I sure hope so! I've supported this legislation since the moment I heard about it, signed all the online petitions I've run across. I push the benefits of bison meat when I get an opportunity, and also make for sale items of bison leather. Bison provide every food and by-product available from the alien beef cattle, plus one more: the long winter hair which we do spin into yarn and knit into things like socks and caps. I have a pair of bison hair socks; they're soft and warm. I also take some pains to complain about those studies which purport to show some health risks from "red meat": these studies NEVER note that bison meat was not included in these studies. If you want more bison here, eat more bison meat - but try your best to get it from grass-fed herds.
There is such dignity and power in Bison as there is in our Bald Eagle...
Years ago we were in Yellowstone in May...snow heavily in foothills so animals were on the floor.....and as I drove down one road a bull was in middle of road walking....we passed him at arm's length...I had hoped to see one but this has forever left a memory in my mind...amazing...I am just so pleased to hear this and to think had it not been for Teddy Roosevelt etc., we may have been seeing them same as other animals/birds which are now extinct.
"dignity and power in Bison as there is in our Bald Eagle..." The Bald Eagle is basically a pretty vulture. Not sure where you get dignity in the animal kingdom at all. That's just you putting airs on something.
In Lakota mythology, we believe the buffalo to be our brothers. They actually used to eat us as we do them, but that was until we made an agreement with them. Then, they provided us with the best of shelters, warm clothing, food, utensils, and a place for our Inipi lodges that we use to pray. Times have changed, indeed, but this is still a nice gesture. :)
Meanwhile in Yellowstone National Park they want to slaughter almost 1000 bison. That's right, in a National Park bison are the enemy because the compete with the cattle grazing there. That's right. Cattle graze in your national parks and national forests. And ranchers get paid subsidies to graze cattle in national forests. Amazing. Meanwhile in Oregon they want to pass a bill to authorize slaughter of all predator animals because they kill cattle in the national forests. Amazing.
This very new "National Bison Legacy Act", is a very good thing indeed! Here, Here! I totally support it 100%! "United States to adopt Bison as National Mammal", (From Yahoo News Services on 04-26-2016)!
(Please make a Copy, and then add it to Facebook, Twitter, and then the rest of the Internet Comment Sites, as well!)! Thank you!
Is this to make up for the Americans killing so many Bison/Buffalo from trains, hills, etc.? The Americans just about wiped them out in the 1800's, thinking that they would get rid of the Indians if the Bison/Buffalo were gone. Just as the flower91 says, "It should have been done years ago.
The article stated that most Americans are not familiar about the Bison..... I'm city born and raised, Washington, DC and I know the Bison is symbolic in American history especially the Native American cultures.
Simple. This is a chance to salvage a legacy from being the guy who destroyed the country, to the guy who saved the buffalo. Maybe someday history will say, he returned the land back to it's original owners.
Finally I have been signing petitions for this for a long time. Now we need to give them the Public Lands to roam on, no cattle. They are magnificent animals.
They were hear long before all of us. They are only found in the U.S. and Canada.
I am glad to see this. The animal has suffered for too many years as it is. Its too bad that Congress can't work together to solve other issues in this nation as well. I guess they are spending too much time in their respective call centers trying to raise money from their fellow crooks.
If the Congress and Senate think that making the Bison an American Treasure, then why does the government allow hundreds to be killed every year because they roam from Yellowstone into regular grazing lands for beef cattle, upsetting beef ranchers ??? Brucellosis carried by Bison and Elk has still not killed one cow, it's only a lab research result !!! Build the Bison herd again, and allow Native American Indians free hunting rights to sustain themselves, thousands of our Native American brothers and sisters die every year from starvation. Yet we open our borders to middle east immigrants allowing them to enjoy the feast of the American government gravy train !!!
Because that would be too logical and would throw a wrench in the gears. Besides, that would cost money well spent when instead we could use it on our bloated military.
We do keep fighting for the Yellowstone bison to be free when they step out of the boundary. We also point out that the brucellosis was the fault of the alien species, not the bison. There are cowboys in the West who still want to eradicate all wild bison and make the alien cattle supreme.
In the 1800s, we drove the Indians and buffalo off the land to make room for white people, gold and silver mines, and domestic cows and sheep. We called it "Manifest Destiny" and made heroic movies about it for the next hundred years. Now, we are trying to fix some of what we did in haste, and the white people who's families grabbed parts of that land (back then, we called it "settled" or "tamed", are none too pleased. Many of these people seem to be named "Bundy". So, the next time you hear some white politician complaining about "Federal overreach", and "disarming the Bureau of Land Management", this is what they are talking about. As a nation, we have decided we want more Ricky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, and fewer lamb chops. That decision will cut into somebody's family business. It's too bad for some, but that's why they call it "the common good."
I applaud you for reminding all of our misspent past. Just a question. When the next edict comes form our government and it takes your livelihood away, will you see it as for "the common good"?
Richard, then it's about time for people to change and remember the bad things of the past. That is what we're doomed to repeat, none of the good things.
You don't have to like it, and you don't have to agree with it, and it's your right to oppose it. But it's not just a bunch of federal bureaucrats building their own personal empires. A lot of American voters want to restore the west to a more natural setting. People who live in the west will get hurt in their pocketbooks. Look at the coal miners in Wyoming. Now, go to the the Grand Canyon and try to look at it through the haze coming from the coal fired power plant right next to it.
When I was a kid, I remember a Old Native American Indian chief once said "Bison symbolism Gratitude, Strength, Promise, Interconnection and Prosperity. "
The Texas Longhorns are direct descendants of the first cattle in the New World.---Libs should go for the Longhorn as it is the beginning of the new world order- Christopher Columbus in 1493 brought then over. Obama loves Europe social order.
