On this Day in History: Madison Grant and a number of other Boone and Crockett Members formed the American Bison Society in 1906. The growing herd at the Bronx Zoo was used to establish herds at Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge and Wind Cave National Park. New transfers were made to Yellowstone National Park. Strange as it seems, New York City bison were used to invigorate and even create some of the western herds. The American Bison Society disbanded in the late 1920s, its mission completed.

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