands that they want to buy. Its a BS story to get you to support them
10:53 I would love to join the restoration efforts as I live in the panhandle of Oklahoma and I’ve tried to reach out over 200 times to local ordinances we have a very unsuccessful bison situation where we have bison on the outskirts of town but there’s a shooting range in there and they’re having to feed them because the hydrology is not properly set up and the habitat is not created to support them necessarily and over the years we’ve lost about half of the population. Nobody knows that locally but I do and I’ve kept up with it and tried to reach out to make an impact we’ve made an impact at plenty of other locations locally so we have proof that we understand the concepts of nature and understand how to restore natural ecosystems. But the biggest concern is that the shooting range is there which I believe is why they ignore all request. It’s actually supposed to be an Oklahoma refuge area for wildlife and the shooting range is not supposed to be there. They got approval locally and just did it.
My home state Wyoming should be turned into a national park. The. Whole. Thing.
This channel is my safe space, it's so inspiring and I hope I can find ways to help locally with rewilding ❤
I live in Western Montana, a good distance away from where this project is. I’m glad they’re buying old ranches where rich out of staters would otherwise move in and inevitably gentrify the area. This is a very real threat, where they’re making some of our communities an exclusive stomping ground for the upper crust’s ultra-elite. We are an otherwise poor state that deeply respects our nature and public lands, so this a great opportunity to make the Treasure State the Treasure State!