Buffalo Field Campaign: Working to Stop the Yellowstone Bison Slaughter

Conservationists Seek Emergency Injunction To Prevent Slaughter of Yellowstone Bison

Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction (PDF 120k) Helena, Montana - A coalition of conservation groups, Native Americans, and Montanans filed an urgent motion for injunctive relief in federal court today to prevent a repeat of the 2008...

Conservationists File Suit Against Federal Agencies To End Slaughter of Yellowstone Bison

Woodbury 830-3099 Stephany Seay 646-0070 Bison Habitat Lawsuit Page Missoula, Montana - A coalition of conservation groups, Native Americans, and Montanans are suing the National Park Service for their role in slaughtering 3,300 wild American bison that...

Bison or Buffalo & Native Americans

tribal voice in managment decisions affecting the herds. Here we take an historical look at the inseparable destinies of native peoples and the buffalo (also called bison) they depended upon for existence. The slaughter of buffalo as presented by...

What about Native American involvement in the Yellowstone buffalo?

To Native Americans the buffalo represent the essence of their social, cultural, and spiritual identity and a relationship tens of thousands of years old. That the tribes haven't been allowed at the table where the ranchers, land managers, and...

Governor Steve Bullock to Be Honored by Native Leaders, Wild Buffalo Allies

970-390-2380, mease@wildrockies.org HELENA, MONTANA: On Thursday, February 18, from 1:00-4:00pm, in the Capitol Rotunda, Native American leaders, spiritual peoples, and legislators representing various buffalo culture tribes will join with Buffalo Field...

`Buffalo Wild` Submitted to Native American Music Awards!

words of the legendary John Trudell, and talented musicians Goodshield Aguilar and Mignon Geli, has been submitted to the Native American Music Awards. We are very excited to report that Buffalo Wild, the powerful music video created by BFC's Mike Mease...

The Problems & Our Solutions

affecting wild bison. Raise public awareness about wild buffalo, the threats to their survival, and the need to preserve native Yellowstone habitat because the herds depend upon it for their existence. Build grassroots (public and other nonprofit)...

Yellowstone Bison Habitat Website Launched

bison habitat and mapping site: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/habitat.html Conservation status of American Bison as a native wildlife species: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/habitat/bisonconservation.html West Yellowstone, Montana - Buffalo...

Buffalo and Native Americans

Indigenous Lifeways, Tribal Sovereignty, and Treaty Rights ~ On the Buffalo Trail: From the Desk of BFC's Executive Director, May 2022

emotionally-driven policy response. When I was hired a few years ago, many supporters reached out to me celebrating that a Native American was hired as Executive Director for Buffalo Field Campaign. I brought a wealth of knowledge and decades of policy...

Wild American Bison Stolen from Yellowstone National Park Threatened with Population Control

potential for the last wild population of American buffalo,” Seay said. Population control was rejected as an alternative in the IBMP Record of Decision and Final Environmental Impact Statement signed in 2000 because environmental impacts would be “too...

Rest in Power and Know Your Work Lives On

~ February 23 - March 5, 2023 The Rosalie Little Thunder Benefit is an eStore Benefit with all proceeds going to the Native Partnerships Fund. Thursday, February 23 - Sunday, March 5 - Details Below Honoring Rosalie Every February I am reminded of what...

Yellowstone Buffalo Slaughter History

will, as long as we allow business as usual." Buffalo as Target for Eradication Plans Wishing to control the land of the native people, and knowing the Indians’ complete dependence upon the buffalo, 19th century government leaders launched a campaign to...

National Mammal In Peril As Yellowstone National Park Starts Capturing Wild Bison

such monumental significance in this country, as a symbol of the wild, untamed land, as the true shapers and stewards of native grasslands and prairie communities, and for their profound cultural importance to many indigenous tribes,” said Stephany Seay...

First Tribal Permit Used in Montana's Yellowstone Bison Hunt

tribe." As far as BFC witnessed, the Little Shell hunter held no ceremony in reverence for the buffalo. "How can we, as Native People exhibit prayer so it is understood by those watching? With this hunt the Native People have been forced [by the state]...

Wild Bison Slaughter Breaks 20th Century Record

questioning their genetic integrity. In the United States, only one wild bison population has continuously occupied its native range since prehistoric time: the Yellowstone bison (Gates et al. 2005). Loss of genetic diversity stemming from the near...

