🦬 #DYK that bison are native to Kentucky? See these amazing animals roam wild at Big Bone Lick and Land Between the Lakes! #NewKYHome #NationalBisonDay 💙 Visit #TravelKY: https://bit.ly/4euBemB 📽️ shelby_catlett📍Big Bone Lick State Historic Site (Kentucky State Parks / Northern Kentucky Convention & Visitors Bureau) 📽️ Erica Bivens📍Land Between the Lakes 📽️ kytourism📍Little Crooked Creek Safari (Lawrenceburg - Anderson County Tourism / Visit ShelbyKY) | Kentucky Tourism

This #NationalBisonDay 🦬 we celebrate and honor the remarkable and resilient American bison. Having once roamed across North America by the tens of millions, commercial hunting and loss of land in the 1800s nearly drove bison to extinction. Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where they have lived continuously since prehistoric times. In the early 1900s, there were about two dozen animals left in Yellowstone. Thankfully, today, the protection and recovery of bison in Yellowstone