Home on the Range No More: Trump Wants Bison Gone

[Zorro]

The Trump administration is evicting bison herds from federal grasslands in Montana, siding with ranchers and Republican leaders over environmentalists and tribal leaders.

Crazy Alice, a half-ton bison, likes to feast on grass and roll in the dirt, but her deepest attachment might be to a certain corner of the Montana prairie — when her handlers once moved her herd to a different pasture, she tried to break out and go back.

Now, the Trump administration wants to evict Crazy Alice and hundreds of other bison from that home on the range, and replace them with cattle. The resulting clash on the prairie has pitted ranchers and Republican leaders against a furry, snorting symbol of the American West.

“This is a part of our country’s heritage,” said Alison Fox, executive director of American Prairie, a deep-pocketed nonprofit that has spent two decades buying ranches and grazing leases on public land in northern Montana to create the newly embattled home for bison.

The conflict centers on 900 bison owned by the group, which was allowed by multiple administrations, including President Trump’s first, to graze on federal lands, much to the consternation of politically conservative ranchers who wanted the land for cattle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalos-montana.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hVA.ZLho.oIKbQIAuKFRH&smid=url-share

[niyad]

1. There is not one single thing, not one single living entity, other than his

handlers and enablers, that he will not try to attack and destroy out of pure hatred for anything or anybody not him.

[Norrrm]

2. The East Wing was also a part of our heritage.