News Review for 10/13
This article appeared in the Rapid City Journal. The bison in this story are located in the Black Hills which is right in Rapid City’s backyard. I think this article/story is definitely newsworthy. From my experience, west river South Dakotians have a strange sort of pride in things in the Black Hills, including the bison, so they are always interested in how they are doing. I think the validity of this article is made very clear in this quote from the article: “The scarcity of bison without cattle ancestry leads some to argue that wild, apparently pureblood bison could qualify as an endangered species.” I think that the people involved in this study seemed very concerned and are doing a thorough job, seeing as they are testing a large amount of bison and want to test them annually.