Traveling west on Route 36 from Delaware, Marysville and points east, one is immediately struck by how much rich, open farmland remains in rural Ohio. This land was met with astonishment by early ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reclassified the wood bison, a Canadian relative of the American plains bison, from "endangered" to "threatened" under the Endangered Species ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - After a more than a 100-year absence from the United States, an experimental wild population of the largest North American land mammal may be reintroduced to Alaska in support of ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped out. Today, Department of Labor lands currently support 17 bison herds in 12 ...

Wood bison once roamed a broad swath of Alaska’s Interior and Southcentral regions as well as Northwest Canada. Plains bison, the slightly smaller of the two North American bison subspecies, are not ...

The yearling wood bison are now officially free in their new stomping grounds on the Lower Yukon-Innoko Basin. Last Friday, the 28 bison were released from the soft-release pen, where they spent ...

This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. Five miles doesn’t seem far on the vast, windblown plains of the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

American bison are the largest terrestrial mammals in North America. Male bison are significantly larger and heavier than females. A mature bull can reach 5.5 to 6.5 feet high at the hump and 9 to ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped out. Year and Population 1800 – 5 million 1875 – 1 million 1880 – 395,000 ...

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This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. Five miles doesn’t seem far on the vast, windblown plains of the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.