Really enjoyed watching this!

I agree that "free market" would do that but the poor would suffer on a larger scale then a person who has the money to (like it or not) deal with the increase and businesses will just pass most of that cost on to customers in whatever product or service, while the technology develops. How can there be incentives and protections and get the wealthy to pay the cost as well...

What an excellent clear picture of what we need to do to bring balance back to our forests! If you spend anytime at all up in our PNW mountains it’s very clear we let this get way out of hand. Thanks to all the hard working folks out there keeping our forests beautiful and in balance!

If you want water to any country build a forest first😂😂😂😂😂

There's a bit of amnesia when we talk about public lands management and fire suppression. Yes, the Smoky Bear message is outdated, but know that land managers in multiple federal agencies have been asking for fuels management and prescribed burning funds since AT LEAST the 1990s. These budgets are poorly funded, and are mostly heading downward, even now while visitation has absolutely exploded since the pandemic. I'm familiar with the USFS and NPS. Congress sets them up to fail, and they're often doing amazing stuff with pennies. These agency budgets represent a miniscule portion of the federal budget; they're not being starved because they're too expensive.

This was a surprisingly balanced piece, a good overview. But it neglected a couple of important topics: not all wildfires are good candidates for a prescribed burn. With today's large wind-driven fires, heavy fuel loads, and small cities/towns scattered among the forests, that's a recipe for disaster. Controlled prescribed burns are definitely beneficial to the environment, but as we know it would take too long to burn all the backlog of fuel buildup.

Excellent video. I have one comment that may be worth exploring regarding the Bozeman watershed treatment. Is it worth mentioning that overstocked forest inventories have a negative effect on water resources due to daily water uptake by the trees themselves? Water quality can be improved by management of the forest through fire. I've heard that some trees have a daily water uptake of up to 80 gallons/day. If that value is false, I'm sure there is some quantity of water, maybe not 80 gallons/tree/day, is water that could help sustain the watershed. Any thoughts on this?

For anyone watching this video who cares about public lands and natural resources in the United States - the organization who put out this documentary holds some questionable positions on privatization of land and letting the “market” work out all of our environmental problems. I encourage you to read a little bit about their positions (including those on the endangered species act and other conservation legislation/regulations), as well as who funds them. Stay informed, folks 👍

Great video! Thank yall 🎄

Excellent documentary! I'm not a stakeholder except in that our forest health affects my health. I believe that here in Oregon, woodland management techniques are well implemented on private lands, which account for 34% of total forest land in the state. Now we desperately need to help the US Forest Service execute on their plan for restoring forest health. What can I do as an average citizen to encourage this effort?

Love love love what you're doing. I was thrilled to see a link to the PERC website from one of our Oregon state senators as an example of innovative ideas for environmental stewardship.

Are there little one and two year olds around yerping? Or is that something he's doing to attract the gator?

How about limit the amount of hunting on areas of public land so that wildlife aren't forced to hide on private land to survive. Seems pretty easy.

I'm glad you at least acknlowledged elk with brucellosis. However, it's a joke.

i say hunt them to reduce their numbers, it is a no brainer, and should have been implemented decades ago

The value of living habitat, it cost much more! Thanks to people, who are with devotion involved to all these projects. No matter where in a world....

I call bullsh*t! For every wild horse on those ranges, there are 96 PRIVATELY OWNED cows. Leave the horses alone, and they won't cost the poor, hard-working taxpayer a cent.

Great video -- gorgeous scenery, thought-provoking ideas.

Also I’d encourage recruiting volunteers to help with projects. I asked a DNR officer at my local location if I could help with volunteer recruitment and she said “we don’t really do to much of that, because it infringes on our job security.” And she was serious and would not give my any information for volunteering projects. I feel many projects in parks can be done by volunteers and facilitated by DNR officers/staff.

I hope that some of our millionaires and billionaires will donate some of their millions to addressing specific problems at their favorite parks. They could truly make a significant impact. Wouldn't that be an incredible legacy?!

I would gladly pay a lot more to visit our National Parks . The federal government doesn’t have the money so the people that go should be ones to pay for it .

Privately funded term easements. Thought of those?

Take the cattle off the lands that congress told you to use for the wild horses , but no you don't do that because its a money thing for you. that land was set aside for the horses by congress and you your choice is to lease it for cattle sheep and other useage.You have states where there used to be horses that now have very small herds and you can see its your plan to keep moving them till they are gone. How many of these horses have gone to slaughter and i know yeah you dont do that but you know better!!! they go ther go to ANY auction and you see them, they haul them from auction to auction till they get a load to head south

I recently discovered your channel and all i can say is that this is just cool :]

Beautiful

The BLM should try another incentive, by buying some land already zoned for homes and horses then developing an affordable community where you could live and gentle your own a Mustang. A tiny home suburb or even apartment complex with accommodations for the owners or renters to keep a horse and maybe even a program to educate people on gentling their animal (like the one the have in prison), I am sure there are a lot of people who don’t have the money or land to own a horse, but would even put the $1000 back into the project AND PAY the BLM an affordable rent and board to be able to partner with one of these magnificent animals.

