Learn American bison facts about recovering bison populations to heal grasslands and help create habitats for other wildlife.

By the time Hornaday organized the American Bison Society in 1905, one of the nation's first environmental organizations, only a few hundred of the animals remained. A century after the society ...

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division This Winter, if all goes as planned, a caravan of livestock trucks will carry dozens of American bison out of Yellowstone National Park on a 500 ...

The map shows bison abundance and range over time, based on thousands of simulations. Abundance is shown as the number of bison per 76 km x 87 km grid cell. Grey indicates areas where there is ...

Yellowstone's first bison calf of 2025 was spotted in the Lamar Valley on Sunday, making it an early addition to the park's ...

Centuries ago, American bison inhabited large swaths of North America—the "great bison belt" extending from Alaska to Florida and east to New York. They now have a patchy range thanks to ...

Despite being pushed to the brink of extinction, the American buffalo is fundamental to the fabric of America, but it's not ...

6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching horns; and massive, humped shoulders. HABITAT: This bison inhabits prairie grasslands and ...

By contrast, on native range south of Canada there are about 17,000 bison ... present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

The modern American bison (Bison bison ... which generated potentially infinite demand for a narrow range of products. In addition, the profit incentive, which wasn’t usually present in the ...

BY JOE KNOBBE Recently, I had the opportunity to represent Lee Richardson Zoo at the North American Bison Summit in Loveland, ...