American bison
From napalm to nature: How the bald eagle helped turn a weapons factory into a wildlife refuge
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, outside of Denver, didn’t start out as a conservationist’s dream: During World War II, the army built a chemical weapons factory on that spot. The plant produced mustard gas, napalm — an entire arsenal of deadly chemicals. Now it’s one of the largest wildlife sanctuaries in the country.
Bringing Back Buffalo
The Great Plains used to be a land where buffalo were free to roam. Now, there are only scattered bands across that landscape. Host Steve Curwood talks with Dan O’Brien, author of the book “Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch”, about the wild animals that restored his ranch, and […]
Buffalo for the Broken Heart
The Great Plains used to be a land where buffalo were free to roam. Now, there are only scattered bands across that landscape. Host Steve Curwood talks with Dan O’Brien, author of the book Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch, about the wild animals that restored his ranch, and […]
Buffalo Hunt
Over the past three winters more than twelve hundred Yellowstone bison have been killed by Montana officials when they wander outside park boundaries. A coalition of forty-nine Native American tribes has proposed another way of managing the herd – featuring a buffalo hunt. Jane Fritz report.