The thunder of hooves once shook the vast North American plains as millions of bison roamed free, sculpting the landscape in ...

Trump administration-led funding cuts and expansion of oil and gas drilling will impact conservation. Boulder Weekly ...

Imagine a time when the heartland of America pulsed with thunderous herds, the ground trembling beneath the hooves of ...

Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren’t the most accommodating of animals. When bothered, these super-sized versions of America’s sweetheart, the plains bison, can become as solid as ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

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 ...

Here in Saskatchewan's heart lies a million-acre park, where vast prairies meet parkland and boreal forest, and free-roaming plains bison mingle among a diverse collection of wildlife, including ...

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 ...

Bison Haven Prince Albert is notable for the bison herd that roams along its southwestern border, the only free-range herd of wild plains bison in Canada that still occupies its ancestral territory.