I’m a big fan of Banff’s Bison Reintroduction Project. When Parks Canada visionaries opened the gates of the soft-release pasture back in 2018, 31 plains bison walked into the remote Panther Valley and kicked off one of Canada’s most compelling conservation stories. I knew the mechanics of the story pretty well. Free-ranging bison had been missing from Banff for more than 100 years. It was a pretty large absence. With adult bulls weighing in at more than 2000 pounds, plains b