A lone bison grazing in Montana. The short-grass prairies of our Northern Great Plains are some of the least protected ...

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 - ...

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 ...

Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these massive herbivores, but an interconnected web of species impacted by them, ...

"A project of the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska." "Bison books." Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...

It must have been quite something to witness the sight of 60 million bison as they thundered across the Great Plains in the 1800s. Once close to extinction, North America's largest land animal has ...

Kansas did not pick the plains bison as one of its state animals just because it looked cool on a flag; lawmakers chose to honor the bison because it made life on the Great Plains possible and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A majestic American bison stands on a rocky hill at sunrise, its breath steaming in the cold air as it looks toward the camera.© A ...