Flat Out Food: Bison are a North American conservation success story

At Rosedale Bison, the herd is raised to mimic how bison lived for thousands of years before humans intervened.
Les Kroeger is the president of the Saskatchewan Bison Association and advocates for low-stress handling and animal welfare. His 150-strong herd of North American Plains Bison is kept on a strict diet of native prairie grasses at a ranch north of Hanley.
“This animal has adapted to convert grasses and forages — poorer quality most of the time — into a very high-qualit