In early historic times, bison were common in much of what is now the eastern United States. Spanish records noted bison in Florida. Daniel Boone found several thousand of them grazing the bluegrass ...

Thankfully, the conservation efforts of many dedicated individuals, including President Theodore Roosevelt, ensure that we ...

TOPPENISH, Yakima County — On a frigid winter morning at the Yakama Nation’s Satus Ranch, a herd of 150 American bison ranged on the valley floor, backdropped by snowy Mount Adams. Right now ...

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.

FEEDING: Plains bison graze on grasses and sedges of the North American prairies. Their daily schedule involves two-hour periods of grazing, resting and cud-chewing ... numbering in the millions to ...

Outdated management plans and misunderstandings have led to the routine roundup and slaughter of this wild icon of the American West. Herds of bison grazing in Yellowstone’s Lamar and Hayden valleys ...

A partnership between the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and the American Prairie Reserve (APR) aims to understand how different grazing ... migratory herds of bison have ...

A huge herd of bison trekked through deep snow in Yellowstone National Park, surreal video shows. Screenshot of Yellowstone Forever's video on Instagram A huge herd of bison trekked across a snowy ...

However, due to overhunting and the purposeful culling of wild herds, only a measly 512 bison were left by 1889. Thanks to conservation efforts, the American bison was not lost to extinction.

A great herd of American bison was lost in the Arbuckle Mountains during a ferocious storm - the kind only Oklahoma can produce. Hail fell and tornadoes spun all around the herd as they stampeded ...

Just like African wildebeests that form stampedes when running from a predator, American bison stampede when they perceive a threat. It can just take one member of the herd to set off a chain ...