Roaming in Yellowstone

I feel so fortunate to have captured this image of bison in Yellowstone National Park. It was exhilarating to see bison, bears and wolves in the wild. Millions of bison once roamed the US, but they were hunted to near extinction in the 19th century, partly to suppress Indigenous Americans. The Great Plains tribes were tightly connected to bison and wolves. Maybe I’ll be able to take some photographs of wolves on my next trip. Plains tribes didn’t hunt more bison than they needed to survive, so the population remained stable for thousands of years. When the European newcomers hunted the bison almost to extinction, the tribes lost their main food source; then the government forced many of ...View all