Some ranchers fear that Native American tribes, partnered with American Prairie, will let their bison roam free. But the former president of Fort Belknap Reservation’s tribal council, Mark Azure, says, “There has to be a fence somewhere.”
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Alison Fox: Trying to do a count of the babies but now they've kind of moved the babies into the middle of the group. Alison Fox: As far as the eye can see.That's not a bad description of the scale of American Prairie's ambition: to create the largest nature reserve in the contiguous United States. The nonprofit has more than 50 employees, from fundraisers to buffalo wranglers. Alison Fox has worked there for 15 years and has been in charge for the last four.
Charles russell's paintings portray a romanticized version of what the prairie ecosystem used to look like. Teeming herds of buffalo. Native americans hunting and living alongside the buffalo, at least until they both were displaced by white settlers and hundreds of thousands of cattle. American Prairie is now working hard to mend fences with skeptical neighbors. It has a program called"Wild Sky," run by a wildlife biologist on its staff, Daniel Kinka.Wild Sky will pay a rancher up to $15,000 a year for things like modifying fences to make them easier for wildlife to get over or through, while still keeping cattle contained. It also pays ranchers to install cameras on their property. Daniel Kinka: That's correct. You get a coyote, that's 25 bucks.
Lance Johnson: We hope so. We hope for the rest of our lives that we're there. I wanna do everything I can to give our girls that opportunity to have ranching in the future.American Prairie says it intends to work alongside cattle ranchers for decades to come and it does have some natural allies in the neighborhood. Mark Azure: Yeah, they can and they are. Happening right now.
The tribes at Fort Belknap began building their bison herd nearly a half century ago and it's now more than a thousand animals. Mark Azure took us out to see part of the herd, which roams across a huge pasture on the reservation.
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