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The Raleigh Microcosm
Raleigh, North Carolina July 16 1842
BUFFALOES.
The following account of the mode of capturing a large number of Buffaloes is from the Buffalo Advertiser:
It is said that a Yankees engenuity is adequate to any emergency, and whether coaxing a consulship out of Congress, or catching coons, his brain ever teems with some huge plan, to circumnavigate the globe in a mackeral smack or convert sawdust into antidyspectic pills. Some such unique scheme must have entered into the head of the hunter having possession of the Buffaloe herd now in this city. The history of their taking, as gathered from the owner, is substantially as follows: April, 1841, a “native” residing somewhere this side of sun down, in Missouri, gathered together seventeen men, twelve horses, four wagons, and fifty-five cows and calves, with an intent to traverse the immense plains near the base of the Rocky Mountains, in search of young Buffaloes. After reaching the scene of operations, the hunters would select half a dozen of the fleetest horses and dash off, Arab like, to the plain. Espying a herd, they would hold up and cautiously approached the animals, keeping well to the leeward, as seamen, say, to prevent the animals from taking alarm, which they easily do when the hunter is to windward. Once near enough, a rush is made among the herd, and by means of lassos, the Mexican mode of catching cattle with the rope, several of the creatures would be secured. (READ MORE)
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MONTANA
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You can still find the gathering basin where bison would bunch up before being forced off of the one-mile long sandstone cliff. At the base of the cliff, ... |
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MINNESOTA
Bison find home on this range
PostBulletin.com
As more consumers discover the healthier benefits of bison meat over cow meat, the demand is expected to continue. Bowron said getting started in ...
On a ranch approximately 3 miles north of Luverne, the buffalo — bison — roam. At Prairie Heights, owner John Bowron has a new addition to the herd that may possibly be the elusive great white bison.
Bowron stumbled onto the new cow at an auction in South Dakota. He isn’t 100 percent sure she is a white bison so for now, she is being referred to as a “blonde” until she undergoes DNA testing this fall.
“She was the last animal sold and I thought, ‘I had to come home with something,’” Bowron reflected
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WISCONSIN
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KENTUCKY
Got Bison- sealed bid
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is selling three bison calves.The department will receive sealed bids until June 17 for the animals. The calves, a bull and two cows, will be sold as one lot, not individually.
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NEBRASKA
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OREGON
BACK AT THE RANCH: Since 1997, Oregon lawmakers have allowed Eastern Oregon land zoned exclusively for farm use to also be used for guest ranches for travelers curious about life on the farm. HB 2435 makes permanent the law permitting those ranches, instead of letting it sunset next April. Guest ranches have to stick to a certain size and occupancy limits and must be “incidental” to maintaining an “existing and continuing cattle, sheep, horse, or bison operation that qualifies as a farm use.”
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CALIFORNIA
Summer Fun With Kids
East Bay Express
A new California Trail section showcases bison, grizzly bears, California condors, and four baby wolf pups who arrived in mid-May. Every Friday June ... |
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MISSOURI
One Night on the Old Missouri Trail
KWIT
One of those river, the Missouri, was a I-29, an interstate that carried just ... Once upon a time, the Missouri River Trail, a nearly endless snaking path over ... thinking all those promised bison had gone south for the winter--snow-birds. |
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NEW YORK
The Bison Hunter from New York
American Hunter (press release) (blog)
His quarry, the bison, was then on the verge of extinction as millions had been killed .... They later shared the meat with a local ranching family as well.
The bison was the largest animal in America and was an accessible big-game trophy, especially to hunters from the East, if they were willing to travel west. By the 1870s, bison hunting was all the rage, and the animal was being devastated by hunters descending on the West from everywhere. The major culprit, however, was uncontrolled commercial hunting (for its skin, tongue, etc.). The government essentially winked at the carnage, since many officials thought that wiping out the bison would convince Native Americans, given their historic subsistence on the animal, to relent fighting and submit themselves to life in reservations.
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IOWA
OHS Metals students install metal buffalo at  Eisenhower Elementary School ktvo.com
... Iowa — There is now a big buffalo standing outside Eisenhower Elementary ... The two told us it took about four months to complete the big bison. |
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WASHINGTON
I first heard about Wobble a couple of years ago. This is the picture of him back then. 
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IDAHO
Oh, give me a home: Friends share care of  orphaned bison
The Spokesman-Review
Oh, give me a home: Friends share care of orphaned bison ... Baxter and Hazel are orphaned bison, and Kofmehl helps Kevin Davidson care for ... said Kofmehl, a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa tribe in North Dakota.
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OKLAHOMA
OKC Rotarians visit Poland (Members of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City )
Oklahoman.com
Bialowieza is the last primordial forest in Europe, home to the European forest bison. Extensive efforts by the Polish people have preserved and ....
