During the winter months we are able to move temporary fence in a “strip graze”. In the photos you can see the new strip on the left, and the strip from the day before on the right. We start on one end of the pasture, normally the end with the water trough and use a temporary poly wire string fence with step in posts to keep the bison in a certain strip. Each day we move the temporary fence back about 20-30ft to provide the animals with fresh grass.

When the grass is dormant there are not fresh baby shoots, so the animals don’t overgraze like they would in the spring when the grass is growing. Itsmostly about psychology. If the bison wanted to go through the temporary fence, they absolutely could. We aim to keep them happy and there is a mutual agreement, we will give them fresh grass daily, if they mind the fence.