The grandest of American animals has signed a letter of intent to play for Indiana University. All sports, football, basketball, swimming, all of the time. The ultimate in versatility.

The Nachusa Grasslands, a 4,000-acre plot in Franklin Grove, Illinois, is home to a herd of 100 wild American Bison, which ...

Rising City’s Jared Meister, 38, is set to appear in a Custer County Court on July 14 after being accused of killing a rare ...

From Yellowstone to Badlands, these national parks offer front-row seats to one of America’s most iconic wildlife experiences ...

When you picture Colorado, you likely imagine majestic, towering mountains. Although the mountains are abundant, a large ...

In the state of Colorado, bison are “livestock,” unable to roam free like elk or pronghorn. Returning bison to their original range on the Great Plains will require landscape-scale, transboundary ...

After being hunted to near extinction, there are roughly 450,000 Plains bison now living in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

In the 1920s, the Government of Canada mixed plains and wood bison at Wood Buffalo National Park, on the N.W.T./Alberta border. Today many herds are hybrids of plains and wood bison.

Photo by Sarah Mosquera And, most notably, the bison vanished. There were once an estimated 20 to 60 million bison roaming across what is now the contiguous U.S., and Plains Indians lived in harmony ...

But by 1800, with the arrival of equestrian hunting, Plains tribes had begun to kill between 200,000 to 400,000 bison annually, according to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Plains bison spent thousands of years engineering a distinctive grassland ecology from Northern Canada through Montana to Mexico. But more than a century ago, this influence abruptly stopped.