Historic buffalo transfer shows an alternative to Yellowstone's annual cull

Wyoming Public Radio | By Savannah Maher

Published October 13, 2023 at 4:24 PM MDT

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Hundreds of bison, sometimes known as buffalo, are slaughtered outside of Yellowstone National Park every year. It's a population control measure. But as Wyoming Public Radio’s Savanna Maher reports, some tribal nations are intervening.

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Savannah Maher

Savannah comes to Wyoming Public Media from NPR’s midday show Here & Now, where her work explored everything from Native peoples’ fraught relationship with American elections to the erosion of press freedoms for tribal media outlets. A proud citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she’s excited to get to know the people of the Wind River reservation and dig into the stories that matter to them.

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