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 In honor of Memorial Day
In 1871 an article was printed, that a bill was in congress...
Walnut Valley Times
El Dorado, Kansas Feb 10 1871
Disposal of Public Lands
There is a bill now pending in the congress of the United States (and has passed the house) giving to each soldier of the rebellion one hundred and sixty acres of public land. Some members of congress objects to the passage of the bill because it “absorbs more than half of the public domain.” But suppose it absorbs it all? What in the world is our domain worth to us while nothing grows on it but native grass? Something, we suppose, but the net result can be fairly arrived at by finding out the aggregate amount which buffalo meat brings per annum in the market. The vacant lands are worth something more as a range for native stock, but we are strongly of the opinion, that the sooner the general government gets rid of all its land- only so it gives it to actual settlers- the better for the treasury and the people. Land unproductive will then be yielding something to increase the resources of the country, and man now earning precarious livelihood will be in a condition of independence. We regard the fact that the bill in question will absorb a large portion of public lands, as no objection to its passage. Let our soldiers, who sacrificed everything for the government, and without whom the government would have no land- have every foot of the public lands, if that much is necessary to give them homes. The only danger that arises from the disposal of the public lands is in giving to it corporations and individuals, in large bodies and there by adding nothing to the productive industry of the country. We say, give it to the soldiers if they will make it to grow an ear of corn where no corn grew before.
The bill did pass, June 1872.
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Texas Celebrates Texas Bison Week:
First full week of May through 2022
By: The Buffalo Drum News Team
Did you miss it? Don’t worry; we got a whole year to get ready for Texas Bison Week – 2016!!
Texas bison week was initiated by Debbie Northrop for her Texas Bison Festival, and carried on, with her permission, by the Texas Bison Association annually every year. During the 83rd legislature, the year that bison were graciously included to the Texas Ag Code language under the Estray laws, the TBA once again requested the ceremonial proclamation of Texas Bison Week. To our surprise and at the behest of Christine Moses, it was decided that Texas Bison Week should be established through the year 2022 by way of CSR 20, sponsored and introduced by one of the true champions of Texas Bison, Senator Craig Estes. Luck and assumptions aside, this blessing occurred, as a matter of public record, on the watch of Christine Moses as the energetic, warm and professional face of the Texas Bison Association.
Texas Bison Week was innovated to cause attention by the Texas general public to bison and bison products every year. The first full week in May was chosen to celebrate a new generation of American icons, in Texas, whereas May begins the bulk of the calving season. The diverse communities in support of Texas bison include: ranching, state parks, private parks, retail grocers, farmers markets, restaurants, conservation-projects, hunting, agri/eco-tourism, schools and the list goes on. Texas Bison Week avails the health conscious consumer of meat, as well as the entire general public, an opportunity to celebrate bison with a bit of Texas Brag. As we continue to learn the advantages and added value of bison to a consuming public hungry for authenticity and all things ecologically positive, Texas Bison Week serves the multitude by providing the general public - a chance to be a part of it.
If you have an official ‘Bison’ holiday for your state or locality, we would be proud to include it.
Link for original proclamation Link to Texas bison letter
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Illinois
Nature Rambles
A few pictures and measurements sent to the Illinois State Museum confirmed that it was a bison skull. Later, we were able to have the skull carbon ...
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Southern Plains Pointers: May 15
A historic amount of rain is blessing the southern plains to the point, in some locations, of causing reason for concern in ranch and bison health management. This year will also be historic, because of the rain, as a liver-fluke year. Take a ‘Google’ at the liver fluke life-cycle, and then play it safe by assuming that breaking their cycle, effectively, is shrewd herd- health management every year, but especially this year!
