On World Wildlife Day, it feels appropriate to celebrate a true wildlife conservation success story when, sadly, populations of so many other species are declining. Plains bison numbers, which were ...

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 ...

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 ...

F rom the snow-covered landscapes of Alaska to the southern tip of Chile and all points between, The Americas takes viewers ...

Millions of buffalo, or American bison, once roamed North America from Canada down to Mexico. They were an integral part of Native American societies that lived on the Great Plains providing food ...

HABITAT: This bison inhabits prairie grasslands and hills. RANGE: Bison once roamed from Florida through the eastern deciduous forests and Great Plains to the Cascade Mountains in Washington, from ...

brought thousands of hide hunters to the Great Plains. In just over a decade the number of bison collapsed from 12-15 million to fewer than a thousand, representing one of the most dramatic ...

(Andy Boyce) The long-billed curlew is one of the bird species that breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains. Andy Boyce Centuries ago, millions of bison roamed the prairies of North America ...

The Center for Great Plains Studies will host its 50th annual conference focused on regional issues April 8-10 at the ...

Eating bison meat, for example, in addition to being better for you, also helps justify keeping vast stretches of the Great Plains intact, which is a prime way of sequestering carbon. The root ...