Yellowstone Bison Revival | CBS Reports

[@victory5784]

We are still here 🙌🏽

[@KLAMATH32]

And we will ALWAYS be here. We aren't going anywhere!!

[@cunderw12]

I love this story. We can learn so much just from this story alone.

[@silvertortoise3776]

Nothing is more American then Yellowstone.

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

And the private ranchers who will actively lobby against conservation efforts.

[@चाैतारीटिभी]

It feels great to see these people who were made almost at the brinks of disappearance are coming together as who they are, reviving and celebrating their great culture and be happy. Stay Srong !🙏

[@clovergirl3275]

Excellent Revival of Native American Buffalo ! Beautiful!! Thank you . 🕊 &❤

[@Lostinmyhead23]

All i hear from the opposition is they don’t want to lose out on money. Meanwhile the beef that they sell consumers is low grade and there’s always an outbreak of something. There’s room enough to share they are just greedy

[@Cptmorgon]

I think a more concerning topic is what kind of damage to the environment would occur if bison are allowed to reach their historic heard sizes without any real predator factors. We'd have to get predator populations up to the same levels they were pre 1800's or expect massive reduction in viable riparian habitat that bison visit to eat and drink. Plant diversity would also tank and I'm certain any native grasses would disappear due to aggressive growing exotic type grasses being better suited at life in general.

[@victory5784]

And we are going to this fake clone meat

[@jesz97]

​@@CptmorgonThat's a valid point but is equally if not more true for cattle. They cause massive erosion and pollution along riverbanks and lakebeds

[@samuelsilver8077]

I think most of that issue could be solved if people who support projects that take farming/ranching land away would pay for living of those whose land was taken away. Imagine every envormentalist getting extra tax to cover farmers living after their land were taken away. That tax would be split between every enviromentalist so it wouldnt be much but I think most enviromentalist wouldnt be fine to pay that.

[@jlennon80231ify]

@@Cptmorgonthis is proof you don’t know anything about the environment or the buffalo, I suggest you watch the PBS documentary about them by Ken Burns. The American bison played a major role in creating the lush rich environment that was the Great Plains before westward expansion. Destruction of the massive heards, as well as the introduction of farming and cattle raising is what led directly to the catastrophic dust storm occurrences of Great Depression and WWII. Everyone acts as though the cattle have not also played a major part in the destruction of our great nation particularly because cattle are a European animal brought to this country and were not native to it as the bison

[@EvangelineAndrews]

Good morning I will be in Yellowstone soon . Holy God what a beautiful place I would like to know .

[@RobertBeerbohm]

There is hope once again for America's soul.

[@carywest9256]

The reason you don't see Texas involved in this program, rancher Charles Goodnight saved about 200-300 head of the Southern herd. After the Comanche were subdued and surrendered at Ft.Sill in Southwest Oklahoma. I don't know the numbers of the Texas herd, but it's healthy and thriving. Sidenote:ln 1860 Goodnight was a minutemen Texas Ranger and was in on ambush of a band of Comanche,when Cynthia Ann Parker happened to be "rescued" after 24 years of being a captive. Her son Quanah became the the last chief of free roaming Comanches. Greetings from Texas, coming from a fifth generation Texican. Adios amigos!

[@WindsofChange]

I do hope they are exchanging genetics though to keep the herds as diverse and strong as they can be.

[@jamesparker1071]

Quanah Parker never surrendered. 🗽

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

But now Big Beef is actively lobbying against bison conservation efforts because they see the resurgence as a threat to their bottom dollar. As long as something is a threat to capitalism they will throw billions of dollars to sabatoge active efforts.

[@Totajee79]

such a sad yet beautiful story. so sad that these beautiful species were almost exterminated, to now being slowly reintroduced. it shows the resilience of both the natives and the buffalo. thank you for sharing.

[@JUVI9596]

Yeah we were here last year. Bison were all over the place I noticed. The other times we went before this there were hardly any.

[@alansach8437]

Yellowstone is a huge place. 2.2 million acres. There could be a herd of 500 bison (or elk, or something else) just over a hill as you drive by and you would never know it! Just because you don't see them from the road on a given trip is meaningless!

