For the first time in over a hundred years, Yellowstone’s iconic bison herds have defied the odds and merged into a single, ...
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 ...
Plains bison numbers, which were once nearly driven to extinction, are on the rise across the United States and Canada, with 45,000 found across North America today. Bison conservation isn’t ...
Elsewhere, tamer livestock, Angus and Hereford cattle, provide the grazing, dung and hoof impacts necessary ... colonial forces that cleared the plains of the bison, and bison hunting cultures ...