But it is also much more than that. The move begins to restore wild bison to the Great Plains and the Plains Indians, who depended on them for food, clothing and shelter. “It has a real ...

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 ...

Bison lived for the past 10,000 years on the rich grasslands of the Great Plains of North America from what is now Canada to Mexico. On the northern Great Plains where my ancestors lived bison ...

Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is ...

The best bet to save the imperiled species may be a system that pays farmers and ranchers to protect its grassland home.

Fortunately, the bison was rescued from the brink of extinction and today there are approximately half a million in various ...

About the size of a business card or a major-league bleachers ticket, this little piece of heavy, printed paper is the federal government’s substitute for the bison of the Great Plains ...

brought thousands of hide hunters to the Great Plains. In just over a decade the number of bison collapsed from 12-15 million to fewer than a thousand, representing one of the most dramatic ...

HABITAT: This bison inhabits prairie grasslands and hills. RANGE: Bison once roamed from Florida through the eastern deciduous forests and Great Plains to the Cascade Mountains in Washington, from ...

And these are not the only prairie animals to have suffered great losses. Plains bison, and the highly endangered black-footed ferret were brought to the brink of extinction, and prairie dogs have ...