We have been getting so much water where I am, that I have actually observed fish in my pasture! They are Gambusia, and because they are involuntarily migrating to small run-off catches and working their little butts off eating mosquito larvae by intent and design of my system is good, but I am still observing; freaking-fish-in-my-pasture!! I have also observed snails on my grass, and yes, tons and tons of green feed. In nature, every paradigm contains paradox, and when balance is disrupted by an excess of anything, there is payment due. In the case of too much rain, as it pertains to herd-health management, paying attention is what is both due and diligent. Watching the condition of your animals will also be called for if the rain does not get back to normally balanced amounts. Lush green forage is good, but if it is excessively made up of water, can make it impossible for our grazers to consume enough in 24 hours to be healthy. We are only [approaching] cause for concern on the latter, but it’s good to know that if the rain keeps up, you’d better be keeping your eye on them and their body score.
This 2015 season of major rain-event will also be cause for attention paid to natural-disaster plans written or conceived, prior to natural disaster and [flooding] events. I recently experienced flash-flooding and frustration that did not include animal losses, because they were in pastures that allowed the performance of natural survival behaviors. I’ve never seen them spend so much time on high ground, and lately, if they even hear a distant rumble, that’s where they are. It’s amazing to me, but I suspect, a common-sense to them…
On a more positive note; if you have wanted to establish warm season perennials and/or re-seeding annuals in your bison habitat, this year is a great year to have luck doing it. Water makes everything work, even when ‘everything’ includes antagonists to our models of production. Nature doesn’t take sides, or prisoners. For those of you getting good rain, without daily flooding, enjoy the grass, tank levels and fat happy bison.
 Tim Frasier of Frasier Bison L.L.C.
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Montana
Gib Myers: Nurturing startups, philanthropists -- and bison on the range
Now, he's helping to grow a 3.5-million-acre land preserve in Montana where bison can run free. But the transition points in his career, which he ...
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Canada
Rough cuts test culinary students
... College students weren't given a fine rib eye or a New York cut steak to grill ... Armin Mueller, owner of Canadian Rangeland Bison and Elk, said the ...
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Montana
Lastest Entertainment News
... at the Montana Historical Society at 1 p.m., author Doug Coffman will present “The (un)Natural History of William Hornaday's American Bison Group” ...
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Montana
Bison range preps for summer season
DIXON- In the eastern portion of Sanders County on the border with neighboring Lake County the National Bison Range is prepping for the busy ...
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South Dakota
Dream of tribal national park crumbling
Those demands are that the Park Service resume paying the tribe's share of North Unit gate receipts and start handing over all the park's surplus bison ...
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Nebraska
What We're Into: Puckett's, reggae, Safari Park, squeegees
The American Academy of Pediatrics is urging middle and high schools to delay school start times to 8:30 a.m. or later. ... turtles, turkeys, eagles, wolves, bears, frogs, sandhill cranes, and American bison, including white ones, which ...
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Texas
Park sponsors free day for seniors
SAN ANGELO, Texas - The Friends of the San Angelo State Park and park employees will ... There will be tours to see the bison and Texas longhorn.
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Kentucky
Column: The bison of Big Bone Lick are a living legacy
The herd is annually a crowd-pleasing favorite of many visitors and for good reason: bison are simply magnificent beasts to behold. Mature bulls stand ...
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Ohio
Meet Duff and Divot, bison living on a golf course
Meet Duff and Divot, two juvenile bison who are likely munching on a stretch of grass between the 1st and 10th holes of The Golf Club at Stonelick ... (video)
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Kansas
Buffalo, Cannonball and the Border Queen
American buffalo once roamed wild in massive herds across the Kansas ... accurate zoological name for the American buffalo, that of Bison, Kansas.
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Washington
Bison calf born at Northwest Trek
The birth of a bison calf has kicked off baby season at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park in Eatonville. The calf, who will not be named, was born Sunday ...
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Why crossbows should be legal on bison hunts
There's a second part to the bison “methods and means” proposal. Currently, regulations for bison permit hunts allow a centerfire rifle or handgun, ...
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Michigan
Vantage Point Farmers Market opens Saturday
"People are trying to eat leaner, healthier meats and bison meat is really lean," Mathews said. "The cupcake vendor is popular too and a lot of people ...
