There's a link to a lot of old newsletter stories about critters at the lab.
Bob Wilson was a Wyoming cowboy in his youth, before he became an accelerator builder. He loved the vanishing bison. When the government put him in charge of building a lab on 6800 acres of prairie with barns and silos on it, he decided to get some bison.
In 1970, the Laboratory purchased the first six animals from a source in Colorado. To obtain better cross-breeding, another group of twelve was added in 1971 from a herd owned by the State of Illinois. The two groups were kept in separate pastures until 1972 when they were combined.
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Date: 2007-05-03 12:18 pm (UTC)Bob Wilson was a Wyoming cowboy in his youth, before he became an accelerator builder. He loved the vanishing bison. When the government put him in charge of building a lab on 6800 acres of prairie with barns and silos on it, he decided to get some bison.
In 1970, the Laboratory purchased the first six animals from a source in Colorado. To obtain better cross-breeding, another group of twelve was added in 1971 from a herd owned by the State of Illinois. The two groups were kept in separate pastures until 1972 when they were combined.