Time to return buffalo to wild by Jim Posewitz

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Time to return buffalo to wild by Jim Posewitz, a Helena hunter and retired FWP biologist.

Well, with a photographic memory and artistic genius, Charlie would not let us forget. Among the images he blessed us with was a masterpiece that pictured buffalo crossing the Missouri and climbing out on the “breaks.” He called it “When the Land Belonged to God.”

Today, we observe the 150th anniversary of both Charlie’s birth, and Montana’s birth as a Territory. We also live with a restored wildlife abundance that is by any measure among the greatest environmental achievements in human history. Everything Charlie painted is back out there in the wild — except one species. Today, nothing prevents us from finishing the saga of wildlife restoration — except the cultural will to just simply do it.

 

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Time to return buffalo to wild by Jim Posewitz, a Helena hunter and retired FWP biologist.

Jim came over here and made a plee for help on the buffalo. The will has to come from the people. There has to be a swell of consensus to get this going.