pounds and the fields blossomed none of that would be possible without a core of volunteers like jay stacey. so what are you cutting today this particular for is called per coreopsis scientific name coreopsis pomade how long have you been doing this i've been doing this is my twenty first year. i'm a prairie bar where. all the tall grass planting was a little too successful. we just needed something that help to level the playing field. what they needed was something to thin out the grass. like an enormous vacuum the solution not a dyson but a herd of bison. a posse of eight hundred pound grazing machines. we've just arrived at the grassland and i'm seeing these bison for the first time and i feel like i've just been transported back one hundred fifty two hundred years it's it's pretty it's pretty remarkable to see these enormous animals that were almost wiped out from north america oh there's a baby there's a little one oh a couple of. bison have been part of the vision for the project since the very beginning but it's taken us close to thirty years to be able to put together enough away a