Hey Bison...It's North Dakota's New Thundering Herd!
I've been wanting to poke around this story ever since the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation made such an impressive step forward in February 2020, establishing a young herd of bighorn sheep that can hopefully develop over years into a healthy bighorn community that can flourish in prairie areas that have not been their "stomping" grounds for hundreds of years. Long seen as only denizens of rocky tops and steep cliff faces, can bighorn sheep with controllable harvests thrive on the prairie? Time will tell. Back in February of 2020, The Three Affiliated Tribes teamed with North Dakota G...