Emphasizing the importance of bison hunts outside the park and the transfer of live bison to tribes, Yellowstone National Park is developing a new bison management plan to update a 20-year-old ...

The harsh winter forced many bison to lower ground near the villages and the temptation of shelter and easy food Rangers in the field (locals from the Armenis and Poieni rewilding areas), together ...

Learn how history, culture, and conservation made the plains bison a natural choice as Wyoming’s enduring state animal.

Sometimes when Jennifer Barfield is having a bad day, she’ll drive north of her Colorado State University lab. “I’ll end up in a pasture,” she said — a pasture of bison that she helped bring here to ...

“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...

This fall football season started off with all eyes on Ralphie — or more specifically Ralphie VI, our new University of Colorado Boulder buffalo mascot. It was exciting to watch her gallop across ...

Today, the bison population has rebounded to levels where the animal is no longer considered endangered. However, at the beginning of the 1900s, it appeared that it was the fate of the bison to be ...

As recently as two hundred years ago, surviving wild herds of American bison roamed as far south through Texas as the state’s coastal prairie. They had been a keystone species from Canada to Mexico ...