Yellowstone Captures Wild Bison

by Montana livestock interests for the unjust and harsh treatment inflicted upon wild bison when they migrate into their native Montana. There has never been a documented case of wild bison transmitting the livestock disease to cattle. Other wildlife,...

BFC Volunteer Ross Martin Publishes in the Yale Environmental Review

grazing in tallgrass prairie shows that bison create richer, more resilient grasslands. Bison enhance biodiversity, support native plants and help prairies withstand severe drought. Where Bison Roam, Prairies Thrive A long-term study of bison grazing in...

An Honorable Harvest: Re-Indigenizing the Colonized Mind

tribes from the park, it also separated the Park Service from interacting with the tribes and the park itself as a Native space.” Perhaps the best way to appreciate the effect of this severance of the co-evolutionary relationship between the tribes and...

Honoring James A. Horsley

We, as a nation, are exercising a preference for a world-wide abundant domestic species over the last wild herd of native buffalo in existence today in the United States. Some scientists believe that if more slaughtering occurs and if another severe...

Last Words of Buffalo Inspiration

February 19, 2021 Adrian Jawort "My name is Adrian Jawort. I am also testifying against HB 302 on behalf of Montana Native Vote. Firstly, there’s been no known brucellosis transmission from bison to cattle in history, but there has been vice versa....

New License Plate for Montana: Let the Buffalo Roam

Ron Hunter 775-746-6824 Montana - Wild bison advocates across the state of Montana will be able to show their support for native wild buffalo with issuance of a new license plate. The license plate, featuring an image of a buffalo and the words "Let the...

Bison Advocacy Group Holds Week of Action in Southwest Montana

yet they are still met with extreme and violent intolerance by state and federal agencies when they migrate towards their native Montana habitat. Under the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP), a highly controversial joint government arrangement,...

Bibliography

(YELL), YNP Superintendent (July 7, 1997). Fisher, J.W., and T. Roll (1998). "Ecological Relationships Between Bison and Native Americans During Late Prehistory and the Early Historic Period." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bison...

Wild Buffalo Released Again From Yellowstone's Controversial Trap

National Park operates the trap as a means to appease Montana livestock interests, who hold extreme prejudice against native wild buffalo and frown upon them roaming their native Montana home lands. In mid-January, 52 bull bison were released from...

Congress Investigates Yellowstone Bison Slaughter

corridors for bison to migrate through private lands in the Yellowstone area." Bison are killed for attempting to access native habitat outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park because livestock interests assert that bison may transmit...

Yellowstone National Park Slaughters 37 of America's Last Wild Buffalo

American icon," said Seay, "These bison are our national heritage, a keystone species critical to the ecological health of native grasslands." The bison were captured for following their natural migratory instincts and walking onto or near habitat that...

Bison Slaughter Increases in Yellowstone

necessary to prevent the spread of brucellosis from wild bison to cattle. Brucellosis is a livestock disease introduced to native wildlife in the early 20th century. However, there has never been a documented case of wild bison transmitting brucellosis...

Buffalo Field Campaign Supports Montana Bison Bill

1) Removal of the Department of Livestock's authority over wild bison management; 2) Respect for wild bison as a valued native wildlife species in Montana; and 3) Addressing concerns of private property owners who welcome wild bison on their land,"...

Man Blocks Road to Yellowstone Bison Trap

which is heavily influenced by Montana's livestock industry. The IBMP allows for hazing (chasing) of bison out for their native Montana, a lengthy late-season harvest, and capture for slaughter and research. American citizens and others world-wide have...

Yellowstone Valley

yellowstone valley

Our Legal Work

US Forest Service, US Department of Interior, and Yellowstone National Park on land use within the Yellowstone bison herd's native range. The (federal) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has provided the public the right to request access to records from...

$10,000 Matching Funds in February

Thunder. Funds raised will be used to support the 2nd Annual Rosalie Little Thunder Memorial Walk in Gardiner, Montana and Native outreach efforts. Rosalie Little Thunder Rosalie Little Thunder was a true leader and a visionary who recognized the sacred...

BFC Outreach Education - Tabling 2017 in Yellowstone National Park

the original Lakota name, “Pte.” Visitors to Yellowstone engaged with science students, outdoor educators, activists, and native volunteers from all around Turtle Island. One young environmentalist and journalism student, Daniel M., also known as...

