As senior buffalo program manager through the National Wildlife Federation's Tribal Partnerships Program and vice president to the InterTribal Buffalo Council, Baldes has been working to restore bison to tribes that want to have them.
“We, the Eastern Shoshone, call ourselves the Buffalo Eaters, the Gweechoondeka, even though they were missing from our diet for well over 130 years,” says Baldes.
“Most buffalo exists today in private herds and ranches,” he says. “They are essentially ecologically extinct.”
One way to remedy this is to buy land and release bison onto it. So far, the InterTribal Buffalo Council has managed to acquire 25,000 wild bison across 65 herds held on tribal land. More recently, at Wind River, Baldes helped get approval to convert 17,000 acres of cattle pasture into bison habitat.
“The limitation, often-times for tribes, is land,” he says.
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