James Bailey, retired professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, considers the past, present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly ... Every tribe on the Great Plains has its own “deep individual connection to bison,” says Whisper Camel-Means, a Salish-Kootenai ...

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 ...

To drought? Will one population prosper after another declines?). The American Plains bison (Bison bison) is an iconic symbol of the American West. It is estimated that the plains region of the ...

Hornaday genuinely cared about the American bison ... By the 1930s, an estimated twenty thousand bison roamed the plains, many of them descended from these “Hornaday herds.” ...

In terms of the Bills, they have a famous figure from the Wild West to thank for the origin of their name. When NFL fans ...

Bison farming has become an important part of livestock agriculture in North America. These animals are not as plentiful as ...

Researchers say there used to be millions of bison in the Great Plains, but pioneer settlements drove them to near extinction by the late 1800s. Today, there are about 5,000 bison in Kansas.

circa 1930: An American bison. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty ... in the 19th century (from above): Mississippi landscape, Great Plains ... [+] with buffalo, Native camp in the northwest.

The National Park Service’s plan to increase bison herd sizes has drawn criticism from state officials concerned about ...

the southern Plains of the United States were predominantly grasslands, the home and hunting grounds of many Native American tribes and the range of untold millions of bison. It was seldom used ...