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

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 ...

Bison vs Buffalo: Head and shoulders Bison have massive heads and a large shoulder hump. Buffalo heads are much more ...

Today, there are 14 states with a city or town named Buffalo, only five of them in the West. By the late nineteenth century, the scientific name bison (which comes from the Latin word for “wild ...

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.

with buffalo, Native camp in the northwest. Wood engravings, published in 1893. America once teemed with tens of millions of bison, spanning from Florida to Lake Eerie to southern Canada over to ...

Bison (sometimes called buffalo) are the largest land animal in North America, and are a part of the same family as cattle—bovidae. Bison are not just a traditional food source, but they were also a ...

And, of course, is it “Bison” or “Buffalo”? We asked authors, historians and professors to weigh in on some of the bigger questions from The American Buffalo.

Bison sustained Indigenous communities for generations by shaping their traditions and spirituality, as well as providing ...

Bison (sometimes called buffalo) are the largest land animal in North America, and a part of the same family as cattle—bovidae. Bison are not just a traditional food source, but they were also a ...

Like cows, buffalo chew cud to further extract nutrients. 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 ...