Great video and introduction to a market-oriented solution to an important issue in the West.

There is no wild horse crisis. They're not destroying western rangelands, they're robbing the public-lands ranchers of their birthright. You could empty all of the off-range corrals and long-term pastures fifteen times over by getting rid of the cattle and sheep. Adoptions are up not because people love wild horses but because they like free money. When the reward goes away so will the behavior. How many of those adopters are giving these animals 'forever homes?' You want a market solution? Put labels on range-fed beef indicating that it was produced on public lands--at the expense of America's wild horses. Let consumers pick the winners and losers.

Deliberate misdirections extinguish the credibility of this video Statistics presented towards the end of this video read: “In Zimbabwe elephant numbers doubled between 1980 and 2019. In South Africa, the number of white rhinos rose from 1,000 to nearly 19,000 between 1960 and 2019. In Namibia, elephant numbers nearly tripled between 1995 and 2018. Zambezi Delta Safaris in Mozambique shows the successes of using hunting to enhance wildlife recovery.” I’m not disputing the stats (there were big increases), or the assertion about ZDS. I am objecting to the intent that uninformed viewers will infer causality from the association and sequence of these statements, that is, they will infer that hunting was responsible for the population increases of elephants and rhinos in those countries. By extension, they are led to believe that South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe are suitable models for Mozambique, and what’s true of elephants and rhinos in those countries applies to other large mammals in the movie. All of these inferences are untrue, some to the point of absurdity.The observed increases in those countries were mostly due to successful (read: at times sufficiently competent and lawful) national and international wildlife management policies and programs, which allowed wildlife to thrive on both public and private lands. Sport hunting was and still is a part of those programs, but can’t be credited with more than a fraction of the overall increase in elephants over that period, and zero for rhinos. The magnitude and duplicity of these deliberate deceptions extinguish the credibility of this video.

This is an awesome video!

Incentives always matter.

This is ridiculous. I've used reusable bags for years and have never been sick from them, never heard of anyone been sick from them either. All you need to do is wash your reusable bags every now and then. Saving marine and bird life is only one small benefit from banning plastic bags. The waste that plastic bags produce is disgusting, filthy and very unpleasing to recreate in. The sheer waste from plastic bags is a much bigger environmental, economic and social cost than harm caused to wildlife. Many ecosystems are harmed from the one-use plastic bags too.

Good Job Wally

When did libertarians start featuring serious science denial complete with total scumbags like this "Wally" guy? Hey, don't worry, all those people telling you there are serious problems with bees in the US just have not looked at the facts, the market will compensate and beekeepers will breed more bees. Total POS.

Collapsible CRESBI Crates are so much easier to keep clean and to see if they need to be clean! They are a truly green product that makes it easy to stack and carry your groceries.

The truth is that big name stores don't want to pay for the cost of bags and instead put it on the consumer. They use green guilt to try to convince consumers that what is being done is right. So green guilt is put on the consumer for all the wrong reasons.

This is embarrasing the sheep are not the problem you need more sheep or you will have more desserts. Getting rid of the sheep will make teh situation much worse.

Join Alfred Runte and Holly Fretwell for a conversation on national parks. Do you visit national parks for the monumental value or for their ecological value? Can they be the same and how can we manage to keep our parks operating well into the 21st century? Share your thoughts.

Since when did Economics and Ecologists get along XD

yeah but when you think about it. People are stupid for not washing their bags. It should be common sense. You know you have to wash your hands after the chicken you bought leaks on your hands.... so you have to do the same with the bags...

This guy is stupid.... wash the damn bags and you won't die... both you and the environment will gain something.

My husband is a beekeeper & member of our local beekeepers assoc. We lost 50% of our bees last year. Some lost 100%. You say beekeepers are taking care of the problem. Building, maintaining hives is hard work & expensive. Ask a beekeeper. Although Monsanto & the chem companies are spending millions to buy influence here & in the world, their chemicals & GMOs are being banned. WHY? Because the industry poisons our crops & people for profit

You are very welcome. Keep up the good work!

Really? You can't see why this is bad for landowners? How about requiring them to get a lawyer and go through public review every time they need to do work on the ditch? It's not the fishermen or even the duck hunters that is the problem, it's the government moving in and regulating something that was thriving without government control. Now we use taxpayer money to manage it and the fishery deteriourates. Who wins in this scenariou besides the politicians who set out to wage class warfare?

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