Wild bison once ruled the American plains, but today, only a few states still have thriving herds. Where can you see these ...

James Bailey, retired professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, considers the past, present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

On World Wildlife Day, it feels appropriate to celebrate a true wildlife conservation success story when, sadly, populations of so many other species are declining. Plains bison numbers, which were ...

The modern American bison (Bison bison ... and climate change that brought drought to the Great Plains. Hornaday himself certainly understood the market’s effect. “Here is an inexorable ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

To drought? Will one population prosper after another declines?). The American Plains bison (Bison bison) is an iconic symbol of the American West. It is estimated that the plains region of the ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has joined with the Minnesota Zoo in an effort to conserve the North American plains bison. The DNR stated in a press release it will work with ...

Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, an original signatory of the Buffalo Treaty, gave Mosquito-Grizzly Bear's Head-Lean Man First Nation in Saskatchewan 11 plains bison from the Yellowstone ...

or American bison, once roamed North America from Canada down to Mexico. They were an integral part of Native American societies that lived on the Great Plains providing food as well as the raw ...

The Pittsburgh zoo has added one of the nation’s most iconic creatures, the American bison, to its sprawling Somerset County conservation center. Three female bison and a male “bull” – described as ...