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It’ll be interesting to see the impact of building beaver dam analogs on the creeks flowing in to the Klamath River to help speed up restoring the fish habitat. Longer term, there is a study about introducing beavers back into the habitat. PS - thank you for making this video.

Just curious, if they were common until a couple of centuries ago, how the devil is their return impacting the "traditional" lifestyles of the natives? It isn't. The second they started using rifles, motors on their boats, nylon nets, etc....they stopped following their traditional lifestyles. I have no problem with them following their traditional lifestyle, but only IF they use no European or non-native American innovations, once they start using those, it ceases being traditional and is nothing more than an excuse for them to exploit the environment to an extent their ancestors never did, but would have love to, at the expense of the tax payer. It kind of flies in the face of the myth that the "indigenous peoples" were some kind of superior stewards of nature. We have let "white guilt" go too far to absurd extremes if anyone actually believes that bringing back an animal integral to the ecosystem somehow harms "traditional lifestyles" for the natives, that really is ridiculousness in the extreme. How something that was for, and these are your words, "for thousands of years" present in large numbers somehow become a hinderance to traditional lifestyles.....well, that tradition is a result of Europeans if, in fact, the return of the sea otter impacts it.

Nice video. Thanks

Very educational, this is a great video to show my kids. Thanks!

haha loved that footage of the beaver dragging the branch under the ice - great video dude!

Really enjoying your videos David. I'm no critical expert but in just a short time I've already seen your comfort and production get more relaxed! You're on my list of anticipated videos and I hope to see you pass 5K soon. ;)

Thank you so much for this wonderful video. I'm from the UK and beavers are being reintroduced in some areas. I can't wait to see the results of this fantastic project. Thanks for a brilliant educational and highly informative video 👏👏👏

A great video!

I love these beautiful animals! Great vid thx.

Great video. I adore beavers but I've never heard anything about them in the winter.

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Thank you David for another great video. I love Beavers❤ My favorite coffee table book is "Dam Builders" by local celebrity Michael Runtz. I was able to raise 2 kits successfully for release as part of my many years spent fostering wildlife orphans. And while I have a short temper for human children vandals in my gardens, the year a young beaver cut down a 14 year old Beech that I raised from a seedling, I had a good cry then immediately started replanning the garden eco-system to take advantage of the change in light conditions.😂😂 Sadly there was a chainlink fence between the Beech and the Ottawa river so the young aquatic engineer was unable to escape with his prize.😢 I am so proud that the Beaver is our National Animal. We need to get ourselves back onto a path where we are embodying the qualities of this incredible totem.😃👍 🥰🥰🦫🇨🇦

Thanks David for another wonderful video, it’s such a shame that it’s taken so long for man to realise the importance of Keystone species on our environment. I think there would be a lot of farmers here in Australia that would like the Beaver to be native to this country. Great work 👍🏼👍🏼

Thank you for this amazing video David! Is good to see that the beaver population is recovering over there in Canada. Is just an incredible animal. Here in Spain, European beaver got extinct more than 300 years ago, but a group of people illegally released around 18 of them in one of our main rivers, the Ebro, back in 2003. Even tho it wasn't the best method, the EU decided their protection was necessary as a native animal and so our government forbid their hunting. Today there's more than 1000 of them only on the Ebro basin and they are colonizing the other 3 main basins, the Tajo, Duero and Guadalquivir. Couldn't be happier. Keep that great job. Always waiting for your next video with more good news! Greetings from a follower from Madrid, Spain 😉

Do your homework sonny... Banff's "Forest Bison" have been park inhabitants since 1967... The introduction back into the Rockies was part of Canada's 100 year centennial. Because of both the fragility of the Banff Biosphere and the small pockets of suitable ecosystem for the Bison public access and hence public awareness has been limited. I first saw "Banff Bison" in April of 1971 in paddocks nearby what is now an airstrip at the base of Cascade Mtn.

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I had no idea that Caribou changed their eye colour. The only Caribou I was familiar with was the southern Woodland Caribou, who is now extinct in the wild and being bred in captivity at a Revelstoke BC facility in Hope for revitalization in this area. Thanks again for teaching me something unique and new about our Canadian wildlife.

