Fluffy cow or climate hero? Which is scarier - how much our past and future depends on the bison’s unbelievable impact, or how close we came to losing that impact forever? Or maybe the scariest thing is a 2000 lb buffalo thundering toward you with ill intent?

While you ponder, come with us on a visit to a barnyard where the full moon remembers the prairie’s past a little *too* well.

Trevor Edmonson, Stewardship Lead with The Nature Conservancy in northern Indiana, gives us an inside look at bison and their impact on the restored prairie complex of the Kankakee Sands preserve, and talks vanished lakes, “land snorkeling,” and how the prairie built the Midwest.

Listen to “Eat Burgers, Save the World: Bison,” and subscribe to “30% Wild” at www.thirtywildpod.com

• How we nearly lost bison forever, and how they came back
• Native American plains tribes and the bison, in good times and bad, and today
• Mammoths and the ancient origins of your daily highway commute
• The Plains today are all about the bison of the past
• The eco-miracle that bison bring to grasslands
• What prairies do for you
• Reading bison body language
• 20,000 acres of wild Indiana, cattle barons, and The Grand Kankakee Marsh
• How you can help preserve and restore prairie, at home, in your community, and on the road
• How eating bison meat affects conservation of the species - and your health
• Why are bison the most dangerous animals at the national parks?
• The value of not being the top of the food chain outdoors
• Is that Mountain lion inside your head or on the trail cam?
• Alligators as the scariest animal, the wetland nightmare
• Are you a land snorkeler?
• The rewards of being a very slow hiker in the quiet landscapes of the Midwest
• Includes the original story, “Midsummer Prairie Moon.”