The move begins to restore wild bison to the Great Plains and the Plains Indians, who depended on them for food, clothing and shelter. “It has a real spiritual meaning for us,” says Magnan.

Bison are more than just animals; they are an enduring symbol of the American wilderness. Towering and shaggy, with humps of muscle and sweeping horns, bison once numbered an estimated 30 to 60 ...

In June, members of Blackfeet Nation released their first herd of bison to roam. The program director spoke about why the near-extinction was so devastating and how he's helping to bring them back.

In the state of Colorado, bison are “livestock,” unable to roam free like elk or pronghorn. Returning bison to their original range on the Great Plains will require landscape-scale, transboundary ...

Satanta, chief of the Kiowas tribe, in the Great Plains,recognised that "to destroy the buffalo meant the destruction of the Indian" – as Billy Dixon, a bison hunter and frontiersman from Texas ...

Between 1845 and 1895, the bison population in America declined from tens of millions to a mere 1,500, driving the species to near extinction—all at the hands of European settlers who killed them.

Bison, longhorns and business thriving at Green Plains Farm Credit: Bill Lackey Glen Courtright's Corriente cattle, which stay outside all year, at his Clark County farm Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025.