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

But it is also much more than that. 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 ...

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 ...

Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren’t the most accommodating of animals. When bothered, these super-sized versions of America’s sweetheart, the plains bison, can become as solid as ...

But there are actually two distinct species of American bison in North America, and while their differences are relatively ...

An impressive wood bison was seen galloping around her enclosure at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta on a recent chilly spring ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...