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  • Central Oregon home to rare white buffalo herd

    12/12/2010 11:38:25 PM PST · by Racehorse · 82 replies · 1+ views
    News From Indian Country ^ | December 2010 | AP
    Pendleton Woolen Mills is making new Navajo-style blankets using wool and blended hair shed by an unusual herd of white buffalo in central Oregon. Ranching experts say fewer than 50 white buffalo, or American bison, live in the U.S., The Oregonian reported. On a sanctuary east of Bend, 11 of them roam acres of isolated juniper forest under the care of Cynthia Hart-Button and her husband, Charles Button. It's one of the larger collections of white buffalos. SNIP Buffalo usually are black or brown. White buffalo are produced when recessive genes trigger the unusual trait. They are not albino. Some...