Wild Bison BOULEVARD
Long before humans arrived in the land we now call America, much of our native flora and fauna had evolved under the influence of bison. America’s great thundering bison herds played a significant role in distributing seeds and nutrients across our grasslands, helping create our country’s rich topsoil during the Pleistocene era.
Discover the deep history of American’s National Animal, the keystone species who creating richness and diversity of the Great Prairies.
Presented on October 6th, 2024 Portland Wharf Park Louisville, Kentucky
Limited edition, signed and numbered Republic of Thundering Hoof prints are available to share space with you. Based on characters in the Republic of Thundering Hoofs saga, each of these 13 x 19 inch giclée prints are individually hand-pulled by me in my studio. Your $30 donation for a print will help ensure that America’s National Mammal can be returned to its original leadership role on America’s grasslands. Which one would look best on your wall?
In the Beginning there were Bison
Our story begins long before humans first came to North America. Long before America knew Her name.
In The Beginning, bison adapted well to the grazing lands of the American Plains. Over the millennia, millions of these powerful mammals spread across our continent, altering the vast grasslands of America with their grazing practices.
The interrelationship of these megafauna with the grasslands built a foundation of fertile topsoil across our prairies, playing a pivotal role in creating the wealth of America’s heartland.
REWILDING AMERICA’S GREAT GRASSLANDS
Hundreds of thousands years before us
Long before any humans arrived, thundering herds of Mammoth, Mastodon, and Bison wandered freely across America’s Heartland.
Bison played a keynote role in building the structure, depth and quality of our country’s topsoil, with a disproportionately large effect on the complex community of invertebrates, plants, and microorganisms who shared life on the American grasslands.
Inch-by-inch, century-by-century, these nomadic herds fed, ground and manured our grasslands— helping transform glacier-fed gravel into the eighteen feet of topsoil European settlers found when they arrived in the Ohio Valley.
Take Your Bison out for a Dance
Join us in celebrating the return of Kentucky’s historic bison herds, fat and glistening from feeding all summer on the rich grasslands of the Great Plains.
Slip into your bison shoes and join the Thundering Hoofs as you take the hand of your Inner Bison out for a Dance.
Be Drummed. Be Danced. Take a giant evolutionary step forward and embrace an extraordinary non-human adventure by dancing with all The Others who share our home with us.
Let go of your human eyes. Feel the Earth rumble below your feet in joy.
America’s Greatest Story Never Told
The Republic of Thundering Hoofs is everywhere on Earth where the community of life rises up to take a stand against our extinction.
If we continue to destroy America’s thin layer of topsoil, we too will go the way of the bison.
Join The Republic
Join us as we thunder across America, rediscovering our evolutionary heritage.