Chase a Wild Buffalo Stampede With These Heroic Cowboys

Chase a Wild Buffalo Stampede With These Heroic Cowboys | Short Film Showcase

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The bison-sometimes referred to as a buffalo-is a living symbol of the American West. Despite once roaming the plains in numbers greater than 30 million, this iconic animal has recently come dangerously close to extinction. By 1900, extensive hunting and fur trading had reduced their population to less than one thousand. Although much progress has been made over the past century, conservationists are still working diligently to bring back the magnificent beast of the plains.
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In this short film by Josh Chertoff and Alfredo Alcántara, saddle up with a Colorado rancher who's risking everything to preserve the endangered species. Equal parts environmentalist and cowboy, Duke Phillips is not your average conservationist. Join him and his crew of horsemen on a thrilling ride as they herd thousands of wild bison for their unique conservation initiative.
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@sickgringo007 7 жыл бұрын

These people live in the wild and devote their lives to save and preserve a species. It's hard to think of a more beautiful and noble life.

@josetovar8440 6 жыл бұрын

Not debout there life we geting some where

@josetovar8440 6 жыл бұрын

My sell i love to triet that meat

@josetovar8440 6 жыл бұрын

The counting it whene

@Just_Another_Hoosier 4 жыл бұрын

True Earthlings.

@michaelheery6303 3 жыл бұрын

Or BOMBING OVERSEAS

@MR-zq5gt 4 жыл бұрын

Having cut/herded cattle myself on horseback this is seriously no joke.. takes a lot of skill, critical thinking, planning, and you have to be able to make split second judgments in order to keep everything running smoothly

@iumdunno8219 3 жыл бұрын

How did you get into it, cause that's my dream job and right now I'm kinda stumped.

@papaboove5997 3 жыл бұрын

@@iumdunno8219 try applying to be a ranch hand! Lots of ranches will offer housing if you tend to the horses and cattle.

@usarmy3709 3 жыл бұрын

@@iumdunno8219 find a rancher/farmer with cattle and bug em to let you help, then bug em to pay you after you prove you're worth paying, then when you've learned what you can on your feet learn to ride, then learn to rope, then buy your horse and hire out for day cowboying, keep your ear to the ground and maybe you'll get a chance at hiring on a ranch

@newmangan 5 жыл бұрын

that guys mustache is gorgeous

@loumightwearahatt.1897 4 жыл бұрын

But the question is, how dose he eat?

@direwolfhunter7055 4 жыл бұрын

@@loumightwearahatt.1897 he take the food with spoon open his mouth and close it

@loumightwearahatt.1897 4 жыл бұрын

@@direwolfhunter7055 but the mustache is in the way.

@victornguyen3531 4 жыл бұрын

What about using dogs to help?

@nelsonreau3842 4 жыл бұрын

The dog gona hold the mustache up?

@s0fa274 6 жыл бұрын

This was so cool to watch, I never thought about ranchers being stewards of nature.

@joshuahoward6845 5 жыл бұрын

s0fa same. I don’t hunt deer or anything either, but I came to realize it’s a necessary thing to conserve the deer population.

@kirkcattlecompany6803 4 жыл бұрын

s0fa we are because Mother Nature gives us her land so we have to respect her thankfully on our ranch in Georgia we have way to many deer and other wildlife but we have to help out by manage the population through hunting

@frankmorris4790 4 жыл бұрын

Who else would be? Sure not TNC, those land grabbin' SOB's will bite those boys someday, they always do.

@danemoore9277 3 жыл бұрын

@@kirkcattlecompany6803 yes sir! I help my grandpa on his ranch. Where we raise blueheeler pups and brangus cattle.(and kinda ride colts for people)

@HeadhuntexGamer 3 жыл бұрын

Most ranchers care more about nature than city people

@crispycactusstudios6234 3 жыл бұрын

On my great-great grandfather's world war one enlistment paper, he stated his job as "cowboy". He owned a ranch in Montana. I think it is cool that this way of life still exists.

@stephencobleigh608 3 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather also enlisted as a "cowboy" by trade. Enlisted WW1 Calgary,AB.

@ravioli-bamboli 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Montana and most ranches are on the east Side, did the papers say which part he live in?

@crispycactusstudios6234 3 жыл бұрын

@@ravioli-bamboli They did not say

@adawang2307 4 жыл бұрын

Seeing a bunch of cowboys wooshing pass is like one of the coolest things ever

@levarmitchell3962 5 жыл бұрын

Homeboy's mustache is legendary

@CallMeMicahT 7 жыл бұрын

Who instantly wanted to become a cowboy?

