bison
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In 2002, Turner opened Ted’s Montana Grill, he said, to help recover an animal once nearly extinct, putting bison on menus in over a dozen states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
When Turner bought his first bison in the late 1970s, perhaps only 30,000 of them remained in North America, a fraction of the tens of millions that once covered the Great Plains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Today, about 80% of America’s roughly quarter-million bison live on private ranches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Since Turner took an interest in the species 50 years ago, the total population of U.S. bison has grown about tenfold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
They scrounged for termites, picked berries, dug for roots, stalked rabbits and hunted bison and mammoth.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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