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Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.

The day we are speaking with Jason Bodys.

Buffalo existed from the west coast, nearly all the way to the east coast,

to Florida, from Mexico to the Arctic, from sea level to 13,000 feet in elevation.

There really is not a place on this continent where Buffalo doesn't belong.

And if we can continue to restore Buffalo to its rightful places,

those places are also going to heal.

Jason and enrolled member of the Eastern Chashone Tribe received both his bachelor's and master's

degree in land resources and environmental sciences from Montana State University,

where he focused on the restoration of Buffalo Bison to tribal lands.

In 2016, he spearheaded the successful effort to relocate a herd to the Wind River Indian

Reservation, and works with both the Eastern Chashone and Northern Arapaho tribes in Buffalo

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