Buffalo Coin Celebration Premature in Light of Yellowstone Slaughter

nickel." Dan Brister of the Buffalo Field Campaign called the celebration premature, "With wild buffalo unwelcome on their native range, with the National Park Service participating in the annual slaughter of hundreds of buffalo, and with the interests...

Montana Shows Intolerance for Bison in First Capture Operation of the Season

said Darrell Geist, a member of the Buffalo Field Campaign. "When local ranchers import cattle to graze on the bison's native habitat, it should be the ranchers job to mind their cattle. If they want help from the state to protect their cattle, it...

Montana Slaughters Yellowstone Bison In First Kill Of Season

said Darrell Geist, a member of the Buffalo Field Campaign. "When local ranchers import cattle to graze on the bison's native habitat, it should be the ranchers' job to mind their cattle. If they want help from the state to protect their cattle, it...

Open Season on America's Last Wild Bison

of this shoot 'em at the border Department of Livestock led "hunt" with no year round habitat." Wild American bison, while native to vast expanses of North America, are granted no year-round habitat in Montana. There is never a time that wild bison are...

Montana & Tribal Bison Hunts Take Toll Along Yellowstone Boundary

have been issued, with another 14 being split between both treaty hunt tribes. Wild American bison are a migratory species native to vast expanses of North America, with the last wild population in the U.S. living in and around Yellowstone National...

Yellowstone National Park Captures 53 of America's Last Wild Bison

Cattle interests claim such actions are necessary to prevent the spread of brucellosis, a livestockdisease introduced to native wildlife in the early 20th century, from wild bison to cattle. However, there has never been a documented case of wild bison...

Groups File Suit to Protect Quarantined Bison & Public Trust

Western WatershedsProject who is litigating the case, said, "Fish, Wildlife and Parks had five years to develop an alternative that would keep these bison in the public domain, and the public even suggested several reasonable options for these bison to...

Lawsuit To Be Heard in U.S. Federal Court Over Slaughter of America's Last Wild Buffalo

Judge Charles C. Lovell will hear arguments for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of conservation groups, Native Americans, and Montanans against Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin National Forest for harming wild bison and...

An Open Letter to Tribal Leaders & the American People

that buffalo provide to the ecosystem. The government does not bring public attention to the suffering it has caused to native plants, birds and animals when newborn buffalo calves flee Montana, driven away under the propellers of livestock agency...

Wild Bison Advocates Plan Week of Action

on the issues impacting America's last wild buffalo, and field orientations. Tuesday, February 10, BFC will support a Native American rally in Helena (BFC Press Release - 02/04/15), Montana from 1:00 - 3:00 to help empower and amplify native voices on...

Decolonizing Yellowstone Bison: The State of Montana Needs to End its Practice of Ethnogenocide

built on the backs of slaves. The home of the brave - including those traumatized veterans of the Civil War who slaughtered Native American women and children because gold was found in the Black Hills and Sierra Nevada, not to mention these modern-day...

About MCA 81-2-120

is no year-round population of wild buffalo in Montana, and no provision in MCA 81-2-120 to sustain wild buffalo—a wild, native species that Montana biologists recognize as vulnerable to “extinction or extirpation in the state.” (9) Why not run a...

What's missing in the Custer Gallatin Forest Plan revision?

of comments on standards from our May 1 draft: * The best available scientific information supports strengthening alternative D with strong enforceable standards for American bison, bighorn sheep, and threatened grizzly bears. * Conserving American...

Adopting Alternative D with strong standards for American bison

Adopting Alternative D is the environmentally preferred decision we must convince Forest Supervisor Mary C. Erickson to make in the Custer Gallatin Forest Plan revision. Alternative D was made possible because of your comments. It is now up to all of...

A BFC Volunteer’s Experience: Meet Sydney Grange

and harassment of buffalo in prioritization of rancher interests is a continuation of the colonization of the land, native species, and a continued assault against native people. Taking a stand against the buffalo slaughter, is important for the...

IBMP Meeting: YNP Bison Biologist Announces Retirement

not mentioned. The most interesting thing at this meeting was the afternoon’s discussion of population goals. Initially, native wildlife experts talked about setting aside population numbers and managing for lack of human conflict. Bison biologists...

Men Block Road to Yellowstone's Buffalo Trap

Defense’s release included statements from the two men: Wolf stated, “My father is from Michaocan, Mexico,so I have both Native and colonizer blood. Since I wasn’t raised in a Native setting, this is my way to give back to the Native community. I’m from...

