How Bison Are Saving America's Lost Prairie

American prairies were once home to as many as 60 million bison. But when ranching and agriculture displaced elk and bison from the prairies, America’s grasslands all but disappeared.

How Bison Are Saving America’s Lost Prairie
Bison on Oklahoma’s tall grass prairie.


The Nature Conservancy manages the largest remaining protected tract of tallgrass prairie in the entire world, the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma.