I had a Native American friend who took care of the Buffalo herd on his reservation, and I used to join him when he fed them and walked among them and what Leo says about them is true.
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thanks so much for sharing this with me and everyone. You and your friend are always welcome here!
Thank you! I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. There are about 600,000 thousand buffalo in Canada and America today. There were about 50 million in the mid 1800's and then only about 450 left by 1890, it's a long sad, beautiful, and hopeful story. Kind of the best and the worst, like all of history... :)
He is like no other creature I've ever know, except his dad. Buffalo are so different from any animal I've ever experienced. I love and respect them, and admire them so much! Thank you so much for your kind words for us!!!!! God bless you!!!
I'm sitting here, crying like a baby............... At 60 years old, I have No Explanation why............ Something from the past, Is tugging hard....... At My Heart ! Thank You Lee Downey, Thank you So Much !!
@@ronmcneal1569 I hardly ever looked, , look at comments on youtube, I just see yours again. Thank you so much Ron, for such kind , heartfelt words. God bless you!!Thanks!!!!
Thank you!!!!! I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thanks for taking the time to listen and for such a kind message. :)
thanks for this awsome video. i own a large tract of washington mountain land. its been a dream to steward buffalo, im currently shopping, and synchronistically came across your video. very much appreciated.
Sometimes you plan a visit to a Buffalo Ranch to finally see those amazing animals close up but you really don't know whatelse to expect. Then you meet a man like Leo and you are deeply impressed by his story and life and how he sorted it all out for himself to become happy. And he is so natural and convincing because it's all him and no learned speech. We really enjoyed that time at his Ranch and are listening to his music while driving thru the Canadian Rockies. Thanks for that precious moments. Keep up your awesome work with that impressive animals.
Kai, I never even knew you left this beautiful message!! I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thank you so much!! What a kind message.... it inspires me.... God bless you and your family!!!
It's amazing that you're able to do what you're doing. what most people dream of doing that again is powerful and beautiful. God is watching over you and has blessed you to follow your path you are being guided. God bless and be one with Earth and nature
I feel grateful for every second here and with the buffalo, and also with the people of our community, Golden B.C. I know I 'm very fortunate. I try to share it, and God is watching over me, and you and all of us, even though things seem so weird around us. I pray all the time for God and the angels and saints to guide me and help me. I'm saying a prayer for you right now. Thank you!!!
I understand what you're doing and respect it.. but there are people who'll think Bison are tame...from this.. I live next to Yellowstone Park and i've seen people who got to close charged.. They're wild animals and need to be respected.. What you are doing here is amazing..
Thanks for your message David, and I know! I don't want people to do this. I do an educational tour every morning in the summer and I explain the whole thing, and how it took about 5 years before I could go in on foot with them. I should probably have explained that more in the video! Thank you for watching and for your kind words! :)
@@OldChester77 It probably would be best to include that.. haha I do see you said all that at the beginning.. I've been sculpting a Buffalo off and on over the last 5 years... They're such a unique animal...
Hello Sir, I'm in awe just looking at those Magnificent Bison. That was your Vison to be one with them, God blessed you abundantly and now your Soul is complete. Em just wondering if you ever did this with the Wild Horse's?, now that would be my Soul Journey. Such splendor. I just found you today 10-5-19 and yes I Subbed your beautiful Channel. I Thank you for this incredible Video. I'm going to look for more breathtaking Video Moment's. Just WoW with a wee bit of tears. 🍀 ~Eileen~
Thank you Eileen!! I would love to be able to be with the horses the way I am able to be with the buffalo, but I can't! I've had horses and I love them so much, but they are so different than buffalo!! I don't know why, but I'm not very good with horses. I think I'm a little impatient... and buffalo, are so stoic!! and kind of ancient, they aren't afraid of things, especially the dominant bull, although, they really don't like grizzly bears!!!! Anyway, thank you! for such a kind message. I hardly ever look at comments on youtube, and just decided to today, I hope you are whispering to horses!!!! My eyes are kind of shiny too! God bless you!!!
What a peaceful content gentleman. Its also cool to see the domestication of Buffalo. Its been thousands of years since humans did this with livestock.
Thank you!!!! I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. They really are happy here. They can go through adn over my fences in a second. The reason they don't is that dont want to. They feel safe here, they live their life here together as a herd, the young bulls go for meat. I do that all myself here on the ranch, it happens with no fear. If I don't take the bulls, my dominant bull Chester, will kill them. He has killed 3 in ten years. I live with it, even though that happens sometimes, they want to live together. God bless you, and thanks!!! :)
Reminds of the goofball who thought grizzly bears were his friends, right up the the moment they ate him and his girlfriend. Bison are very large, dangerous wild animals. They will stomp you into a mud hole at the blink of an eye.
Sorry to be "that guy", ... bison. Great video though, and i guess i am a living dead man, because i've loved bison since i was a kid, but i've barely seen them in real life, a couple of times from far away. It must be great to be accepted by these giant animals! Nice guitarplaying as well.
Beautiful creatures and this man is a good man. It would be nice, if we started calling a Bison a Bison and not a Buffalo, who are different animals. But I understand that it is difficult to change in America.....
You are domesticating a wild animal,why,now when they see a human they are going to expect a bucket of sweet feed.Do not feed them let them be wild,why do some people want to control what wasn't meant to be controlled,you shouldn't be petting a wild bison and I hope that Wildlife Fish and Game pass a law that will keep people from domesticating wild bisons.
Hi Mylene, Lot's of people ask me about this. The latin name is 'bison, bison' for the plains bison, and bison Athabasca, for the wood bison. My original bull was a wild bull from Parks Canada and a cross between the two. The common name is North American buffalo, wood buffalo and plains buffalo. It's confusing for people because they are a different species than a cape buffalo from Africa or a water buffalo from Asia, but both names are correct. We call many plants and animals by their common names, for example dog and cat or dandelion and rose. Thanks for your comment! :)
Their land is their land. What they do on it is their's to do. White man took their land, destroyed their way of life, killed their spirit, gave them alcohol, knowing exactly what it would do to them...and then judges them by what they have become.
Thsee creatures are the tender loving care creatures they are different with other animals, they don’t destroy the towns, the don’t looting, they don’t burning and they don’t vandalized just like blm democrats
I don't understand why anyone would not like this video! It a very warm, embracing view of one of God's many majestic animals.
Thank you Judy!! :)
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thanks for your kind message! :)
I had a Native American friend who took care of the Buffalo herd on his reservation, and I used to join him when he fed them and walked among them and what Leo says about them is true.
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thanks so much for sharing this with me and everyone. You and your friend are always welcome here!
R8
Such amazing and beautiful animals...wishing there were millions of them walking wild again.
there are
I recognize this to be the Wood Bison as well. Not the Plain Bison.
Thank you!
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. There are about 600,000 thousand buffalo in Canada and America today. There were about 50 million in the mid 1800's and then only about 450 left by 1890, it's a long sad, beautiful, and hopeful story. Kind of the best and the worst, like all of history... :)
Brought a warmth to my heart to see such majestic animals.... May the Great Spirit bless you on your road.
Thanks you so much!!! God bless you!!!!!!!
I love the end when you gave him a little fist to nose bump and he walked away saying see ya buddy.
Thanks!!! me too!! hahaha, He's 10 years old now, almost full grown and he still does that sometimes... thanks!!
He's so beautiful, the Bull. I could stare at him all day.
He is like no other creature I've ever know, except his dad. Buffalo are so different from any animal I've ever experienced. I love and respect them, and admire them so much! Thank you so much for your kind words for us!!!!! God bless you!!!
I'm sitting here, crying like a baby...............
At 60 years old, I have No Explanation why............
Something from the past, Is tugging hard.......
At My Heart !
Thank You Lee Downey, Thank you So Much !!
Thank youuuuuu! Randy!!
The song helps a lot , doesn't it ?
Tissue??
@@ronmcneal1569 I hardly ever looked, , look at comments on youtube, I just see yours again. Thank you so much Ron, for such kind , heartfelt words. God bless you!!Thanks!!!!
Gorgeous and noble creatures. Glad to see they are well treated.
Thank you!!!!!
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts.
Yes, I can feel their spirits. They are beautiful.
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thanks Sandra!! I feel it too. :)
Thanks for sharing this video
A man that gets his vision & doesn't live it is a dead man walking. Im 23 & that hit me pretty hard
Thank you, You will live yours!!!
The bison are amazing ♡
What a beautiful video
Beautiful song 👍
Thank you!!!!!
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thanks for taking the time to listen and for such a kind message. :)
thanks for this awsome video. i own a large tract of washington mountain land. its been a dream to steward buffalo, im currently shopping, and synchronistically came across your video. very much appreciated.
