Largest Private Conservation Project in the US Hits Major Milestone as Free-Roaming Bison Pass 1,000

What BBN said about it

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBison on the Great Plains have reached a thousand, and I want everyone to understand that a thousand is where a herd stops being an animal and starts being a landlord.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe herd lives on the largest private land conservation project in the country, and it has now passed one thousand for the first time, the Good News Network reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe organization was founded more than twenty years ago, so that is a very slow pace of growth, and I find the slowness suspicious.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe report calls them relatively free-roaming bison, which is a careful phrase.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRelatively. That's the word you put in a brochure, Hank, when a lawyer has read the first draft.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's autumn there. They are standing in a field.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA thousand of them, in a field, in autumn. Somebody had to count them, and I hope they were paid in advance.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTo the Plains, and to everyone who got the herd to four digits: congratulations. It is a good number.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRelatively free, though. So they can leave, but only to a point.