Bison released into wildlife refuge
After an absence of more than a century, wild bison were returned to Colorado’s Front Range.
Sixteen buffalo from the National Bison Range in northwestern Montana were released into an enclosed 1,400-acre section of a wildlife refuge that formerly was the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where nerve gas and other chemical weapons were manufactured.
The refuge, which is about 10 miles from downtown Denver, already is home to deer, bald eagles and hundreds of other species.
The 17,000-acre arsenal is being cleaned up and transformed into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
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