LORDS OF NATURE

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Published 2013-03-14
Top predators may hold a key to life itself.
Can people and predators coexist? Can we afford not to?

Birds, butterflies, beaver and antelope, wildflowers and frogs — could their survival possibly be connected to top predators like the wolf and cougar? Narrated by Peter Coyote, Green Fire Productions has created a captivating documentary that goes behind the scenes with leading scientists to explore the role top predators play in restoring and maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity

All Comments (21)
  • @Wild906
    Such an important documentary, wolves are amazing animals and horribly misunderstood.
  • @biguglystick
    This is so important! Our native predators are crucial for a healthy eco-system. Wonderful! This should be required watching for everyone, starting in grade school.
  • @DavyRo
    Wolves are amazing intelligent animals, it's fantastic to see them starting to thrive again in their natural habitat
  • Peter Coyote, George Page, Richard Kiley, David Attenborough, Martin Sheen, Kieth David. My favorite narrators of natural history programming. Glad wolves made a return. We need them.
  • That was amazing viewing. I like I'm sure a lot of people in this sad world had no idea whatsoever that things were this way. Thank you all for your concern and attempting to bring back our nature as it should be and to save many eco systems. Nice to know that there are those of you changing this sad disaster.
  • @fastasali5498
    There was at least one wolf up at West Yellowstone in 1989. I was logging up by West Yellowstone in 1989 when many of the elk and moose were starving to death & and dying everywhere along the Gallatin River & a long Highway 191. The temp had gotten too cold to work, about 35 below zero, so i decided to do some ice fishing after I finally got my pick up thawed out. I was ice fishing up at a place called Hebgen Lake, which is just outside of the Park. My ex-wife & me were in the middle of nowhere at least 20 to 30 miles from any home or building of any type, on Hwy 191 & we seen what looked like a wolf. Even at around 500 yrds from the rd., it looked like a wolf to me but we stopped & looked through the binoculars, just to make sure because we were so far away from any homes or people that nothing else made any sense. We were really sure it was a wolf after looking through the binoculars but even that didn’t make sense because I was under the impression that there were no wolves in or around the park, so I decided to walk out & see for myself & see how close I could get to make sure I was actually seeing what I thought I was seeing. My ex-wife was absolutely sure it was wolf because she was so terrified that she wouldn’t even get out of the truck, and was begging me not to walk out there. As I walked out & got up to about 40 yards from the wolf, he started trotting back-and-forth a little bit from side to side but wasn’t leaving. I walked closer, maybe 30 yrds away, and it was OBVIOUS, that it was not only a wolf, but a huge wolf at that! It had been obviously eating very well! The wolf wouldn’t move & just kept looking at me with those wicked piercing eyes. I was actually afraid to turn and go back to the truck for fear that he would come after me, so I bent down and started moving to the side like I was trying to stalking him. I had to run a few bears off before that were either bluff charging me or just stood & stared at me & wouldn’t move out of A huckleberry patch, but the problem in this situation was, the snow was just over waist deep & so I decided to act like I was stalking him instead. As I moved to the side at an angle towards him, he spun around & took off & I couldn’t believe how fast he was able to move through that deep snow! He ran out of the meadow & took off towards the park & ran up into a big draw in mountains but stopped a couple times on the way & to turned to look back at me, from curiosity i was hoping! I walked over to where he was standing & found the remains of an elk carcass. Obviously that was the reason he didn’t leave very easily. I wished I would’ve had a camera back then but unfortunately I did not & cell phones were nonexistent at the time. The next day I told a couple of Montana Fish and wildlife game wardens who we’re having special draw-permit hunts because the buffalo and elk were starving to death up in that country. They played it off like I was full of shit but later on that day, farther up into the park, I told a couple Park rangers the same story & they wrote down everything said & wanted to know every detail of exactly when & where I had seen the wolf. They had me show them on a map & if I remember right, it wasn’t that far outside the park boundary where I had seen the wolf. I don’t know if the wolf came down from Canada and that’s how we got there, who knows, but obviously the park Officials knew more than they were letting on. Supposedly they didn’t re-introduced wolves into the park until six years after but I’m positive it was a Wolf. I’ve been in the woods my entire life falling timber, mostly helicopter logging & I’ve seen many animals that the average person may never see, but this was definitely an exciting experience to me, even though there are a lot of wolves in the park & all over Montana, Idaho & Washington today.
  • @harmoni4499
    This was the best film I ever I watched, watched several times already. Very educatinal & beautidul project. Should be more people watch this film & learn more about the ecology(Ecosystem).
  • @MESENJAH
    Long live the wolf...thanks to the mindful man whom recognized their importance to any ecosystem. the balance of nature is a beautiful thing. And hunting for gaming should be illegal outright..
  • @grace1946
    every creature has a purpose............we need to learn this
  • @aboutzoos
    Absolutely great! One of the best spent 58 minutes of my life. Many thanks
  • @melanierapp537
    To all the sheep/lamb or any livestock liable to wolves be sure to use the dogs that are born to guard your animals , the great Pyrenees absolutely love the job, let them help u!!
  • This is a wonderful documentary. I understood long ago that organic nature’s intelligence is far more superior than that of the human intelligence that drives our modern civilization, drives our science and technology. Nature knows what she’s doing, and humans should not interfere in the organic/natural processes, ecosystems and environments on this planet. Instead of interfering and trying to make changes and alter things, we humans should take guidance from organic/wild nature. Our pre-Christian indigenous ancestors all around the earth understood this simple truth, and lived in perfect harmony & balance with their local organic environment and ecosystem. One of the major sources of damage to the organic environment and ecosystem is factory farming. I am convinced of this 100%. This is a horrible practice that’s totally anti-nature. If any cattle raising is to be done, it should only be small, family owned local farms
  • @blanknone5408
    Gotta love that old windows media player encoding, it’s so nice and chock full of quality. Ohh, the days of old.(extreme sarcasm)
  • @davidmotyka4832
    Maybe in small parks will predators survive.The earth is sick because of over population and pollution.
  • @tauron1
    We still have Cougars in Ontario Canada.....and I'm not talking about the ones in bars either. lol