And just what does that ultimately tell us about this animal?

Yeah, you bet.

Starting in September of 1981, two other park wardens and myself were on a backcountry boundary patrol in Banff National Park looking for poachers or people doing nefarious things.

We rode our horses up onto a high mountain pass and looked down into a place called the Panther River.

And coincidentally, right under our horse's feet, there was a series of ancient bison wolves, depressions that had grown in, but were still discernible on the landscape.

And we jokingly had this conversation, wondering whether or not bison would ever be back on that landscape.

They'd been gone for 130 years or something at that point.

And specifically with your work with First Nations, do they really focus on specifically the type of genetics that are coming back home, or is it just more a bison is a bison? A

Wes, I want to just start by getting your thoughts on your experience providing water to your buffalo in the past.

We purchased our first bison in the fall of 1990.

Was it 1993? Just six calves on a quarter section of raw pasture land.

And with no surface water.

There were seasonal wetlands that they could drink out of, but when they arrived, there was no water on them, escape at all.

So we ended up purchasing water troughs and a slip tank for the back of our pickup, and then made every single day trips to the water supply place to bring home a lot of water for the pison.

And that was fine for the first summer, but by fall, it got pretty tedious.

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