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Bison once numbered in the hundreds of millions and roamed in vast herds throughout North America. But after Europeans colonized and began developing the continent, the newcomers set about killing the ...

1. Dominance relations among adult female American bison (Bison bison) were studied between June 1980 and August 1982 at the National Bison Range, Moiese, Montana, and Yellowstone National Park, ...

LOS ANGELES - Long thought to be purebred, the wild bison of Santa Catalina Island in fact have a little bit of cow in them, the first DNA analysis of the animals found. Nearly half of the 98 American ...

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Following a brief ceremony Monday that included the burning of sage and the singing of Native American prayers, five bison from the Laramie Foothills Conservation Herd were loaded into trailers bound ...

Following a brief ceremony April 17 that included the burning of sage and the singing of Native American prayers, five bison from the Laramie Foothills Conservation Herd were loaded into trailers ...

This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. Five miles doesn’t seem far on the vast, windblown plains of the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.