Over the years, the interagency partners have allowed Yellowstone’s bison numbers to exceed their original target. At 6,000 animals this summer, the population is higher than it’s ever been.

To honor Native American and First Peoples Heritage Month, ... Bison Are Home on the Range. ... Coming 115 years after the original transfer of bison from the Bronx Zoo to Oklahoma, ...

Learn American bison facts about recovering bison populations to heal grasslands and help create habitats for other wildlife. ... at least in part of their original range, ...

The Bison Range was established within the boundaries of the Flathead Reservation in 1908, “for the express purpose of conserving the American bison during a time when the species was on the ...

The American Bison, also known as the buffalo, is an absolute icon of North America, with its native range stretching across grasslands in Canada, U.S., and Mexico.

The National Bison Range is an 18,000-acre preserve in northwest Montana that holds some of the nation's most genetically pure American bison. The range, operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

The bison is only distantly related to the buffalo, and as of 2008, there were 400,000 commercial herds of bison in the United States. RELATED: Blind bison needs a new home on the range ...

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.

T.J. Heinert, assistant range manager of Wolakota Buffalo Range near Spring Creek, S.D., inspects the bull bison he harvested on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Toby Brusseau / AP ...