Any time we can re establish a species thought to have gone extinct, it fills me with incredible joy and possible hope that we might be able to save them all and us as well.

"Disapeared" that's a mighty nice way of saying systemically slaughtered to destroy the indigenous communities food/life source.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game made the commitment over 20 years ago to return wood bison to their native range in Central-Alaska in partnership with the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, who currently cares for the only captive herd in the United States. Following the state’s acquisition of wood bison and years of careful management by AWCC, 130 wood bison were successfully released into the wild in spring of 2015

It's incredible to see them back, considering the fact they were wiped out at one point. To see an animal that should have been here all along get a second chance brings a tear to my eye.

Denying the past perpetuates the same mistakes to be repeated. A species Thousands upon thousands of years does not simply disappear over night. They were led to extinction by killing them

They totally circumvented “how” they disappeared, as if they just walked off into the void. Great job CBS 🤦🏻‍♀️

I've never even heard of this subspecies before. Thanks for educating us on this incredible beast.

I grew up in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, next to Wood Buffalo National Park. The park rangers would take us on Buffalo creeps, where you would crawl within a few feet of the buffalo. Amazing animals.

“Until they disappeared”… LMAO What denial!

This is wonderful. Those folks are doing outstanding work.

Neat story, and kudos to the naturalists and wildlife officers for their hard work and dedication to this project. The reintroduction of a nearly extinct species to the wild, especially a kingpin species such as the wood bison, is something approaching miraculous. Hopefully, all Americans will be better stewards of these native American animals in the future. And I would love to see greater involvement of native Americans in these projects because of the historical importance of these animals to their ancient cultures.

"...until they disappeared." You mean until their species was HUNTED TO DEATH. Please don't gloss over that fact.

Thank you for keeping this species alive!

I would have really loved to have seen the looks on the faces of those wildlife biologists when they stumbled upon the herd of what they thought were extinct bison in 1957. It must have been like when people first see dinosaurs in the movies.

These bison didn't magically "disappear" as this video stated. They were *massacred for fun* by "sport" hunters. Restoring herds of these animals is the least we should do - to show respect for native Americans and the bison themselves.

This is the sort of reporting we need. Thank you so much for giving us agency-we can see how we can help and how something is already being done! Links to ways to assist would be even better.

Saw hundreds of these in the wild in 2018. Beautiful animals to watch.

A little side comment: IMHO, Jeff Glor and Jane Paulie are two of the best CBS journalists/reporters. They have calm demeanors and have the right amount of gravitas to announce news. I enjoyed both whenever they hosted the evening news. It's unfortunate that CBS did not keep them on the nightly news programs. Networks now look for ratings and money instead of good journalism and reporting skills as in the past.

The first herd reintroduced to Alaska in 2015 was released when there was snow on the ground. I always picture bison being herded by horseback. It was strange to see them being herded by people riding snowmachines. This herd is a boon to Alaska. We're glad to have them here!

This is really great. I am so glad that some people can think to the future and appreciate the affect that each species of animal brings to the Earth's well being. A sick environment breeds sick people.

Some hunted them for food and clothing. Some hunted them for fun and vindictiveness.

Them Bison are tuff...tuff as anything ever... great to know they're still around! Awesome

way to avoid saying why the wood bison population got decimated (uhhhh hint it was humans being terrible) we gotta talk about the past to avoid repeating it. happy we are rebuilding their herds/communities though

Bravo!! That was an amazing little video.

Disappeared? Is this ‘new history’?

Majestic is the word that popped into my mind also magnificient and beautiful!🥰 Love your story & Alaskan Wildlife people, they are my heros!!🤗💕

Thank You For Your Great Work!!!

The best story I've heard in years. Many years.

Thank you for doing these reports CBS

Brought tears to my eyes.

In the 1990s myself & others volunteered to assist working at the Bison Paddock in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, which is run by Fleishhacker Zoo & maintained by SF City & County Park & Recreation Department. We named our volunteer group, “Bison Watch”, and worked the 1st Saturday of every month at the paddock by pulling as many weeds as we could, in order for grasses to grow for the Bison to feed naturally. The Zoo workers would herd them all into a smaller paddock, while we performed our work with tools & wheelbarrows supplied by Park & Rec. Our Leader was Phil Carlton (Buffalo Phil), who also was instrumental with involving local Indigenous Peoples with the group… performing Ceremonies and speaking at events. The Love and Respect that I experienced with the 12 Bison and group members have changed my life by discovering Mother Nature as my Higher Power. I hope to travel to Canada soon to experience the Wood Bison species that I was unaware of until I viewed this wonderful video. My thanks to all of you who have devoted their energies to helping these Bison continue & increase their herds due to your efforts. Yours - BanjoBob

What a satisfying job to have. Great work.

You guys are fantastic 😊☺️😊

Alaska wildlife center is such an amazing place to visit! Please check it out, if you are ever in Alaska

@5:35 Watching city folk small talk about wildlife is friggin’ hilarious 😂 😂

Just visited this place the other week. Beautiful setting, and a great facility!

AWESOME. Keep supporting them!

Thanks, way to go. ✌🏻👊

The slaughter of the bison by governments will forever be a disgrace to those governments.

"Disapeared" bison is like saying Africans just APPEARED in the country one day

Thank you!

Thank you!!

What a great, life fulfilling job! Wish I was younger and could do this.

I am so glad that tiny hears was found in Canada!

This story lifts my spirit! 🙏🏻

Just an amazing story heartfelt

Beautiful

Bless you all.

Nature's wonder's showing their resilience Beautiful ❤

You know there are 11,000 of them in Canada that live in the wild.

Beautiful creatures! 💛

Outstanding..

Like how they said the bison "disappeared" which in reality means they were nearly hunted to extinction by human greed.

Oh so they just "disappeared".... like a magic trick? But why did they "disappear"? Tell that history!

Rewild our land. Adjust our culture to allow nature to coexist.

Funny how they omitted how they almost became extinct.

Dr. Parsons of Stratford, Oklahoma is the world's leading expert on bison. He has worked with this herd and most every herd in the world including the European herds. He told me about this Alaskan herd several years ago when I bought my herd from him.

I want to cry I’m so happy!!

👍👍awesome job....

The outstanding scientific discovery of the 20th century is not television or radio, etc, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those who know the most about it, can appreciate how little we know about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of a plant or animal, What good is it? If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of eons, has built something we like, but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog & wheel is the 1st precaution of intelligent tinkering. Have we learned the 1st principal of conservation? To preserve all parts of the land mechanism. No, because even the scientist does not yet, recognize all of them. One of the penalties of an ecological education, is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted is quite invisible to the laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell & make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or that he must be be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well & does not want to be told otherwise. A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold 1947

Great to see this happening.

I thought they were gone for good nice to see them back

Cheers!

Friggin' amazing!

What beautiful animals.

Amazing and great news.

Super cool

Wonderful!

Bison are great to see in person in nature...Oklahoma has a great preserve to visit and see them on the Tallgrass.

How exciting! I’m happy for them!

Such good news .Rare these days.Thanks to those putting in the hard work to get them back into their native land

AWESOME!!!

BRAVO!!

Heart and soul of the world

Fabulous!

Theodore Roosevelt would be proud.

Fantastic!

Very cool

They were hunted to the brink of extinction. That should have been mentioned.

awesome!!! 2022 has brought some good news thats nice

Looks like the matsu valley. I'm glad they are doing well and thriving.

So what’s the difference between these “wood bison” and the bison that were saved from extinction in Yellowstone and Montana? Where was their original range?

On the other hoof, wood bison are said to be more into browsing than other bisons, be it true plains, European or hybrid ones. So, yes they can survive by grazing, but won't say no to some good browse.

Nice story Jeff. I wish you still did the evening news and all of the stories were along this line.

This story gives me Hope!! Not only for the Wood Bison, but its the 1st story in a Long time that isn't FakeNooz, and seems to be TDS free. Salute, and a blue thumb up!!

Been there wonderful magnificent.

Wasn't there a subspecies that lived east of Mississippi also?

Good bro job

How awesome! However, if you're going to report something, report the truth, they didn't just "disappear" because they felt like it. They were almost slaughtered into extinction by greedy, sick men, like many other species of animals.

What we needed was the reporter boy standing next to a big male wood bison.

Oh, so the bison "disappeared"? Well, I guess we'll never know what happened to them.

Revival of this species would mean natural grazing and migration across the border less American Midwest

How wonderful.

Yeaaarlings that’s so cute!!! 😍😍😍

This is very uplifiting and brings me hope. As a conservation biologist, nothing makes me happier.

Salvemos estos hermosos animales

I am delighted they aren't instinct Thank You Canada 🇨🇦

why not relocate to national parks in the lower 48?

Would be neat to be able to farm them for meat and other animal products. Lots a meat on one of those. Wondering how much two would cost (male & female) and the associated costs to grow the population... along with ways to naturally keep those costs down to a minimum?

wonderful news