Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these massive herbivores, but an interconnected web of species impacted by them, ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of bison grazing in a lush Nebraska prairie at sunset with a winding river and three deer in the distance.© A-Z Animals The ...

The plains bison was chosen as North Dakota’s state animal because it reflects the prairie landscape, Indigenous history, and a powerful story of loss and recovery. Once nearly wiped out, bison now ...

Centuries ago, herds of bison roamed the Great Plains, numbering in the tens of millions. One of the most populous mammal species in North America, enormous herds of the animals grazed and migrated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montana’s official state animal remains the grizzly bear, selected by schoolchildren in the early 1980s. Grizzlies represent ...

The captivating reintroduction of six bison in a forest preserve has deeper meaning to Indigenous people and advocates of tallgrass prairie restoration.