SUSTAINABLE BISON RANCHING AND CLIMATE

The Big Horn Bison Ranching system is eager to support the Growing Climate Solutions Act passed by the U.S. Senate on June 24th, 2021. Big Horn Bison sees this act as a “win-win” solution for its ranching system, the conservation of our environment, the preservation of the Great American Bison, and a major step in making a change in the Global Climate Crisis.

Big Horn Bison cares about the conservation of our environment and the future of our bison. Big Horn Bison is excited to begin all of our ranching systems on a foundation built to preserve our environment. Big Horn Bison plans to practice holistic regenerative grazing. We intentionally selected the lands for our ranching system to ensure their historical and ecological significance by removing all non-native livestock and repopulating them with their natural inhabitants.

The Growing Climate Solutions Act has allowed the Big Horn Bison ranching system to easily participate in the carbon credit market. Big Horn Bison will utilize the science-based best practices to measure, report and verify our agricultural carbon credits with the USDA and additional third parties authorized by the USDA. Participation in Carbon Sequestering Practices will allow Big Horn Bison to tangibly account for their emissions, essentially reducing and removing our ranch’s emissions from the atmosphere.

WHAT SOLUTIONS DOES BIG HORN BISON PROVIDE?

Big Horn Bison prides itself on providing a “subsistence lifestyle” solution which includes but is not limited to:

  • Land Restoration
  • Sustainable Land Management
  • Conservation-Minded Agriculture Endeavors
  • Land-Based Carbon Sequestering
  • The Great American Bison Genetic Diversity Preservation

BISON RANCHING & SUSTAINABILITY

What are carbon credits?

“A carbon market allows investors and corporations to trade both carbon credits and carbon offsets simultaneously. This mitigates the environmental crisis, while also creating new market opportunities.”

What are carbon emissions?

“Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colorless, odorless and non-poisonous gas formed by combustion of carbon and in the respiration of living organisms and is considered a greenhouse gas. Emissions means the release of greenhouse gasses and/or their precursors into the atmosphere over a specified area and period of time. Carbon dioxide emissions or CO2 emissions are emissions stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement; they include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels as well as gas flaring.”

How do carbon credits work?

“A carbon credit is a permit that allows the owner to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gasses. One credit permits the emission of one ton of carbon dioxide or the equivalent in other greenhouse gasses. The carbon credit is half of a so-called “cap-and-trade” program.”

What is subsistence farming?

“Subsistence farming, a form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer’s family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade. Pre Industrial agricultural peoples throughout the world have traditionally practiced subsistence farming. Some of these peoples moved from site to site as they exhausted the soil at each location. As urban centers grew, agricultural production became more specialized and commercial farming developed, with farmers producing a sizable surplus of certain crops, which they traded for manufactured goods or sold for cash.”

What is regenerative agriculture?

“Sustainable farming is a harm-reduction approach—a crucial first step on the path toward creating an overall system that actually adds to nature’s richness. A farmer can begin by reducing external inputs like pesticides, for example, and eventually enhance the health of her land so that pesticides aren’t needed at all. When measures to enrich land—such as planting shade trees to protect and nourish soils—are applied on all fronts, you have yourself a regenerative farm.”

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