What to Watch When Herding Buffalo

Close-up of buffalo in a squeeze chute. (Owen Preece for HCN ) High Country News ran this article last March on the work of the "head bison wrangler" at the American Prairie Project in eastern Montana, Pedro Calderon Dominguez: " The Art of Moving a Buffalo ." At American Prairie, Calderon-Dominguez works with about 900 bison, divided into two herds. Each herd grazes at least 25,000 acres. The…