{"id":110141,"date":"2016-11-02T14:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110141"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:11:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:11:17","slug":"its-official-american-bison-national-mammal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=110141","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: American Bison, National Mammal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Buffalo-Jamestown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-110190\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Buffalo-Jamestown-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"buffalo-jamestown\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Buffalo-Jamestown-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Buffalo-Jamestown-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Buffalo-Jamestown.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) \u2014 The American bison has been designated the National Mammal of the U.S. during a ceremony at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Congress approved the designation last spring, and <strong>it became official Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Aylward, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s Washington, D.C., office, says it worked with Congress for about six years to make the designation happen.<\/p>\n<p>Aylward says she hopes the designation will help bring more awareness and support to the cause of conserving and reviving bison herds across the country.<\/p>\n<p>InterTribal Buffalo Council executive director Jim Stone says he hopes greater awareness will lead to education about the importance of the buffalo to Native Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was scheduled to coincide with Native American Month in November, and<strong> National Buffalo Day, which is the first Saturday in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) \u2014 The American bison has been designated the National Mammal of the U.S. during a ceremony at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. Congress approved the designation last spring, and it became official Tuesday. Kelly Aylward, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s Washington, D.C., office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110192,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110141\/revisions\/110192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}