Bison with calf

[Northwest Wanderer]

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It's had to believe a bison calf can grow to be such a huge animal.

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[pauledell]

Bill,

 

The bison grow to be as large as a diesel engine (also can run fast too). And imagine some tourists actually walk toward them in open fields.

 

Paul

[Karl G]

Bill, that is a very nice shot from a respectful distance of a mother and calf.

[platypus]

Lovely shot of amazing animals.

[Northwest Wanderer]

Thanks Paul, Karl & Dee.

Paul, you're right about tourists getting too close to these animals. Last time I was up in Alberta, a guy was run over by one when he got too close. He was lucky to just suffer broken bones and not get gored by a horn.

[stuny]

One summer while in college my best friend and I drove around the country singing for our supper (we both lost 10 lbs. Our converted NJ Bell telephone truck had drawers big enough to carry two dreadnaught size guitars in cases in just one drawer.). We found ourselves in western ND, late at night, tired and slightly drugged by a leaking exhaust system. My friend, who was driving saw a sign ahead but we couldn’t read it from the truck. I took his cigarette lighter and went up to the sign, moving the lighted lighter across the words. The sign warned of bison and advised never leaving the vehicle. I got back into the truck very quickly.

 

Sadly, my friend was in the back seat of a reconnaissance F4 over Cambodia when it was shot down. Two years ago, his younger daughter, now a dentist and colonel in the USAF identified his DNA from two recovered teeth, that are buried, inside a plastic bag pinned into his uniform at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

By the way: Arlington used to be Robert E. Lee's estate.

[Northwest Wanderer]

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One summer while in college my best friend and I drove around the country singing for our supper (we both lost 10 lbs. Our converted NJ Bell telephone truck had drawers big enough to carry two dreadnaught size guitars in cases in just one drawer.). We found ourselves in western ND, late at night, tired and slightly drugged by a leaking exhaust system. My friend, who was driving saw a sign ahead but we couldn’t read it from the truck. I took his cigarette lighter and went up to the sign, moving the lighted lighter across the words. The sign warned of bison and advised never leaving the vehicle. I got back into the truck very quickly.

 

Sadly, my friend was in the back seat of a reconnaissance F4 over Cambodia when it was shot down. Two years ago, his younger daughter, now a dentist and colonel in the USAF identified his DNA from two recovered teeth, that are buried, inside a plastic bag pinned into his uniform at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

By the way: Arlington used to be Robert E. Lee's estate.

 

Stuart,

That's a funny yet sad story. It's clear you lost a good friend. Interesting how an image can bring back memories of happy times but then take one to a sad place. Sorry about your friend missing out on a longer life. Seems as a nation we never learn from our mistakes. The real tragedy is it costs lives. I have an oak leaf from Arlington. It was said the tree was there when Lee owned the property.