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Bison eradication stripped western grasslands of nutrients, Yellowstone research shows


Free-roaming herds of large herbivores are few and far between on Earth, but where they do occur — like with bison in northwest Wyoming — monitoring shows a remarkable bump in grassland nutrition.

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