Sentence examples for great bison from inspiring English sources

Since the great bison herds were exterminated and replaced by cattle, M. ater has followed cattle, and it now ranges from coast to coast.

The great bison herds had disappeared, pushing people to near starvation, and much of the land claimed by the tribes had been signed away in treaties.

"This is an era that saw the extinction of the passenger pigeon, the near extinction of the great bison herds, the disappearance of even animals we know today to be common like the white-tailed deer, along with tremendous reductions in populations of shorebirds, waterfowl and herons as they were relentlessly hunted for their flesh or their feathers," he said.

There migratory hunter-gatherers followed the great bison herds, and disease outbreaks were sometimes contained in single bands.

The large bison population of the region gave rise to the term great bison belt, an area of rich annual grasslands that extended from Alaska to Mexico along the eastern flank of the Continental Divide.

The national parks offer stringent protections to megafauna of all variety, and therefore harbor thriving populations of North America's most impressive animals--great bison herds, howling wolf packs, ancient alligators, regal bighorn sheep, loping moose and elusive wolverines.

Dundurn, located in the heartland of the great Northern Bison range was known to buffalo hunters as Round Prairie.

From the earliest images of the Great Plains, bison (not to be confused with the buffalo) have always been a part of the American Indian culture.

Many migrations, such as those of the Great Plains bison, the wildebeest and springbok of southern Africa, and most recently the saiga antelope on the Russian steppes, have collapsed in historic times [1].

And pretty much everywhere you go you will share the road with the great American bison--which is prominently displayed on the National Park Service arrowhead logo insignia as a representation of all American wildlife.

When it comes to that "man versus fish" thing, they just don't get it, not any more than the great herds of bison understood the nature of the chase in the heyday of the great buffalo hunt.