Assertion: bison | /r/HasProperty | extinct
Facets:
value: nearly
type: DEGREE
value: by the 1850s
type: TEMPORAL
value: within two decades
type: TEMPORAL
value: ecologically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Had it not been for a few private individuals working with tribes, states and the Interior Department, the bison would be extinct today.
text: Because there are no longer millions of animals migrating across the plains, the bison is considered ecologically extinct but conservation herds of 1,000 or more bison are being established to create a metapopulation, allowing for the species to once again play an important ecological role on our prairie grasslands.
text: Had it not been for a few private individuals working with tribes, states and the Interior Department, the bison would be extinct today.
text: William Temple Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park's "The Extermination of the American Bison" (1887) predicted that bison would be extinct within two decades.
text: By the 1850s, the bison was nearly extinct, spurring a movement to save the few herds that remained.
text: However, the trade was so profitable for Indians and non-Indian hunters that the hunt continued until the bison were nearly extinct.