Alyson White Eagle, Kate Gamble, Jacy Rudloff, and Temple Stoellinger2024-10-182024-10-182023https://wyoscholar.uwyo.edu/handle/internal/9767https://doi.org/10.15786/wyoscholar/9975Conservation easements—voluntary legal agreements between a landowner and an organization to permanently limit certain uses of the land—have long been a powerful tool for protecting land and natural resources. But their use on Tribal lands has been limited because their application in the unique context of Native American land ownership and Tribal sovereignty is poorly understood. This report analyzes several different scenarios to explore the challenges and opportunities of using conservation easements to support bison restoration and land conservation on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The findings can inform future efforts to use conservation easements for similar purposes in other Tribal contexts.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Reports and proceedings, conservation easements, reservations, tribal trust land, fee-to-trust process, conservation, buffalo, land trusts, legal analysis