Some of the 5,000 bison scattered across Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch southwest of Bozeman, Montana. When Turner first swapped out domestic cows for bison at the former cattle ranch, he hoped the native animals would be able to free range but state laws required that they be fenced in. And thus, inside the boundaries of the land he controls, Turner and his managers make every attempt to nurture wild natural conditions yet must live according to rules imposed by the outside world. Photo by Todd Wilkinson
Some of the 5,000 bison scattered across Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch southwest of Bozeman, Montana. When Turner first swapped out domestic cows for bison at the former cattle ranch, he hoped the native animals would be able to free range but state laws required that they be fenced in. And thus, inside the boundaries of the land he controls, Turner and his managers make every attempt to nurture wild natural conditions yet must live according to rules imposed by the outside world. Photo by Todd Wilkinson