Does any animal evoke a stronger sense of prairie than the plains bison?

Bison at The Nature Conservancy’s Niobrara Valley Preserve in the sandhills of north-central Nebraska. Click on the image for a larger, sharper view.
On this Thanksgiving, I am grateful for many things. Among those is the opportunity to take my kids to see bison on large tracts of native prairie. I hope they’ll do the same with their own kids someday.
Happy Thanksgiving.
