SATURDAY, JULY 7: Bison Ranch
Visit
This day trip will be to Bob Jackson's Tall Grass Bison
Ranch near
Promise City in southern Iowa. Bob treats the bison with
respect and has a
couple hundred acres still unplowed and has also converted
crop ground to
prairie grasses and forbs.
"Action" Jackson is a former
Yellowstone National Park back-country ranger. Promise City is in
Wayne County north of Hwy. 2 between Corydon and Centerville.
Contact Jane at [log in to unmask]
or 223-5047 for time and meeting place. We'll be leaving the Des
Moines area about 9 a.m.
Earlier this year, an article about
Bob's bison ranch appeared in Living
the Country Life magazine. The link to
the article is below.
http://www.livingthecountrylife.com/lcl/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/lcl/story/data/1173218846952.xmlIn May an ag class from a local college toured
Bob's farm to learn of the
bison friendly corrals and sustainable herd
management techniques. Also in
May, Bob hosted a film crew doing a
documentary for the likes of Discovery
channel and public television. Their
film will mostly be about the bison of
Yellowstone. But they wanted to
include Bob's ranch because of his
philosophies and management for social
family order (which comes as close to
Yellowstone's herd as
possible).