For my entire life, the Tongue River Railroad Company has been trying – and failing – to build a single purpose rail line to haul coal along the scenic Tongue … Read more
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Engaging with local communities has big salmon and water conservation payoffs
NWF’s Yakima River salmon and ecosystem project shows how engagement with local communities pays off. Read more
2,000-year-old Bison Bone Bed Destroyed on Crow Reservation
Last summer, a 2,000-year-old national treasure was dug up with a backhoe. The Sarpy Creek Bison Kill site, as it is now known, is located on the Crow Reservation in … Read more
Restoring Buffalo to their Home on the Range
Yesterday, I drove a thousand miles across the Great Plains and saw not a single buffalo. I did see domestic cows and sheep, coal-fired power plants and wind farms, miles … Read more
Wind River Tribes Unite to Return Yellowstone Bison to Their Native Homeland
This is a guest post by Jason Baldes, a member of NWF’s Tribal Lands Advisory Council. This week, a huge step was taken in the decades-long effort to restore Yellowstone … Read more
Northern Cheyenne Tribe at a Crossroads: To Develop Coal or Not?
On Sunday, over 100 people assembled for a Way of Life Gathering (Hestana Vestotse) in Lame Deer, Montana. Yellow Bird, a Northern Cheyenne non-profit group and Sierra Club, organized the event with … Read more
Bison Get More Room to Roam on Fort Peck
This March, the National Wildlife Federation, our tribal partners and other wildlife advocates achieved a tremendous conservation victory when 61 wild Yellowstone bison that had spent years in quarantine right … Read more
Protecting the cultural and historic values of the Powder River Basin
Yesterday, in the beautiful Rosebud valley in southeastern Montana, hundreds gathered to celebrate and honor an important and sacred place, Deer Medicine Rocks, as a National Historic Landmark. Northern … Read more
Wild Bison to Return Home to Tribal Lands
More than a dozen years ago, I manned a booth in Yellowstone National Park to inform people about conservation-based solutions for protecting bison. Visitors from across the United States and … Read more
