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 ...

And settler hide hunters flooded to the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain regions, where the bison were in the thousands, and slaughtered the bison in the millions. And in some areas of the country ...

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, which evolved on the treeless plains, are much more comfortable at high temperatures. When they cool off, they prefer to catch a hilltop breeze. They’re not inclined to overgraze because ...

For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison ... for buffalo hides to be used in the belts driving industrial machines back East, brought thousands of hide hunters to the Great Plains.

The return of the American bison is an environmental boon — and a logistical mess American bison are back on the rise. The problem is, they don't respect fences.

In 1800, as many as 37 million bison roamed the Great Plains. By 1890, fewer than a thousand remained, yet at the start of the 20th century a small herd grazed near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

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 ...

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.

For more than 10,000 years, many people in what's now known as North America relied on bison. Thirty million of the creatures stretched from Canada down to Mexico, and then they were hunted nearly ...