Learn how history, culture, and conservation made the plains bison a natural choice as Wyoming’s enduring state animal.
Bison thrive in bitter cold by plowing snow and growing thick coats to withstand harsh winds. Learn how these resilient ...
Citizens can help monitor the prairie and bison, and Native Americans can reconnect to their roots under a community science ...
Millions of bison once thundered across the American plains, shaping the landscape long before westward expansion pushed the ...
Dear EarthTalk: Our forebears decimated the great wild bison herds of the 1800s. Are those remaining today endangered? If so, what are we doing about it? – M. Nadler, Atlanta, GA Just 150 years ago, ...
Kane County has a created a home for a herd of bison in a free-range area of the Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve in Sycamore.
Overview: The decline and fall of the bison empire / Geoff Cunfer -- Reviewing an iconic story: environmental history and the demise of the bison / Dan Flores -- People and bison in the ancient past - ...
“Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the saga of early westward struggles and the kind of character it took to ...
As the prairie landscape steadily vanishes, the root cause is often overshadowed by the spotlight on industrial practices, with experts pointing to agriculture and energy development as the primary ...
SELMA, Ohio – Many driving from the east find their eyes drawn to the architecture of Soaring Plains, the modern, award-winning, 3,500-square-foot home at the crest of a hill across Ohio 42 from the ...
A reconstruction of two Jǫrmungandr walhallaensis mosasaurs fighting. The sea lizards with "angry eyebrows" swam in ancient North Dakota and were named after a Norse sea creature and Walhalla where ...