A video dispatch from my recent visit to Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s North Unit, where bison roam the Great Plains today. America once had maybe 65 million of these amazing creatures. By the time President Roosevelt got involved in bison conservation in about 1905, only 500 to 1000 remained.
The buffalo is inextricably linked to the people, history and imagination of the America West.
Remember to mark your calendars for the premier of the new Ken Burns documentary, The American Buffalo, on PBS on October 16. I’m certainly looking forward to seeing it.
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