Buffalo Restoration: Healing for the Future

Lottery entry opens January 9 and closes January 16. Regular registration opens January 15.
Dates: February 24, 2025
Meets: M from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
 Location: Bozeman, MT - Museum of the Rockies
Cost:  $0.00

There are still openings remaining at this time.

Date Day Time
02/24/2025Monday3 PM to 5 PM

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Please note: This course program requires membership in a 2024-2025 OLLI at MSU Membership

Description

Bison/buffalo restoration for Tribal communities is keystone/cultural species revitalization. They heal the land simultaneously with the people. Bison are ecologically extinct. However, the paradigm is shifting to the realization of their importance as ecosystem engineers. Some Tribal lands may hold the key to setting the stage for buffalo restoration on a larger scale by restoring land and protecting habitat for buffalo to exist as wildlife.

Course Takeaways

  • Buffalo as 'wildlife' is important for the land and people.
  • Native Americans' relationship to buffalo is essential for healing and identity.
  • Hope for future buffalo restoration is land rematriation, which is reconciliation.
Fee:  $0.00

Bozeman, MT - Museum of the Rockies

600 West Kagy Blvd
Bozeman, Montana 59717

Jason Baldes

Jason Baldes received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University to pursue a passion for restoring bison/buffalo to the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes. Baldes serves as vice president of the InterTribal Buffalo Council, sits on the Board of Trustees of the Conservation Lands Foundation, and splits time as the Senior Buffalo Program Manager of the National Wildlife Federation and Executive Director of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative.