Bison thrive in bitter cold by plowing snow and growing thick coats to withstand harsh winds. Learn how these resilient ...

Wildflowers like goldenrod thrive in areas grazed by bison, which attracts droves of monarch butterflies to the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Bison grazing on native prairie for three decades ...

Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges, undulating in the wind like a great, green ocean. This is ...

Editor's Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker, a librarian at Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. This week’s essay, by Becker and Paul Carlson, ...

It epitomizes the Great Plains in spirit and in form: a 2,000-pound tank on hooves, cloaked in shaggy winter-tested coat, capped by horns acting as warning and weapon. Even its scientific name, Bison ...

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 ...

Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver were transferred Wednesday to several tribes from across the Great Plains, in the latest example of Native Americans reclaiming stewardship over ...

Learn how history, culture, and conservation made the plains bison a natural choice as Wyoming’s enduring state animal.

Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver, Colorado, were transferred Wednesday to several tribes from across the Great Plains, in the latest example of Native Americans reclaiming ...