Native Wise, a native-owned and operated business in Sawyer, MN, now has twelve buffalo on their 380-acre farm.
“It’s amazing. Every morning, I wake up, and I come out here, and I just pinch myself,” said co-owner David Wise. “I’ve just had a passion for bison my whole life. I’ve always just thought they were amazing animals.”
The buffalo were rounded up from one of The Nature Conservancy’s preserves in Nebraska.
“The Nature Conservancy has managed bison herds across our preserve, the land that we own in bison range in North America, for quite a while,” said Resilience Forestry Manager Chris Dunham. “That management has really been centered around the importance of bison to the ecology landscape.”
Wise aspires to let the buffalo utilize his land and bring back native plant diversity.
“All these fields are not as diverse as they could be. They’re not as productive as they could be,” said Wise….
