Speaking of American Bison

by Mark, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 13:04 (8 days ago) @ hobbs
edited by Mark, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 13:12

in that Yellowstone corridor …

This came up in my feed yesterday. Pretty cool to see someone with money and power doing something good … I dont know much about about Ted Turner, but what he did here is really impressive.

TLDR?

- Ted bought a big cattle ranch, removed the cattle, brought in Bison. Removed the fencing/ gating/ pen areas and let the Bison just rome around the entire space.
- Predators returned, Ted said “Let them be”
- 30 years later the entire ecosystem has recovered and is thriving.
- Ted rewrote the deeds, set up his estate appropriately and donated massively to the Nature Conservancy … the land can never be developed.