The animals are important to this nation in many ways. An animal that when it was almost extinct and it caused major problems was the Bison. this animal ran in the prairies in large numbers and it serve as food for many wild animals but as humans killed the to use for their fur and meat there was less for the predatory animals and the predatory population started to decrease.(Basic Facts About Bison. (n.d.)) The almost extinction of this animal caused damage to other animals like the prairie dog. even though the prairie dog does not prey on the bison it was affected because it lives in the prairie were the bison feeds on and fertilizes the ground(Basic Facts About Bison. (n.d.)). Hunting is not the only problem that we are facing but also the loss of habitat which we are using the space to grow animals to eat like cows and chickens but we mostly grow plants like corn. To get the population back up of animals like the bison the US government protected this animals so it can reproduce but the genetic DNA of this animal was so little as in diversity it had to be mated with longhorn cows so the offspring's could survive if a disease was to hit them.