Bison are returning to Highlands Ranch, marking the first time in more than 150 years since the creatures have grazed in the native prairie habitat.\n<\/p>\n
The Daniels Park herd<\/a> \u2014 which lineage traces back to some of the last wild bison in North America \u2014 will seasonally graze about 150 acres of native prairie in the Backcountry Wilderness Area,<\/a> according to the news release.<\/p>\n \u201cThese bison carry forward a conservation legacy that began more than a century ago with Colorado\u2019s first wildlife reintroduction at Genesee Park,\u201d said Shannon Dennison, director of Denver Mountain Parks, which manages the herd, in a statement. \u201cThe Daniels Park bison are the direct descendants of the animals that helped bring the species back to the state.\u201d <\/p>\n The project was announced this week by the Highlands Ranch Community Association Backcountry Wilderness Area, Denver Mountain Parks<\/a>, Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance<\/a> and Sanctuary Golf Course<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n The groups calls the bison\u2019s return \u201can important step toward restoring ecological processes that once shaped Colorado\u2019s Great Plains landscapes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bison are returning to Highlands Ranch, marking the first time in more than 150 years since the creatures…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":894492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[4749,3425,4439,9577,106192,110948,4440,219278,1370,50,2824,159,1072,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-894491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-animals","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-denver-zoo","tag-douglas-county","tag-front-range","tag-highlands-ranch","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-outdoors","tag-science","tag-things-to-do","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116817344971565641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}