August 30, 2020
Fort Peck Tribes Carry Out Largest Ever Inter-Tribal Buffalo Transfer
Author: Savannah Maher
It's a bright August morning in the northeast corner of Montana. Robbie Magnan, Game and Fish director for the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, rose before dawn to round up these 40 buffalo into a corral.
If you're experiencing quarantine fatigue, these bulls can relate. They've endured three years of isolation and disease testing.
"Most of their life they've been in some type of quarantine," Magnan says.
He runs the Fort Peck Tribes' buffalo quarantine program. The program is necessary b