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"Bringing the buffalo back is about our relationship with them, not domination over them," said Jason Baldes, executive director of the Wind River Buffalo Initiative.

Tribes have an important role in restoring buffalo for food sovereignty, culture and nutrition, but also for overall bison ...

The National Park Service manages the oldest untouched population ... He doesn’t like when people call the Wind River Buffalo Initiative a "ranch," because it has too much of an association ...

The National Park Services manages the oldest untouched ... He doesn’t like when people call the Wind River Buffalo Initiative a ‘ranch’, because it has too much of an association with ...