The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.

Bison — which most tribes refer to as buffalo — are an essential part of many Plains tribes' cultural and spiritual life. Now more tribes and tribal nations are working to reestablish bison herds on ...

Now that it’s February, we will be moving the Kankakee Sands bison herd from the north grazing pasture to the southern ...

Sixteen Plains Bison from Elk Island National Park (near Edmonton) were moved to the Eastern Slopes of Banff National Park in ...

Today, while about 360,000 plains bison are privately owned as domestic livestock, about 31,000 wild bison roam free in national parks and refuges in the United States and Canada. Oklahoma is home to ...

many of the tribes that had the closest relationship were the Plains tribes,” she said. In the early 1900s, conservation efforts began to protect small herds of bison. Those efforts and the ...

The small herd includes 11 bison that were first brought to Fort Peck in 2024 from Yellowstone, recognized as one of the last ...