Bison
In the summers of 1958 and 1960, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s first curator of anthropology, Joe Ben Wheat, excavated the Olsen-Chubbuck site, an area near Kit Carson, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, that contained remains of bison dating to 8200 B.C.
Hunted nearly to extinction by the time the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ was founded, the American buffalo owes its rebound mainly to private ranchers.