NFR The American Buffalo

[Flymph]

Had the opportunity to watch this excellent PBS documentary narrated by Peter Coyote.​

A New Documentary from Ken Burns Now Streaming​

The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink.

A very dramatic and sorrowful depiction of the demise of a once magnificent creature that roamed from east to west in our nation. Senseless slaughters reminds one of a parallel obliteration of Pacific and Atlantic Salmon!

 

[Stonedfish]

It will be interesting to see how this transplanted herd does. They have some beautiful territory on the reservation to live on.
SF

Colville Tribes Release Buffalo On Reservation -

Nearly two dozen bison are roaming a reservation in Northcentral Washington after tribal wildlife managers released them "to live in the wild" there today.

nwsportsmanmag.com

 

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American Bison

 

[JudyM]

I watched it, very educational. A guy who lives out near Estacada, Oregon has a herd.

 

[Greg Armstrong]

Well worth watching…

Episode #2 is airing tonight on PBS

 

[Ernie]

I watched this film as well. It’s both interesting and disturbing. I knew there were lots of bison, but not in all of the areas listed and numbering 30,000,000 to 60,000,000.

 

[BDD]

I work with a wildlife biologist; two of his pet peeves are calling American Bison "buffalo" and calling calling deer antlers "horns". My uncle raised bison for a number of years and said they were some of the craftiest, most ornery, athletic animals he ever saw. They'd get out of the pens and they could not recapture them without using helicopters to run them down...or so the story goes. I mostly responded because it gives me an opportunity to to share one of my favorite scenes (again). I forgive them for using "buffalo" but some of my favorite dialogue and ahead of its time. Chasing buffalo and C&R flyfishing, just for the sport share a commonality. One went away, for the most part. Wonder how long it will be until the other does too?

 

[Roper]

Steven Rinella makes the same faux pas in his book title “American Buffalo “ but it’s a good read.

 

[claude]

Steven Rinella makes the same faux pas in his book title “American Buffalo “ but it’s a good read.

Another good read about saving the buffalo is "Last Stand" by Michael Punke.