The thunder of hooves once shook the vast North American plains as millions of bison roamed free, sculpting the landscape in ...

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

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

But there are actually two distinct species of American bison in North America, and while their differences are relatively minimal to the untrained eye, there are quite a few differences that are easy ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, it is home to one of the last remaining free-roaming wood bison herds in the world ... includes boreal forest, salt plains, and gypsum karst landforms.

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 ...