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

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 ...

Trump administration-led funding cuts and expansion of oil and gas drilling will impact conservation. Boulder Weekly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

They have been honored in song ("Home on the Range"), athletic teams (the ... The majestic creatures honored in American culture are, in fact, bison, and not only are they not true buffalo ...