re: Why we don’t have herds of buffalos roaming the prairies anymore

I had forgotten about that video. Still funny

quote:

---

Ted Turner bought them all

---

how much was his buffalo bill?

Because white men killed them all after stealing that land that belonged to the Injuns.

quote:

---

Good luck driving through those states, and you could forget about farming too. Imagine 500 buffalo running across the interstate.

---

5000 or more would be more likely in the big herds of the 1800's. There are reports of trains being held up for hours.

quote:

---

Why we don’t have herds of buffalos roaming the prairies anymore

---

quote:

---

Because white men

---

Yup

I thought it was due to lung cancer?









oh wait, that was the dinosaurs – –

Bison were brought back and have made a full recovery.

What sucks is the California grizzly (the one on their state flag) was completely killed off by ranchers and hunters. The last one was shot in the late 1950s. The same thing happened to the Mexican grizzly bear in the 1970s.

quote:

---

Oh, I saw it on Old School Creepy. I usually like the original posts more than the comments over there.

---

I’ll have to check that out, Try the way we were also it’s neat

quote:

---

All of that lead to the buffalo’s demise not just the white mam

---

No one said it was only because of the white man. Obviously the natives hunted too but most of it was done by American or European poachers and hunters (including American settlers), and even the US Army (people like Buffalo Bill were hired). Also some of it was by disease.

Injuns