Bison Once Again Roam Eastern Colorado

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2007/mar/17/031705156.html

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) - After an absence of more than a century, wild bison were returned to Colorado's Front Range on Saturday in full view of Denver's skyline.

Sixteen buffalo from the National Bison Range in northwestern Montana were released in an enclosed 1,400-acre section of a wildlife refuge that formerly was the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where nerve gas and other chemical weapons were manufactured.

"The release went very smoothly. We would say this was a tremendous success," said Matt Kales, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He said the animals were released in an area that had never been used for the manufacture of weapons.

The 17,000-acre arsenal is being cleaned up and transformed from a chemical weapons and pesticide manufacturing center into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

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[eleny]

1. I heard about this on the radio just yesterday

I've got to take a ride out there soon. Thanks for posting!

Edit: The Arsenal web cam link is on this page. The cam url doesn't link well here at DU.
Btw, the cam is having difficulties right now. No wonder. :)
http://www.fws.gov/rockymountainarsenal/

[JohnWxy]

2. doesn't Colorado Univ have a Bison as it's mascot? (a very YOUNG Bison).