American Prairie: Restoring bison to northern Montana with a patchwork nature reserve | 60 Minutes

I hope to see this grow to its potential majestic beauty 🦬🦬🦬🦬

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Oh give me a home where the Buffalo roam.

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there will always be a fence....the animal senses that no matter how far....never the same....possibly deadly as the world turns

Instead of so many nature preserves that take ranches out of production, why not encourage ranchers to switch to bison with instructional, hands on classes? The USDA already has many programs to help farmers and ranchers, including financing to set up meat processing, but dealing with bison takes great skill. You need machines to transport the carcasses and cut them up. It would be a different design from beef, with attention to harvesting the coat also. There are many USDA support programs with grants or loans, but farmers and prospective farmers need inexpensive, hands on classes at community colleges. People who own or lease land for agriculture don't need or want a 4 year Ag degree. They want to learn things directly related to local conditions, and as much information as possible if they raise an unconventional meat source and how to set up local cooperatives. They need expert advice. As for wildlife conservancies, we probably need more on the East coast where the population is dense, but in farming communities, adding wildlife conservatives puts land out of production permanently and destroys the local tax base because the conservancy doesn't pay taxes. Biden wants 30% of the land rewilded by 2030. That's too much! It will raise food prices, raise land prices so young people can't farm and decrease the wealth and tax base of rural counties. We need better agricultural oracticrs, but taking more land out of production will result in only agribusiness being able to buy land and force people out of rural areas. We already have a huge percentage of Western lands as National Forest or state owned land. People near cities need more open spaces that are rewilded, but in the West, so much land is government owned and out of reach or highly restricted. We don't need to take more land out of production, especially since many productive farms are being condemned due to PFAFS. We need to change farming practices and grow more food in subhurbs, but bison, venison, muskox and camels can be raised while supporting much of the local flora and fauna. We need better commercial processing for these animals, and more farmers owned retail opportunities since typically grocer stores pay farmers very poorly. If producers can own meat processing, marketing and farmers markets as cooperatives, it's a win-win for everyone except the big stores, as they would lose some business. Unfortunately, our business schools spend little time on cooperatives of any kind, and probably Agribusiness majors don't either. I think many more people would prefer cooperatives if they knew more.

Another thing we can do is eat more bison than beef. Bison are leaner and less of an environmental impact on the land.

Welcome to Earth: Money Matters!! Lives Do Not. Elk, Bison, Deer, Bears ....those are lives too......

You are also going to breed and restore native americans or they are excluded?

Sericea Lespedeza is becoming a HUGE problem within the American prairie
It’s a Chinese invasive weed. They can’t control it taking over the prairie

Clear difference in attitudes between the Native American who truly cares about the land and the ranchers of European descent whose priorities are themselves and their profits 💲💲

First peoples and bison are inextricably linked! This is significant to note, as it was briefly mentioned in the introduction.

The intentional mass slaughter of bison was a tactic of genocidal strategy to obliterate human beings! Let us keep the chronicles correct, in regards to the treatment of human beings, alongside this essentially vital wild animal. They are not, cannot be domesticated, in the manner bovine cattle animals have been.

Bovine production is an unsustainable animal production system, period! Their grazing behavior and hooves tend to compress the topsoil’s “Soil Food Web”. The earthen soil must have capacity to breathe!

Bison are cloven-hooved, and a keystone species for sustaining the environmental ecosystem. They allow the native flora to regenerate and flourish.

Bison meat (not “Buffalo” misnomer) has less cholesterol and fat than beef, and is more easily digestible.

Beef is difficult to digest, and we now know how nutritionally adverse it is to eat much of it, for the health of one’s ‘physical body sanctuary’.

In the USA, there has been an intentional conditioning to eat beef, and the bastardization of food animal practices has the citizenry brainwashed to believe that ‘beef is best’.

Restoration takes on an alignment of energies that includes indigenous peoples, which is a major part of what is missing in the short, medium, and long terms. Our voices matter! With the “fierce urgency of now”, as unsustainable methods have caused weird weather patterns called “climate change”.

Where is the outreach to the humans who kept stewardship for millennia going to be tapped into, for the ancient wisdom we hold so dear?

May we continue to seek guidance, gifting, and governance by Great Spirit. May it be so!

They are BISON, not BUFFALO.

Very nice….💖

Seriously, 60 minutes? Buffalo? They are not buffalo. They are American bison. There are no buffalo in the United States except in zoos.

Surely it’s hypocritical to think cowboys who lose their land and are entitled to prevent it from restoration back to how it was before ranching?

I wonder how many cattle ranchers would willingly switch over to keeping bison on their land (in addition to or instead of their cattle) if there were some type of financial support to make it affordable for them to acquire foundation stock (be it support from the government or from private charitable organizations).

You people do not see the big picture. It s to remove you to take, and bring back the wild life, like that have Wolves and such. They accommodate you until they are a powerful enough political power that can legislate at State and Federal levels, and take what they want! BLM is in their pocket like other agencies.

