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Matt Skoglund

starting a bison ranch from scratch

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

About Matt:
Matt Skoglund is the founder and owner of North Bridger Bison, a bison ranch rooted in Regenerative Agriculture principles located in Montana’s Shields Valley. Prior to starting North Bridger Bison, 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 a decade. 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 kids, Otto and Greta.

Resources:
North Bridger Bison website
North Bridger Bison: Instagram
The Producers- North Bridger Bison (short film)
Ranching in the New West (Big Sky Journal)
Alumni Spotlight: Matt Skoglund ‘01 
Ranching in Big Sky Country with North Bridger Bison (There’s a Cow in my Freezer)
North Bridger Bison- a New Family Legacy (Buck Knives)

Matt’s book recommendations:
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch (O’Brien)
Nourishment (Provenza)
A Sand County Almanac (Leopold)

Recent Podcasts

EPISODE #100 - JOHN MCPHEE

on writing, teaching, exploring

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. After seven years at Time magazine, he moved to The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. A Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was awarded in 1999 the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (Annals of the Former World).