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How a shrewd rancher helped the bison's remarkable recovery in Canada
Beef killed off the buffalo — and not by agricultural displacement or demand for tastier steaks, though both certainly helped the demise of North America’s largest land animal.
Instead, cattle were the literal culprits in the death of the last wild bison to roam the Canadian prairies — a giant bull of an animal, that according to lore and contemporary newspaper accounts was peppered with battle scars, bullet wounds and only half the usual number of horns.
“The last buffalo to be killed in Western Canada met his death in 1886,” reads the Wainright Star of 1909, repeating a well-known story at the time.
“He had been wounded twice that year but escaped to meet his fate on the range of a couple of ranchers near the south branch of the Saskatchewan.”
The rest of the story
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CHANGING THINGS UP A BIT. NEWS WILL BE SORTED BY:
STATE, COUNTRIES, LEGISLATION, DVM & BUSINESS, ARCHAEOLOGY, ECOLOGICAL, MISC., FOOD & RECIPES , YELLOWSTONE AND ASSOCIATIONS (as the news comes in)
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Wood bison cow shot and killed illegally
Bristol Bay Times
BETHEL - Bison 124 was special, an unusually strong and adventurous animal. Biologists had high hopes for it. Its wanderings in a new world made it ...
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MONTANA
Volunteers respond to Bison Range's plea for help
Billings Gazette
Francis Cahoon, left, and Cara Webb share a laugh during the National Bison Range's volunteer open house on Wednesday morning. Webb of ...
Bison group rallies in Bozeman - KBZK.com | Continuous News | Bozeman, Montana
KBZK Bozeman News
Bison management began after the State of Montana sued Yellowstone because bison were leaving the park and officials feared the spread of ...
Buffalo Jump
Atlas Obscura
The bison would plummet to their deaths in a frenzy and, at the bottom, ... There are remnants of the Native American life to be found all around the ... |
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JUST PLAINS FUNNY, by Ian Egan
www.ieaegan.com
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KANSAS
02/06/2017
In Yoder, Kansas, two butchers trying to kill a bison that was “confined inside a trailer,” have a less happy tale to tell. The bison kept turning away, so Duane Helms walked to the end of the trailer to try to turn the massive animal around, in order to give the shooter, who was perched on a ladder, room to shoot. But the bison balked, bumped into the side of the trailer and dislodged the ladder, causing the rifle to fire and wound Helms in the leg. No word on what the bison did next, or whether it planned to plead self-defense in court.
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TEXAS
The New Witte
San Antonio Magazine
The new Witte's answer: A concept called Texas Deep Time, which is a ... visiting the Witte's trio of bison and peering into dioramas of Texas species in ...
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ILLINOIS
The Best Tourist Attractions In Illinois
Satellite PR News (press release)
Illinois is a historic city in American as it is the place where Abraham ... Today, the tourist attractions here include American bison, Native American ...
At a Glance: Feb. 16, 2017
Kankakee Daily Journal
The latest information on the bison herd at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie will be offered at Green Drinks Kankakee's next meeting at 6 p.m.
Tonight At 6 On 'Indiana Newsdesk'
Indiana Public Media
How a new disaster declaration might help East Chicago, state needle exchange challenges and the important role bison are playing in land ...
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CALIFORNIA
Photo Essay: California Island and Tourist Hotspot Copes With Drought
News Deeply
The island's herd of American bison, introduced for the filming of a movie in 1924, has required the help of land trust workers from the Catalina Island ...
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WYOMING
Park is escorting bison south
Jackson Hole News&Guide
A group of Jackson Hole bison living on wintering grounds with a prohibitively deep snowpack have chosen to take the path of least resistance on a ...
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OHIO
African Safari Wildlife animals are ready for visitors
Port Clinton News Herald
Animals available every day for drive-thru visitors to both view and feed include alpacas, llamas, guanacos, camels, fallow deer, sika deer, elk, bison ...
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Southern Plains Pointers: Feb 2017
Ramping up for Red-Dots
While it’s true that bison are a wildlife species native to the southern plains, it’s also true that they are roaming the southern plains of the 21st Century. 300 years ago, they would have been grazing highly mineralized native forage and benefiting from a diverse plant community. Today’s average habitat tends to be relatively monoculture, laden with invasive exotic plants and captive. Therefore; we manage. We manage mineral supplementation for reproductive function, juvenile development and immune system response. We manage parasites and forage, and we manage how and when we interact with the herd safely to mitigate costly losses.
Ramping-up for red-dots is all about managing toward a zero interaction with the herd in late pregnancy and during calving. Maybe I should call it “ramping down”. It’s also all about causing the correct herd health for the final stage of reproduction, which impacts the next cycle, and (!) the ole bottom line. Personally, I like managing bison like bison. They have advantages over available invasive exotics of the bovidae family, but at the end of the day they are animals with physical needs for health, and behavioral needs provided for by the due diligence of stewards.
 Frasier Bison L.L.C.
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Canada
Parks Canada says that as part of a $6.4-million project, it has moved 16 Bison to the mountainous landscape where the species was once a dominant grazer. Read more: Bison again roam Banff National Park after century-long absence
Time's up for bison clock in Wood Buffalo
Edmonton Sun
Bison Clock The Wood Buffalo Summer Games countdown clock, shown in a photo taken soon after its unveiling in May 2014. The Wood Buffalo ...
