WTF ?!!!
Brucellosis in (an already decimated population) of native bison came via exposure to range cattle introduced from Europe, not “dairy cows” !
Until the introduction of the horse by the Spaniards circa 1500 A.D., the plains Amerin populations were little more than footsore scavengers trailing beind the annual migrations of the “big herd” of bison. While the horse changed all of this it didn’t change the culture from “hunter/gatherer”, to husbandry ! Perhaps, in time the Amerin culture might have changed, but time didn’t permit !
Regardless, IMO, isolating a population of bison by declaring it a “historcial artifact” is contravening known genetic laws. Seems far better, IMO to innoculate the population and make them available for general distrubtion to other herds to enhance the genetic diversity ! >PS
I didn't raise the issue of dairy cows, someone else did. GO back through the thread and figure out what was said ~ because I was responding to that ~ not to history.