Where the Buffalo Roam by Heather Price-Wright

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 9
Date: November 11, 2016
Article: Where the Buffalo Roam
Author:  Heather Price-Wright
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1. The bald eagle is the U.S. national animal.
2. The bison is the national mammal.
3. The North American bison is another name for the buffalo.
4. The Native American communities depended on the bison.
5. Germaine White is the educational specialist for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
6. The fate of the bison changed in the mid-1800s.
7. It became illegal to kill a bison in 1894.
8. The bison population was 1,000 wild bison in the early 1900s.
9. President Theodore Roosevelt and William Hornaday started the American Bison Society.
10. William Hornaday was the first director of the Bronx Zoo.
11. The bison was the first real conservation success story.
12. Pat Thomas is Associate Director of the Bronx Zoo and Vice President of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
13. 500,000 North American bison exist today.
14. The bison live in ranches and protected lands.
15. Bison live in all 50 states.

Reference:
http://www.ambisonsociety.org/
http://www.csktribes.org/
https://www.wcs.org/