David Hage
Editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune
- 2014
![Picture of David Hage](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Dave-Hage-300x300.jpeg)
Fellowship Title:
- The American Buffalo
Fellowship Year:
- 2014
- Co-Fellow: Josephine Marcotty
FELLOWSHIP STORIES – (2)
![A bison's massive, furry head allows it to fight off predators, clear snow to find grass and stay warm in frigid prairie winters.](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Hage-Marcotty-buffalo-01b-300x207.jpeg)
Saving the American Buffalo by Killing It
February 15, 2015
Jerry Blanks took careful aim through the powerful scope on his black hunting rifle as the buffalo surrounding the pick-up truck watched him quizzically. His eye was focused on the dark fur just behind the ear of a young bull that stood just slightly apart from the group.
![Lone bison grazing](https://aliciapatterson.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hage-Marcotty_Epic_01-300x200.jpeg)
An Epic Experiment: Can America’s Great Plains Bison Recover?
November 9, 2014
The battered white pickup truck is bouncing across a pasture of sagebrush and alfalfa when Bronc Speak Thunder turns the steering wheel east and points to the far side of a creek bed. Scattered across a grassy slope are what appear to be a field of brown boulders —