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A bison grazes at American Prairie.
(Ami Vitale for Earthjustice)
feature October 7, 2022

How We Helped Bison Make a Huge Comeback

Earthjustice is using the power of the law to restore and recover wildlife — including bison.

Press Release March 12, 2014

Montana Supreme Court Affirms Bison Can Roam

Rejects unreasonable demand to return to widespread buffalo slaughter

One of the newborn bison calves, born at Montana's Fort Peck in the spring of 2012.
(Bill Campbell for Earthjustice)
Article August 23, 2013

More Wild Bison Return Home To Montana

Some extra thunder rumbled into north central Montana, when wild bison finally set hooves on the ground at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The return was the culmination of legal efforts to restore the animals to their historic prairie habitat. Members of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes were eager to receive them.

Bison are the only native wildlife species still unnaturally confined to the political boundaries of Yellowstone National Park for any part of the year.
(J. Schmidt / NPS)
case: Victory January 7, 2013

Bison Return to Ancestral Lands

Bison are the only native wildlife species still unnaturally confined to the political boundaries of Yellowstone National Park for any part of the year. In 2008, more than 1,400 bison—about one-third of the current size of Yellowstone’s bison population—were captured and slaughtered by government agencies while leaving Yellowstone in search of food. Federal and state…

document January 7, 2013

Final Order & Judgment on Joint Petition

Press Release: Victory January 7, 2013

Court Rules Bison Can Roam

Rejects unreasonable demand to return to widespread buffalo slaughter

Press Release May 24, 2011

Groups Seek To Shield Bison From Over-reaching Lawsuit

Winter foraging north of Yellowstone Park at issue