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 ...

F rom the snow-covered landscapes of Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and all points between, The Americas takes viewers on an epic 10-part journey of natural splendor. In the ...

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

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 ...

The past abundance of bison on the Great Plains is well documented, but bison were also common throughout the Rocky Mountains. They seem to have been extirpated by Native Americans from the northern ...

According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, bison once roamed the Great Plains in the millions before nearly being driven to extinction. Now — thanks to the ...

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 ...

The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, along with four other groups, have asked a federal court judge to let them ...

Millions of buffalo, 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 ...

The species had another setback when tuberculosis and brucellosis were introduced into the park with several thousand plains bison, brought in from Wainwright, Alta., between 1925 and 1928. Those ...

Bison Haven Prince Albert is notable for the bison herd that roams along its southwestern border, the only free-range herd of wild plains bison in Canada that still occupies its ancestral territory.