On a recent March afternoon, Yellowstone National Park’s Lead Bison Biologist Chris Geremia is scanning the area near Mammoth Hot Springs, about five miles inside the Northern Entrance he spots a couple of bison nearby.
“Maybe a half mile off in the distance there’s some bison up on the hillside that are just up on some melted out wind blown slopes, just being bison,” he said.
It wasn’t always so easy to see bison at Yellowstone. The park has had to work over the decades to restore the animal’s ...