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 ...

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, ...

Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their ... On the northern Great Plains where my ancestors lived bison grazed on different grasses, in different seasons ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

Efforts are being made to develop the capacity of Native tribes to manage bison and bison habitats. An Indigenous scholar ...

and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by aboriginal peoples of the North American plains for nearly 6,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Max Waugh (USA) catches sight of a plains bison kicking up flurries of snow over its ...