Yet the National Park Service is only a quarter of the way toward its proposal to remove up to 1,375 animals this season.

GARDINER, Montana (CNN) -- More than half of Yellowstone National Park's bison herd has died since last fall, forcing the government to suspend its annual slaughter program. More than 700 of the ...

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

Though bison are well-suited for the harsh climate of Yellowstone National Park, the winters from 1995 to 1997 were particularly severe in the high country, forcing bison to leave the park in ...

As the state of Montana’s lawsuit over Yellowstone National Park’s bison management plan creeps forward in court, 260 animals have been shipped to slaughter so far this winter and another 86 ...

A fetus was removed from an infected bison that had been euthanized and necropsied at a Bozeman lab. Photograph by David Guttenfelder Whittlesey refers to the massive slaughter of wildlife ...

Overall, there’s been a steady resurgence in the number of American bison alive today, after they nearly went extinct in the 19th century due to overhunting and slaughtering practices.

The slaughtering was done in the past at White ... It is unknown how many of the rest of the bison in the trap will head for the slaughterhouse, and how many will end up prisoners of the ...

Yellowstone's bison are under threat from the moment they cross the park's boundary. Outdated management plans and misunderstandings have led to the routine roundup and slaughter of this wild icon of ...

The hearing comes as the park’s wild bison are once again being captured by the National Park Service and shipped to slaughter or entered in a quarantine program.