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 ...

F rom the snow-covered landscapes of Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and all points between, The Americas takes viewers on an epic 10-part journey of natural splendor. In the ...

A new round of genetic analysis has concluded that there is just one interbreeding bison population in Yellowstone National ...

Plains bison numbers, which were once nearly driven to extinction, are on the rise across the United States and Canada, with 45,000 found across North America today. Bison conservation isn’t ...

Bison lived for the past 10,000 years on the rich grasslands of the Great Plains of North America from what is now Canada to Mexico. On the northern Great Plains where my ancestors lived bison ...

You've probably heard the saying " West Texas, Best Texas ," and it seems a national ranking agrees with the phrase. Out of ...

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 ...

According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, bison once roamed the Great Plains in the millions before nearly being driven to extinction. Now — thanks to the ...

Here in Saskatchewan's heart lies a million-acre park, where vast prairies meet parkland and boreal forest, and free-roaming plains bison mingle among a diverse collection of wildlife, including ...

Bison Haven Prince Albert is notable for the bison herd that roams along its southwestern border, the only free-range herd of wild plains bison in Canada that still occupies its ancestral territory.