This is a long time coming. I have had the words written down since August, but I’ve struggled with putting this post up. Perhaps putting the words out there, to our supporters, to the public – maybe it makes it too official. But here it is.
Roam Free Nation mourns the loss of our dear friend, our treasurer, and a stalwart buffalo warrior, “Geddy” Lee Fulton. At just fifty years old, he passed away unexpectedly in August after suffering a medical emergency while traveling. His Roam Free Nation Family is in shock at this sudden loss.
“Geddy” Lee was a staunch advocate for the buffalo for the last eight years. He had been a field volunteer, a bookkeeper, a grant writer, and our treasurer in service to wild buffalo. He guided our organization, and his own life, with an infallible sense of ethics and detailed organization.
“Geddy” Lee reinvented himself time and time again – he had lived more in his fifty years than most of us will in seventy or eighty. He had been a salesman, a private investigator, a naval officer, a library archives manager, a bookkeeper, a Glacier National Park shuttle driver, a boat operator, a Yellowstone winter guide and a bus driver. He was intending to return to school for GIS and digital content management – reinventing himself once again.
We are lucky, and the buffalo are lucky, that one of his incarnations brought him to us, to Montana, and to the fight for wild buffalo. He will be forever missed.
Thank you also to his friends, family, colleagues and community who have contributed to our cause in his honor. As the buffalo carry on, facing into the storm, we will carry on in our mission in his memory.
His obituary is available here.