If natives have the right to live there, the sea otters strongly belong to the British Columbia sea coast that was their home since the time before the natives were not there. ❤ lovely creature

I’ve nearly watched every single video of yours, and I’m thoroughly impressed by all of the research and work you put into each one of these. They are well curated and on point I hope to see your views go up and subscribers Multiply to 1 million.

Thank you for teaching me something new every time I watch your videos you’re an asset to Canada’s ecological well-being. I live on Kooteney Lake and I’ve seen the effects of climate change in the last 15 years. all of our ancient old growth trees have collapsed blown over by winds we’ve never had due to the climate drying out extensively. Most of our cedars have been turning orange because it’s so hot here every year we used to be an inland rainforest we hardly see the rain anymore. I’ve seen many plants disappear, and our continuation of clearcut practises and brushclearing for burn piles is effectively changing the soil composition and preventing the native vegetation from growing. Our streams used to run with many land locked salmon called kokanee whose numbers are dwindling. I’ve watched Caribou go extinct entirely.

Bunch of bs here

Ohp. I guess we are the new indigenous ppl now As they once were the new indigenous ppl after clearing those people. Cry about it lol

I have lived in Calgary, Alberta since 1980. There were Bison in Banff 30 years ago.

The bison are thriving, yet the drift fence across the Panther and Red Deer River valleys is wreaking havoc on the local wildlife and their natural migration paths. Glad the Parks pets are doing good though.

I believe this will turn out just to be a buffet for the wolves. Having said that I think the reintroduction of the bison is a wonderful idea I’m just not sure that you’re not going to have to do a wolf intervention for a few years to keep the calves numbers up

It will be interesting to see the change in the local Wolves as they become bison hunters in the same way that they are in wood Buffal National park. It wouldn’t surprise me, if once I get a good number in the HEARD, if they don’t end up transferring some of them over to the first nations land to spread The population, addition, I can see them bringing new bloodlines from herds in the United States. Either way, I can certainly see the indigenous communities, having their own populations of the species on their land within the next couple of decades, which would make sense, and eventually all the populations will end up linking up

Only 50 seconds in, and this man is summing up all the questions that popped up in my mind. At first I thought I finally found an American RUclipsr with a complete brain, but sadly he's Canadian. Anywho ... 1 extra subscriber from Europe, looking forward to learn more about Canada and it's beautiful nature.

Alberta has always maintained a Bison/ Buffalo herd, both plains and wood buffalo. Search 'Elk Island National Park' if you want to learn more about Alberta's preservation efforts for Bison/Buffalo. We have also restored animals to the United States as well, where they were extinct.

I do hope that the human population collapse is gradual and steady and pronounced in the Great Plains of North America. I would love to see the Bison return to their ancestral migrations from Texas to Canada in a multiple state Biannual migration that builds up the natural Prairie Grasslands and the Bison herds in the tens of millions of individuals. This is my wish. This and the reintroduction of the Plains Tribes to move with the Bison and to rely again on their herds for the essential foods and materials for a nomadic life that they once lived. Perhaps an unrealistic dream, or perhaps a realistic one given the accelerated decline in European populations both here in North American and Europe too. I will be very happy to see European populations in the two continents to decline by fifty percent by 2100 as well the same for Asiatic peoples in India and Central and Eastern Asia. Again, fifty percent decline in people by 2100 at least... Ideally I would love to seem as little as 2.8 Billion People globally by the year 2100. That would be great. That and the steady rewilding of previous settled places for natural species to return to their prior native habitats.

The demise of wolves also devastated swift foxes. Formerly wolves had reduced coyote numbers. Without them, coyotes increased and preyed more heavily on the foxes.

You dont have all the facts. Dont be biased due to heritage...

Great video except for the mention of climate change of which most people know there is no such thing.

Get real. I saw bison in Banff Park in the nineteen fifties. Do your research!

