{"id":43685,"date":"2020-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/national-bison-association-launches-innovative-conservation-management-plan\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:33:15","slug":"national-bison-association-launches-innovative-conservation-management-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/national-bison-association-launches-innovative-conservation-management-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bison Association Launches Innovative Conservation Management Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

National Bison Association Launches Innovative Conservation Management Plan<\/strong>
Plan Allows Bison Producers to Document and Improve Conservation Practices<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westminster, CO (July 1, 2020) \u2013 The National Bison Association (NBA) officially launched its new Conservation Management Plan (CMP) during its Virtual Bison Learning Webinar Series last week. The CMP will provide bison farmers and ranchers the ability to monitor and document their conservation practices to both improve upon and exhibit how their work positively impacts the bison, the land they\u2019re on, and the people around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kansas bison rancher, NBA board member and NBA Conservation Committee chair, Ken Klemm, \u201cWe believe that good conservation practices provide great benefits to all involved \u2013 the bison, the land, and the people. Furthermore, we believe that good conservation practices don\u2019t cost \u2013 they pay. This program will help managers of all experience levels increase their conservation effectiveness and help them engage with a wide variety of like-minded managers and thereby take their operations to even higher levels of conservation success.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The philosophy behind this program is neatly summed up in the following three statements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For millennia, bison and people have relied on the land for sustenance. Even so, these lands thrived, blossomed and sustained massive herds of bison, which in turn supported many people. We believe that through wise stewardship, many people can yet still enjoy great herds of bison living on healthy, vibrant lands. We also believe that informed and caring people are the key to this vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n