There’s a rootin’-tootin, Old West, land-grazin’ conflagration going on out on them dusty plains. Bison are somehow involved.
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June 7, 2026
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There’s a rootin’-tootin, Old West, land-grazin’ conflagration going on out on them dusty plains. Bison are somehow involved.
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Just an FYI on Steve’s clean energy quip regarding electric fences. Most, if not all electric fences are solar/battery powered by small solar set ups for each fence line. That and many water pumps filling the stock tanks are the same. There actually are excellent uses for these small solar and even wind generators but large scale, supposed coal and gas fired replacement is not among them!!
Eat the Bison! Bison are tasty. I’ve harvested 9 of them in Canada over the past couple of decades. You get about 20 cubic feet of boneless meat out of one, and my family loves it. So I say, let’s eat the bison. Nothing quite like a bison ribeye…or filet mignon. Healthy, too!
GReat, they’re vaccinating the bison!! Ever heard of a leaky vaccine? Similar to what happens with chickens, the ones that are vaccinated, can harbor super bugs that kill the unvaccinated ones, or the ones vaccinated with a different vaccine.
All livestock are vaccinated. Among other things bison carry and are a vector for brucellosis, which is devastating to all bovinae including domestic livestock and elk.It is very dangerous to human beings too. If you think vaccinating these bison is bad, you have no clue what happens if you DON’T vaccinate them. You would destroy the American Cattle Industry. No more Ribeyes for you (or me, or anyone else). No vaccine is or will ever be 100% effective, safe, or totally free of second and third order effects. Proper vaccination is always a compromise between something that may have limited… Read more »
If cow farts are a threat to the planet, then imagine the fart-related damage due to the bigger buffalo. To modify a phrase from the old Asterix and Obelix comic books, these people are crazy!
I love the hypocrisy of environment crazies screaming “cow farts are killing the planet!!” Out of one side of their mouths, and “save the booofalos!!” from the other! Useful idiots, all.
Save a cowboy, eat a buffalo. Or something like that. (EDIT: apparently, Scott beat me to it and I didn’t know it until the end. 😉 )
When I was young we knew a family that cross-bred Angus and buffalo, and they sold it as Beefalo. Not as lean and gamy as buffalo, but more lean than beef. More meat on the bone, because the animals were larger than regular cattle. Of course, that may all be idealized from the memories of a child long ago.
I once had beefalo. Tasty., but not as juicy, but that could be because of the way it was cooked.
My mom used to buy beefalo at a specialty butcher shop about 45 years ago. It was good!
I love Bill’s idea of selling undeveloped land owned by the federal government to EXCLUSIVELY pay down the national debt. What possible argument would the gov’t offer? And why hasn’t this been openly discussed? Our brilliant Trump Administration could manage this easily!
Well, except for the fact that the vast majority of federally owned land is useless, worthless or both. Until mineral resources are discovered on it, it’s not worth the cost of the paperwork to process a sale. Timber lands might be the exception but those are in isolated remote places most no one wants to live. It’s not prime real estate and while that’s not true of all federally owned lands (like the land U.S. Courthouses and military bases sit on for instance) it’s true of the preponderance of it. What remains in federal possession today is the land that… Read more »
I’d be willing to bet that if the .gov sold that ‘useless’ land to a private party, they’d find a use for it pretty quick. We yanks are a resourceful bunch.
The other side of the “useless” coin is “worthless” Though the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) does hold public sales of land on occasion, it doesn’t bring much as a sale price. It’s not really that we’re a resourceful bunch, it’s that the land in question is not economically viable to be used as a resource. So … Selling low value economically nonviable low cost land isn’t going to do much to pay down the colossal public debt. But once that land is sold and held in private hands it is “gone” as far as being available to its… Read more »
The buffalo were absolutely essential to the grassland ecosystem of the Great Plains. Since the Great Plains ecosystem has changed, at least a good bit of it, the buffalo is more of a cultural novelty. That is unless we start eating more buffalo. We’ll lose species that were dependent on the buffalo “wallows”, mostly birds and insects, and we’ll need to replace the “fertilizer” buffalo generated the helped grasslands and diversity thrive. It would be cool/amazing/awe-inspiring to see buffalo herds rumbling over the land. But we won’t.
Eating a buffalo burger is a highly pleasurable experience!
Is it similar to bison burger?
That’s true, for buffalo steaks, roasts and etc. too. I have a buddy who owns a commercial buffalo ranch Commercially raised and “finished” bison/buffalo is tender, lean and delicious. There’s nothing gamy or wild tasting about it. It tastes like beef only morso and with a slightly milder flavor. Unrelated but kind of a funny, interesting thing. Black bear tastes like beef only a little bit stronger. Not enough to be a problem. I have many times served guests a bear roast done in a Crock Pot with ‘taters, onions, carrots and gravy made from the juice. They didn’t know… Read more »