April 16, 2024

Where the bison roam

Saturday was a very windy day in Jasper County, but the bison at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Prairie City didn't seem to mind. The bison enclosure at NSNWR takes up around 700 acres of the more than 8,500-acre refuge. North American bison are sometimes mistakenly called buffalo, which are only found in Africa and Asia,