The American Bison was an animal that roamed from Alaska to Mexico and from Appalachia to the Sierra Nevada. It was North America’s largest and most ubiquitous land animal.

American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America — until 1889, when they were almost driven to ...

Timothy Lundstrom, of West Fargo, who worked for North American Bison for 17 years, is accused of stealing more than $60,000 ...

The National Bison Association is accepting applications for the 2025 Throlson American Bison Foundation Scholarship, which supports students pursuing careers related to the bison industry. Named afte ...

The American bison is ecologically extinct. Its population is now too small to fill the role it once played in trimming grasses, "plowing" the ground with its hoofs, fertilizing the soil with ...

The National Bison Association is excited to announce the opening of applications for the 2025 Throlson American Bison Foundation Scholarship, designed to support students pursuing careers in fields ...

The American Bison makes a comeback 01:38 “Well, in Yellowstone National Park, there were less than 25 animals,” Wenk said. “It is one of the greatest wildlife conservation stories in the ...

A historical map shows the ranges affected by the extermination of the American bison over time. Library of Congress. By the late 1860s, the U.S. Army was encouraging this mass slaughter.

386696 08: A small buffalo herd graze March 13, 2001 at the Groves bison ranch near Kiowa, Colorado. In the early 1800’s there were between 40 to 60 million bison roaming the North American plains.

Bison origins and sacred places. Indigenous people continued to remember and revere bison in rituals and ceremonies. Every tribe on the Great Plains has its own “deep individual connection to ...

The American bison is an incredibly interesting critter. Sometimes called buffalo, this name is a misnomer and suggests that the American bison is somehow related to the buffalo of the Old World.