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NORTH DAKOTA
North Dakota white bison dies of injuries from ravine fall
Bismarck Tribune
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) — The National Buffalo Museum in Jamestown says the herd's white bull bison has died from injuries suffered in an accidental fall into a ravine.
Dakota Miracle was 13 years old.
The museum says the bison's health was compromised due to genetic conditions resulting in lack of pigmentation. That caused Dakota Miracle to have poor eyesight, a factor believed to have led to his fall.
NewsDakota reports museum board president Don Williams and executive director Ilana Xinos (ZEE'-nohs) found Dakota Miracle deceased during a routine herd and pasture inspection.
Dakota Miracle was the son of White Cloud, an albino bison that lived with the museum's herd for almost two decades.
The National Buffalo Museum's mission is to educate the public on the cultural and historical significance of the American bison..
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Canada
BISON HERD IN PRINCE ALBERT NATIONAL PARK 'CRASHING'
Research into free-roaming plains bison in Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park says the herd could go extinct from overhunting in fields outside the protected area. The study, published in the journal Biological Conservation, looked at why the Sturgeon River herd's population has decreased to about 120 animals. Co-author Ricardo Simon says the area had about 500 bison back in 2005 and the population has been going down ever since. "Pretty much crashing," he says. The PhD student at Laval University in Quebec, says he and his supervisor Daniel Fortin looked at three potential causes: predation by wolves, diseases and hunting.
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Poland
OKC Rotarians visit Poland (Members of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City )
Oklahoman.com
Bialowieza is the last primordial forest in Europe, home to the European forest bison. Extensive efforts by the Polish people have preserved and |
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Tribal
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Archaeological
EVIDENCE MOUNTS THAT BISON IN BANFF STAYED IN MOUNTAINS
BANFF, Alta.—There were bison in Banff before the modern era. But were they tourists, who wandered into the mountains occasionally, or mountain dwellers?
The Rocky Mountain Outlook reported that tests conducted on 15 bison bones discovered recently delivered further evidence of bison as mountain dwellers, not tourists. In fact, they may not have left the mountains.
A scientist was careful not to deliver conclusions too sweeping, though. "It's suggesting that these particular individual bison could have gone out of the mountains a little bit, but not very much," said Karsten Heuer, manager of Banff's bison reintroduction project.
Isotope analysis of the bones sheds light on the diets of the bison, including their habitat, while radio-carbon dating indicated a date of 600 years ago. However, other bison bones discovered in the park put bison there as long as 10,370 years ago.
A bison shot near Lake Louise in 1858 was believed to be the last wild bison in what is now Banff National Park.
In 2016, Parks Canada transplanted 16 bison imported from east of Edmonton into the park. So far, reported the Outlook, the effort appears to be paying off. The original herd was enclosed within a fenced pasture, and it has more than doubled, with more calves on the way.
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Misc
Western Landowners offer scholarships for ranch management program
BizWest
Grazing strategies developed for cattle and bison, and how grazing plans are designed to help protect biodiversity, enhance soils and conserve water ...
America Loves the Idea of Family Farms. That's Unfortunate.
New York Magazine
... or Tanka's work restoring prairies, bison, and traditional foodways in the ... Many of today's new farmers who weren't born into farming are young and ... These new farmers are absolutely trying to do the right thing, but solo .... NewsGuild of New York, which represents the staffers, told CNN Business. |
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Bison Meat
Meat Packaging Market Report 2019 Top Companies, Trends, Sales, Revenue, Detailed Analysis ...
The Norman Gazette (press release)
The Meat Packaging market report [6 Year Forecast 2019-2025] focuses on Major Leading Industry Players, ... Beef, Veal, Pork, Lamb, Bison, Other. |
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 National Bison Association
A Note from NBA President Dick Gehring
Over the past month, I’ve had the opportunity to attend a couple of state/regional bison association meetings.
On May 17 and 18, I attended the Texas Bison Association Spring Conference. They had multiple sessions that were of interest to the attendees. Dr. Cook's talk on MCF and Tim Fraser's talk on SPBTX parasitism program had everyone listening and asking for more. Good food, good speakers, good time. Thanks to Benji Cox and all the folks in Texas for a great conference.
On June 7 and 8, the Western Bison Association, along with the Montana Bison Association, held their Summer Rendezvous. It was held in beautiful Kamas, Utah at Joe and Kathleen Sorenson's Buffalo Pass Ranch. Joe gave tours of their fantastic house during a wagon ride around the properties.
There was much to do, from fishing to trail rides and excursions up and down the mountains. Wade and Kristen Klingler went out of their way to host a great event and wherever there was a need or request, these two came through. A good time was had my all. Glad I could finally make it out west.
Attending these events is always an educational and enjoyable experience. And, it’s always refreshing to see how much passion producers have for this animal and for the bison business.
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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