Well this was just the most refreshing news! Particularly for me because I was there. And in the weirdest way, connected to saving 3 baby Swift foxes. It's a great story if you care to read on. My family moved from Nova Scotia to SouthEastern Alberta, to a horse farm near the Medicine Hat area in 1976. It was like we landed on the Moon! We didn't have gophers, badgers, or tumbleweeds in Nova Scotia. We also spoke so very differently, more than just an accent, that in school we were treated like immigrants from another country. I will never forget that! But the 70's was the time of the oil boom in Alberta which created a great migration of Maritime folks who grew up in very different ways than people out West did. Families like ours were lured by the money that working in the Oilfields promised. We were used to living in small villages scattered along the coastlines, living off of fisheries, logging, and even rabbit trapping in a feast or famine kind of way. I remember it took a whole week for us to drive out here in a blue van that Dad had gutted to make a raised bunk bed for all 5 of us kids (ages 5-9) to sleep on, a bed underneath it for Mom and Dad and our golden lab named Sandy. All we had was a blue 5 gallon water jug, practically just the clothes we were wearing, and a few bucks in Dad's pocket. It was an adventure. But I do recall when we arrived in Manitoba that Mom saw this enormous tumbleweed flying along the ditch. She screamed with joy, made Dad stop the van, and she ran after that thing like it was made of gold! We all examined it thoroughly as if it was an artifact and Mom wanted to take it with us! But back on the road again, we soon discovered gophers. Dad was thrilled because he challenged us to count them as we drove by and that kept us busy and quiet after spending so many days and nights cooped up in this van. He did stop once to allow our dog to try to catch a gopher. She dug a hole to China but didn't catch even one! By the time we arrived in Alberta we were wonderstruck and quite certain that if we drove off the beaten path the Indians would hunt us down and we could only be saved by a posse of cowboys on horseback. We truly believed that! I'm pretty sure that story was just another one of Dad's inventions to keep us all quiet and behaving as we drove. Or he was just drunk. My Dad was an alcoholic, like many folks from where we came from. There was no way he went a whole week without beer, driving day and night, to get to Alberta. But we survived, and, like many Maritimers who'd made that same migration, Dad made it only one winter before he went back home, without us. Not just because he couldn't live here, but also because my Mom had had enough of his drinking and had fallen in love with the cowboy lifestyle and wasn't leaving for anything. I was 9 years old. I was sad when he left but it wasn't long before I realized how peaceful life could be when you didn't have a violent drunk man returning home at 2 am to raise hell. But, back to the point after some background info, my Mom threw herself, and us kids, into horses. Horses were our livelihood and we bred, raised, trained, and competed on horseback in every imaginable way. Hundreds and hundreds of horses passed through our farm, which had outdoor training facilities, over the years. One of our friends boarded her horse at our farm and she worked for the Government in Agriculture. Her job was to ride the incredibly vast grasslands to check the vegetation, soil, wildlife, etc. (we called them 'lease lands' because all kinds of people could pay a small lease fee to over-winter horses and cattle there because it was cheaper than feeding hay all winter as the dry prairies did not create as much hay as we needed, but grasslands were abundant. Everyone just dropped off their horses in late fall, creating these massive herds that lived like wild horses until spring). And it was these grasslands that were prime habitat for Swift Foxes. We would often accompany our friend on her lease checks (not recommended, very boring riding, no shade, hot as heck, and getting lost was a real possibility because it was that 'vast'). So, one day in the spring my Mom and our friend were checking an area of grassland for her work. They found a dead fox and noticed it had died within the last day and that it was a nursing female. So, they found the den. They went home and gathered some supplies and returned to retrieve the babies. There were 3 of them. Now I do not know what the conversation was like that ended in the decision to bring these kits to our farm. We knew they were endangered and protected (this would have been around 1980 or 1981) and should be rescued by Fish and Wildlife. But somehow they ended up at our farm. Mom intended to raise them just until they were old enough to survive on their own and then take them back to where she'd found them and release them there. It seemed like it only took one day to erect this huge 20'x20' and a good 10' tall wired pen, with a real culvert (have no idea where mom got that brand new culvert from but it seemed like it probably wasn't 'purchased', lol) dug deep into the ground with a bunch of dirt inside and outside of it to create a den. The kits were released into this pen. Nobody could go into the pen. Those kits were terrified and kind of crazy! Their water was filled by a hose through the fence and we threw meat and whatever food over the top of the fence to feed them. We thought they were cute but us kids were scared of them because they would practically climb the walls trying to get out. I think this only lasted a few weeks. Someone ratted us out. And the Fish and Wildlife people showed up with those snag poles to take our kits away. Us kids were traumatized at watching them snatch up the kits in their pole snares, kits screaming and fighting the whole time. It was awful. But the officers told us that they'd be going to a place where other foxes lived and they'd be cared for properly and released back into the wild just like we had intended to do. My mom faced some serious fines but they were deferred because she did actually save the lives of these endangered kits, even though she was not supposed to do it herself. My mom always thought she knew what she was doing, the brightest in the room kind of person, but she knew nothing about foxes, other than they could sneak into a seriously fortified chicken coop at night just like the weasels did, and she would shoot one if she could ever catch it red-handed. Anyway, the kits were saved, I was relieved and learned a whole lot from the experience. I am so happy to learn just how successful the efforts to return Swift Foxes to their native lands has been. Now the only problem is to keep them living off of the land and not off of farmyards! They are soooooo sneaky! Blessings to all those folks who gathered together with the Indigenous Peoples to give back to the land what it has been missing for so long.