@bvjenner2922 5 жыл бұрын

Slack Morris, or cowgirl

@MrCustom124 5 жыл бұрын

Serie de hartland

@ronniesandoval5758 5 жыл бұрын

I’m already a cowboy

@blackpearljal6369 5 жыл бұрын

Yup! Or a cowgirl ;) There was a cowgirl in there, did you see her ?@@bvjenner2922

@mangemon5928 5 жыл бұрын

I love this job. i'm from bali

@LeafInTheWind88 3 жыл бұрын

The image of them at 4:14 on horseback is beautiful...poetic almost

@Moonen100 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ranchers for all that you do! The bison is a beautiful animal that cannot go extinct. If you'd have me I'd help ya'll out any day.

@austinwild6723 5 жыл бұрын

Arthur Morgan sees Bison: "Okayyyy, BOOWAH"

@jas6853 4 жыл бұрын

4:35 I wish that part was extended a bit more, glorious

@heyheymey8405 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@ashtongreig4137 4 жыл бұрын

We keep building more and more civilization, what a mess we are making of things.

@user-ln8rr3dl1p 7 жыл бұрын

What did the buffalo said to his son before he left for school? Bison.

@lela4780 6 жыл бұрын

lol, that's pretty good bro

@dimepapi6801 5 жыл бұрын

Stoopid

@apxcaim3n770 4 жыл бұрын

Bye son 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂good one

@Oakleaf700 4 жыл бұрын

Never heard that one before.... going to nick it for sure... 😂

@Oakleaf700 4 жыл бұрын

@@dimepapi6801 It is an epic pun... as puns go it has to be up there with the best..Short and pithy.

@christiansamos731 4 жыл бұрын

This is the most American thing I’ve ever seen.

@hinklefamily1831 3 жыл бұрын

Yeehawww!

@belleventing2327 3 жыл бұрын

I've been riding all my life and grew up on a small livestock farm in England- i'm used to herding sheep and beast on my horse but by god this is something different entirely, its absolutely incredible

@meekshallinherit3966 5 жыл бұрын

Fun fact : Fort McMurray, Alberta Canada... you all know where that so called dirty oil comes from? The oilsands? Have reclaimed the land back better than it was before and has herds of woodbuffalo grazing on it. Truly a beautiful sight 💕

@milkmaster699 4 жыл бұрын

That's amazing!

@dannybahee2540 4 жыл бұрын

I Danny Bahee said the same thing about I think it the standing rock, I'm a Navajo it's like something from morther earth

@MarshaNPILoveCanada 7 жыл бұрын

Such a gorgeous shot.. especially when the cowboys riding their horses.. *SuchIntenseMoment*

@lechandler4041 6 жыл бұрын

What ignorant comments by many, which unfortunately is far too usual. We are here, the bisons are here. So there are two choices- kill them all, or try to sustain them the best of our ability. Congratulations and thanks to the Nature Conservancy and the cowboys involved.

@Andrew-hl3tk 5 жыл бұрын

these guys raise animals to be slaughtered for a living

@wheresmyeyebrow1608 5 жыл бұрын

Andrew York sounds amazing

@MsBchoice 4 жыл бұрын

or leave them alone and let the nature regulate itself just don't invade buffalo's land and don't populate grazing landscapes how come people are so expansive they ruin everything and than they need to call it "land stewards"

@DEUnknownPLAY3R 4 жыл бұрын

"Killing them all" The lack of morals here is outstanding, The Bisons were here first. And can't your logic be applied to any foreign invader that colonizes a land? "Hey Australian Aboriginals,We are here, the Europeans, the Aboriginals are here. So there are two choices- kill them all, or try to sustain them the best of our ability." Doesn't seem right does it? What really seems to be the issue is human ignorance of habitat destruction and overhunting. An actual solution is for habitat restoration and let nature take it's course, letting the Bison population re-grow, rather to try to control the population, always keeping them vulnerable to being endangered.

@phank.s.4052 4 жыл бұрын

@@DEUnknownPLAY3R I had a stroke reading your comment. If the bison population get too high, it can't be sustained and there will be a famine among the population after a year or two. Unless humans leave the area completely, the population has to be artificially controlled.

