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Just 42 miles from Yellowstone National Park and roughly the same size, the reservation is a vital part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Wes Martel, GYC's senior Wind River conservation associate, affectionately refers to the reservation as "Indigenous Yellowstone," cheerfully saying, "We have everything here but Old Faithful!"

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Wes Martel is the Senior Wind River Conservation Associate for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Previously, Martel served on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council for twenty years where he oversaw programs and legislation dealing with water, taxation, energy, and environment.

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At age 75, longtime American Indian leader Wes Martel stays vital, current and indispensable. After decades in tribal government, he now is making important strides for Wyoming and his people in a.

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Tribal Water Activist. A member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, Wes Martel served on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council for twenty years. During this time, he devoted most of his attention to water, taxation, energy, and the environment, and the importance of these four areas to reservation economic growth and tribal sovereignty.

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Wes Martel is the Senior Wind River Conservation Associate for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Previously, Martel served on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council for twenty years where he oversaw programs and legislation dealing with water, taxation, energy, and environment.

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Wes Martel speaks about the return of buffalo, tribal governance, water codes and the need to adapt. He tells the story of how his elders approved of the concept of paying for water rights as a way of respecting the new buffalo which in the white man's world is the dollar. The important issue is to use this new buffalo in the right way - to.

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WES MARTEL SENIOR WIND RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATE. Wes works on an important segment of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem which is the Wind River Indian Reservation. The mission of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, to protect the lands, water, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, fits in with Indigenous values and beliefs.

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"The mission of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition - working with all people to protect the lands, water, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - fits in with Indigenous values and beliefs," said GYC Senior Wind River Conservation Associate Wes Martel. "We believe water is life, buffalo is power, and food is healing.

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Wes Martel, Senior Wind River Conservation Associate, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and Member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe "For our people, Yellowstone is so many things: our pharmacy, our.

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Thanks to the grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, our team is ready to elevate Tribal conservation priorities within this important corner of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem," said Wes Martel in a press release, who's Eastern Shoshone and is the Senior Wind River Conservation Associate with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.

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Greater Yellowstone Coalition Senior Wind River Conservation Associate Wes Martel, who leads the organization's Wind River Indian Reservation office and was a key organizer of the event, said of the event, "Our Elders always pray that we respect nature and take care of that which takes care of us and those good thoughts and energy could be felt at this Gathering.

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At age 75, longtime American Indian leader Wes Martel stays vital, current and indispensable. After decades in tribal government, he now is making important.

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Wes Martel. SR. WIND RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATE - GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION. Wes (Eastern Shoshone/Northern Arapaho) served on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council for twenty years where he oversaw programs and legislation dealing with water, taxation, energy, and environment. He was Chairman of the Fish & Game Committee for the Shoshone.

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In 2021, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition opened its first office on the Wind River Indian Reservation with the hiring of Wes Martel. Wes was brought on to lead the new GYC Tribal branch and work with Tribal partners to elevate Indigenous voices and protect the cultural, spiritual, and ecological integrity of Greater Yellowstone.

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Wes Martel: I spent 20 years on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council. And when I first got on in 1979, the big issue that was firing up was the Big Horn adjudication. And just my first two weeks on the council, we started talking about - we had a whole bunch of attorneys and engineers and hydrologists and consultants and fed reps and all kinds.