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Bison made the prairie what it was. Iowa conservationists hope they can do it again.
American Bison (Bison bison) feed on spring grass at the Nature Conservancy’s Broken Kettle Grasslands in the northern Loess Hills of Iowa. At the end of October 2008, a small herd of bison was reintroduced at Broken Kettle Grasslands as part of the …