[@CaliCardenas-g4z]

Thank you for this reporting. Have a blessed day, everyone.. We are still here .

[@bannedone3ice138]

3:24 love and respect 🫡 to you sir, for this amazing conservation work. These American Wild Buffalo make America great again. Not in the political sense, but nature !

[@karenrose2260]

Wonderful info. So good to see bison return to tribes!💖💖

[@Dreamville12-pb5sg]

Very wholesome I love this story!

[@krismodrow3993]

I love this story! ❤

[@bannedone3ice138]

Wow !!! America is beautiful. The landscape, the wildlife is unique. You guys are so lucky to be living there. But please don’t let dirty politics ruin everything. Don’t let other nations be destroyed, so that you don’t don’t get destroyed yourselves.

[@bugtesties]

Didn’t know I needed to see someone heard buffalo but that dude was hilarious 😂

[@pl1532]

Bison are better adapted to the environmental conditions than cattle, which is why some have advocated that ranchers should transition to bison. Ted Turner and his ranch is a prime example. Ultimately, ranchers would lose fewer animals to the elements or from predators and would be rewarded with a better return on investment in the long term. Yellowstone needs to re-examine the bison slaughter north of the park. This has turned into an embarrassing blood bath with hundreds of carcasses littering the area. Relocate these animals or at the very least, regulate to have the entire carcass removed from the area.

[@wakranich3488]

Carcasses are food for wild animals.. But you're right, they shouldn't be slaughtering them.

[@ginamilite1256]

No slaughter it is just a game ploy slowness down process by white us to stop down progress do not stop

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

As long as america runs on beef the money will always be prioritized over nature. These ranchers will lobby and harass and use their political connections to ensure bison never return and to ensure their business in cattle and real estate never disappear. Good luck fighting a multi billion dollar industry that literally calls the shots in america.

[@Socialistayecologista]

FANTÁSTICO QUE HAYAN VUELTO LOS BISONTES!GRACIAS A TODOS LOS QUE TRABAJAN PARA CONSEGUIRLO!

[@pat_in_va8605]

Thank you for this reporting. Have a blessed day, everyone.

[@sannehansen4156]

Beautiful story... But I get angry that a rancher thinks Bison are infecting his cattle when the bison have been tested and there is no evidence that even one cow has been infected and he thinks he has more right to be there. It hurts to think that you have to shoot healthy bison just because they go outside Yellowstone's borders

[@PabloHunE]

I'm new to this subject so you'll have to forgive me if I sound ignorant but I see there hasn't been a documented case as of yet, however, the potential is always there and that's risking millions of dollars in livestock to have them co graze/inhabit whatever you want to call it. Is that a chance you'd be willing to take if it were your money on the line? There's a first time for everything no? 😂

[@sannehansen4156]

@@PabloHunE they explain it in the video

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

As long as big beef sees these animals as a threat they will actively lobby against the conservation efforts of these animals. Its basically small science and activists vs yet another multi-billion government company. So realistically we will never see bison numbers exceed what they are today, at least in our lifetime.

[@USAIRFORCE621]

Any ranchers who would oppose the reintroduction of a keystone species, a species with such an iconic history in our country and that was vital both then and now to Native Americans should go straight to hell because buffalo can't be replaced, cattle can be, it isn't the buffalo's fault that it may carry disease but the government's fault for overhyping it all!!

[@okitsugu]

Agreed. 12:21 this rancher is very annoying "not on my property" nah dude its stolen property from the natives and bison

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

Try telling that to a multi billion dollar industry that controls the very laws you live under. Big beef is America, so its up to local law makers and federal ones that have interpersonal ties to these private ranchers and large beef corporations.

[@chrisbold56]

@@okitsuguExactly 100%

[@Charro76]

..carywest.. I much appreciate your Post. Every enlightening indeed. I'm from Ireland and do love to follow the Bison conservation and their history. Especially, their connection and culture ties to the Native American People.

