As the state of Montana’s lawsuit over Yellowstone National Park’s bison management plan creeps forward in court, 260 animals ...

Bison also have a large shoulder hump and a shaggy fur coat that grows thick in the winter, especially around their head and ...

If it wasn’t for a hidden herd in the deepest reaches of this National Park, bison would have been wiped out in the late 1800s. Today, thousands of them thrive.

That same year, state and federal agencies began eliminating some Yellowstone bison that migrated out of park boundaries. Since the winter of 1991-92, Native Americans from reservations such as ...

Woolly fur hangs off shoulders in matted strands ... South Dakota, to the bison’s annual “winter range”—a 24,000-acre grazing lease on the adjacent Buffalo Gap Grasslands—all it takes ...