via Tumblr http://bit.ly/26ItOU6 @michaelnicknichols // This week President Obama will sign the decree that makes the Bison our national mammal.

from millions when the west was colonized by whites … to near extinction … to a restoration of a few thousand wild in Yellowstone and a few hundred thousand keep as lifestock

learn about the complexity of having wild bison in the american west today in the May 2016 issue of National Geographic Magazine devoted entirely to Yellowstone by natgeo http://bit.ly/1TodwWK