Report: American Bison A Species Of Conservation Concern

that displace buffalo from their home ranges, and state intolerance, threaten the viability and diversity of buffalo – a native keystone species. In response, Buffalo Field Campaign has prepared a report in support of Region 1 and the Custer Gallatin...

That’s a Wrap! Thank You to Everyone for Another Excellent BFC Road Show!

events in Portland. The first one was at the Bison Coffee House, a family run coffee house owned Loretta Guzman a Portland native and member of the Shoshone Bannock Tribe of Fort Hall, Idaho. This coffee house was amazing. They had delicious soup and...

Mission - Vision - Values

and slaughter of Yellowstone’s wild buffalo herds; protect the natural habitat of wild, free-roaming buffalo and other native wildlife; and work with all people—especially Indigenous Nations—to honor and protect the sacredness of the wild buffalo. We...

From Yellowstone to Standing Rock: We are One for the Buffalo and Sacred Waters

in the remote Pelican Valley — it is the descendants of these strong survivors — thelast to continuously occupy their native habitat — who we stand with today. Buffalo Field Campaign stands in solidarity with Standing Rock and all water protectors...

104 Yellowstone Bison Hazed while Hunt is Underway

hunt is underway, the agencies are conducting hazing operations. Imagine the outcry if federal agents chased elk from their native range at the height of elk season." On Friday, November 25, hunters shot two bull bison, members of America's only...

FWP Suspends Montana Bison Hunt; DOL Plans Hazing

be far less opposition to the state's bison hunt." BFC opposes Montana's bison hunt because wild bison are not valued as a native wildlife species in Montana and are never allowed in the state without being subjected to hazing, capture, slaughter,...

Yellowstone Bison Slaughter Exceeds 500

the supposed reason for the Park's heavy-handed management. US Homeland Security agents have been escorting the country's native wild bison to slaughter facilities in Montana and Idaho, some as far away as 500 miles. The NPS justifies Yellowstone's...

Montana Bison Hunt Ends, Slaughter Continues

buffalo currently being held in the Stephens Creek capture facility will be sent to slaughter later this week. Bison are native to Montana, yet the state has refused to respect them as a valued, native wildlife species. Bison are denied access to...

Wild Bison Population Plummets as Montana & National Park Service Trap & Slaughter Hundreds of Yellowstone Bison

Field Campaign (BFC) spokesperson. "The bottom line is that the cattle industry fears wild bison re-inhabiting their native range, much of which is located on America's public lands." In 1999, U.S. taxpayers spent $13 million for land and conservation...

Massive DOL Bison Hazing Operation Disrupts Region & Neighborhoods

"I live here because I love this place, I love the bison, and DOL is pushing people to their limits." Nearly 1,000 native wild buffalo have been killed during the 2005-2006 winter under management actions carried out by the Montana Department of...

Bison Hunt Expanded by MT Fish, Wildlife, and Parks

spokeswoman Stephany Seay. "Wild bison are ecologically extinct in Montana. The state currently doesn't value bison as a native wildlife species and livestock interests are calling the shots. Bison must be provided year-round habitat and be allowed to...

Wild Buffalo Cows and Calves Captured by Livestock Agents

nor be able to live out their lives as a wild, migratory species. "While the state touts quarantine as an alternative to slaughter, they offer this domestication process as an ultimatum to Native Americans who want to return wild buffalo to tribal...

19 Wild Buffalo Cows and Calves Slaughtered by Livestock Agents

nor be able to liveout their lives as a wild, migratory species. "While the state touts quarantine as an alternative to slaughter, they offer this domestication process as an ultimatum to Native Americans who want to return buffalo to tribal lands....

Wild Buffalo Suffer Week of Capture, Quarantine & Slaughter

nor be able to live out their lives as a wild, migratory species. "While the state touts quarantine as an alternative to slaughter, they offer this domestication process as an ultimatum to Native Americans who want to return buffalo to tribal lands....

Gallatin National Forest Removes Public Records Sought Under Freedom of Information Act

the Freedom of Information Act since June 2004. The group is researching land use within the Yellowstone bison herd's native and historic range. "The Forest Service violated their public trust responsibility by removing records we had been seeking under...