[@lancedavidson615]

The Bison shouldn’t have been close to extinction in the first place, but I guess it’s nice to see people making efforts to clean up what our ancestors did🙁😕

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

The dirt will forever be in the genetics of these animals. No more purebreds means these animals are more feral than they are actually wild.

[@ginamilite1256]

I love love love love love love this success story

[@margaretnone3847]

Ranchers should only have as many cattle as the area can sustain after the buffalo are accounted for.

[@WindsofChange]

I agree

[@65stang98]

happy to see this. Would love to see them bring some wood bison back to west virginia. Theyve recently started bringing back the elk and are having success, kentucky killed it with their elk rehabilitation. They have thousands now.

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

With how many beef farmers are in virgina you will probably never see bison reintroduced in your lifetime. Farmers there will actively lobby against it because of miniscule threats to their profits.

[@65stang98]

@@GIRTHYANDITCURVES i mean there are already farmers that grow bison here in wv i dont see what theyd have against wild ones. Wv is full of hunters thatd love to see the bison come back. Nor do we have many cattle ranchers anyways.

[@suetaylor4018]

A VERY IMPORTANT and INTERESTING Video! Thank you!

[@taniagarciaduenas8460]

Holy God what a beautiful place I would like to know 🤲🤲😍

[@user-lq3dj3eo8k]

thank you

[@anniehills3580]

We have enuf cows. WE WANT BUFFALOES. THEY DESERVE TO THRIVE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM.

[@wendyscott8425]

If the ranchers practiced regenerative agriculture, they would only need a quarter of their land to grow the same number of cattle. There's room on this planet for all its species.

[@carywest9256]

You one of those vegans?

[@wendyscott8425]

@@carywest9256 Absolutely not. I eat a keto diet with lots of beef, all grass-fed.

[@sefarsogood]

Bison meat ---delectable steaks--- is only 5% saturated fat, and beef is 25-30%, which explains the robust health of Native Americans... hokahey.

[@chrisbold56]

Damn straight. We are finally coming home on that front.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Buffalo are cool.Easy to see why they meant so much to native Americans.

[@cunderw12]

Commercial value Cattle is more important. For the environment Bison is more important.

[@JackKinross]

Great piece of journalism, in a short time you covered many elements. Really interesting, worthy of a full documentary one day.

[@Victoriahull]

I love to see them bringing the bison back but I'm crying for the ones that went out of the park. That part where the blood running down with all those dead bison. We need to give land back to the tribes. It was so wrong for the settlers took almost all their land. Bill Gates owens the most property here in the US. Now they are trying to make it where there isn't many people in the US. We need to start protecting ourselves and all animals we use for food. 😢

[@taniagarciaduenas8460]

😭🥶🤲🤲🧑‍🌾 Good morning I will be in Yellowstone soon 🤩

[@SeagullAmIOne]

Reminds me of a Vice Video the way you created this, Awesome Reporting and awesome story. Save the Buffalo

[@SeagullAmIOne]

Can I apply as a Buffalo Solider? Dreadlock Rasta, Protecting the Buffalo in the Heart of America

[@sigmamale8155]

​@@SeagullAmIOneyour should contact the tribes to see if they approve your petition, One love..BM! Cheers from a Nicaragüense 🇳🇮👋🏼👍🏼

[@djangokill65]

Oh the irony. Buffalo making a comeback threatens the rancher's way of life 🤔

[@JakeAoTK]

I try to buy bison instead of beef to support the commercial aspects. We can have an effective monopoly on bison in the US, such a great opportunity economically. It doesn’t just have to be environmental and cultural.

[@ShaiLittlejohn]

Thank you for this informative and passionate report.

[@codelinx]

Great doc.... It's crazy how this stuff continues today for everyone who isn't a white male in the United States.

[@mortalclown3812]

💯 And I'm an old white chick who's seen/fought racism for 50+ years. The denial is real.

[@GIRTHYANDITCURVES]

Beef is already an industry that runs America and decides its labor and food laws. All these private ranchers and cattle corporations have ties at the local and federal government levels. Theres no hope of seeing a somewhat decent bison restoration in our lifetime thanks to beef lobbyists.

