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Regenerative Responses: Growing The Soil Carbon Sponge
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How Urban Forestry Can Cool the Climate and Promote Social Equity
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Sampling of Found Sound – Composer Pierre Henry
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Youth Climate Strike Takes Over Downtown Los Angeles
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Bottles And Cans Recycling: A Social Contract In Peril
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal releases ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ this June, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
buffalo Archive
Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things
Posted on February 9, 2019 | 2 CommentsWe have forgotten the flocks of passenger pigeons that blotted out the sun, the herds of bison that shook the ground, and the untamed places in which we destroyed them. This is ecological amnesia. This capacity to forget, this fluidity of memory, has dire implications in a world dense with people, all desperate to satisfy their immediate material needs. Yet, the way forward is land and water protection and regeneration, permaculture, and community reconnection with the wild.
Wild Yellowstone Bison Conflict with Cattle Ranchers, Lose
Posted on December 11, 2015 | No CommentsWild bison will be allowed to migrate out of Yellowstone National Park and stay in parts of Montana year-round under a move by Gov. Steve Bullock. The decision won't end the slaughter of some bison that roam outside of the park, yet pushes against the collusion between cattle ranching interests and wildlife managers using the threat of brucellosis to justify private property and development rights over the spirit of the wild.
Silencing the Thunder: Bison Management in Yellowstone
Posted on March 18, 2015 | 2 CommentsThe amazing bison, revered by native societies, survives despite its continued sacrifice at the demand of the cattle industry. While slaughter continues at the borders of Yellowstone National Park, bison managers consider alternative management policies. Also watch the documentary, "Silencing the Thunder."
Hear the Buffalo – A Film By Gene Bernofsky
Posted on March 12, 2014 | 1 CommentHear the Buffalo is a heartfelt plea to preserve the last wild bison roaming Yellowstone National Park, their significance in Native American culture, and the ongoing injustices they experience by attempts to manage populations outside the park in Montana.
Last Wild Bison Persist Despite Montana Wildlife Politics
Posted on March 12, 2014 | 2 CommentsA twenty-year old activist blocked the access road to Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap, preventing more of the last wild bison from being shipped to slaughter. As well, the Montana Supreme Court recently supported efforts to expand bison migratory habitat north of the park in the Gardiner Basin.
Mythology of the Crow: Love Trials of the Magic Buffalo Wife
Posted on May 23, 2012 | 3 CommentsAn Apsáalooke Crow man falls in love and has a child with the magical Buffalo Woman, which requires him to prove his love and devotion to her and her Buffalo Nation.
Lakota Vision: White Buffalo Calf Woman and World Harmony
Posted on July 9, 2011 | 6 CommentsThe supernatural appearance of White Buffalo Calf Woman tells of her divine revelations to the Lakota people regarding the Seven Sacred Rites to bring about spiritual rebirth and world harmony.
Bison Wild Recolonization Stopped With Slaughter – By George Wuerthner
Posted on February 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe bison slaughter is proposed to appease the intractable and unreasonable demands of Montana's livestock industry to zero tolerance for native bison on Montana soil. All of this is justified in the name of controlling brucellosis, a disease that can cause domestic livestock to abort their first calf.
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