Free-moving herds of migratory bison in Yellowstone National Park are stimulating the regrowth of flourishing grasslands and reshaping ecosystems, a new study has found. Contrary to conventional ...

On Aug. 28, scientists from Washington and Lee University, the National Park Service and the University of Wyoming published research in Science magazine shedding new light on the value of bison ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. As Yellowstone National Park’s bison manager announced plans to capture 120 bison for its live ...

Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these ...

JACKSON (AP) - Even in a herd of 750, Boris the bison stands out. His hair is a reddish rust color instead of the more common black or brown. His horns are wider and thicker and his head appears big ...

BILLINGS — Yellowstone National Park administrators plan to capture and ship to slaughter potentially hundreds of wild bison if they migrate into Montana this winter in a bid to reduce disease and ...

Quick Take Preventing total extinction necessitated a successful recovery from a remnant population of only 1,000 bison. The Homestead Act of 1862 turned 160-acre parcels into logistical obstacles for ...

Research by Shapiro and University of Alberta professor Duane Froese, published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,” pulls that date much closer: between 130,000 and 195,000 years ...

A bill that would put an end to wild bison being legally shot and killed without a license when they stray into Colorado has cleared the state legislature and is headed to the desk of Gov. Jared Polis ...

The wildlife I am writing about today, the American bison, isn’t really anything you will find in your backyard in the Northeast. The American bison got close to us in upstate New York (Buffalo, New ...