Welcome to this issue of Stumped by Nature, where we notice nature lurking just beyond our screens, curate a list of outside-y events in Austin, and build community with other folks in the thick of the startup ecosystem.
In this week’s issue:
🦬 Bison!, Part 1
👎 Human atrocities
🌤️ Upcoming outdoors events
🚗 Potential day trips
Let’s dig in!
-Nicole
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NATURE SPOTLIGHT
I learned that if you tell the right person you like nature and you like writing, you might find yourself climbing into an unmarked van at sunrise on a Saturday to go watch a bison die.
More to that story will come next week in Part II of this bison dive.
This week, we’re looking at bison themselves, then shifting to look in wide-eyed horror at how bison went from numbers in the millions to barely a dozen on the continent.
Spoiler: humans were why, and it’s in the most atrocious way, and it’s worth some deep journaling and chatting with a therapist about.
But first, what do you know about bison?
Hello, friends!