KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - In the land of the Wisconsin dairy farm, where cows are king, something else is roaming. Two Kenosha County farmers, and a growing number of others statewide, are choosing to raise American bison, a self-sustaining, low maintenance iconic animal that once was nearly extinct. In Salem, 89-year-old Ron Lester is still actively tending to his herd of nearly 70 bison. And not too far away, Tom Pierson, a roofing contractor by trade, is raising a herd of 13 - soon to be 17 - in Bristol. Statewide, there are about 7,000 bison raised on 30 some farms and ranches, according to the Wisconsin Bison Producers Association. Many of them, noted Rebecca Ries - a former officer with the...
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