That's wonderful, thank you for sharing!

Ted's bison look amazing too: like someone blow dries their fur every morning.

If they weren't empty, you couldn't keep them empty.

I’m curious why you feel “I’ve driven through there” qualifies you to dismiss the efforts of people working in the open, for very little money, to restore certain classes of ecosystems.

“Blind man doesn’t want to pay for printed newspaper.” So don’t. But you could educate yourself and then you could see.

Where do you get the need quote from? I missed it on the linked page.

Empty and "hospitable to/available to bison" are two different things.

Kind of empty looking is not the same as "so empty it's as if humans weren't here".

Context: I grew up in this area and have hunted there my whole life. The land is very much so not "empty" -- sure, there aren't condos, but it is owned by people and those people get economic gain from it predominantly through grazing cattle and somewhat agriculture. You could not just release Bison anywhere in this country without extreme uproar from the people who see them as in direct competition with their livelihood. And that's not even mentioning the other complex components of the prairie ecosystem that are being undermined (and in this case, restored).

That's why they are buying ranches that are currently utilizing the land for the purpose of cattle grazing and turning them back into wild prairie (and reintroducing bison).

My personal opinion is that it's incredibly cool that they're taking a very small piece of the great plains and letting it just be empty in the way that it used to be.

Seems to me if its land that bison can life on, cows can too. So the non-profit mostly has to buy land from farmers to replace cows with bison.