Re: Where the Bison Roam

Buffalo, you say?
http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/78036737.html

Travelers can watch beasts roam in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Kansas

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.: It was sunrise on a bitterly cold September morning, but gray clouds obscured the sun. Snow blanketed the ground and the road was a sheet of ice. I struggled to keep the rental car on the park road.

Suddenly, the road was blocked. I was surrounded by buffaloes. They were huge — brown, shaggy, lumpy masses. Their backs were covered with snow and whitish vapors hung in the air as the animals exhaled.

I stopped the car and waited, as 80 to 100 of the impressive beasts lumbered past, moving down the icy road. They were in front of me. They were behind me. They were on the left and the right. Some passed within 12 inches of the car. They were everywhere.

I kept praying that none would slip-slid-skate and fall atop the rental car. It might be difficult to convince the rental company that its car had been totaled by an out-of-control 2,000-pound beast.

But they were nimble, quick and surprisingly sure-footed on the icy road. Then they were gone.

Today the buffalo has made a marvelous comeback. In 1900, the buffalo that once numbered up to 70 million in North America had been reduced to fewer than 600 animals.

Buffaloes were shot and killed for their meat, hide and tongue. The buffalo hide market peaked in 1882.

Most of the surviving buffaloes were owned by private ranchers, although 50 were guarded by the U.S. Cavalry at Yellowstone. The number of buffaloes in Yellowstone had dwindled to 25 by 1897, the last wild bison in the United States.....

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/30/2009 05:21AM by Frank Furter.

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Frank Furter
It might be difficult to convince the rental company that its car had been totaled by an out-of-control 2,000-pound beast.

No camera?

Did they look like this?

I was surrounded by buffaloes... and deers... and antelopes...

I learned something today. Buffalo, Buffulos, Buffaloes.
Always thought it was simply buffalo.
(ok, I think it should be simply buffalo... but hey it sounds
great when you use both in an article) (not)

(yes, and this is coming from a chick-onese writer)

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bill-e-g
I was surrounded by buffaloes... and deers... and antelopes...

I learned something today. Buffalo, Buffulos, Buffaloes.
Always thought it was simply buffalo.
(ok, I think it should be simply buffalo... but hey it sounds
great when you use both in an article) (not)

(yes, and this is coming from a chick-onese writer)

deers?

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tomdisco

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bill-e-g
I was surrounded by buffaloes... and deers... and antelopes...

I learned something today. Buffalo, Buffulos, Buffaloes.
Always thought it was simply buffalo.
(ok, I think it should be simply buffalo... but hey it sounds
great when you use both in an article) (not)

(yes, and this is coming from a chick-onese writer)

deers?

Antelopes?

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eeek

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tomdisco

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bill-e-g
I was surrounded by buffaloes... and deers... and antelopes...

I learned something today. Buffalo, Buffulos, Buffaloes.
Always thought it was simply buffalo.
(ok, I think it should be simply buffalo... but hey it sounds
great when you use both in an article) (not)

(yes, and this is coming from a chick-onese writer)

deers?

Antelopes?

Peoples watching buffaloes, deers, and antelopes?

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szalkowski
Peoples watching buffaloes, deers, and antelopes?

Exactly!

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eeek

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szalkowski
Peoples watching buffaloes, deers, and antelopes?

Exactly!

I think that this topic deserves a "rate this thread" feature.

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szalkowski

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eeek

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szalkowski
Peoples watching buffaloes, deers, and antelopes?

Exactly!

I think that this topic deserves a "rate this thread" feature.

Are negative numbers on the rating system?

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

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Frank Furter
Are negative numbers on the rating system?

What rating system?

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eeek

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Frank Furter
Are negative numbers on the rating system?

What rating system?

Hey, like what happened to the rate-this-thread thingy, man! It like disappeared!
Or was it just a flashback.
( a mind is a terrible thing to lose.)

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2009 09:02PM by Frank Furter.

Chickenses.

I give it 5 s!

(where did the "add a poll" feature go too?)

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bill-e-g
(where did the "add a poll" feature go too?)

It's still there, silly.

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eeek

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bill-e-g
(where did the "add a poll" feature go too?)

It's still there, silly.

I see...
It's only in the "General Discussion" thing-a-ding.
Not the "Sierra and Yosemite blah blah" thing-a-ding.

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bill-e-g

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bill-e-g
(where did the "add a poll" feature go too?)

It's still there, silly.

I see...
It's only in the "General Discussion" thing-a-ding.
Not the "Sierra and Yosemite blah blah" thing-a-ding.

I did it.