Another great video sharing another great step in the right direction for conservation.

It's great u released back.on wild but did they have dens to go to

I hope the funding isn’t cut by the next government cause this gives hope

Why have you not mentioned the existing herds in other parts of BC? Who cares if Banff has Bison... They are elsewhere and thriving in spite of "the experts". Other than a bunch of paperwork you have done very little yet are looking for praise of the highest order... protect them from highways... protect them from poaching... set up breeding programs... Too much BS and not enough action! Like the re-introduction of wolves in Yellowstone park, Bison are a keystone species to the success of the wild lands of Canada - and "you all" talk a good game over your expensive lunches while you make maps and claim victory! Show me 100's of thousands then you get to claim victory - and the people will also celebrate with you. Until then it's just more BS!

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Bisons rock! Well done!

I’m so glad to see this update. This reintroduction project is extremely important and exciting!

Previous numbers of 30000000 bison in Canada is a staggering amount of animals to slaughter. Unbelievable! I hope this project continues to succeed.

The 150 year claim here has to wrong. 150 years would put the extinction of Canadian bison in Alberta in year 1875 (assuming count from Jan 2025). The first white settler of Calgary Alberta was John Glenn in 1873. In two years John and a few other white settlers "hunting and a deliberate extermination targeting indigenous peoples" wiped out Canada's (or at least Alberta's) bison population? Now, I support rewilding and reintroductions of species. I'm just tired of the constant woke guilt trip buffalo piles.

What a dream project to be part of, but similar to our wood Bison project, I really wish they would let the numbers bounce back 10 fold before harvesting animals. My wife is Treaty First Nations so I understand the cultural importance of the Bison, but the risk of accidentally harvesting a genetically strong cow or bull is too high when numbers are below 500-1000 individuals. We pick VERY carefully which animals we harvest and we still have troubles at times deciding which ones will have the least impactful long term effects within the herds.

The bigger the heard, the safer it is, so it will grow at an excelerated pace and get bigger heards faster. More birds healthier grasslands ect ect ect. 😊

Greetings from the arctic circle of northern Europe. I can't travel to see the Bisons, but I just want to tell you how happy I am about this successful project. I hope for a good continuation and successful new observations👏👏👏👉⛰🦬🦬🦬......

Wow… At first I was so excited about this. But of course they would get hunted. And here I thought that our animals were safe from hunting at least in our national parks. Somebody’s skin colour, culture, or ancestry should not give someone a right to kill these animals, especially not in a national park. Shame on all who support this. It’s 2024. There’s no need to kill these beautiful animals for food.

Thank you for reminding me of this, and the well detailed descriptions outlining the various aspects to it. Especially the links you provided for further study, seeing I am not a biologist and look forward to learning more about the role of genetics in this project. I have one question arising from curiosity; with a potential maximum herd of a 1,000 bison on the 1,200 square kilometers of land, does this equate to roughly 1 square kilometer needed for each bison so they don't over-graze and thereby potentially damage the ecosystem?

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Awesome stuff.