The American bison got close to us in upstate New York (Buffalo, New York, carries that name for a reason), but as far as we ...

To Tom McDonald, chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, buffalo hunting by tribes outside Yellowstone National Park is often misunderstood. Buffalo are hunted by tribes in a ...

Conservation efforts over the last century-plus have successfully restored most big-game species to North America—but not bison. William Temple Hornaday must have been miserable. It was November ...

Don’t let this happen to you: You take your family to Yellowstone and point out to your daughter up ahead a large animal. “Look, little Clementine! It’s a buffalo!” But your daughter has been watching ...

HELENA (AP) - Critics lashed out Friday at a plan to let hunters shoot buffalo that wander out of Yellowstone National Park, saying such hunting would be a "slaughter" reminiscent of the ...

HELENA — Critics lashed out Friday at a plan to let hunters shoot buffalo that wander out of Yellowstone National Park, saying such hunting would be a slaughter reminiscent of the near-destruction of ...

A non-profit nature reserve is connecting prairie land across the most remote region of the Lower 48, preserving habitat for ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has begun implementation of a new law aimed at protecting wild bison that migrate to Colorado.

(The Conversation) — 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 ...

MISSOULA — The number of licenses to hunt bison that wander into Montana from Yellowstone National Park this winter will almost triple from last season, state wildlife commissioners decided Thursday.

Three large mammals in the world are commonly called “buffalo,” though each of them represents a different species. All of these are distantly related under the same family, Bovidae. The multitude of ...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - More than half of the bison in one of the largest wild herds in the United States of the iconic animals would be killed by hunters under a plan unveiled on Thursday by ...