Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition: Our goals are to enhance public awareness of conservation opportunities for wild, public bison in Montana; and to establish a bison herd on public land and private land where bison are accepted, within and near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition: Our goals are to enhance public awareness of conservation opportunities for wild, public bison in Montana; and to establish a bison herd on public land and private land where bison are accepted, within and near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition: Our goals are to enhance public awareness of conservation opportunities for wild, public bison in Montana; and to establish a bison herd on public land and private land where bison are accepted, within and near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

Sixty-six wood bison, mostly from Elk Island National Park, Alberta were brought to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage. The captive herd grew as Alaskans wrangled over if and where to release them to the wild.

Retaining wild characteristics of plains bison, and the natural integration of a bison herd with its associated biota, requires a large herd under management that allows as much natural selection as possible.

The Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition is a grassroots organization, recognizing the absence of wild bison in Montana, disseminating information on issues and opportunities for bison restoration, and promoting the return of wild, public bison to the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge and to nearby, mostly contiguous private and ...

Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition: Our goals are to enhance public awareness of conservation opportunities for wild, public bison in Montana; and to establish a bison herd on public land and private land where bison are accepted, within and near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition: Our goals are to enhance public awareness of conservation opportunities for wild, public bison in Montana; and to establish a bison herd on public land and private land where bison are accepted, within and near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

For Montana bison, there are two definitions of wildness: a legal definition and a biological definition. Only the latter is considered here.

Montana Wild Bison Restoration Coalition: Our goals are to enhance public awareness of conservation opportunities for wild, public bison in Montana; and to establish a bison herd on public land and private land where bison are accepted, within and near the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.