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Give Big Gallatin Valley 2025
Give Big Gallatin Valley is a 24-hour celebration of giving! This event connects generous community members with causes they care about most to raise important funding for Gallatin County nonprofits like Buffalo Field Campaign. The initiative has raised over $17.4 million in the past 10 years. Keep a lookout for our story on our FaceBook & Instagram pages Thursday night as there will be a live…
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Buffalo Dance as Life Turns Easy Again
As the snow melts and the rivers swell, the rebirth of the earth brings the green grass up on the land. Mother Buffalo bursting with the next generation dance as life has turned easy again. The hunters are all but gone, the trap is shut and 900 Buffalo will never roam again. Many of the Buffalo carried the next generation, the ones no one counts. Spring brings joy and hope that calm has arrived…
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Buffalo are Communities of Wisdom
Our last wild bison bed down just outside Yellowstone's north gate, The Arch. As soon as Buffalo leave the park, they are trapped and sent to slaughter or quarantine by Yellowstone NPS. As the trap doors close for the last time this season, my heart and body weep for the families of Buffalo that never got to truly be Buffalo. These are not just numbers - they are Communities of Wisdom! Buffalo…
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Bethel the Buffalo / March Management Madness
Bethel the Buffalo Reunites With Her Herd Bethel the Buffalo Buffalo Safe Crossing Remember Bethel the Buffalo? We wrote about her earlier this season as she had become separated from her herd and was living in neighborhoods around West Yellowstone. The locals have become very attached to Bethel and BFC patrols often saw her crossing roads and hanging out in the neighborhoods, playing with swing…
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Rare Moments of Buffalove Keep Us Strong
~by Mike Mease, BFC Winter Ops, Gardiner, MT Big Bull in Gardiner, 2025 Monday night patrol was a hard one. When I finally got to go home (aka Gardiner base camp) at 7:45pm, 10 Buffalo were in Beattie Gulch, the hunt zone. Another 70 Buffalo were around the trap. Tossing and turning all night from my worst fears about those Buffalo, I awoke with them still present when my alarm sounded at 6am.…
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Advocate for Change or Stay the Same?
~by Mike Mease, BFC Winter Ops, Gardiner, MT At this moment over 530 of our last wild Buffalo have been captured and at least 250 have been shipped to slaughter. Thirteen Buffalo have been harvested in Beattie Gulch by tribal members. These first two hunts have been the talk of the media, activists, and locals. Watching Buffalo get shot is never a good thing to witness. I have seen some of the…
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Over 400 Wild Buffalo Have Been Captured In Less Than a Week
The mountains rained Buffalo today all over this land to the home they can not roam!~Mike Mease, In the Field with the Buffalo, March 2025 In less than a week, over 440 wild Buffalo have been captured and will be wild no more… The National Park Service has baited and captured Buffalo for three decades and years like this one every Buffalo that has migrated are captured and lost from the wild.…
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Tough Times for the Buffalo - A Week in Review
Last week in the field was a tough one for the Buffalo and our hearts here at Camp. And, as I write, between 200-210 of our last wild Buffalo were captured by Yellowstone National Park this week and are currently being confined in the state and federal governments' trap in Gardiner, MT. Read our Press Release: Yellowstone Traps Wild Buffalo Again! This after 6 bison were killed by hunters, a…
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Treaty Hunters and the Buffalo Hunt
by Jacob Faye, BFC Volunteer Coordinator This week in the field we sadly had 4 Buffalo shot and killed. As much as we try to be there for the Buffalo, we cannot prevent the inevitable. I had the opportunity to meet and get to know the hunters who harvested these Buffalo. Buffalo through the spotting scope on patrol With several volunteers, I was on my way back from a ski several miles into…
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Volunteers Patrol While Management Plan Fails
BFC Volunteers continue to be eyes and ears for the Buffalo as the management plan continues to fail our Last Wild Bison BFC Co-founder & Campaign Coordinator, Mike Mease, shares the hard truth from the field...with the Buffalo Once again we witness the effect of the outdated and unjust Interagency Bison Management Plan. As the Plan enters its 30th year, the time is now to look to Tribal…
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