[@alexvasylivskyi3707]

This is a just like paradise land for gorgeous animals : thank you Yellowstone administration ! I also hope one day I will visit this miracle park ❤

[@JXZ-JAM]

The prophecies of Black Elk will be fulfilled.

[@shrimpymuscles8413]

That was very interesting. I studied the soil along the New Madrid and West KY. The red clay goes deep and there is layers of limestone. When you drive on the bluegrass parkway you can see how the road was cut thru a knob exposing layers of limestone. It looks brittle, cracks all thru it. I've seen small areas along the road where it shows small landslides. The clay is awful to put a garden in. It holds water and you have to be careful what you plant. Ty for your reports. ❤

[@taniagarciaduenas8460]

They are a single species and they go protests as beautiful as there are caballi 🎉❤

[@Deanna-z2s]

All Stores Please Lower the price of all Military and Local for all Brands of Bison Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now Thats too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏

[@gb-bp1me]

Great documentary. Thank you.

[@barbarawilliams1745]

I love the Native American people for their belief that they are one with nature and respect all that has been given to us. Namaste.

[@GeorgeTaylor-hb9jp]

There is no way they can be restored to their former numbers. Ther are enough now to hunt. They are a great resource for the economics of the tribes.

[@JBAlternate]

Greed is why the Bison were hunted to near extinction and greed is why there is an opposition to raising bison numbers today. Greed is why most of our natural habitat has been obliterated, and greed is why so much farmland gets sold to developers who build giant warehouses, factories, subdivisions, and apartments instead of converted to habitat.

[@davida3025]

Such an unimaginable story. The inhumanity toward native Americans / indigenous people, and these peaceful creatures is hard to accept. Greed is such a powerful force. Happy to see some level of correction of this historic tragedy.

[@hmzdu]

We live in today not in good old days.

[@lisaq31]

The government has lack of care to protect these animals ! I seen red wolf at my ranch in Milo, Oklahoma ! I ain't seen no wolf in Oklahoma since the spring of 1974 ! Goes to show how careless this government system is ! Im glad these buffalo are back in they homes & doin well!

[@ssALIENtt]

God saved the Bison American Buffalo!

[@tammydillard2439]

I think they are spiritual animals

[@morrisonreed1]

so why didn't our reporter just ask the rancher the obvious question ? harvest bison instead of cattle .

[@EricHenderson-c5j]

How can I personally help preserve the buffalo? Please advise

[@joinjen3854]

Don't eat bison burgers.9

[@maggie7843]

It’s ironic that the cattle industry is claiming increasing bison #s to 60k are impairing the ecosystem when the near extinction of millions of bison 100+ years ago did the very same.

[@ammo_mammal]

An American icon

[@bannedone3ice138]

8:12 😂😂😂 👏👏👏👏

[@GaryEllington-dy8li]

Some of my best friends have been native. Shoshone & Arapahoe From Riverton Wyoming. 😊

[@williamthawley9251]

there is a place for both cattle and bison, just get along with each other.

[@bannedone3ice138]

Such majestic beautiful beasts. How I wish I could taste some of that meat. These creatures were created for our sustenance. Not to hunt to extinction. But to manage their population so that your generations can live off of them. Beautiful animals ❤

[@Kaizergeld]

This argument of “conquest throughout history” is so consciously over-simplified. Yes; there were battles won and lost on the frontier and throughout westward expansion, but the land was not taken by militaristic force; it was taken by legislative manipulation and corrupt governmental action. Hands were shaken and contracts were signed both in agreement and under protest which does happen throughout history in very limited instances, but what does *not* happen throughout history with any measure of tolerance or longevity is when the contract holder or handshaker deviously and hypocritically practices, encourages, and popularizes policies that openly and manipulatively violate those contracts and agreements. I challenge anyone to think of even a single instance that has not resulted in the party responsible for the policies of corrupt behavior to be marked as tyrants, dictators, enemies of state, or guilty of crimes against humanity. Such an instance does not exist save for only two examples. English expansion on the Asian subcontinent (arguably identifiable under all five definitions, though never formally so) and President Jackson’s “Indian Removal Act” which contemporary society still argues was merely victory in conquest after the period of Manifest Destiny brought on such tumultuous conflict between the American states and the Native way of life. Three major wars and two pivotal economic transformations later, Truman refers to the reservations and the contracts which legalize them as “The Indian Problem”. The land was not taken by conquest. It was taken by corruption, lies, and greed. We are right to hold the grudge over it.