I agree with the RANCHERS!

Of course, they're not content yet with what they've done for the Buffalo.. They still need 100s of millions of dollars more to complete their goals... LOL! OF COURSE, THEY DO! It's turning I believe into a profiteering program.. Not so much for the Buffalo anymore.. Typical American business ethic, big money turns into GREED! You're never going to get the ECO-SYSTEM to perform as it once did even with all the MONEY in the world... Everything in this country is all about MONEY in the end..

This is a Trojan horse to steel private land and give to government. If this was done by BLM or gov everyone would reject this.

Eating fruits and vegetables is good for you

Hey 60 Minute guy; Did you have to say "white settlers" as if it were a bad thing? Would you have said "black settlers" if that were so? I think not. It's white people who are restoring it.

Yes, they have failed. I'm observing Apr for many years. In 2014 they wanted to have a10000 Bison by now. In fact, they have Not a 1000. If you didn't reach 10% of Your goal, how would you call it?
The whole Management must be exchanged, before even more time is being wasted.😢

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The work of this "organisation" is a shame! After 20 Years and spending hundreds of millions, they have not a 1000 living bison on their land. It is just incredible! The worst "enviromental protection" I have ever heard of!

The area is nice, and the save the cowboy signs are all over from the couple years I used to go in that area to follow the Lewis And Clark expedition.

I suspect they will have to settle for less than 3 million acres and compromise on it.

The area is beautiful, hopefully they can balance the needs of the ranchers and do some degree of restoration. I just don't see how 3.2 million acres is realistic.

Any plans to restore the Native Americans to their lands?

If the APR was so noble why dont they donate the property to BLM ? All they need to do is say no leasing of thier donated property..

Montana is a huge state with PLENTY of open land. Why not leave some for the wildlife 🤷🏻‍♀️.

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Just a break in communication here. But, no rancher should be made to feel like “we have to sell” to this cause. Climate change may ruin all this though

They funded by the un which means its to takeover

I pray for the ranchers and that the reserve just quits while they’re still ahead . they have enough land at this point for the Bison 🦬

Will the Bison's presence restore the prairie grasses?

Saving the habitat that we humans destroyed is long overdue. It should be happening in more places than just Montana, too. Every state that lies in historic tallgrass and shortgrass prairie range should have significant prairie restorations. The good news is that at least most homeowners out there can create micro prairies or prairie gardens in their own yards. It's just a small piece of habitat, but even that matters!

Buffalo is a completely different animal. Disappointing that they keeping calling "Bison" buffalo.

There were 50 million bison in pre white settlers North America. At the beginning of the 20th century bison were almost driven into extinction.

The apr should look at doing this in a state with very little piblic land

I don't really understand the difference between cattle and bison insofar as their contribution to maintaining this wildland. Is there something special the reserve is doing with their bison that makes the reserve more hospitable to wilderness that the ranchers are not? If so, why don't the ranchers just adopt some of those practices and contribute to restoring the grasslands while also raising cattle? I can't imagine cattle and bison are so different that cattle can't serve as an analog in this ecosystem.

Two sides to every story. Ranchers do not ranch or raise cattle for a hobby, its their livelihood. I like seeing vast country that looked like it did 200 years ago and to preserve a piece of it is in everyone's interest, especially wildlife. The Ranchers livelihood should not be infringed upon by anyone. When someone is paying someone just for pictures of wildlife on their land, better watch out as there is a reason for it and it may not be what one thinks !

I live in Illinois ( the prairie state ) and I don’t remember ever seeing a prairie. It’s kinda sad

I wouldn’t trust them

It’s to much pushback for them to ever be restored. Bison are forever doomed as a wild species. Their native range is a shell of what it used to be. Free roaming bison herds numbering in the thousands will never be seen agian more then likely. Farmers and Ranchers will never let that happen.

Legal isso que estão fazendo
Mais 3 milhoes de acres e muita coisa pra um parque
Sei não estranho isso
Mas tudo bem
Bora conserva e aluga as terras
Abçs
Netao

It is maybe not funny, is there room EVER for the native AMERICAN nations to have their land as THEIRS? For one time before the immigrants to THEIR country, it was such! The buffalo were in the millions, still there were every point of native fauna! Coexisting, before the Immigrants took away their religion of the land, the air the Mother Earth. They did not harvest food or tools of living without giving dance, and very Loud singing and expression of thanks, before their world was taken. Kind of like all of the worlds litigation of killing the Palestinians, the Ukrainians, and all of the worlds money making ventures regardless of the Native peoples lives. If there are now Alien nations UFO'S, viewing our current situations of decline of mental progression, do they seek to help, or just watch us disappear like the Dinosaurs that we study so intently? And then yet another question? Is 60 minutes which I fervently watch seeking the best of the best. Would they have the power to interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Without the Immigrants so safeguarding our media?