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Buffalo Field Campaign works to save America's last wild bison in Yellowstone. Let Buffalo Roam!
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09/04/2026

🦬 Jeff Ament is stepping up for the Tribal Buffalo Summit. Will you match him?

We’re grateful to share that the Vitalogy Foundation, founded by Pearl Jam, has awarded Buffalo Field Campaign $2,500 in support of our work.

Now we’re asking our community to match that $2,500 gift and help make the Tribal Buffalo Summit possible.

The Tribal Buffalo Summit brings together Indigenous leaders, buffalo advocates, and communities to strengthen relationships, share knowledge, and build a future where Buffalo can return to their rightful place on the landscape.

Jeff put $2,500 toward this work. Can you help us match it?

🦬 Goal: $2,500

🦬 Support the Tribal Buffalo Summit

🦬 Every gift moves us closer to the match

Here’s the link to donate and Match Jeff for the Buffalo!
https://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/2026-tribal-buffalo-summit

09/02/2026

For the last 25 year Buffalo Field Campaign has had a strong relationship with Bonnie Raitt

This week once again Bonnie invited BFC to table at her concert in Bozeman, Montana. A life long activist, Bonnie knows the importance of a vital grassroots movement.

Bonnie was a founding member of MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) which produced the historic concerts, album and movie NO NUKES and continues to work on the nuke issue as well as fighting to preserve our Ancient Forests.

She continues to work on issues of safe energy and environmental protection, peace and social justice, women’s, Native American and human rights as well as Artists’ rights and music education.

She gave BFC a shout-out from stage for all the concert goers to support our work and swing by our table in the front of the venue.

And we had the honor of meeting with her after the show. Check out our pic above (up arrow ?)

Bonnie is an inspiration to anyone she meets. She lifts up people in her “oh so sweet” way.

Thanks to Bonnie and all of her staff for being part of our Buffalo Family - you are always in our hearts.

Buffalove - Mike Mease and BFC

Stay tuned for our next rock star for the Buffalo post on Friday!

Any guesses who?

08/28/2026

While our last wild herds gather to rut deep within Yellowstone (https://youtu.be/82bPeZWu1wQ), our coordinators are hard at work at headquarters, aka A Place to Gather.

BFC paid off our mortgage this summer to our 12 acre lodge after 20 years!! Our home where the Buffalo wish to Roam has hosted 1,000’s of Buffalovers from across the globe over the decades.

Now we are hard at work shoring up foundations of our historic cabins and cleaning out crawl spaces.

Up next? A new roof - or part of one this year.

08/24/2026

From Babies to Bulls

Once a year the sacred gathering of the rut, or mating season, occurs when the entire herd comes together.

This year there were over 500 wild bison in attendance when I hiked into the backcountry of Yellowstone.

It has been the honor of my life to take part and be accepted by this family. Being accepted is also knowing to listen to the Buffalo and to do what they tell you.

This year the Buffalo wanted to do the video themselves and show you all this sacred dance of Life.

With the Buffalo,
Mike Mease, BFC Co-founder

Watch what happens next by visiting our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/82bPeZWu1wQ

08/21/2026

‼️ YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED TO PROTECT PIPESTONE ‼️
Like the sacred Buffalo sacred Pipestone is also under threat.

Buffalo Field Campaign stands with those calling for the protection of C’an O’he (Pipestone). For Buffalo, healthy landscapes and clean water are essential - we are all connected.

Comment:

I stand against the proposed Magellan OneOk Pipestone Pipeline Reroute Project.

Pipestone is a sacred place and a living connection to generations of Indigenous people.

For Indigenous communities, places like Pipestone carry cultural, spiritual, and ancestral responsibilities that cannot be separated from the land itself. Protecting sacred places protects our people, our future, our country, and our planet.

📣 Initial comments are due TODAY! August 21, 2026, by 4:30 p.m.

🦬Click the link

🦬Copy and paste this Docket Number: IP-7109/PPL-23-109

🦬Add your comments

Thank you! When we protect the places that sustain life, we protect our relatives, our communities, and the generations yet to come.