Gallatin National Forest Destroyed Files Sought by Bison Advocates

has been researching government files since June 2004 to gather information on land use within the Yellowstone bison herd's native and historic range. "We want to know what records the Gallatin National Forest destroyed, " says Dan Brister of the...

Park Service Sends Another 30 Wild Buffalo to Slaughter

we should start calling it Yellowstone National Ranch." Yellowstone is the only place in America continuously occupied by native buffalo. The park provided sanctuary to 23 individuals that survived the 19th century near extinction. The Yellowstone herd...

Yellowstone Bison Border Shoot Begins

agency plan are subjected to harassment or death any time they enter the state. Montana is a critical part of the bison's native habitat. The Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) is the authorizing agency of the hunt, yet this agency lacks any training...

Advocates to Hold Week of Action as Yellowstone Bison Slaughter Continues

of Buffalo Field Campaign. "These bison are our national heritage, a keystone species critical to the ecological health of native grasslands and sacred to First Nations. The American people want the slaughter to stop now." On Friday, the Park Service...

Citizen Takes Action to Shut Down Bison Trap

wild bison from migrating to lands outside of Yellowstone's boundaries. Wild American bison are a migratory species native to vast expanses of North America and are ecologically extinct everywhere in the United States outside of Yellowstone National...

Bison Advocate Forcibly Removed from Protest Platform

wild bison from migrating to lands outside of Yellowstone's boundaries. Wild American bison are a migratory species native to vast expanses of North America and are ecologically extinct everywhere in the United States outside of Yellowstone National...

Two Women Protest Bison Slaughter in Yellowstone Park

wild bison from migrating to lands outside of Yellowstone's boundaries. Wild American bison are a migratory species native to vast expanses of North America and are ecologically extinct everywhere in the United States outside of Yellowstone National...

Private Property Rights Violated by Livestock Agents Hazing Wild Bison

out under the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP), as well as state and treaty hunts. Bison are a migratory species native to vast expanses of North America and are ecologically extinct everywhere in the United States outside of Yellowstone...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Shoots Wild Bull Bison in Idaho

"This is part of the bison's historic migration. For the past several years we've seen bison attempt to access their native habitat in Idaho only to be met with a bullet. As today's shooting makes perfectly clear, Idaho shares Montana's intolerance for...

Wild Bison Advocates Oppose FWP Commission "Bison Management Harvest" Proposal

the last population to retain their identity as a wildlife species. Wild bison are ecologically extinct throughout their native North American range and efforts are underway to gain Endangered Species Act protection for this last continuously wild...

America's Last Wild Bison Abused by Helicopter, Horsemen

unjustifiable and certainly unnecessary," said Buffalo Field Campaign spokeswoman Stephany Seay. "Wild migratory bison are native to Montana, and are an ecologically extinct keystone wildlife species. The Yellowstone herds are beloved the world over,...

Yellowstone Initiates 2014 Wild Bison Slaughter

confined to the man-made boundaries of Yellowstone National Park and consequently are ecologically extinct throughout their native range. Buffalo Field Campaign is a non-profit public interest organization founded in 1997 to stop the slaughter of...

Yellowstone National Park Sends More of America's Last Wild Bison to Slaughter

confined to the man-made boundaries of Yellowstone National Park and consequently are ecologically extinct throughout their native range. Buffalo Field Campaign is a non-profit public interest organization founded in 1997 to stop the slaughter of...

Bison Activist Arraigned

basis in science," said Stephany Seay, a BFC spokesperson. "Wild American bison are ecologically extinct throughout their native range, and while they have no federal protections they certainly warrant Endangered Species Act protections." The wild bison...

Bison Activist Convicted of Blocking Yellowstone's Wild Bison Trap

by Montana's livestock industry. The IBMP allows for the government shooting and hazing (chasing) of bison from their native Montana habitat, a lengthy late-season harvest, and capture for slaughter and research. American citizens and others world-wide...

Yellowstone Bison Sent to Slaughter

chartered InterTribal Buffalo Council. "It is unthinkable, profoundly incongruent, that Yellowstone National Park and Native Americans would participate in the brutal abuse and slaughter of the only wild population of buffalo remaining in this country,"...

Wild Bison Escape Capture In Yellowstone

the chemical pesticide GonaCon. "You think to yourself that this couldn't possibly be happening, that Yellowstone and some Native Americans could do this, but the shocking reality is that those who should be the fiercest champions and strongest allies...

