On November 3, the release of 10 Buffalo marked a major milestone in restoring the animal to the Wind River landscape. It was the first time since the 1880s that wild Buffalo set foot on these Tribal lands.
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and ITBC advocated for the development of a quarantine facility for Yellowstone bison with relocation of healthy bison to Native Tribes. As a result, that facility was instituted in 2005, a 5-year disease protocol was carried...
A first-ever memorandum between a national conservation organization (NWF) and a Tribal organization (ITBC) was created to protect Yellowstone Bison and announce a management solution to address brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area (an approach endorsed by the...
This was due to belief that they, along with elk and pronghorn, would over-graze private land belonging to settlers. This continued to diminish what was once a prime food source for many Tribes.
