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About 1900, as the bison nearedextinction, concerted action by American and Canadian cattlemen andconservationistsresulted in the protection of the remaining animals in government preserves,zoos, and ranches on both sides of the border. The present commercial herds now total as many as 400,000 indi...
Stephens is referring to 100 bison known as the Mile High Bison Herd that graze contently on the Endless Frontier Ranch. The ranch, which Stephens is in the process of purchasing, sits on land protected by a conservation easement that Douglas County purchased and conveyed to the Colorado Cattle...
In certain cases we have to purchase Bison from other ranches within the National Bison Association. We want the care of these magnificent animals to be as close as possible to our Bison. However, some of the Bison at these ranches have been finished with grain. Transparency is very ...
Collaborating with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, and the BLM, UDWR led efforts to purchase two ranches in the Book Cliffs in the 1990s. Private lands from these purchases were transferred to UDWR, and grazing permits associated with the ranches were redistributed with...
Individual bison (up to one year of age) were sampled across Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota on six bison ranches (n = 137) and in two free-range herds (n = 70). Eimeria populations were assessed by fecal analyses. Morphological identification revealed presence of oocysts ...
as the Lakota were robbed of land through broken treaties that by 1889 whittled down the "Great Sioux Reservation" established in 1851 to several much smaller ones across the Dakotas. Without bison, tribal members relied on government "beef stations" that distributed meat from cattle ranches. ...
Across the U.S., 82 tribes now have more than 20,000 bison, and the number of herds on tribal lands have grown in recent years. The animals have been transferred to reservations from other tribes, from federal, state and local governments and from private ranches. ...
it first needed fencing to be installed around the park boundary to keep bison out of adjacent ranches and from intermingling with cattle. Defenders of Wildlife, along with our partners at the World Wildlife Fund and the National Park Foundation, provided the significant funding needed to match th...