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Wyoming
Odds slim to draw big game tags in Wyoming
There was also considerable interest among bison hunters with 884 nonresidents applying for 61 licenses for 6.9 percent draw odds. A total of 2,870 ...
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Minnesota
DNR naturalist speaks about Minnesota River, wetlands, bison
Minnneopa Area Naturalist Scott Kudelka of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources speaks Thursday at the Treaty Site History Center in St.
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Bright Blooms — Prehistoric Supermarket
For instance, some 13 or 14 thousand years ago, hunters preyed on the mammoth and the ancient bison herds that gathered en masse at the ...
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Montana
Rebuilding a Nation
And sometimes, when the splintered tribal council could not agree on who would sign paychecks, the government simply shut down. .... and Canada to sign the Northern Tribes Bison Treaty, which seeks to coordinate management ...
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Idaho
County proceeds on circus-animal ban
l When the animals displayed are of an exotic species with a history of domestication, such as camels, llamas and bison. The draft also requires that ...
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Wisconsin
Two baby bison born at Irvine Park Zoo
CHIPPEWA FALLS — After a virus wiped out nearly half the bison herd in Irvine Park in fall 2013, people worried about the animals' future at the park ...
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Indiana
Corndance: Where the bison roam
Corndance Tavern's bison entrees include short ribs at the restaurant on Grape Road in Mishawaka. SBT Photo/GREG SWIERCZ ...
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Utah
Earth Notes: Utah's Bison
One stands out—a bull bison, complete with hump and horns. Nearby, painted Ute warriors carry shields, a form of body armor crafted from the ...
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Where there is water, there is life.
I had planned to move to Florida a few years ago, but instead I get to see Texas become Florida this year, at least in comparable rainfall. It's a little more difficult now, to remember that bad drought just a few short years ago. No worries, we'll be baked by the sun again in the not too distant future. I'm sure we'll hear endless complaints, prayers and rain-dances at that point, wishing we had some H20.
It would certainly behoove a Texas landowner (and improve the bottom line) to consider learning about watershed management practices to maintain balance in your growing system. That would include techniques and structures for making water work for you. There is currently so much potential for improvement, but of course I'm a consultant and service-provider specializing in that information.
Where there is water, there is life. Excess water comes bearing the gift of parasites, so it is useful to plan for management-intensive grazing and the installation [or identification] of useful vermicidal plants within fodder systems. Nice rain gives a good deal of assurance that your plantings will be successful.
It's wonderful to have lakes, ponds and tanks brimming with water again. Water quality and parasite control can also be greatly improved with the introduction of various useful plants and animals working together in an ecosystem.
Wild flowers aren't just pretty to look at; they attract pollinators, predators of pests, and improve soils (to name a few beneficial ecosystem services).
 Ben Tyler
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Netherlands
75. Antique skeleton of an enormous American bull bison - 270 cm x 180 x 80 cm
This mounted skeleton of an American bison bull is a must-have for the Western enthusiast, collector or as an eye catcher in the store, restaurant or ...
Inches 106.29 x 70.86 x 31.49
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California
Thinning the Herd
There are feral pigs in Texas, grey squirrels in England, foxes and water buffalo in Australia, ... On Catalina Island, though, they had a bison problem
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Europe
Europe One Had Bison, and now They're Making a Comeback
The iconic bison of the American plains isn't the only large hoofed beast humans have hunted to near extinction. Wild European bison, also called ...
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Texas
Your June Texas Events Guide - Texas Highways magazine
Depicting bison, American Indian hunters, and tribal culture, Catlin's paintings capture life on the Great Plains shortly before American settlement and ...
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New York
Capturing Blue Ridge Falls
I went to the bison farm's “country store” and picked up some souvenirs and eats. And that also included some frozen bison burgers and medallions.
