A group of Yakama hunters gave The Post a rare glimpse into their yearly ritual at the national park.
Every winter, Gleason’s family makes the journey from southern Washington to the northern border of Yellowstone in Montana to gain a semblance of something they had lost.
Now Gleason’s people are among a handful of tribes hunting bison again. By exercising hunting rights enumerated in an 1855 treaty, the Yakama are able to maintain an ancient cultural relationship with the animals. But others say the effort to control their numbers is undoing a conservation success story that pulled the bison – today vaunted as, on par with the bald eagle – from the brink of extinction. Yellowstone’s ecosystem can sustain up to 11,000, advocates say, nearly double the roughly 6,000-strong population counted last year.
“That’s too many,” said Tom Woodbury of the Buffalo Field Campaign, an activist group that petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Yellowstone bison under the Endangered Species Act. Caught in the middle is the Biden administration, which wants to restore some of the 60 million bison that once roamed North America while maintaining tribes’ sacred, millennia-old hunt.
A new interagency bison management working group established in March, he added, “provides an amazing opportunity for those tribes that have treaty and hunting rights to be a part of that decision-making process.”The fresh funding is “a great start,” said Shana Drimal, senior wildlife conservation associate at the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, which wants to see buffalo roam more freely in and out of the park.On that chilly morning hunt in February, Gleason was able to calm his nerves.
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