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Bison sound like history.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| August 01, 2001 | Cook, Sam | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MEDORA, N.D._One by one, as the five of us round a bend in the trail, our eyes follow the sweep of land to the northern horizon and we see them.

Bison.

They're a mile off across the pale shortgrass prairie of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. A herd of 75, maybe 100 animals. A scattering of brown lumps on the landscape.

We are nearly 600 miles from home, visitors in an ecosystem that could hardly be more unlike the boreal forest we have left behind. And nothing symbolizes the plains, the Badlands, quite like bison.

We had seen a few single bison on a morning drive through this much-overlooked national park in western North Dakota, but ...

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