{"id":44625,"date":"2025-01-15T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/?page_id=44625"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T00:30:45","slug":"conservation-ranching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/conservation-ranching\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Ranching"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conservation Ranching<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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NBA Conservation Management Plan (CMP)<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Conservation Management Plan<\/a> (CMP) provides bison farmers and ranchers the ability to monitor and document their conservation practices to both improve and exhibit how their work positively impacts the bison, the land they\u2019re on, and the people around them. The simple web app based interface allows all producers to manage and measure their conservation efforts effectively. See these successful, \u201cMaster Steward\u201d applications:
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Bison and the Environment<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Native grasslands comprise more than 40 percent of North America\u2019s natural landscape. The grasses covering these open landscapes serve as powerful carbon traps, with slender leaves removing CO2 from the atmosphere and returning it to the soil through an extensive system of roots. These grasslands did not occur in a vacuum. In fact, North America\u2019s grasslands evolved over tens of thousands of years of continuous grazing by large ruminants, most notably the American bison. This co-evolutionary process to grasses and grazers developed into a symbiotic relationship that is vital to the health of both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Low Stress Bison Handling<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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I joined the NBA to primarily educate myself about bison but I quickly learned I now had a ready resource of experienced bison ranchers willing to help an novice rancher achieve my goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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