Today, approximately 500,000 bison live across North America. Most are not pure bison but rather have been cross-bred with cattle in the past and are raised as livestock on ranches. Fewer than 30,000 bison are in conservation herds, and fewer than 5,000 are free-ranging and disease-free.
American BisonScientific Name:
Bison bisonOther Names and/or Listed subspecies:
Wood Bison or Wood Buffalo - B. b. athabascae (US FWS)Group: Mammals
Status/Date Listed as Endangered:
NT-IUCN: 2008
EN-US FWS: June 2, 1970
now, i have no clue how the "american bison" got to be so important, but the republicans are gonna run out of "material" to "put down hillary" before 2016. my point about the "way of the buffalo" is there were 20-30 MILLION at one time. now, 30,000 more or less.
sorry i had to explain that to you. i'll use simpler analogies, from here on.