@coolu-hx7rx 4 жыл бұрын

Me and the boys going atfer our bounties:

@sa1402 6 жыл бұрын

what a beautiful life they live

@Slashplite 7 жыл бұрын

Damn, America is beautiful!

@martintekula 5 жыл бұрын

if only it wasnt strip of its native people

@sharkfinbite 5 жыл бұрын

Oorah

@masonmoses3504 5 жыл бұрын

Ya sadly it doesn’t all look like this. These bison have very limited land to roam these days thanks to road systems, borders, and cities

@ice-tgaming4609 4 жыл бұрын

@@martintekula lol it will be like a 3rd world country

@martintekula 4 жыл бұрын

@@ice-tgaming4609 when

@CyborgNinja7 6 жыл бұрын

I went to thumbs up this, and then I realized, "Oh wait, I already did!"

@rtatriaddevelopment4743 5 жыл бұрын

Back in the forties, a Tulsa oilman attempted to develop a herd of American Bison. He built a very good fence around about 200 acres of good grassland, with several water sources, a tree shelter belt, etc. Brought in several cows before introducing a four-year old bull. That bull left the truck, passed through the chutes into the open pasture. His "harem' was off in trees, but a neighboring rancher had a cow "in season" across the road. The bull moved to the fence across from that cow, lowered his head and hooked the entire fence over his shoulders -- walking under and across to walk through the standard barbed wire fence to introduce himself to the cow. The offspring was a rather unusual looking hybrid.

@DrHook-hg6wq 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could give this a 6 stars. It is a great video.

@hossv1147 5 жыл бұрын

What a tough yet very satisfying life. What Id do to return my family to a simpler time. Great stuff.

@Black-Re4per 5 жыл бұрын

Red Dead Redemption 2

@Oli-nb1rr 5 жыл бұрын

Black-Reaper lol, just made that mission XD

@fabricio-agrippa-zarate 5 жыл бұрын

Bison Expedition

@ArchibaldDGray 4 жыл бұрын

Black-Reaper red dead are true story

@relevnttfup8343 4 жыл бұрын

i have a godamn plan

@IsabelleDavis554 4 жыл бұрын

U could do this when u finish the game cos theres a buffalo herd near the farm

@tcarrisotcarriso3838 6 жыл бұрын

theyre livin the american dream. honorable career

@ed1856 6 жыл бұрын

excellent job they are doing , i wish like the rest that more land was opened up for them as well as other wildlife

@bungendores_finest 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely incredible! I am a farm boy from South East Australia (Southern highlands) and have always dreamt of being a ranch hand in the states. Australia doesn’t have this tendency for huge properties (ranches) like this. More divided into several ownerships from 500-1000 acres. To have a job like this would be an absolute dream. Hopefully one day I can share the glory to be a ranch hand, horse rounder in a place like this. Amazing video. Very enjoyable.

@willrope5839 4 жыл бұрын

4:34 beautiful angle kudos to who ever filmed that shot

@jjelpesocondor6591 5 жыл бұрын

those cowboys are really heroic and they living an adventurous life...! I like them and their life living very much...!!

@DJSkittles365 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like sooo much fun. Opening up on a horse next to a majestic animal must be magical.

@bjrc1000 6 жыл бұрын

I love wild buffalo and horses

@boink8653 4 жыл бұрын

These men look so iconic

@jessicabrumbaugh3594 5 жыл бұрын

While still acknowledging the failures of historic American westerners over hunting these incredible animals for disgraceful reasons, the story of Duke and his fellow ranchers is indeed heroic. It acknowledges the importance of producing sustainable solutions for conservation and economic goals. Truly inspiring.

@Ari-zp4dd 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Brumbaugh lemme guess u r vegan 😂

@juandavidriveros7392 7 жыл бұрын

This video is very interesting, because helped me to understand the importancy to protect a specie in exctintion as the bison or Wild Buffalo, known in Colorado, USA.

@w.tiefel348 6 жыл бұрын

Some of the comments are here are very uneducated or unrealistic. Well done and keep it up ranchers!

@joshuarodriguez2850 3 жыл бұрын

Working at a feed yard around cowboys crazy how you can just grow into having respect for them

@robynkelly426 3 жыл бұрын

I know this is a video about Buffalo but I mean how beautiful are those horses, and loved seeing border collies and Quarter horses.

@geronimo2485 Жыл бұрын

The natives used to wait for the bison to come by there part of North America to ride beside and hunt these magnificent creatures

@anayancimadrigalvelazquez1370 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful place. It is good to know that some people is working hard for helping this amazing animal that almost disseapered by the indiscriminated hunt. Good job guys.

