BISON RANGE

The Bison Range is in the center of the 1,250,000-acre Flathead Indian Reservation and consists of 18,766 acres. Over half of the Bison Range borders Indian trust land and waterways. The Bison Range is currently managed as a Wildlife Refuge by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes... The Bison Range, formerly known as the National Bison Range, was established in 1908 by the U.S. Federal Government in the middle of our treaty-reserved home, the Flathead Indian Reservation, on land taken without our consent. The bison living on the Bison Range also are descendants of the free-ranging Reservation herd started by Tribal members in the 1800's when plains bison were near extinction... After the Bison Range was established in 1908, the federal government needed to obtain animals for its initial bison population. An enduring irony is that most of the bison acquired for the Bison Range's initial herd consisted of the recently-ejected bison from the Pablo-Allard herd, or their..

Primary location: Moiese United States