Rebuilding an ecosystem in America’s grasslands | 60 Minutes

[@terryjames548]

Restoring American prairies is outstanding. Amazing.

[@havabrownkittycat7107]

I was raised on a wildlife research station in the prairie pothole country of North Dakota. My Dad was the managing biologist. My Dad’s spirit is soaring like a hawk. Remember fire as a range management tool. ❤

[@BubblewrapHighway]

Tony on CPBBD thinks it clears out ticks, too.

[@trailsnet]

It's great to see people and organizations that value the prairie/plains. It would be wonderful to see American Prairie team up with the Great Plains Trail Alliance. Both organizations have similar goals.

[@erikpeterson25]

Great idea ....and no, the government does not always have to be the entity getting large projects done . Best wishes. I have worked on a ranch with bison ....great to see this happening !!! 👍

[@soldiercreekbison]

Would be an awesome opportunity. Some of us out there are attempting to do something similar, just on a smaller scale

[@davestagner]

I’m thinking a lot these days about building corridors, connecting preserves of various sizes together to make a continuous system.

[@nomaderic]

@@davestagner when I was staying in the Portland area last year one of the things that really intrigued me was how many of the parks were set up. You would have a park, then you would have a trail all the way to the next park and so on. You could basically walk from park to park and never leave the trail. It made it so much more easy to navigate around. It's like a network or parks connected by trails. Something I didn't see in Texas

[@emmahilburn1732]

@@davestagner There's something called Homegrown National Park. If you look it up, you'll see that it's probably the closest you'll get to it. People across the country are growing native plants in their backyards and then registering their contributions on the map, sometimes falling pretty close to one another in the same county. Could be something as little as a potted plant or as large as a whole field or planted forest, no matter the effort. 10,000+ strong and counting. I know that I'm posting this comment a year later since when you wrote yours, but if someone sees this and wants to check out native plants and start using them, I hope this gets the ball rolling.

[@juniourdavid6307]

I will appreciate the good work of those person who is doing this job of protecting the land and animals, I thank you all shalom

[@tejbirsingh5661]

This is so important. Great work. The Nature Conservancy is doing the same thing, just not as large I think.

[@evergreen8965]

We modify national parks for human convenience and traffic… keep human footprint limited. Excellent. Love this philosophy.

[@jasonochoa5303]

Man I'm happy you guys are doing something about it . God bless .

[@jojopuppyfish]

Why were these outtakes? The visuals here are amazing. Donate to the America Prairie Reserve.

[@culbinator]

God I hope they pull it off. Such an incredible goal

[@destinydodge1318]

Wow this is so incredible. Please continue to follow their progress!!!

[@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942]

So this will basically be the playground of the few rich people that own it. Fantastic

[@tommosher8271]

More like a cash cow.

[@Fevebblefester]

I hope you are successful as often the best way to save something is to make it self sustaining. And hunters, campers, hikers etc., is probably a good way to do it.

[@markusmuller6173]

Fully restored ecosystem ? - Then give it back to natives !

[@peaceandlove5214]

Healing the earth I feel very happy when I see such reports.

[@MFJoneser]

I wept at this hopeful news. Thank you.

[@aarononeal9830]

60 minutes needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees

[@troymacdonald8257]

Awesome show. 💙💙💙

[@mandyinseattle]

We can do it!

[@BobK58]

I love this.

[@zeldasmith6154]

I live on the prairie. It's being savaged by couples and retirees who want to build mega mansions on their 140k income or retirement. It's sad that people insist everyone should produce children and grandchildren. I'll take a herd of bison any day over a 17 year old with a loaded gun.

[@thisguy73]

Freaking left wing liberals ruin the prairie!!

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

Great reasoning skills there pal... You're gonna be the most popular president one day!

[@BaBaYaga1999-p7u]

@@replynotificationsdisabled I’d vote for her!

[@jeanneblondewomanstamping9788]

Wonderful that they are doing this. 👏👏👏👏

[@WildPrimal23]

Awesome video. I will be using some information from this video in my next video! I'll make sure to give credit! Thanks for the upload!

[@Susan.I]

American Prairie, not loved to death. Rewildling the prairie!

[@Jessica-kk1cz]

This is very exciting-- can’t wait to see how it all turns out!!

[@misskiss6992]

thanks for all your videos. they are very useful and lovely.

[@rosswebster7877]

BTW if anyone drinks High West Prairie Bourbon, you helped fund this project.

