WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM.(Brief Article)

North America once supported more than sixty million bison. By 1900 just a few hundred buffalo remained, nearly all in captivity. In the remote backcountry of Yellowstone National Park, 23 wild bison survived; the ancestors of today's herd.

Bison in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem are forced to leave the park in order to find adequate forage for winter survival. This brings them into conflict with ranchers and State authorities. As a consequence more wild bison have been slaughtered in America in the past ten years than any time in the last century. During the winter of 1996/97, over a thousand Yellowstone bison were …