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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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Why is the Horse Butte Peninsula Special?
Horse Butte is the only last wild bison calving grounds outside the park! Horse Butte is a wildlife-rich peninsula, mainly on the Gallatin National Forest, extending over 10,000 acres from the border of Yellowstone National Park to Hebgen Lake, just outside West Yellowstone, Montana. It is a traditional calving ground for the park's Buffalo herds where they return annually for spring green up.…
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Every New Calf Born is a Victory
This week in the field West Yellowstone, our presence in the field begins to become especially important as the Buffalo mothers, who have been fighting for their survival all winter, begin giving birth to their calves. As beautiful and cute as they are, the calves, the new generation, are the symbol of a fresh start. They are the young who must learn how to survive from their elders, and will one…
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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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