Wildlife Land Management Needs Sustainable Vision to Control Disease Outbreaks

Where do the Buffalo Roam?
Is a question many in the West are trying to answer. Wild herds of American Bison (commonly called Buffalo), once roamed the great plains in the tens of millions as part of a complex, sustainable and highly productive ecosystem. As most people know, due to extensive hunting by the 1880's only 500 bison remained. At the time, Teddy Roosevelt in an effort to save the species from extinction helped concentrate the remaining herds into Yellowstone National Park. Today, there are an estimated 3,000 wild bison still concentrated in and around Yellowstone. But these emblematic beasts a...