The 6 animals were released from a large trailer into a cattle enclosure to allow them to get used to the idea of the frozen prairie again.

The captivating reintroduction of six bison in a forest preserve has deeper meaning to Indigenous people and advocates of ...

Four bison bulls left their home at the Trexler Nature Preserve in Pennsylvania on Nov. 19 for new grazing land at the Seneca Nation’s Gakwi:yo:h Farms in New York, marking the second transfer between ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...

Free-moving herds of migratory bison in Yellowstone National Park are stimulating the regrowth of flourishing grasslands and reshaping ecosystems, a new study has found. Contrary to conventional ...

Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these ...

John Damore, a 92-year-old former Chicago Bears offensive lineman, cheers in his home in Westmont as Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams throws a pass to tight end Cole Kmet at the end of the ...

Kansas did not pick the plains bison as one of its state animals just because it looked cool on a flag; lawmakers chose to honor the bison because it made life on the Great Plains possible and ...

JACKSON (AP) - Even in a herd of 750, Boris the bison stands out. His hair is a reddish rust color instead of the more common black or brown. His horns are wider and thicker and his head appears big ...

There are few symbols of the American West more iconic than the bison -- shaggy giants that once roamed in the tens of millions before being nearly annihilated by European settlers. A new study ...

Across Montana’s eastern plains, few sights register as strongly as a bison herd navigating open grassland. Although the grizzly bear is the official state animal, the plains bison has come to ...