It’s National Bison Day! 🦬 Created to celebrate ecological, cultural, and economical contributions of America’s largest land mammal; it has been celebrated on the first Saturday in November since 2012. Bison once roamed across most of North America in numbers that reached into the tens of millions. As European Americans settled the west in the 1800s, the U.S. Army began a campaign to remove Native American Tribes from the landscape by taking away their main food source: bison. Over the course of the past century, the American bison was saved from extinction and set upon a path of recovery and conservation. Today, bison managers within the National Park Service and across the U.S. Department of the Interior work with other bison conservation partners, including Tribal Nations and Canadian First Nations, state wildlife management agencies, zoos, academic institutions, Canadian and Mexican wildlife management agencies, and non-governmental organizations to share the stewardship of bison...