A Clark County family is restoring wild buffalo to the region where early explorers first encountered the animals, reviving a piece of Kentucky’s natural history along the ancient path the herds once carved through the landscape.
Buffalo Ridge Ranch, co-owned by Jo Staats, sits along the Buffalo Trace — the historic corridor wild buffalo once traveled from the salt licks of Kentucky to the prairies of Illinois. Historians say massive herds followed this natural path through Clark County long before settlers arrived.
“They were here before we were,” Staats said…