Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer -- Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores -- People and bison in the ancient past - ...

A bison on Antelope Island in Utah. There were once 60 million bison in North America. Today, just over 20,000 live in conservation herds in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

In October 2020, the hoofbeats of American bison thumped across the prairie of the Rosebud Reservation for the first time in more than a century. Years in the works, the release of 100 bison (Bison ...

The American bison was once a flourishing species, with an estimated population of 60 million before the 18th century. By the start of the 19th century, that population would go down to an estimated ...

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission approved dual classifications for bison this week, creating a distinction between ...

In a remote corner of the short grass prairie plains south of Malta, something new and something ancient is recreating itself. It’s not simple and not universally supported, but through the efforts of ...

As the prairie landscape steadily vanishes, the root cause is often overshadowed by the spotlight on industrial practices, with experts pointing to agriculture and energy development as the primary ...

Next came the American bison, Bison bison. The two species of modern North American bison that are still present — the American Plains bison like those in Yellowstone, Bison bison bison, and the ...

As scientists, we acknowledge and appreciate the initial steps that have been taken in Montana toward restoration of a wild herd of genetically sound bison somewhere on Montana’s Great Plains. And we ...