About Jason Baldes

Jason Baldes is a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in land resources and environmental sciences from Montana State University, where he focused on the restoration of bison/buffalo to Tribal lands.

Baldes is an advocate, educator, speaker on Indigenous cultural revitalization and ecological restoration, and an adjunct professor at Central Wyoming College and Wind River Tribal College.

He serves as executive director of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative and Senior Tribal Buffalo Program Manager for the National Wildlife Federation’s Tribal Partnerships Program and has established resolution-based agreements and helped restore more than 100 conservation Buffalo to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes in Wind River since 2016.

Jason Baldes

Tribal Partnerships Program, National Wildlife Federation