Buffalo Field Campaign

06/09/2026

Behind closed doors, Montana and the US Park Service are making plans to kill up to 3,000 Buffalo inside Yellowstone, the only home these herds have left.

Ask yourself - and MT & YNP *see link in our comments below - why are the only solutions offered to manage for scarcity - no more than 3000-5000 of our last wild bison?

Real solutions exist, but Montana and its cattle interests refuse to give an inch, even though those solutions could benefit the cattle industry, MT’s tourist industry and the Buffalo.

Until Buffalo can once again roam freely in their home, the North American continent, BFC will continue exposing the truth about the inhumane treatment these Buffalo endure and fighting for meaningful change.

The Buffalo are trying to teach us how to live in reciprocity. We only need to listen…and tell MT & YNP to manage for abundance!

06/05/2026

Our 2027 Wild Bison Calendars are hot off the presses and ready for purchase!

Click the link below⬇️
🔗https://buffalo-field-campaign-merchandise.myshopify.com/collections/wild-bison-calendar

Huge thanks to all of the photographers and artists who submitted this year - we have created a powerful celebration of our last wild migratory Buffalo.

We received a lot of new submissions from friends, photographers and artists we know from social media. We have first time submissions from volunteers from the field this past season, too! And we have our longtime contributors that range from BFC Advisory Board Members to photographers that submit each year or that we have kept in our library.

Thank you all!

Our last two pages tell the story of Buffalo Field Campaign’s work and a memorial to a dear family member and founding volunteer, Jim Coefield, who passed away this year. Jim helped our calendar designer, Roger, every year in production and editing. We know he would love the 2027 Calendar and we are happy to honor him here.

05/29/2026

Today is the last day to comment (see link/in bio)
➡️ https://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/buffalo-environmental-impact-comments-needed ⬅️

Tell the National Park Service what wild bison restoration means to you.

Here’s what one BFC volunteer wrote:
“I think it’s important that we advocate for more habitat for wild Buffalo because it shows our resolve for respecting the environment as a whole.

Through the wild Buffalo and the areas where they roam, we are able to have a richer diversity of wildlife and natural beauty, if their habitat would expand, it would bring about a healthier atmosphere to the ecosystem they currently live in.”

05/26/2026

Please comment by THIS FRIDAY ~ Be a Voice for Wild Migratory Buffalo!

➡️ https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?documentID=150904 ⬅️

Buffalo Field Campaign Talking Points for you to consider and/or utilize:
This NPS notice to draft a SEIS comes on the heels of years’ long attacks on our public lands, wildlife conservation in general and Buffalo conservation in particular on our public lands.

1.Buffalo as Wildlife:
The Buffalo of the Greater Yellowstone (GYE) are wildlife and they should be managed as migratory wildlife like all other migratory wildlife of the ecoregion.

If Buffalo are increasingly confined to smaller geographic areas within the Park there is serious risk to overall ecological health including localized and regional land degradation, altered grazing pressure, reduced biodiversity, and cascading ecological impacts throughout the entire GYE.

2.Large Landscapes are to Buffalo Conservation:
The NPS should use this SEIS process to fundamentally reevaluate the Yellowstone bison management framework and develop alternatives that prioritize large landscape conservation, habitat connectivity, migratory freedom, and the long-term restoration of self-sustaining wild Buffalo populations on public lands.

Thank you for commenting by Friday!

05/25/2026

BUFFALO HAVE POWER!

This Memorial Day, we invite you to remember the Buffalo: the original grass grazing inhabitant of this continent, our National Mammal, and keystone species, whose recovery and proliferation would bring a rich and sustainable future.

Take Action by submitting comments by this Friday to the National Park Service’s supplemental environmental impact statement SEIS on bison management. We will be sharing our comments on our website, email blast, and social media posts by tomorrow for your review and use.

“’Buffalo have power,’ said an American Indian living in the High Plains during the late nineteenth century, ‘the spotted cattle of the White Man have no power.’

This distinction remains the great value of bison today.  You don’t meditate on a feedlot full of cows any more than you contemplate a herd of Angus.

But you can bison.

The difference is the direction in which they transport our thinking: outward, away from the self and apart from culture as opposed to a tame walk down a domesticated hallway of mirrors.”

~ Doug Peacock, author of Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

05/20/2026

Here’s an excerpt from interview featuring Co-Director, Dallas Gudgell, Yankton Dakota.

Dallas shares that to restore our grasslands and draw down carbon, we need the Buffalo.

He reminds us that Indigenous People never ceded a Buffalo’s Right to Roam!

05/18/2026

Native American Calling is live now and BFC’s Dallas Gudgell is part of the conversation.
Tap the link below:⬇️

The U.S. Department of Interior just canceled grazing leases for hundreds of bison on federal land in Montana. The action halts the progress of a well-funded private group, American Prairie, that has been buying up land and acquiring leases in an ambitious conservation plan. The group often provides...