You're welcome!! Did you ever find your buffalo?? I hope so!!!!! :D
Leo Downey
Sir! YOU HAVE THE HEART OF A BUFFALO.
Good on ya'
Roger
That's a beautiful thing to say, thank you!!!!
What? For lunch? Doe the taste good?
Sometimes you plan a visit to a Buffalo Ranch to finally see those amazing animals close up but you really don't know whatelse to expect. Then you meet a man like Leo and you are deeply impressed by his story and life and how he sorted it all out for himself to become happy. And he is so natural and convincing because it's all him and no learned speech. We really enjoyed that time at his Ranch and are listening to his music while driving thru the Canadian Rockies. Thanks for that precious moments. Keep up your awesome work with that impressive animals.
Kai, I never even knew you left this beautiful message!!
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. Thank you so much!! What a kind message.... it inspires me.... God bless you and your family!!!
O really I was walking with them when I was younger.You have it WOW.love it
that was just amazing an beautiful loved this god bless them an you
God bless you!!! Mischelle!!! Thank you so much!! :D
It's amazing that you're able to do what you're doing. what most people dream of doing that again is powerful and beautiful.
God is watching over you and has blessed you to follow your path you are being guided.
God bless and be one with Earth and nature
I feel grateful for every second here and with the buffalo, and also with the people of our community, Golden B.C. I know I 'm very fortunate. I try to share it, and God is watching over me, and you and all of us, even though things seem so weird around us. I pray all the time for God and the angels and saints to guide me and help me. I'm saying a prayer for you right now. Thank you!!!
Miss you Soulbrotha. Love you
My god those things have to be over 1,000 pounds. Had no idea how big a buffalo was.
WOW.. tears are running down my face. You hit a cord with this old lady. Thank you. I am proud to follow your channel.
I never looked at comments on my u tube ch before and I only just saw this Lady Jay, thank you!!!!
I'm so sorry it's taken me 4 years to reply to your beautiful message!!! Thank you!!!! it makes my eyes shiny right now too! :)
I understand what you're doing and respect it.. but there are people who'll think Bison are tame...from this.. I live next to Yellowstone Park and i've seen people who got to close charged.. They're wild animals and need to be respected.. What you are doing here is amazing..
Thanks for your message David, and I know! I don't want people to do this. I do an educational tour every morning in the summer and I explain the whole thing, and how it took about 5 years before I could go in on foot with them. I should probably have explained that more in the video! Thank you for watching and for your kind words! :)
@@OldChester77 It probably would be best to include that.. haha I do see you said all that at the beginning.. I've been sculpting a Buffalo off and on over the last 5 years... They're such a unique animal...
You make a good Job everday with Buffalos.
Greetings out Germany
Reinhard
just.….. WOW!
Leo keep what you are doing , I admire people like you ,keep it up
This is beautiful great man!!
Thank you so much Fabio!!! God bless you!!!!! :D
Que belleza, ver que hay gente que valora y ama a los búfalos. Me recuerda las películas de indios😍
gracias patricia!!! ¡¡Dios te bendiga!!
Hello Sir, I'm in awe just looking at those Magnificent Bison. That was your Vison to be one with them, God blessed you abundantly and now your Soul is complete. Em just wondering if you ever did this with the Wild Horse's?, now that would be my Soul Journey. Such splendor. I just found you today 10-5-19 and yes I Subbed your beautiful Channel. I Thank you for this incredible Video. I'm going to look for more breathtaking Video Moment's. Just WoW with a wee bit of tears. 🍀 ~Eileen~
Thank you Eileen!! I would love to be able to be with the horses the way I am able to be with the buffalo, but I can't! I've had horses and I love them so much, but they are so different than buffalo!! I don't know why, but I'm not very good with horses. I think I'm a little impatient... and buffalo, are so stoic!! and kind of ancient, they aren't afraid of things, especially the dominant bull, although, they really don't like grizzly bears!!!! Anyway, thank you! for such a kind message. I hardly ever look at comments on youtube, and just decided to today, I hope you are whispering to horses!!!! My eyes are kind of shiny too! God bless you!!!
This is a rare calling . And this happened to be his.... Keep on keeping on !!!!
Thank you
What a peaceful content gentleman. Its also cool to see the domestication of Buffalo. Its been thousands of years since humans did this with livestock.
Thank you!!!!
