Did Donald Trump Ban Buffalo?
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
James is joined by Molly to discuss how the Bureau of Land Management is quietly changing its approach to public land management and what it means for approximately 900 bison in Central Montana.
Sources:
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/810541893_202412_990_2025073023621659.pdf
https://gov.mt.gov/_docs/governor/AmericanPrairieProposedDecisionJanuary162026.pdf
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17537.pdf
https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-revokes-american-prairie-bison-grazing-permit
https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/estatetaxfinal.pdf
https://www.blm.gov/about/laws-and-regulations/conservation-and-landscape-health-rule
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Call Zone Media. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to It Could Happen here. |
| 0:13.4 | A very special episode today because I am lucky enough to be joined by Molly Conga. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, Molly. |
| 0:18.8 | Hi, James. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to hear about today's topic. |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah, today's topic is Buffalo. If this just came up on your phone without you clicking in. |
| 0:28.5 | So I guess, look, Buffalo, when people imagine the Great Plains before European colonization, I think, |
| 0:35.1 | Buffalo are the fauna that they particularly imagine being present, right? |
| 0:40.8 | It's such a romantic image, right? |
| 0:42.3 | And they're gone now, but they were once so many. |
| 0:44.7 | Like, every time we drive through Southwest Virginia, I'm in Central Virginia. |
| 0:48.1 | So when we drive through Southwestern Virginia, my husband always brings up this account that |
| 0:52.6 | he read of someone witnessing the Buffalo |
| 0:55.0 | stampeding through the Cumberland Gap, like we're... |
| 0:57.9 | Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:59.1 | Right down on the tip of Southwestern Virginia. |
| 1:00.9 | And just looking at that place and imagining Buffalo there, like, you have to romanticize it. |
| 1:05.6 | That's incredible. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah, they're sick. |
| 1:07.2 | One of the coolest, like, American experiences I've ever had, maybe seven or eight years |
| 1:13.2 | ago now, I was bikepacking in, like, the Colorado, Wyoming border up there. |
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