descendants of the original herds that once astonished visitors to the Great Plains and made the bison the symbol of American abundance. Until, that is, rampant hunting made it a symbol of ...

The American buffalo, or bison, was once the beating heart of the Great Plains. These massive animals shaped the ecosystem, their grazing patterns helping to maintain rich grasslands teeming with ...

The North American grasslands and bison evolved with the Plains Tribal Nations ... Returning bison to their original range on the Great Plains will require landscape-scale, transboundary cooperation ...

Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the ...

A symbol of the West and vital sustenance for Native Americans who lived on the western Plains, the bison was hunted to near ...

For many Native American tribes, the return of bison is a powerful act of cultural ... a living reminder of what the Great Plains once were. These parks serve as vital genetic reservoirs and ...

A symbol of the West and vital sustenance for Native Americans who lived on the western Plains, the bison was hunted to near ...

But there are also, though fewer, things of a darker mien, artifacts revealing caliginous corners of American history ... s substitute for the bison of the Great Plains, that source of life ...

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 ...

This enormous area of the Great Plains, Southwest ... describes a larger category of wild oxen. Bison more appropriately describes the North American buffalo, which has short horns, a heavy ...

American Prairie is again offering an annual public bison harvest on its Sun Prairie property, with the added opportunity for five recipients to take a bison of any age. The ...