"September 2019"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229).
Contents:
Prologue -- The landscape -- Tatanka -- The Great Slaughter -- Revival of a precarious species. Charles "Buffalo" Jones ; Theodore Roosevelt ; William T. Hornaday ; Charles Goodnight ; The American Bison Society -- Yellowstone's stigma -- Train ride to the future -- Parks and bison -- Rebounding across the West -- Conserving bison genes on a large-scale landscape -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Millions of majestic bison once roamed territory stretching from Alaska to Mexico. This awe-inspiring species, designated the National Mammal of the United States in 2016, has come close to extinction-- and great effort is needed to preserve it for future generation. Award-winning journalist Kurt Repanshek traces the history of bison from their Ice Age ancestors to present-day strategies to bring them back to the landscape-- and the biological, political, and cultural hurdles confronting this work. Repanshek explores Native Americans' relationship with bison and presents a forward-thinking approach to returning this keystone species to the West and improving the health of ecosystems.
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