What really happened to the bison?
Tri-State Livestock News article
Reinterpreting the 1882 Bison Population Collapse
The paper by Dr. Sierra Stoneberg Holt.
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores
This story on bison collapse made the rounds this month. Maybe someone here can shed some light on it. Is it plausible? I haven’t kept up on the bison history issue since reading the Flores book. It seemed to have better data than the comments by Holt. However, I forget much of the Flores book. I remember some interesting theories about bison and drought but I am not sure he got into the bison collapse.
An idea about returning a large area of the short grass plains into a Buffalo Commons.
American Prairie Reserve Bison Park
It was covered in the last chapter of the Flores book.
Pleistocene Park: Re-wilding North America
FYI A more radical proposal came forth around 2005, which was to not only let the bison-pronghorn-deer run free but to reintroduce analogs for the animals here in the Pleistocene: horses/zebras, elephants, camels, llamas, big cats, etc. A Pleistocene Rewilding
Water buffalo free to roam Kent wetland nature reserve
A weird bit of news about water buffalo, a real buffalo vs bison, in England. I was very surprised to see this. One that they thought it would help, two that they risked letting them loose. Water Buffalo released in Australia were invasive and caused a lot of problems. They spent a lot of effort trying to get rid of them. Now it is pigs but the crocs are helping with that.