It all started five years ago, when Wendt and his colleagues gathered samples from the deepest part of Yellowstone River (referred to as Buffalo Ford Lake), digging about five feet down ...

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont ... in Idaho — attended the ceremonies at the headquarters of Buffalo Field Campaign between Hebgen Lake and the southern reach of the Madison Range.

Listen carefully. Can you hear that low-pitched sound? A death rattle is descending upon Yellowstone National Park’s remnant wild buffalo population. In the winter of 2025, death approaches ...

Stories from the Yellowstone fires of 1988, which burned approximately 1.3 million acres inside the park and surrounding area ...

“Buffalo belong on the land, they are an integral part of a healthy and wild Yellowstone,” she wrote. “The park’s plan balanced many competing interests and the state of Montana had ample ...

In Yellowstone, however, some 200 buffalo roamed free, ostensibly under the protection of the federal government. But even in the park they were not safe. Poachers could make five hundred dollars ...

“There’s a big effort to get buffalo out of Yellowstone to tribes,” said Jason Baldes, a Montana State University graduate who is the Shoshone Tribal Buffalo representative. “A lot of ...