Don Young Doug LaMalfa Indian Buffalo Management Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7954 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7954 To assist Tribal governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 17, 2026 Mr. Hurd of Colorado (for himself, Ms. Leger Fernandez, Mrs. Fedorchak, and Mr. Newhouse) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To assist Tribal governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Don Young Doug LaMalfa Indian Buffalo Management Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES. (a) Findings.--Congress finds that-- (1) buffalo sustained a majority of Indian Tribes in North America for many centuries before buffalo were nearly exterminated by non-Indian hunters in the mid-1800s; (2) the historical, cultural, and spiritual connection between buffalo and Indian Tribes has not diminished over time; (3) Indian Tribes have long desired the reestablishment of buffalo throughout Indian country for cultural, spiritual, and subsistence purposes; and (4) the successful restoration of buffalo would allow an Indian Tribe to benefit from-- (A) the reintroduction of buffalo into the diets of the members of the Indian Tribe; (B) the rekindling of the spiritual and cultural relationship between buffalo and the Indian Tribe; and (C) the use of buffalo for economic development, in the case of an Indian Tribe that chooses to use buffalo for economic development. (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are to-- (1) fulfill the governm