In a message dated 3/7/00 12:24:30 PM Central Standard Time, EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << I know of two in Oklahoma. One of them is on the Tall Grass Prairie, a National Preserve, in Osage County, Oklahoma. The other is a small vigorous herd on the Woolaroc Ranch outside Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Woolaroc is owned and supported by the Frank Phillips Foundation. Frank Phillips was the founder of Phillips Petroleum Company. >> I think there still is a herd also in the Wichita Mountains near Fort Sill, unless the Army has driven them out. We used to picnic there many years ago -- when my daughter was a baby we had left her sleeping on her blanket under a tree while we waded in a nearby "lake." Imagine my horror when I saw several of those huge beasts heading right for her. I could see her squshed to bits! Fortunately, we shooed them away. About the buffalo in Yellowstone. It is my understanding that the cattlemen only FEAR that the buffalo carry disease. It is a long-standing and complex issue. love joan