Across Montana’s eastern plains, few sights register as strongly as a bison herd navigating open grassland. Although the ...

ABILENE, Texas — The Abilene Zoo is bringing back a beloved animal after more than 14 years. According to the zoo, two American bison will soon call the zoo home. The Abilene Zoo housed bison for ...

Several years ago, I had the chance to drive around the Dakotas and was struck by the haunting beauty and the sheer immensity ...

Bison—also known as buffalo—once ambled across North American prairies in enormous herds, with their full population reaching the tens of millions. Indigenous peoples across the continent relied on ...

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.

Yellowstone’s roaming bison herds enhance nutrient cycles and boost ecosystem health at landscape scales, according to a new study. The findings, which challenge conventional grazing wisdom, suggest ...

Quick Take By the 1880s and 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained in the wild, a stark warning about unchecked exploitation.