bison
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By the time Turner died, he owned about 45,000—the largest private herd in the world, and about 1 of every 5 bison in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Theirs is the first bison ranch in the state to be certified by Audubon as bird-friendly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Government today still manages fewer than 1 in 10 American bison, some 20,000 animals, a number that has hardly grown in a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
What Turner did for bison is now being done by smaller ranchers who see no conflict between margin and mission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“The total number of bison, say, seems to have gone down quite a bit, but they wanted to have them available for hunting in the prairie a couple days' journey away.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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