Through the Breaks

Join custom wooden boat builder Jason Cajune and his family on a float trip down the Missouri River, through the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument to American Prairie.
Produced in collaboration with Stio and filmed by Legacy Collective Films.

[@annemiller6872]

Thank you for this lovely moment of contemplation and beauty and hope... and of our deep history. Also American Prairie Preserve is so much needed to save our biodiverse ecosystem!

[@tcranewxyz]

From someone who has travel the Breaks many times, it is wonderful that it gets the public recognition it deserves. Nicely done and thank you.

[@NatureScapes]

Really Beautiful Video my friend 👌 Keep posting good content 👍 Have a great day 👍

[@mattvaandering]

I've been dreaming of visiting this place for over a decade...

[@erichshuler3167]

This is fantastic. Great video, and a magical place.

[@ARTY_CARPER]

This is awesome, to preserve this vast beautiful land, fantastic Arial photography film 🔥📸💚🙂

[@srqlisa7881]

Beautiful country, it was sad to 'not' see any animals I'm sure the land would benefit from them. : ) peace

[@WhiteBuffalo032]

THANK YOU!!!

[@mrstacyj9496]

cool

[@pvb9964]

The Blackfoot Tribe...not "Blackfeet"

[@sophiehewey]

There are both Blackfoot and Blackfeet Tribes

[@ramonbenitez306]

This is an amazing place but there is still a few things missing, the megafauna that once roamed there, why not reintroduce things such as elephants, lions, horses and camels, all animals that roamed north America thousands of years ago, it’s an incomplete ecosystem, the pronghorn can run 60 mph and it has no predators fast enough to catch them, cheetahs once roamed the vast opened grasslands as well

[@Beauuaeb]

Very interesting thought. However the animals that once roamed the plains are not the animals that live today. Releasing these animals who are maladapted to the Northern Great Plains would most likely die of starvation and exposure. Just 200 years ago the Great Plains was 10x larger than the Serengeti, and the wolves, bears and cougars have adapted and survived the changes over thousands of years. Introducing exotic species would not reflect the appropriate adaptations that the North American fauna have shown. If you make an ecosystem better for one animal you ultimately make it worse for another.

[@peterpeirce1069]

@@Beauuaeb If APR had dropped 100,000 bison into the reserve on day 1, there would have been massive ecological consequences. Instead, they're gradually introducing them. The same strategy would be necessary for other fauna that are capable of filling ecological niches that have long been vacant. Introducing a single family of Asian elephants and closely studying their behavior and integration into the larger ecosystem would absolutely be a necessary first step before introducing them in any significant numbers. The same goes for predators like lions and cheetah. (And, of course, there's the legal question. I know APR isn't legally allowed to introduce predators onto the reserve. I'm not sure if they would be allowed to introduce foreign megafauna without working with the State and National governments)

[@Beauuaeb]

@@peterpeirce1069 Asian elephants wouldn't survive the harsh winters of Montana. There are days and even weeks with -40ºF/C. African and Asian cheetahs are not adapted to the multiple feet of snow that pile up on the prairies. Besides, releasing other predators or even herbivores will displace an already perfectly adapted native animal. The paradox of protecting the environment is that when you start protecting one thing you automatically take away from something else.

[@jamesott2132]

Michael punke explains how the APR is making things right where history went wrong in his book Last Stand.