Tap🔗below to submit your comment

https://mn.gov/puc/get-involved/public-comments/comment-form/

08/20/2026

Part 2 — What the Footage Revealed

After reviewing the field footage, an Advisory Board Member noticed something we had not initially understood.

The calf we had witnessed alone may have been the smaller of twins - which are rare for Buffalo.

In earlier footage, the two calves could be seen together, nursing from their mother. But the larger calf repeatedly pushed its smaller sibling aside, preventing it from nursing.

When we compared that footage with what we later witnessed in the field, the smaller twin appeared to be the calf that had been left behind.

Suddenly, the story looked different.

What had seemed like a mother abandoning her newborn may have been part of a much larger—and more difficult—natural process.

For decades, BFC has had the privilege of observing wild bison in their own world & under heavy handed management. Again and again, they remind us that Nature does not always conform to our expectations, our emotions, or our desire to save or when to save.

If you are concerned about this one little calf, then you have Buffalove - so please keep following our pages as the US Park Service & State of MT plan to kill thousands of wild Yellowstone bison AGAIN this year!

Learn more here: www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

08/17/2026

The Calf Left Behind

This past spring, our patrols encountered a newborn bison calf alone, separated from its herd.

Our coordinators, volunteers, interns, and an Advisory Board member documented the little “red dog’s” journey as they watched and wondered: What had happened? Would its mother return? Would the herd come back for it?

For those of us witnessing this through human eyes, it was heartbreaking. We naturally wanted to intervene, to protect this vulnerable young animal.

But wild bison live by a different set of rules—ones that can be difficult for us to understand, especially when those rules seem harsh.

As the footage was reviewed, however, another possibility emerged: perhaps there was more to this story than we first realized.

Stay with us for Part 2

08/14/2026

🌎The Landscape Is Connected

As Davina Smith-Idjesa, co-chair of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, reminds us:

“Our prayers, medicine, water, plants, wildlife, burial places, and histories are connected across the entire landscape.”

Bears Ears is a living cultural landscape, not simply a collection of archaeological sites. When 91% protections are removed from parts of the landscape, the whole becomes more vulnerable to mining, development, looting, vandalism, and irresponsible visitation.

That same understanding of connection is at the heart of the work to protect and restore Buffalo across the continent.

“This is the second wave of colonization that had once taken everything from us and now they’re taking everything from us again.
Our efforts to liberate, rematriate and restore bison across the continent will ensure they can’t take everything from us again.”

— Dallas Gudgell, Yankton Dakota, Assiniboine Sioux, Buffalo Field Campaign Co-Director and Tribal Programs & Policy Director

Protecting land means protecting the relationships, histories, cultures, wildlife, waters, and communities that are connected to it.

The landscape is not a collection of separate pieces. It is whole.

Read more from Bears Ears 🔗
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/bears-ears-6-takeaways/

08/10/2026

🦬 TAKE ACTION FOR BUFFALO
Buffalo belong on the landscape, and Tribal nations are leading the way toward bringing them home.
The bipartisan Indian Buffalo Management Act would provide coordination and technical assistance to help establish and expand Buffalo herds on Tribal lands.

This is an important opportunity to support the restoration of Buffalo, healthy grasslands, and the many species that depend on them.

📣 Tell your U.S. Senators to support the Indian Buffalo Management Act.
Your voice can help move Buffalo restoration forward.

🦬 Support Tribal-led Buffalo restoration.
🦬 Contact your Senators.
🦬 Help bring Buffalo home.

Tap below to view: Indian Buffalo Management Act⬇️
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3478/text

Tap below to find your Senators ⬇️
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

08/07/2026

Calling all Colorado Front Range & Mountain Buffalovers:

BFC Co-founder, Mike Mease, is back in the High Country of Colorado - Ward! - for a 7 PM presentation at the historic Ward library this Friday, August 7th.

Special thanks to the Ward Library Board and Morroco’s Restaurant for support and pizza.

Also HUGE Buffalove & gratitude to
Maryon and Merlen Hatter for donating an awesome truck to BFC AND Nature’s Own for helping us fill the truck with Rockalos for Mike to drive back up to BFC headquarters from Ward.

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PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT
59758

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http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/

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