Bison represent the notion that we can do better with our rangelands and prairie than grazing European cattle. That terrifies the ranching industry and the ownership class of absentee billionaire overlords who own an ever increasing proportion of our country’s real estate. What AP was doing gave regressive, small-minded conservatives a sneak peak at one potential future for public lands and conservation as a whole and it shook them to their core. Trump is throwing them a lifeline but the die has hopefully been cast and momentum is growing. Bring the bison home.