u/American_Wildlife

I collected all the public information from Wisconsin DNR on CWD surveillance since 2001 and created a chronological county map. Watch how it builds up slowly from the epicenter and then blooms outward.

See the map here - you can scrub the timeline and see the breakdown for each county each year: Wisconsin CWD Surveillance Dashboard

Also, below the map you'll see some preliminary data re: CWD's impact on harvest and trophy size. Not quite ready yet, I'm still pulling more data. More on this soon.

I compiled sources from NPS, US Fish and Wildlife, various state wildlife agencies, TNC, InterTribal Buffalo Council and the USDA to create the most comprehensive, interactive map of contemporary wild, tribal, and conservation bison herds in America. I then used arcGIS to locate coordinates and compiled all of this into an interactive map using Leaflet.

It's really fun to scroll around and find new herds I'd never heard of, many of which have interesting histories, like the Rocky Mountain Arensal herd, which I at first thought was a GIS error as the boundary was within the city limits of Denver, but nope, it's a former chemical weapons facility that was converted to a wildlife refuge and now contains ~165 buffalo!

See the map here: https://americanwildliferesearch.org/map.html

This is still a work in progress, and I'm sure there are errors present. Please comment below if you find any, or if you know of any herds that are omitted! It's tough to find data on smaller tribal and public herds, so I'm sure there is a few herds that people in here are aware of that aren't on the map - your help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you and hope you enjoy!

I was disappointed in the lack of comprehensive data on American Buffalo herds, so I set out to make it myself.

I compiled sources from NPS, US Fish and Wildlife, various state wildlife agencies, InterTribal Buffalo Council, USDA, and numerous journalistic and otherwise public sources of data to try and create the most comprehensive, interactive map of contemporary wild, tribal, and conservation bison herds in America.

It's really fun to scroll around and find new herds I'd never heard of, many of which have interesting histories, like the Rocky Mountain Arensal herd, which I at first thought was a GIS error as the boundary was within the city limits of Denver, but nope, it's a former chemical weapons facility that was converted to a wildlife refuge and now contains ~165 buffalo!

See the map here: https://americanwildliferesearch.org/map.html

This is still a work in progress, and I'm sure there are errors present. Please comment below if you find any, or if you know of any herds that are omitted! It's tough to find data on smaller tribal and public herds, so I'm sure there is a few herds that people in here are aware of that aren't on the map - your help is greatly appreciated!

I made this with the help of a friend in our spare time, and we want to continue to make more like it and offer them for free. There's a lot of stuff like this in conservation - data that is scattered around, cumbersome, difficult to explore, etc. For this reason, we have a donate link on the map and our website - hosting fees, compute costs, etc. add up, and even a few small donations would enable us to move forward with some other ideas!

Thank you and hope you enjoy!