Matt Skoglund

Yeah.

So, so, so it's like fish, wildlife, and parks would say that's a wildlife species, but we have joint management with department of livestock.

And that's the only species in the state that has that.

And so what, what, what, what I worked on very.

succinctly was expanding the tolerance for Yellowstone bison outside the park in Montana.

Cause we've got, you know, millions of acres of public land where bison are not welcome.

And, and, and the, the thing that was cool was we actually made progress.

Like it's this issue, like you just laid out tolerance zones.

Yeah.

And they were, so when I started on it, there were, um, it was, there was much less tolerance for bison outside the park.

And, uh, there was this group of us and it was, you'll appreciate this.

So the, so, you know, the Yellowstone bison are managed under the interagency bison management plan, the IBM P that all stems from a lawsuit between the state of Montana and the feds and a negotiated settlement in 2000.

And so it's Montana, what's Montana fish, wildlife, and parks department of livestock, the forest service, the park service.

USDA APHIS, which is the animal and plant health inspection service.

And then, uh, I, the intertribal Buffalo council, Nez Perce, CSKT.

Um, and they, um, they, they wanted to see more tolerance outside the park and they, and, and, oh, there, there was a, a congressional review report that came out in like 2006 or something.

And one of the criticisms was that the IBM P partners.

weren't getting enough citizen feedback and acting on it.

And, and so they would talk about it.

They had three meetings a year, a winter meeting.