@ekm985 5 жыл бұрын

Guys,be proud that you have a dashing and feisty life

@michaelross3633 6 жыл бұрын

Great video, great story. Thank you Nat Geo, Duke, and the Nature Conservancy for daylighting this story.

@sandyrodz6699 2 ай бұрын

I think this is THE quintessential American image: the cowboy, riding mighty and high on his horse, herding wild buffalo. It is exciting, beautiful, sublime, even spiritual. Real men doing what God intended for them to do.

@ft.christian4649 3 жыл бұрын

Rdr2 brought me here and I’m not disappointed whatsoever

@hollandtruong6483 3 жыл бұрын

What a great short film!! I got to see the Bison in person when in Yellowstone just a few days ago & had an absolute great time there checking out the Bison as well as the park❤️!!!

@_stillyellowsnow 4 жыл бұрын

*Mustangs* must be great for that job!

@jordanbowey4175 4 жыл бұрын

Mustangs are useless. Theyre not bred with any purpose. A quarter horse is ideal.

@ZIAD0889 3 жыл бұрын

“Get out of my land cameraman” John Doton

@shakajohn4253 3 жыл бұрын

I've never been so happy to hear that someone know who he is

@donjuan69420 7 жыл бұрын

Real cowboys.

@senorjalapeno3937 5 жыл бұрын

Wrong...

@TheAlienFleet 4 жыл бұрын

Dan not really true, though. That’s like saying “the automobile was invented in Germany, so there’s no real auto body workers in America”

@donjuan69420 4 жыл бұрын

Dan not even cuh it’s a shared culture

@caseymae457 4 жыл бұрын

@@dlr7383 cowboy culture came from Spain bud

@edynnlahr4653 4 жыл бұрын

Dan um nope

@aramisschmidtke3142 5 жыл бұрын

That jeep looks badass

@wsterx91 5 жыл бұрын

When you play red dead redemption once...

@shaundawes5942 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Country!

@adambadruddinsyah3178 2 жыл бұрын

4:13 Immediately I hear Pippin singing "Edge of Night"

@brennanwinitana8721 5 жыл бұрын

The original people of the lands, job as far as I'm concerned. Cowboys nearly wiped the herds and native tribes out of existence in the 1800s. I read a book called Bury my heart at wounded knee.... So sad but true historic accounts of those times.

@stevenstrube5334 3 жыл бұрын

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MINDSET!!! IT SHOULD GO GLOBAL!!!

@123Booduh 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the herds, that people saw years ago and numbers were measured by how many hours or even days it took for the herd to pass!!!

@monsterja7028 4 жыл бұрын

This is what I call living

@TheJacali 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many of those bison Brian Shaw eats every year...

@vidhyashreesubramaniam6214 7 жыл бұрын

great effort

@guara590 5 жыл бұрын

Waow he born in Venezuela, cool i'm from Venezuela. Its hard to live now in Venezuela, it become hard to chase your dreams.

@JulitoBn 5 жыл бұрын

Chamo😜✊🏿saludos desde Panamá

@kissingct8261 4 жыл бұрын

Cause of socialism innit

@jackiemagana808 4 жыл бұрын

Why cause the favelas

@KATIUSHKACHILE 4 жыл бұрын

Favelas are from Brasil. Nothing to do with Venezuela!

@sapofeministopepe1159 3 жыл бұрын

@@KATIUSHKACHILE Favelas bedeutet alles, was arm ist, okay, alle Südamerikaner in den Favelas kamen von Sklaven

@eeffiethrifter5562 3 жыл бұрын

They are such impressive animals. I love them ❤️

@kelseyresendiz4909 3 жыл бұрын

I’m a Native Americans and bisons are like spirts for us and when the guys in family go haunting it’s a beautiful but sad thing to see one killed. We never kill the babies or the mothers only male.

@bargreiner 6 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. Wish I could visit. Ride near Bison is the only thing on my bucket list. Thank you

@marcelamorales3954 6 жыл бұрын

Maravilloso trabajo

@natanaellopez5530 5 жыл бұрын

Marcela Morales tiene toda la razon

@Pualleng 3 жыл бұрын

I miss my childhood we used to have a horse and Buffalo i really miss those days

@robertmckinley2886 3 жыл бұрын

We share this world with all the magnificence of nature. What right do we have to destroy any of the earths creatures !!! Humanity is the most intelligent creature and also the most capable of being the most destructive or creative. Because of this we owe it to nature to be good stewards of our recourses.....including our wildlife.

