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 ...

If cow belches and farts are so bad, why didn’t the vast herds of 60 million bison roaming the U.S. West before the 1880s ...

Bison — which most tribes refer to as buffalo — are an essential part of many Plains tribes' cultural and spiritual life. Now ...

Jeff Martin likes to think of the Great Plains as the “bison basket.” There are approximately 400,000 bison across North ...

Every year in the autumn, the ground at Custer State Park shakes and the air is filled with clouds of dust. You can hear ...

Many driving from the east find their eyes drawn to the architecture of Soaring Plains, the modern, award-winning, ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced grant funding to support the production and marketing of bison and bison ...

How do buffalo numbers worldwide compare to the bison? According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the current numbers of Plains bison are 420,000 in commercial herds and 20,500 in ...

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 ...

The pronunciation of Bison became such a thing that in 2013 ... “The bisons swarmed the plains and dominated over the lesser beasts in the northwest in the early ‘90s,” the Forum article ...