This is a video I helped shoot on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation late last fall. We attached a video camera to an all terrain vehicle as members of the Fort Belknap Fish & Game Department rounded up buffalo, just as they do every fall. It is an exciting glimpse into what it is like to be so close to these large, fast, wild mammals that once thrived here on the northern plains.
Herding buffalo (bison) on the Fort Belknap Reservation in northern Montana. The buffalo are herded every fall so they can be counted, given medicine, and a some removed from the herd for consumption. Compared to buffalo at Yellowstone National Park, which have become somewhat acclimated to humans, the buffalo at Fort Belknap are about as wild as they would have been years ago before Europeans settled America.
