The American bison is an incredibly interesting critter. Sometimes called buffalo, this name is a misnomer and suggests that the American bison is somehow related to the buffalo of the Old World.
We all know Delta Junction is famous for its wild buffalo herd. Here is the story of how all that happened from the pages of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
“Right now, we’re getting ready to build a fence for the buffalo herd,” he said. The Pawnee Nation hopes to start off with a small herd of about 10-15 cows and their calves on their land in northern ...
As people gathered on a road in Yellowstone to watch a pack of wolves devour a bison, the buffalo’s herd charged into them ...
Yellowstone National Park. Herd of Bison in the snow. The American Buffalo asks us to look our nation’s past in the eye, assess what we did right and what we did wrong, and apply those lessons ...
By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing ... but then turned to rescuing motherless calves and starting a small herd that would eventually provide seed stock for others.