The On-Going Saga of Our Bison

The Transcontinental Railroad connected East and West—and accelerated the destruction of what had been in the center of North America

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/where-the-buffalo-no-longer-roamed-3067904/

• https://www.cdapress.com/archive/article-98ed7e9b-8cd8-56cc-af2d-601756aafe2e.html
  

The profound loss to native tribes

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tcrr-interview/

• https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349/

• https://cmrussell.org/bison-exhibition/

• https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/buffalo

Canada’s key role in helping to save the bison

• https://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/alberta/how-canada-saved-the-buffalo/

Cave paintings help solve the mystery of how bison ended up in Europe?

• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bison-cave-paintings-prehistoric-art-france-lascaux-chauvet-pont-darc-marsoulas-a7367626.html

Yellowstone’s herd was the last free-ranging bison herd in the United States

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Park_bison_herd

Our buffaloes are recovering but some have little patience for their wandering ways

• https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/2-bills-propose-zero-tolerance-for-bison/

The remarkable story of how the bison returned to Europe

• https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/08/22/remarkable-story-how-bison-returned-europe/

Can the bison survive?

• https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98418065

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