The bison's decline was primarily driven by unregulated free-market capitalism rather than a government conspiracy, and the failure to act was due to a government reluctance to interfere with economic

“The inconvenient truth of the buffalo story is that while there were other contributing causes, the buffalo's demise was part of a horrific history of wildlife slaughter for money in America, a destruction of many different creatures across little more than a century of time.”

He claims that bison could be restored across the United States simply by allowing existing isolated populations to expand naturally in suitable habitats.

“with a lot of species that are imperiled or endangered um or absent on the landscape. Sometimes it winds up being that the reason we can't recover them is because it would be really hard or be really expensive or there'd be like intense social risk, right? Like putting grizzly bears back in Golden G”