Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Members of the Nez Perce Tribe protested at a Tuesday meeting in Missoula that Yellowstone ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is taking the first steps toward managing wild bison, with a focus on creating a management plan for any animals that take up residence in the ...

Smith said there has continued to be some recreational hunting of bison each year in Bridger-Teton National Forest areas around the refuge and on the North Fork of the Shoshone River near Cody. But ...

Mike Garrity writes, Unfortunately, the governor and delegation appear locked into outdated, unscientific, and unsupported ...

Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission announces new regulations for human-wildlife interactions, including wolf-livestock compensation and bison hunting.

A proposal to extend and modify the issuance of bison hunting licenses to people on Montana's Indian reservations and the Little Shell Tribe was strongly supported by tribal legislators during the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - A pair of Idaho-based American Indian tribes want to hunt bison in parts of Montana and Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes would become the third ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A recent article in the Bozeman Chronicle described the Yellowstone “Bison Conservation” Transfer ...

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century.

María Nieves Zedeño believes it is possible to recast the prehistoric ancestral Blackfoot bison hunting tradition of the northwestern Plains (AD 1000-1750) as an institution based on religious ...

A non-profit nature reserve is connecting prairie land across the most remote region of the Lower 48, preserving habitat for ...