[@tomgray3259]

Good stuff. However, it is a little curious that the senior wildlife biologists in the video quite rightly talks of restoration, natural processes, keystone species, it is their hope "to have the ecosystem functioning fully as it once did". One of them responds with "how long have you got", when asked what species they hopes to see back. And yet, they neglect to talk about horses or equids in general, they get no mention, inspite of them being keystone species, inspite of their lengthy history in N.A. There is rather disappointingly no mention of the prairies species composition in the late pleistocene. Reinstating them on the prairie could help catalyse the restoration of the ecosystem, especially when coupled with herds of bison. They complement eachothers grazing, it would diversify the dung piles - provisioning additional resources for dung beetle communities and ofcourse the carrion they would provide. Bears and mountain lions are known predators of equids as well, which would add natural processes, dynamics and help restore functionality that hasn't been seen since the iceage. I'd be really interested in hearing the American prairies thoughts on this

[@Wildman-lc3ur]

Well thing is,the ecosystem has changed since the pleistocene and the feral horses that were introduced to the American west are quite different than the ones that existed during the pleistocene. Reintroducing large predators has been a plan for American prairie reserve but it's quite difficult to do As thiers much more work and government approval to do so. At best they could hope that free roaming cougars and wolves could establish themselves into the reserve naturally.

[@tomgray3259]

@@Wildman-lc3ur I don't see how the ecosystem has changed ? Other than the fact productivity has fallen due to the extinction of certain species. Worth noting that many inhabitants of todays prairie were still there at the end of the pleistocene, that goes for plants as well as animals. Actually there is very little difference, feral horses and burros that roam the Americas are direct replacements for some of the extinct pleistocene equids and serve as perfectly good ecological replacements for them.

[@tommosher8271]

@@tomgray3259 The end goal is the mining and drilling they can do after they get everyone off of it.

[@anntrope491]

♡ ☆ ♡ The best of human intervention here...restoration !! Humans have no right to destroy the beautiful creation in the first place !! Put everything back where it belongs !! "THE EARTH IS MY MOTHER...& EVERYONE ELSE'S TOO !!" ♡☆♡

[@kena3234]

Awesome

[@samshepperrd]

Find a TED talk by Alan Savory. He proved this way of managing range land works.

[@ritamariekelley4077]

YES, YES, YES. That could help solve the water shortages in the West. Wish we could talk the right people into it.

[@marydonohoe8200]

All I can say is, wonderful!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💥

[@kennethwilson8633]

Excellent

[@nonyabizness.original]

key takeaway: this venture is a PRIVATE 'park' the size of connecticut.

[@briscoedarling3237]

“There’s only one thing standing between us and imposing our will on the rest of that land…..the rightful owners….”

[@phishfearme2]

we did it to the Indians!

[@aspitofmud6257]

Very cool idea.

[@TheSLOShadow]

Too late the ecosystem is in collapse, the point of no return is long passed.

[@juliejenkins2376]

This is amazing. Though having it privately owned, even by a non-profit, makes me a little nervous. I was just thinking, I probably should ask ARE there any people indigenous to this area still alive? If there are local tribes still living and active, are they involved in this whole process? If not why or why not? I also wonder, should the local indigenous even be involved? If so why and if not, why not?

[@tommosher8271]

You should be nervous esp when you consider there is no oversight and nothing holding these ppl to their promises. Once they acquire all the land they can do what ever they want and keep everyone off it in the name of conservation. Including selling all the oil and minerals to the highest bidder. This makes this a separate entity in Montana and Montana loses all the gains from the land that belong to the state and the ppl of Montana. And they aren't going to stop there.

[@jamesmarchetti3286]

Wow!!!! On KZbin 60 Minutes is only a 3 minutes Show Now !!!!!!!

[@user-yu9ib4qz4c]

I'd be very interested in finding out more about this if anybody knows how to do that I would gladly welcome any information, as I would like to be a part of this if I could........

[@AnA2Cs24]

Look into how ranchers are killing off wild horses and burros, wolves, and big cats to free up public lands for private livestock benefiting Big Cattle.

[@uninterruptedrhythm4104]

Need to uproot more ranches with all the fences that dot the land

[@thatssomething1]

Wants me a bison 🍔 right now 🤤😉

[@casienwhey]

It's a lofty goal, but why not dream big if you are going to dream at all.

[@johngallagher912]

She mentioned hunters paying to hunt. Isn't this the time to allow the herds to multiply rather than killing some for sport? No matter how much money the hunters bring in, this is a poor policy.

[@sw9361]

Last time I was there one hunt was raffled off. I don't think it is much more than that now

[@r6343]

One of the staff mentioned restoring the reserve as much as possible to the conditions that existed in the past. Those conditions included the various predators that preyed upon the bison: wolves, grizzlies, cougars and of course the native Americans. Viewed from that perspective, allowing limited hunting for pay is a reasonable decision. I assume there are specific restrictions on what can be harvested by hunters, to prevent any negative impact on the age and gender demographics of the herd. And because the reserve cannot operate and be maintained on a zero budget, the extra revenue would contribute to sustaining and expanding the reserve.

[@Alexander-rq9he]

Hunting is a bad policy because hunters choose the biggest and healthiest looking animals as trophies whereas natural predators pick off the weak and sick - which keeps disease out of the herd populations. Hunting allows the sickly to dominate and disease to spread. Having said that, the reserve is large but of course can only sustain so many so their numbers must be managed.

[@g8672]

Why can't US build state of the art public transport? It will reduce huge highways and give lot of greenspaces in cities right? And Btw, I like the ambience

[@markusmuller6173]

Fully restored ecosystem ? - Then give it back to natives !