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Texas
Nature and history mix in Washington County, Texas
Texas Ranch Life offers glimpses of bison, Longhorns and Texas wildlife, along with the chance to “ride the range” with the cowpokes. You also can try ...
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Memorable Meat!
The USDA reports that bison raised in the United States feed solely on grass and hay and are not fed hormones or antibiotics, notes Cordain.
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North Dakota
Rounding up the herd
Some of the bison thrashed against the steel walls -- more used to the open ... An estimated 200 bison will remain at the park when the roundup is complete. ... an organization that represents 58 Native American tribes in 19 states
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The American Economy Is a Buffalo Jump
A "Buffalo Jump" is a cliff where Native Americans killed bison in mass quantities. They stampeded the bison over the cliff while others waited below to ...
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Pennsylvania
One Tank Trip: The Bison Experience
It's smart, since the biggest bison come in close to 2,000 pounds. ... It's unique, being one of the only zoos in North American to offer the close ...
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Ohio
PARK VIEWS: Good Birds? Bad Birds?
For centuries, American Bison (commonly called buffalo) were key to the cowbird's survival in North America. As bison grazed the great plains, ...
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South Dakota
Crazy Horse to host weekend open house
The Memorial is especially proud to present the Exhibit of the American Bison, located on the lower level of the Native American Educational ...
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Colorado
American Bison
Join the Palmer Lake Historical Society, for a presentation on the massacre to near extinction of the American bison. The bison was considered a ...
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Bison in YNP charges vehicle.
Alligator takes on 4WD and wins
A stampede of angry Bison has left a lasting impression on a car after ... was parked on a road in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley when the three Bison ...
Repeat from last month, but it made to Australia.
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Nebraska
(Neb)-Hudson Meng Season Opens Saturday
CRAWFORD - The Hudson-Meng bison bonebed Education and Research Center…the world's largest bonebed of an extinct species of bison…opens ...
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Sea biscuits led to pet food
This accomplished two things. One: they didn't have to eat the old stuff on the return trip and Two: the dogs loved the stuff (they didn't get bison stew as ...
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New York
Enjoy Top Picks
Highlights include streams and ponds, mass plantings of perennials and grasses, sculpture, seating terraces and a herd of North American bison.
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Minnesota
Bison return to Afton's Belwin Conservancy
A bison watches warily from its resting spot in the midst of long prairie grasses at Blue Mounds State Park in Luverne, MN Tuesday morning July 24, ...
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The herd of about 30 animals are on loan from NorthStar Bison in Rice Lake, Wis.,
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Utah
State parks of Utah: Northern region
... wildlife viewing in the state such as antelope, deer, bobcats, coyotes, birds, waterfowl and perhaps the island's most famous, the American Bison.
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Oklahoma-Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
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Indiana- Bison Bash - June
Events fill streets, parks
June 20: Bison Bash at Ouabache State Park. Visitors can visit the park's bison herd, go on a hike, do a craft and scavenger hunt at the all-day event ...
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YELLOWSTONE
Texas man takes home prize in national park photo contest
Moore's photo captured a bison roaming in Yellowstone Park. The caption reads, "Shot in May 2014, this photo was captured in front of still frozen
Group wants bison managed like elk
“These agencies need to evaluate an alternative that is culturally acceptable to the majority of American Indian tribes and is most beneficial for tribes ...
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EDITORIAL: Volunteers and veterans trump cold weather any day
So, here's some common sense advice: Heed road-closure signs, don't mob around mama bears with cubs on a bridge, don't take selfies with bison, ...
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Fort Nelson First Nation uses fire to save bison, limit wildfires
CBC
Controlled burn in 2013 attributed to drawing bison back to deep woods near Nordquist Lake, B.C. Using a helicopter and a machine that pumps out 100 flaming ping-pong balls every minute, a team from the Fort Nelson First Nation recently took to the air to set fire to almost 3,000 hectares of forest in the Liard River area in northeastern British Columbia. It's part of the First Nation's ongoing efforts to help a threatened herd of wood bison.
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