@lahorimunda18 4 жыл бұрын

Unbelievably cool.

@lordhuebi 7 жыл бұрын

Could Duke Phillips III be any more bad ass?

@MikhaelAhava 7 жыл бұрын

lordhuebi ?

@mynameislove7605 6 жыл бұрын

lordhuebi what do they do with the buffalo dear im a new sub..??

@d3m0s56 6 жыл бұрын

who is that?

@ThePizzaGoblin 5 жыл бұрын

watched this with "Ecstasy of Gold" playing in another tab. Do recommend.

@veronicafernandez7211 3 жыл бұрын

Great job. Congratulations to all the people involved.

@patriciadelmage5595 6 жыл бұрын

So cool bison in there own habitat never seen one in my life time as these guys are doing a great job as the numbers have to be controlled dangerous job for sure for rider and horse.

@paulhomsy2751 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely awesome video !!!

@blackberrylady6025 3 жыл бұрын

This is Extremely Fantastic......Great job!!!...Cool Cowboys...🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽

@brooklyntyrrell6823 6 жыл бұрын

This looks so fun

@furyxvanity2946 3 жыл бұрын

Now this is my dream one day, going out there with a few friends and our horses and just having fun with cattle.

@Dra741 3 жыл бұрын

This is my America what a gift from God

@braxeld4551 3 жыл бұрын

What gift, the cowboy is a Mexican/Spanish tradition since Mexico was colony and after. The land that’s different.

@vadersmustache5588 3 жыл бұрын

@@braxeld4551 and your point is… ?

@braxeld4551 3 жыл бұрын

@@vadersmustache5588 not very bright are you?

@MT-lp1cp 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Wonderful to see this side of things.

@kansascowboy5721 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve pushed cattle but never Buffalo, I learned a great deal that I didn’t know about Buffalo! 👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@invisiblehandofadamsmith 4 жыл бұрын

Greetings form Poland! I am going to see it next month:-)))

@hinklefamily1831 3 жыл бұрын

Were you able to come? I know covids messed things up, I hope you enjoyed it if ya did!

@brycebertolino7017 5 жыл бұрын

A buffalo can run upto 30 mph. It can out sprint a horse. That’s why Indiana relayed.

@spencerbeauchamp8359 6 жыл бұрын

Thats so badass. Suddenly our 180 head of cattle doesnt look that bad

@f.a.smafia2926 4 жыл бұрын

The only thing I was thinking about the whole time was bison beef jerky

@aaroncampos3798 3 жыл бұрын

I bet you were you gluttonous slob

@TalismanTopG- 3 жыл бұрын

Cowboys are so cool

@lisar3006 6 жыл бұрын

As a kid in high school there was a buffalo farm on country road 15 in Lodi Ohio down the road from our school. I used to stop and watch them I wonder if it is still three.

@felizready3336 5 жыл бұрын

I wish we would all ride horses how beautiful and good for the environment 1day gods will today ours right luv u tio Richard canizales yosametti Sam Rise in peace

@vanPoll 4 жыл бұрын

A man's dream to be part of this.

@jorgeclavelbanos8354 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful scennes!!!

@dagrizzla6252 4 жыл бұрын

Is there anyway I could get an in on the song that plays at 08:11. Truly magnificent

@horsegirl2018 3 жыл бұрын

I ride horses in fields all the time and it is the best life I could possibly have

@robertneven7563 6 жыл бұрын

my deapest respect,robert from belguim

@gomasonpatriot1 6 жыл бұрын

Robert Neven your people have a lot to answer for regarding king leopold. The world will never forget the horrors you visited on men, women, and children.

@willsomervillebaker4197 3 жыл бұрын

@@gomasonpatriot1 Why should they be resonsible for the actions of someone who died over a hundred years ago?

@HeadhuntexGamer 3 жыл бұрын

@@gomasonpatriot1 bro shut up, stop crying about something that happened centuries ago

@gerzaindukes990 6 жыл бұрын

Felicidades por cuidar a los tatankas muy bien

@annabuckmaster3162 3 жыл бұрын

Wow their galloping looked beautiful, right now I don’t own my own horse but when I do I’m going to do a lot of barrel racing maybe some roping possibly pole bending, I’m going to try and do as much as me and my horse can but make it fun.