I apologize that I've just begun to look at the comments on my youtube posts. They really are happy here. They can go through adn over my fences in a second. The reason they don't is that dont want to. They feel safe here, they live their life here together as a herd, the young bulls go for meat. I do that all myself here on the ranch, it happens with no fear. If I don't take the bulls, my dominant bull Chester, will kill them. He has killed 3 in ten years. I live with it, even though that happens sometimes, they want to live together. God bless you, and thanks!!! :)
Amazing
Been there !!! Amazing place, amazing man !
Chester is amazing!
Nature and all creatures there-in should be admired - - respected and preserved, period.
Bison are the Triceratops of the prairie.
What you do here in this life, on this earth you pay for for generations.
Reminds of the goofball who thought grizzly bears were his friends, right up the the moment they ate him and his girlfriend. Bison are very large, dangerous wild animals. They will stomp you into a mud hole at the blink of an eye.
Indeed. That grizzly guy and his innocent girlfriend gave their all. Yikes.
Not good.
Sorry to be "that guy", ... bison.
Great video though, and i guess i am a living dead man, because i've loved bison since i was a kid, but i've barely seen them in real life, a couple of times from far away.
It must be great to be accepted by these giant animals! Nice guitarplaying as well.
Let the bison eat grass don't feed them corn. When you tamper with their food, you change the nutritional chemistry of their meat.
Wow Nice!
Thank you!!!
And that ain't no B.S.!!!
I am Montagnard jarai tribe love these animals so beautiful
Wild bison taste much better than farmed ones.
Que belleza
Check out cross timbers bison Dusty Baker has a nice bison operation in Oklahoma
Are Buffalo, and Bison different animals? Do they need more native grasses olanted on the Great Plains?
Good evening, can you tell me if the male stays with the females all year round, or just from July to September?
Thank you very much.
Beautiful creatures and this man is a good man. It would be nice, if we started calling a Bison a Bison and not a Buffalo, who are different animals. But I understand that it is difficult to change in America.....
I hear bison/buffalo is good eating. Any comments on how to cook 'em?
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beathyfool
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Is this you’re herd?
Are you an American Indian? If so, what nation/tribe do you represent?
Izinli olsa izin buraya briers indir
William Oscar garvin: I wish I could have done this stuff what this guy is doing That gives The bison food.
BISON......no buffalo in North America!
Animals feed the land. Man just turns it to dust. Bring the animals back.
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They are Bison.not Buffalo.their is a big difference.
Most people, especially kids, should not get close to Buffalo.
Is this one one those 1/256ths native white guys that plays the indian part whenever a camera is nearby?
Enseñate primero a poner bien lps titulos de tus videos , ese animal es un bisonte y no un bufalo.
Don't feed the wildlife. Let them live as they naturally do in nature. It's not about you.
Who made all things? jw.org ♡
You are domesticating a wild animal,why,now when they see a human they are going to expect a bucket of sweet feed.Do not feed them let them be wild,why do some people want to control what wasn't meant to be controlled,you shouldn't be petting a wild bison and I hope that Wildlife Fish and Game pass a law that will keep people from domesticating wild bisons.
leave them alone
Actually that is a bison not a Buffalo
Hi Mylene, Lot's of people ask me about this. The latin name is 'bison, bison' for the plains bison, and bison Athabasca, for the wood bison. My original bull was a wild bull from Parks Canada and a cross between the two. The common name is North American buffalo, wood buffalo and plains buffalo. It's confusing for people because they are a different species than a cape buffalo from Africa or a water buffalo from Asia, but both names are correct. We call many plants and animals by their common names, for example dog and cat or dandelion and rose. Thanks for your comment! :)
They are cattle. If you buy some cows and a bull it would be the same.
He never died before 😡
How about giving back ... By giving back some acreage to Canadian Indigenous people - More Real action Mr Downey less show and tell
Why so they can just drink themselves to death on the land?
Their land is their land. What they do on it is their's to do. White man took their land, destroyed their way of life, killed their spirit, gave them alcohol, knowing exactly what it would do to them...and then judges them by what they have become.
segarza I think you misspelled conquered hahah. Law of conquest bro dont like it go cry to mommy
Just telling like it is bro.
segarza yea I am, if you are conquered you have no rights and you lose everything
Thsee creatures are the tender loving care creatures they are different with other animals, they don’t destroy the towns, the don’t looting, they don’t burning and they don’t vandalized just like blm democrats
BRUH IM WEAK 😂👌
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