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A Message from our Tribal Programs Director
We bring you this Update on Thanksgiving, a day when bounty is celebrated in many American homes that have the means to do so. This holiday is a hard one to square. Underneath the pomp and circumstance, there is a history of harm – and many Native homes contemplate that harm on Thanksgiving. BFC stands as an ally to Indigenous Peoples and we encourage you to do the same by visiting the following…
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Conservation Update: Bison Receive Dual Classification in Colorado
Have you *herd* what’s happening in Colorado? At its November meeting, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a dual classification for Bison as both wildlife and livestock, setting a new precedent for Buffalo conservation in the United States. What does this mean? Starting January 1st, wild Bison will receive legal protection in the state of Colorado. Our Board VP and Tribal…
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Art for the Buffalo - Education & Outreach
Thia Martin, Fine Artist & BFC Advisory Board Member, Amanda Gress, Fine Artist & Art Instructor, and Justine Sanchez, BFC Board President, joined forces once again in an outreach and education event for kids; Art for the Buffalo. In 2019, this trio hosted a 4 month long art exhibit at the Boulder Museum and were excited to get back together in Thia’s home studio in Colorado to share the story of…
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Our Public Lands Podcast Interviews BFC's Dallas Gudgell
Our Public Lands Podcast: Wild Bison Conservation and Tribal Co-Management with Dallas Gudgell In this episode, Adam speaks with Dallas Gudgell, a tribal member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, about the conservation movement today, Indigenous perspectives, and the current state and challenges of bison management in and around Yellowstone National Park. Dallas discusses tribal…
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Tabling Outreach in Yellowstone National Park
During the summer season, the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) sets up a table every day within Yellowstone National Park (YNP) to engage with visitors and continue our outreach efforts. Most people that we interact with have not heard of the issues we are fighting against (i.e., the current bison management plan). Tabling has taught me that each individual cares about the Buffalo for a different…
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Keystone of the Yellowstone!
It is estimated that 30-60 million Buffalo (Bison bison bison) roamed the North American continent prior to their systematic elimination caused by the actions of Euro-American settlers. In the early 19th century, the range of the plains Bison spanned as far north as the present-day Canadian province of Saskatchewan to the state of Texas. As a keystone species coupled to North American grasslands,…
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The Government wants to sell up to 250 million acres of Your Public Lands!
The Government wants to sell 120 to 250+ million acres of Your Public Lands! To Protect your Public Lands, is to Protect our Last Wild Bison! The US government is prepared to sell your public land - public trust - via The Big "Ugly" (Beautiful) Bill. The federal government has managed and preserved this public treasure for over 250 years. This includes landscapes that have become an icon of our…
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Buffalo Field Campaign's 2025 Vision Retreat
Renewal & Reciprocity - A new paradigm for success Every 3-5 years, BFC's Board and Coordinators take 2 full days and 3 nights to revisit our founding mission and vision. For our 2025 Visioning, Board Vice President, Dallas Gudgell, "assigned" us to read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Serviceberry, as the doorway into last weekend's retreat. In this short treatise on reciprocity, “enoughness”, and…
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Buffalo & Elephant: Two Stories Meeting in Montana
by Kiersten Cluster, BFC Buffalo Backbone Herd Bull The Great Elephant Migration, en route to the Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana, is a traveling art exhibit consisting of 100 elephant sculptures created by indigenous artists living in the Nilgiri Hills in Southern India. In this forested region, “150 elephants share space with a quarter of a million people. Humans and elephants share the…
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A Genuine Pleasantness of Being with the Buffalo
By Megan Langlois, BFC Intern I was fully prepared to write a science/sustainability update this week on how the Buffalo and their numbers, near extinction in the wild, are viewed from a scientific perspective. I also considered focusing my update on my stories of seeing the calves growing and progressing from little babies shaky on their legs to having tiny horn buds poking out their growing…
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