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 “buffalo” has persisted ...

Bulls from both species of bison are about six feet high, while buffalo of both types are closer to four or five feet. Though ...

Bison numbers were already in decline by the ... central to grasslands health and restore truly wild herds of American buffalo. Dan Flores retired in 2014 as the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western ...

one that created asymmetric power among traders and informed the bioregional history of the West where the North American bison became a food commodity hunted to nearly the last animal. "At last we ...

(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 ...

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, ...

Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large ...

Dirt at the bottom of a lake bed in America's oldest national park sheds light on the massive herds that once roamed the west ...

Wood Buffalo is Canada’s largest national park ... it is home to one of the last remaining free-roaming wood bison herds in the world, the nesting habitat for endangered whooping cranes ...

But they made an unlikely comeback and continue to captivate people. At Yellowstone National Park – home to the largest bison herd in the U.S., with almost 6,000 head of wild bison – they are a major ...

A Louisville neighborhood is remembering the past through artwork. Three sculptures of American bison including a mother and ...