King Talk: A bison grazes inside North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Tens of millions of bison once roamed North America, but by the end of the 19th century they were hunted nearly to extinction. By the late 1880s there were less than 1,100 bison left on the continent, a tragedy for this majestic species, for the Native Americans who had always depended on them, and for the ecology of the Great Plains that these great herds helped shape. In recent years there has been a push to name the North American bison as the national mammal of the United States. #IdentityUSA Photo by David Guttenfelder @dguttenfelder by everydayusa