[@ritamariekelley4077]

ABSOLUTELY!

[@markusmuller6173]

@@ritamariekelley4077 Have seen your "ACTIVISM" playlist ... perhaps you're intersted in my "changes for improvements" ;)

[@CyberThug1080i]

He's / there trying to repair with his ancestors did. it's going to be a hard job.

[@Greggee100]

they could restore the Serengeti 🤔🧐🤨

[@BabyBoomersDoomer]

Dust bowl 2023🎉

[@thevet2009]

Just like the Land Bank on San Jaun islands...which the environmentalist established Real Estate Land Bank Tax that effects all real-estate sells/purchases within that county. If you buy a house or property, by law you have to write a check out for a few thousand $ to the land bank. This is the way they gain funds so they can buy more land. I suspect these people are following the same playbook... giving time this may happen here too.

[@missteeny1638]

Humans in a nutshell: 1. Destroy ecosystem 2. Realize we shouldn’t have done that and spend a vast amount of resources to try and fix it back 3. Call ourselves heroes for saving it

[@CJ-BZ]

better to fix your forbearer’s mistakes than to further them, don’t you think?

[@tommosher8271]

@@CJ-BZ That's not the end goal. They are going to mine it.

[@johncarlo2630]

This has a warm fuzzy about it, but there are sinister motives behind the scenes. A fellow YT’er tried to interview APR and they threw him out of their office in Lewiston. This is a land grab

[@mandyinseattle]

I can't wait to see this. There are so many wonderful possibilities if we keep Biden and the Democrats in charge!! Vote 💙

[@bryanbaker5730]

Stay in Seattle please. People from these places are not 100% on board with these ideas. Also Biden has done such a great job right!😂

[@AnA2Cs24]

Both Trump and Biden supported killing off wild horses and burros to benefit special interest groups like Big Cattle.

[@borderterrierpoppyadventures]

Awesome! Long overdue. The only President that I can recall who actually did something for the grasslands, and made it a part of the conversation was President Clinton. Has any other President done anything?

[@billyyank5807]

Good luck restoring wolves and grizzlies.

[@tinoyb9294]

If it's not already too late, better get rid of about 6 billion people.

[@Love-xm4sr]

🗽. ⚖. 🌱. #OnlyAccountability.

[@MegaSnail1]

Appealing to hunters and those concerned about climate change I believe will further cause. Ranchers however need to be involved with determining how this could effect their livelihood. May the force be with you.

[@thatpilatesguy]

Did she just say hunters stay on the land? hmmmm then, what's the point of a protected nature reserve.

[@phishfearme2]

until natural bison predators show up, hunting is the only thing that makes sense for population control

[@voicai7910]

I guess maybe hunters to manage overpopulation of a certain species that could happen in a habitat? Like hunting wolves if there are too many and they start eating all the rabbits.

[@SuperStro509]

its not the hunters you should worry about. its the ranchers that want shut efforts like this down

[@nonyabizness.original]

{paraphrase}: "why not work with the federal government to get it designated a national park grassland belonging to all americans?" "good question... we private owners prefer to buy it up ourselves, run it the way we see fit, and of course reap the profits off it."

[@gabbydasliva]

give! all! the! land! back! to! Native! people!

[@ritamariekelley4077]

YES!

[@tommyhelms5097]

Mo

[@farmerfrench8054]

No way. Not at all. A for profit “non” profit? I live where this is happening and am a farmer. Big no to these guys. I love animals and conservation. But this is a sham.

[@ritamariekelley4077]

As many of us suspect it is.

[@SuperStro509]

how is it “for profit” they limit how many people can come in tour/hunt else itd be as stuffed as Yellowtone. you must be a rancher lol

[@suzandouglass5241]

If you're not working with the Natives, who lived with this land for millennia, you are wasting your time or just building a game farm. #LandBack

[@SuperStro509]

they actually work very closely with native American tribes close by. they also give/receive bison from many neighboring tribes. you should look them up

[@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942]

Giving special privileges to people based on their race is foolish for many reasons

[@susanfrary7424]

Let's not forget the Rancher Stewardship Alliance. All Montanans are not in favor of this land being removed from the tax base.

[@SteveSmith-kd9if]

🌏🐉👈🔫💯!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@d.1169]

And they're all edible, but unfortunately not atmospheric friendly, the methane released would give cow a run for its money.

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

Atmospheric friendly? LULZ

[@eujcissna]

Was this aired today 🤔 no the bs about the jab,the government, pharmaceutical companies knowing what might happen what was in it MR GATES DR. FAUCI NOTHING UNSUBSCRIPED

[@mohamedel3rby253]

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[@lvgl49goo]

Sorry, a good video, but can not do it. To many farts from bison, climate change.

[@inthetrenches7315]

Christ the govt has put away enough land bison run off cattle

[@fourlokojr3463]

failed society

[@voicai7910]

No?

[@sandrarichardson4639]

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