[@ardellewachter1649]

Okay!

[@bignelly9476]

Hopefully us Canadians can take a hint as we are slowly but surely starting to help the Caribou make a comeback

[@chrisbold56]

Focus, Canadian. This is about bison. I know it’s hard for you but try.

[@maryannkochanski5777]

I could cry for the Native Americans and cry for the genocide of a beautiful animal. Thank you for the restoration!

[@BuckOwens-eo6ie]

Oscar does it to folks with pitbulls, American gamefowl. Bison, the black footed ferrets,

[@air4334]

Restore the Buffalo !!

[@Richard-i3f4w]

The U.S. Gov. should be using eminent domain laws to buy out the cattle ranchers to repopulate the American bison.

[@jaysartori9032]

"CALL THEM BUFFALO"!!!!

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

I love❤ bison

[@mortalclown3812]

Earth needs triage. It's good to see any steps at all to preserve an ecosystem. The USDA is a horrific machine for animals. Once they break you open, it's hard to see. (The documentary 'Food, Inc.', changed a lot for me. Here's to humans getting together for Earth.

[@Chris-ut6eq]

Hope we can find a balance of land use between buffalo and commercial cattle. Also would like to better understand why buffalo could not be used as a commercial food source at prices competitive with beef. Is that even possible?

[@wakranich3488]

Ranchers think they own the U.S. but they don't.The bison & other animals have been on the land a lot longer than cows.

[@mrstacyj9496]

2024: restoration of our N. American prairie (related flora & fauna, large & small) is beneficial to everyone. Let's work together and do what we can.

[@BuckOwens-eo6ie]

Denying free ranging bison in Montana would be a mistake. You need to let.them allnroam. Bigger picture. View here. Nonfences. Also means no limit on your abilities then. Everyone eats. The one wanting top notch beef , wild bison, elk, rams, , . there cattle live with deer also. No difference. Mule deer. all wild coexsisting

[@rmentertainmentchannelforr8920]

The cattle guy needs to shut up. Let the Buffalo live.

[@mellissadalby1402]

Has it noy already been shown that the Bison are beneficial to the land and environment and the farmed cattle are not?

[@mortalclown3812]

Plus, the filth of industrial livestock farming is real... and inhumane.

[@mattstehr2665]

Not true! Check out the Savory Institute! Cattle can regenerate the land if managed properly. I’d love to see more bison, but cows can be part of the equation as well.

[@jesz97]

It depends on how they're managed, cattle can be beneficial. But I do believe that bison have certain adaptations such as their movement patterns, eating habits, and other factors make them optimal for ecosystem services.

[@francesacoy4730]

Yellowstone kills buffalo, these animals could be used to improve other herds instead of killing.

[@toppzillatv]

Damn they fast

[@kathyhathaway8823]

Have a question why can the Bison an cows not share the same space . Does it not work out ??.

[@americanminotaur2518]

In the video it says that the ranchers are worried that the bison will spread diseases to their cattle. There hasn’t been an instance of that happening yet, but the ranchers are reluctant to risk their livelihoods to help the bison.

[@chuckbaker7909]

Cattle ranchers have been causing issues for a hundred years or more....nothing has changed.

[@carterwgtx]

Buffalo Reatoration: We have a magnetic animal representing a spiritual link to the land which directly feed thousands of people, and have the power to create a massive tourist economy. Ranchers Opposing: ranching out here is so difficult it’s almost impossible to make economic - if the buffalo come back my already dubious and highly subsidized business might not be profitable!

[@MargaritaCanova]

I’m on the Buffalo side. They were here first.

