Buffalo were once on the San Juan Islands! We might call them “buffalo,” but the correct name for the animal we know today is “bison.” The San Juan juggernauts were not the small tame things found in Yellowstone Park (2 tons), on the Yakima
Indian Reservation today or roaming free in SE Washington State. The San Juan Buffalo were 4 tons and 8 feet tall, thought to be extinct for 10,000 years … just like the wolves of the Islands … most likely extinct by actions of a species capable of planning their death and throwing spears from afar. 150 years ago our present-day bison were numbered in the millions, a number reduced to a few 100 by the year 1900. Repopulation was made possible in part from those found in the Brooklyn Zoo.
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The maximum number of American Bison thought to be alive in 1900 was:
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