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Environmental Commitment

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Wild Idea Buffalo Company’s environmental commitment incorporates the big picture. Our vision is that The American Great Plains could recover from the abuses of industrial agriculture and again become a sustainable eco-system. Our relationship to the land makes this vision a reality.

Prairie Restoration:

Prairie Restoration is the core of Wild Idea Buffalo Co. By returning buffalo to native pasture the land is massaged back to a healthy state. The buffalo’s presents benefits the entire suite of Great Plains species, both flora and fauna, because they co-evolved to thrive on the immense prairie grasslands.

Respect for Specie Diversity:

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I have dedicated my life to wildness, and we at Wild Idea Buffalo Co. have a great respect for specie diversity. It is

more than the great noble bison that roamed the prairies in vast numbers. It’s the birds and mammals and insects and grasses and woody plants and even the worms and microbes that all work together to form a stable and sustainable ecosystem.
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Carbon Footprint:

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By caring and healthfully managing our grasslands, a manager begins to impact even the atmosphere. Millions of square miles of healthy grasslands pull the carbon from the air and transfer it to the rooty world far below the feet of the moving buffalo. Imagine the billions of cubic feet of oxygen, respired to sustain our world. It is commonly accepted, but hardly acknowledged, that native, deep rooted Great Plains grasses take more greenhouse gasses from the air than the Amazon rainforest. A carbon audit of Wild Idea’s management and production model, strongly suggests that properly raised buffalo meat can be delivered to American homes with a net negative carbon footprint. We try not to get caught up on meaningless marketing slogans that ease consumer’s consciousnesses about the carbon footprint of our eating habits. The idea is that these concepts are supposed to guard against the production of excessive greenhouse gasses in the entire production of the food we eat. We must consider the effects of irrigation, the impact of monocultures, and the net loss of sequestered carbon when the land is changed from perennial native grasses, to annual farm crops.

spacer Wild Idea Buffalo Company thinks a lot about the big picture. Concern over declining specie-diversity is not only concern for the declining populations of the high profile species such as the black footed ferrets, wolves, grizzly bears. Perhaps equally tragic is the decline many species of warm season grasses, scores of ground nesting bird species, dwindling stocks of amphibians, and the microbial universe below the grass. We at Wild Idea Buffalo Company agree with the notable Great Plains thinker, Daniel Licht, “…bio-diversity ….is a worthy societal goal…”



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