Checking In: Get back to nature for Valentine's at Kanatha-Aki
Montreal Gazette
If lounging on bison skins in front of a fireplace sounds seductive, Kanatha-Aki Nature Centre in the Laurentians might be your ideal Valentine's stop.
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Climate change doubles size of northern lakes, pushes bison off habitat
The Guardian
Lakes in the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary off the northwest shore of Great Slave Lake are now bigger than any time in at least the last 200 years, said ...
Mountain News: Another avalanche death on day of moderate danger
Pique Newsmagazine
BANFF, Alta.— Bison have returned to Banff National Park after an absence of 140 years, bringing tears of joy to the eyes of some local residents.
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Russia
Bison on the move
Belarus News (BelTA)
Five female bison currently living on the hunting grounds of the agricultural company Ozery, Grodno Oblast, will move to a new residence in the ... |
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Legislation
Endangered Species Act
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Ecological
WATCH: Indiana Nature Conservancy Fosters Prairie Using Bison
Indiana Public Media
The Indiana Chapter of the Nature Conservancy is trying to restore a rarefied ecosystem in the northern part of the state. It's been going on for about ...
Climate change doubles size of northern lakes, pushes bison off habitat
The Guardian
Lakes in the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary off the northwest shore of Great Slave Lake are now bigger than any time in at least the last 200 years, said ...
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Food
Chili Cook-Off
Destin Log and Walton Log
Chili recipes this year include Bison and Chorizo Chili, Tequila Bison Chili and Seven-Bean Seven-Pepper Hot Chili, she said. “We have some that ...
Salumi boom
Boulder Weekly
American salumi — like American bread, beer and cheese — took a while to ... bindenfleisch in Switzerland and its first cousin, Native American bison ... |
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HAVE YOU REGISTERED YET ?
Click on the link :
http://www.bisoncentre.com/files/5514/8529/9050/Wildrose_2017_-_Registration_Form.pdf
You will want to be in Ponoka March 17 & 18 for the 2017 Wildrose !!
ENTER YOUR TOP QUALITY BISON in the WILDROSE BISON SALE:
Wildrose Entry Form 2017.pdf
Wildrose Entry Terms 2017.pdf
There will be SIX Entry Classes for 2017 !Heifer Calf Born in 2016
Bull Calf Born in 2016
Bred Heifer Born in 2014
Open Heifer Born in 2015
Breeding Bull Born in 2015
Breeding Bull Born in 2014
KNOW that your Top Quality Bison will receive Top Quality Care at VJV Auction - the BPA Bison Show Committee has made arrangements to ensure each pen will have a water tub and it will be filled regularly - AND your Show Bison will be penned away from the bison coming in for the commercial sale (being held after the Wildrose Sale on Saturday).
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YOU could win this
Beautiful Heifer Calf
with a $50 Raffle Ticket !
Bev Taylor of TAYLOR BISON is DONATING
this Top Quality 2016 BISON HEIFER CALF
FOR a RAFFLE DRAW at the WILDROSE.
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 National Bison Association
A Thank You on the Checkoff Challenge Success
National Bison Association Past President Bruce Anderson, who coordinated the "Checkoff Challenge" fundraising effort at the January NBA winter conference, sends along this note of thanks and encouragement for the program:
"What a great response we got at the Winter Conference for the checkoff challenge. For those of you that weren't there, a challenge was issued to the general membership to donate $1,000 towards the checkoff fund. We were able to raise over $17,000 for the NBA with half of it going directly to further buffalo production and sales and the other half going into the general NBA budget. We need this money to keep our industry on this crest of success that we are all benefiting from. I feel that the NBA has been a huge part of our industry's success. We have a great product and a great association.
The checkoff fund is generated by animal volume. The shortage of volume (resulting in higher prices) has caused a bit of a shortfall in the checkoff budget. It was gratifying to see that membership "step up" and cover this shortfall. It was also very satisfying to see that membership was willing to share some of the success we are all experiencing with our association. It tells me we are doing a good job.
Finally, I would like to thank all who met the challenge. I had hoped that we could raise $10k and we did way better than that raising nearly $18k. We even had a few folks that didn't want to give $1,000 that stepped up and gave less, but all the contributions were welcome. Also, anyone else who couldn't make the conference that would like to meet the challenge are welcome to send in whatever they can afford. All of us in the buffalo business are doing well. It is time for our association to truly benefit financially from our success."
Bruce Anderson
NBA Immediate Past President
NBA C/O Checkoff Challenge 8690 Wolff Ct. #200
Westminster, CO 80031
Or email Barb@bisoncentral.com to be invoiced for a contribution, or call the office at 303-292-2833.
The Weekly Update is a service designed to provide National Bison Association members with news and information affecting bison production and marketing. Many items in the Weekly Update are reprinted from outside sources. The content of those articles does not necessarily reflect the policy position of the National Bison Association, and are reproduced here only as a means to keep our membership informed as much as possible on all information and opinions relating to bison that is circulating publicly.
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