[@everythingisfine9988]

I'd love to see a herd of stampeding buffalo. I don't think I'm alone. See a lot of tourist money being generated by just that

[@taniagarciaduenas8460]

😢Millions of bison were killed to sell their skins throughout Europe France England a land dominated by the Indian up to the aribo of Los Inghilses compraron all the ganato land 😮

[@alansach8437]

Anyone who has ever witnessed the Montana bison "hunt" on the border of Yellowstone would be disgusted. For tens of thousands of years bison have migrated to lower elevations in the winter to find forage. Today, when they do so, "hunters" sit in their pickup trucks just outside the park boundaries. As bison, who have learned all year long that they have nothing to fear from legends of tourists with nothing more threatening than cameras, are shot the instant they cross the imaginary line leaving the park. Occasionally, an injured animal will run back into the park, where the "hunter" cannot retrieve or dispatch it. It may suffer for days before dying. Just outside the park there will be dozens of carcasses and gut piles, flies buzzing around, hundreds of ravens and other scavengers, the air filled with the stench of death! It is not a hunt. It is a slaughter! As for brucellosis, what is not mentioned here is that the bison originally contracted the disease from cattle. Not the other way around. Nor is it mentioned that elk also carry the disease, but there has never been a call to restrict migrations of elk. Why? They are browsers, who eat primarily leaves, branches, bushes, shrubs. Bison eat grass, and the ranchers want the grass for their invasive cows. One possible solution would be ranchers in the area raise domestic bison, as Ted Turner does on his wildlife friendly ranch in the area. Bison are leaner and healthier than cows.

[@tomastaz]

Don’t tell the Duttons that Bison are coming back

[@anniehills3580]

We want our buffaloes same as this cow rancher want his cows. Cows are way less important compared to the majestic buffaloes!!!!!!

[@margaretnone3847]

Ranchers should only be able to have as many as the land can sustain after the buffalo are accounted for, buffalo were there first.

[@RandysMixtable]

A native American once said that when the American Buffalo migrated, before the mass killing, you'd feel the ground rumbling.

[@LordOfLight]

Sobering when you realise all that is just hours away by air from New York.

[@chrisbold56]

As a Lakota from there who lives in Manhattan, what is your point?

[@Ed-uz6em]

Buffalo is a healthier alternative than cattle

[@gypsylake5164]

I would love to see fee ranging buffalo back in their home ranges. There is always a struggle with the subsidized industrys and government investment in them comes into conflict when it involves conservation, restoration, land return to Indian people. There is a lack of honesty and a fair sense of justice, and a lack of humility. It is possible to undo do some of the historical wrongs, that opportunity exists it is wise than to do what it takes to make this day and the future much different from the past. There is a great need for dialogue, education and more dialogue till all sides can come to a reasonable rational agreement. I and others can only hope that adults can sit down together and have the ability to see one anothers point of view and work together to come up with a workable solution to a historical violence and extirpation of land, animals, and peoples that are not symbols of a long ago past but are an ever present significance in how history is to be dealt with as well as to the future and viability of life on this continent and at large the continuation of species on the planet. The problem is not confined to one small geographical area. The decisions being made may significantly impact policy and health and wellbeing and including restoring balance and regularity to atmospheric and seasonal norms and lessening the storns and erratic storms so prevelent today. It is a very large picture as everything is connected. It is definitely imperative these meetings take place then people can take the next necessary steps to ensure a viable environment does survive and thrives with the greatest diversity of gene pools of all native plants, insects, trees, birds, fish, reptiles, and mamals. They are the future and they ensure the wellbeing and thriving human populations. Please get busy talking because the future is already here.

[@geraldmiller5260]

Still slaughtering bison and wasting the meat, the bones, and the hides.

[@_brettburch]

The brucellosis propaganda from the Montana cattle industry is insane. These people are terrible.

[@taniagarciaduenas8460]

The only one who could dominate there bison caballi were Los Indianos there on culture It was respeto sull tutto il territorio fino la Siria grande terrà fi agricoltura 🤲🌾

[@ritamatthews2942]

Just the same with the wild horses, and others

[@geraldmiller5260]

Bison are winter hardy. Cattle are not.