James Bailey, retired professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University, considers the past, present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.

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 ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

Senate Bill 53 would classify bison as big-game wildlife, which would regulate the killing of the native species. Like it is ...

For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison ... By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one of the ...

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 ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota State University could soon be teaching students how to raise bison, a species that once populated the North American plains and was hunted to near extinction.