Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

Inside Climate News · By Blaine Harden · last updated April 5, 2026 – 1:07 AM

An Interior Department proposal would cancel BLM grazing leases for American Prairie’s buffalo in Montana, but it could affect tribal and private herds across the West.

By Blaine Harden

PHILLIPS COUNTY, Mont.—The American buffalo—those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States—have joined wind turbines, electric cars and climate researchers in the cross hairs of the Trump administration.

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