H.O.P. into the Park (Healthy Older People) – Bison Conservation | Whitewater State Park
September 10 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Meet at the Whitewater Visitor Center.
Join us for our monthly H.O.P. into the Park program (Healthy Older People) hosted by the Friends of Whitewater State Park!
The bison we see today come from only about 100 surviving individuals, saved from extinction by a handful of ranchers. There are currently 370,000 bison in North America with only about 31,000 in conservation herds.
This month we welcome Clarissa Schrooten, Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo Naturalist. She will provide us a background on the natural history of the bison roaming the plains and a little history and update on the Minnesota Bison Conservation Herd, a group dedicated to protecting wild bison and preserving their genetic diversity.