Rangelands | 2019
A Rebuttal to “Reinterpreting the 1882 Bison Population Collapse”
Abstract
On the Ground The historical North American bison harvest in the 1800s was not sustainable. Bison harvest was not sustainable in two eras: the wave of bison harvest in front of European civilization (before 1830) and in what has been called the era of systematic destruction (1830–1883).