The 2005 effort to expand the park culminated in 2006. In July, the Montana Land Board, the state agency which supervises management of the state's school trust lands, agreed to buy the of private land adjacent to the park's northern border for $763,000 and turn over a third of the acreage to the Ulm Buffalo Jump State Park."Land Board Recommends Buying Land Near Ulm Pishkun." Associated Press/ July 28, 2006. Accessed 2011-05-18. Marilyn and Ron Eustace, whose family had owned the property since the 1940s, had originally proposed a land swap so that the state park could own more land on top of the cliff. But the state offered to buy the cliff-top land instead, along with the rest of the Eustace family ranch. The property had been the top item on the DFWP acquisition list.Newhouse, Eric. "State to Buy Second Half of Ulm Pishkun." Great Falls Tribune. July 27, 2006. The purchase included the portion of the cliff not already owned by DFWP, and a large portion of the cliff and bone bed which had never been mined, quarried, or disturbed."Pishkun Makes Jump Toward the Future." Great Falls Tribune. October 20, 2006. Stone and braided vine "drive lines" and some tipi rings also existed on the Eustace land. The purchase was made using funds from the Montana Land Banking program, a program established in 2003 that seeks to manage state lands more effectively, improve the value of state land, increase the earning potential for this land, and/or reduce the risk to school trust land. The Land Board funded the transaction by using a portion of $6.4 million earned from selling an isolated industrial parcel near Kalispell.Newhouse, Eric. "New Program Enables 900-Acre Addition." Great Falls Tribune. October 18, 2006. The Ulm pishkun sale was the first purchase the Land Board had ever made. The of land transferred to DFWP was non-productive; DNRC retained the remaining land, and said it intended to lease it for farming or grazing. The addition expanded the park to about . In February 2007, the DFWP purchased a $334,000 permanent conservation easement on of the DRNC-owned land."FWP Buys Ulm Pishkun Easement." Great Falls Tribune. February 22, 2007. DFWP would pay a lease fee for five years on the land, during which time it would seek funding to pay the easement from the state legislature. The easement was purchased in March 2010."First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park Expands." Great Falls Tribune. March 28, 2010.
