Food and Biodiversity: One Ranch Family’s Story – North Bridger Bison

About this event

Description

Through management practices rooted in Holistic Management and Regenerative Agriculture principles, bison on North Bridger Bison ranch help build and improve the quality of the soil, increase the amount and diversity of grasses, forbs, and wildflowers on the landscape, and help improve carbon storage in the soil. Learn how and why the Skogland family weave together conservation and sustainability principles in today’s modern ranching environment. Matt Skoglund will tell the fascinating story of how his family started their ranch – North Bridger Bison – from scratch.

Objective

Explore how people can produce food in harmony with nature in a way that produces healthy and delicious food while also promoting biodiversity.

Location

This program will meet in the Museum of the Rockies Hager Auditorium, 600 W Kagy Blvd.

Meet the Speaker

Matt Skoglund is the founder and owner of North Bridger Bison, a bison ranch rooted in Regenerative Agriculture principles with a focus on biodiversity located in Montana’s Shields Valley.

Prior to starting North Bridger Bison in 2018, Matt was the Director of the Northern Rockies Office for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where he worked on various conservation issues in Montana and the Northern Rockies for ten years.

A former college hockey player, Matt is a graduate of Middlebury College and the University of Illinois College of Law. He is passionate about food and ranching, and he loves to hunt, garden, cook and forage for morel mushrooms in the spring. Matt and his wife, Sarah, have two young children, Otto and Greta.