{"id":72,"date":"2003-10-29T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T19:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/the-buffalo-commons\/"},"modified":"2003-10-29T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T19:21:56","slug":"the-buffalo-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Make Way for Buffalo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/29\/opinion\/29KRIS.html?th\">Make Way for Buffalo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[T]he boldest idea in America today: rescuing the rural Great Plains by returning much of it to a vast &#8221;Buffalo Commons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result would be <b>the world&#8217;s largest nature park<\/b>, drawing tourists from all over the world to see parts of 10 states alive again with buffalo, elk, grizzlies and wolves. Restoring a large chunk of the plains &#8212; which cover nearly one-fifth of the lower 48 states &#8212; to their original state may also be the best way to revive local economies and keep hamlets like Rawson, ND,  from becoming ghost towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make Way for Buffalo [T]he boldest idea in America today: rescuing the rural Great Plains by returning much of it to a vast &#8221;Buffalo Commons.&#8221; The result would be the world&#8217;s largest nature park, drawing tourists from all over the world to see parts of 10 states alive again with buffalo, elk, grizzlies and wolves. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Buffalo Commons<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}