Jason Baldes, the executive officer with the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative will be our speaker. The Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative’s mission is “to reestablish a healthy Buffalo population to heal our land, our health, and to honor the cultural legacies of our ancestors. After their absence from the Wind River Reservation for over a century, we are on a mission to bring the Buffalo back.”

Jason received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Land Resources & Environmental Sciences from Montana State University, where he focused on Tribal Bison Restoration. As Tribal Buffalo Program Manager for the National Wildlife Federation’s Tribal Partnerships Program, he has established resolution-based agreements and helped restore more than 100 conservation Buffalo to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes in Wind River since 2016.

Jason Baldes and friend.