I tried to bite my tongue, but...
Buffalo, strange that a controversial topic would have as an example another controversial topic. There seems to be no evidence that the government directly contributed to the demise of the buffalo (almost everything else did through, weather, disease, ranchers, etc.). They failed to pass legislation that would have help save them at an earlier date, but other than that, they did very little. The Indian would have eventually killed them off as they were killing more than were being reproduced, in the 1700s the Spanish were trying to convince them that they needed to be more resourceful. We western European types accelerated the process and with a profit. Ironically the saving of the buffalo was also based on a profit.
