The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.
The organization that he, President Theodore Roosevelt and others formed in 1905 to help save the animal from extinction was named the American Bison Association. But still, the usage of ...
These commitments will not begin without a broad public understanding of the meaning and values of “wildness." James Bailey, retired professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, ...
In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison ...
To drought? Will one population prosper after another declines?). The American Plains bison (Bison bison) is an iconic symbol of the American West. It is estimated that the plains region of the ...
Once the trailer is lined up with a pen overgrown with tall grass, the animal bursts out, an American bison in all its six-foot, shaggy-headed, humped-shoulder glory. For Pogue, a member of the ...
"There's a big effort to get buffalo out of Yellowstone to tribes. A lot of tribes are interested in those Yellowstone genetics to enhance the heterogeneity of other herds," — ...