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Denies Endangered Species Act Protection for the Iconic Yellowstone Bison

are a distinct population of bison, reversing its 2011 position. “If buffalo are to recover as a wild species in their native ecosystem, science must prevail over politics,” said BFC Executive Director Dan Brister. “The best available science indicates...

Day Spring Pens

works so diligently to protect Yellowstone National Park’s Wild Buffalo herds and the natural habitat that supports the native wildlife of the park. Dayspring Pens is proud to partner with Buffalo Field Campaign through a donation of 40 engraved pens....

The Good, The Bad & The Beautiful

and slaughter of Yellowstone’s wild buffalo herds; protect the natural habitat of wild, free-roaming buffalo and other native wildlife; and work with all people—especially Indigenous Nations—to honor and protect the sacredness of the wild buffalo...

Yellowstone Bison Need A Safe Wildlife Crossing

(oxymoron alert) plan for bison, we can still celebrate the re-establishment of the 15,000+ year-old relationship between native tribes and wild Buffalo - after 150 years of forced separation - even if only in the form of tribal hunts in...

Contact Politicians & Agencies

National Forest is a signatory to the Interagency Bison Management Plan. They are responsible for managing habitat for native wildlife, yet they have failed to include native wild bison in the Forest’s general management plan.They are also responsible...

Press Release: Buffalo Field Campaign Hosts House of the Moon

is to end the ongoing atrocities and injustices around Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). While Native Americans only comprise 2% of the U.S. population, the murder rate is ten times higher than the national average for women...

Clash of the Agencies - Interagency Bison Management Plan Meeting Report

talked about as well, with the Department of Livestock parties vehemently expressing their disdain for the Statement’s alternatives, while the National Park Service and other important members cited the Department of Livestock for their poor level of...

Buffalo Habitat

buffalo and their crucial relationship with their habitat. Yellowstone buffalo share their ecosystem with a host of other native wildlife species, a partial list of them includes: Mammals Antelope Beaver Black bear Coyote Elk Grizzly bear Moose Mule...

Buffalo Basics

“buffler,” “buffillo,” and, eventually, “buffalo.” Wild Buffalo vs. Domesticated “Beef-alo” Buffalo are an important native wildlife species in North America. The migratory species once roamed vast territories covering one-third of the North American...

Buffalo Bill of Rights

of buffalo, working to create a world where buffalo are: Allowed to remain wild, existing in their natural state, in their native habitats, and for their own sake. Honored and respected for their cultural and spiritual significance to the Indigenous...

On the Buffalo Trail: From the Desk of BFC's Executive Director, May 2021

will continue to educate our members and the public on the atrocities of Yellowstone bison mismanagement. Recently, eight Native American Montana legislators sent a letter to the Biden Administration seeking leadership for bison restoration on federal...

On the Buffalo Trail ~ From the Desk of the Executive Director, November 2020

Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign. The month of November began with my participation in the Boys & Girls Club of America (BGCA) Native Service’s Virtual Teen Summit. This virtual summit hosted over 900 teens from across the country. The theme Be There was...

America Must Come to Grips with its Wrongs

was formed on the backs of slaves we took as our property from Africa. The welcoming to the new continent came from the Native American tribes. They taught us how to survive in the new world, what to eat and all the other knowledge needed to keep us...

On the Buffalo Trail ~ From the Desk of the Executive Director, June 2020

my personal choice notto hunt buffalo is a decision I wouldn’t ask any indigenous person to do. The lives of buffalo and Native Americans are intertwined, and have been since time immemorial. While I have refrained from taking the life of a buffalo, I...

Update from the Field: Hunting and Potential Capture Begins in Gardiner Basin

Plan, who continue to try and divide us as they attempt to prevent these sacred beings from restoring themselves on their native habitat. Beattie Gulch. A hunting landscape that is a recipe for disaster. The buffalo population must beallowed to...

Super Successful Grand Opening at the Boulder Museum!

a buffalo for the selfie station. Panelists discuss how to protect wild buffalo. Left to right: Dr. Doreen Martinez, PhD, Native American Studies,CSU; Jonathan Proctor, Director, Defenders of Wildlife; Mike Mease, BFC co-founder; James Holt, BFC...

Legislative - Federal

congressional “power of the purse” that could re-direct taxpayer money to truly benefit America's last wild bison in its native habitat. BFC supports fiscal and operationaltransparency as regards public funds used to destroy this living national...