American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America — until 1889, when they were ...

Bison once numbered in the tens of millions in the United States. Now, a nonprofit is working to restore the shortgrass prairie, where the American icons and their ecosystem can thrive again.

In the early 2000s, Fox turned a cattle ranch into a bison ranch, part of a movement across the North American West to return bison to parts of their historic range for the collective well-being ...

The American Prairie Reserve, a Montana-based nonprofit, has a big and controversial idea: creating an ecologically functioning three million acre preserve of private, public and tribal lands in ...

American bison were hunted almost to extinction by European settlers. Now making a comeback, they could help reverse damage to prairies from decades of poor management. It takes mettle to live on ...

But Mr. Olson said the pace of conservation bison transfers to Native American tribes has picked up over the past five or so years in Canada and the United States, aided in part by a 2014 cross ...

In Ken Burns’ two-part documentary, The American Buffalo, the bison’s tale is interwoven with the recent history of the Indigenous Peoples of North America who, like the bison, were pushed to ...

Bison helped us regenerate the land,” Mimi Hillenbrand, owner and operator of the 777 Bison Ranch near Rapid City, South Dakota, told me. She adds, “I love the animal. We are lucky that we ...

An estimated 30 million bison dominated the Great Plains by the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in the 15th century. Three hundred years later, the westward expansion of European ...

Bison once dominated the Great Plains but were nearly wiped out by hunters in the 1800s. Now scientists are learning that bison’s presence improves plant and wildlife diversity on the prairies.

This is one of the last remnants of American prairie. In Oklahoma’s Osage County, the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve safeguards herds of bison, flocks of birds, and breathtaking grassland.

In addition to the annual bison harvest, American Prairie offers nearly 80,000 acres of its private land in Montana’s Block Management Program for hunting, including upland birds, migratory ...