• The buffalo had ridden 500 miles from a quarantine facility just outside Yellowstone National Park for a homecoming laden with promise: for Plains Indian tribes that link the bison return to their own cultural revival, for conservation biologists who see the animals as a key to restoring healthy prairies and for nature enthusiasts who believe that wildness and the modern world can coexist. (nwf.org)
  • In 1902, Yellowstone National Park officials counted just 23 remaining genetically pure bison in the park, the last known wild bison south of the Canadian border. (nwf.org)
  • The genetically pure Yellowstone bison, numbering around 3,000 animals, stand out as a rarity. (nwf.org)
  • Although bison inside Yellowstone were revered as a symbol of the Old West, when they crossed the park boundary Montana agriculture officials labeled them livestock and shot them, ostensibly because some bison carry brucellosis, a disease that causes cattle to abort fetuses. (nwf.org)
  • From a biological standpoint, having all the remaining genetically pure Yellowstone bison in one park's basket presented a real danger: An outbreak of disease or a natural disaster could spell the end of the species. (nwf.org)
  • Using embryo transfers from bison living in Yellowstone National Park into bison in Minnesota, researchers hope to boost the genetic diversity of the Minnesotan bison, the Associated Press reports. (genomeweb.com)
  • Yellowstone has the largest bison population and is the most genetically diverse, the AP adds. (genomeweb.com)
  • Transferring embryos from Yellowstone bison, the AP notes is tricky. (genomeweb.com)
  • Yellowstone bison don't carry any domesticated cattle genes - which its says makes them prized for such an endeavor - but they do carry brucellosis, which can cause spontaneous abortions. (genomeweb.com)
  • "Cauldron of Democracy: American Pluralism and the Fight over Yellowstone Bison" is by Scott Turner, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Montevallo. (google.com)
  • This case study explores the controversy surrounding Yellowstone bison (Bison bison) and the relationship between wildlife management and pluralist democracy. (google.com)
  • In the late 1960s Yellowstone National Park suspended the policy of strictly managing bison by culling in favor of "natural processes" management. (google.com)
  • For this project, researchers used eggs taken from bison from Yellowstone National Park and fertilized them with sperm from bulls with Yellowstone genetics in the lab. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The research team collects reproductive material from Yellowstone bison outside of the breeding season, which means the quality of the eggs may not be as good compared with collecting eggs when an animal is in the breeding season and ready to get pregnant. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Not only do the embryos carry the Yellowstone genetics, but they're also brucellosis-free, which is really important for the Yellowstone bison," she said. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Brucellosis is an infectious disease that can cause abortions and plagues bison in the Greater Yellowstone Area. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A group of people at Yellowstone National Park have been recorded crowding around a bison standing next to an inn, effectively penning the animal in with no easy way to escape. (yahoo.com)
  • Bison injure more people than any other animal at Yellowstone, usually when visitors get too close and the animals feel threatened. (yahoo.com)
  • Those hunts ended in the late 1800s, as federal agents restricted travel from their reservation on the Columbia River plateau and the decimated bison herds were largely confined to Yellowstone National Park. (nbcnews.com)
  • But in 2006, the state of Montana gave permission to the Nez Perce of Idaho and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes of northwest Montana to hunt bison on federal lands outside Yellowstone. (nbcnews.com)
  • Because nutrition is critically related to other aspects of bison ( Bison bison ) ecology, and the winter ranges inhabited by bison in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) are ecologically diverse, it was important to determine if nutritional deprivation differences occurred among winter ranges. (usgs.gov)
  • A six-hour drive south of the reservation, another herd of bison rambled through Yellowstone National Park, eating, on the move, unaware of where they should or shouldn't be. (hcn.org)
  • Yellowstone bison are central to the tribal restoration effort: Animals from the park help populate herds like the Blackfeet's. (hcn.org)
  • After bison were driven to near-extinction in the late 1800s, a handful of the remaining several hundred were taken to Yellowstone for protection. (hcn.org)
  • A Yellowstone tourist was nearly gored by a bison earlier this month after trying to pet it. (foxnews.com)
  • Increases in Yellowstone National Park, USA, bison (Bison bison) numbers and shifts in seasonal distribution have resulted in more frequent movements of bison beyond park boundaries and development of an interagency management plan for the Yellowstone bison population. (usgs.gov)
  • We documented spatial separation of Yellowstone bison into 2 segments, the northern and central herds, during all periods. (usgs.gov)
  • The outcome and effectiveness of management actions directed at Yellowstone bison may be affected by spatial segregation and herd affinity within the population. (usgs.gov)
  • Since 1980, bison have injured more pedestrian visitors to Yellowstone National Park (Yellowstone) than any other animal ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Yellowstone is home to the largest U.S. bison population on public land, with an estimated 4,900 bison in July 2015 ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Number of Brucella abortus -positive domestic cattle and ranched bison herds (combined) detected each year, Greater Yellowstone Area, USA, 1989-2012. (cdc.gov)
  • Bison are nomadic grazers and travel in herds. (wikipedia.org)
  • Genetically pure B. b. bison currently number only about 20,000, separated into fragmented herds-all of which require active conservation measures. (wikipedia.org)
  • More than 30 million bison-some estimates range as high as 60 million-once roamed North America in colossal, nomadic herds. (nwf.org)
  • The Great Plains of Montana once sustained millions of bison herds, but the population was devastated by development, human encroachment, and habitat loss. (nwf.org)
  • Descendants of bison that once roamed North America's Great Plains by the tens of millions, the animals would soon thunder up a chute, take a truck ride across South Dakota, and join one of many burgeoning herds Mr. Heinert has helped reestablish on Native American lands. (csmonitor.com)
  • While injury and fatality rates for bison handlers have not been reported, workers in many of the newly established tribal bison herds have limited safety training and animal handling experience, making this a vulnerable workforce. (cdc.gov)
  • Veterinarians and herd managers, working with tribal bison herds, recognized the need for improvement in the working environment and for worker safety training. (cdc.gov)
  • UNL veterinarians have taken the lessons learned from this research and provided safety and health information to mangers of other non-tribal bison herds. (cdc.gov)
  • Conservationists argued that nothing justified the killing, because no case of a cow contracting brucellosis from a bison has ever been documented. (nwf.org)
  • If so, then the baby bison would be born in the spring. (genomeweb.com)
  • Just because we bring an egg into the lab and we fertilize it, it doesn't mean that the result will be a baby bison," said Barfield. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Then, Kleiman grabbed the binoculars and saw the baby bison, still wet and stumbling around its mother. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Of the two surviving species, the American bison, B. bison, found only in North America, is the more numerous. (wikipedia.org)
  • The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison, B. b. bison, and the wood bison, B. b. athabascae, which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • While bison species have been traditionally classified in their own genus, modern genetics indicates that they are nested within the genus Bos, which includes, among others, cattle, yaks and gaur, being most closely related to yaks. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American Plains bison is no longer listed as endangered, but this does not mean the species is secure. (wikipedia.org)
  • The wood bison is on the endangered species list in Canada and is listed as threatened in the United States, though numerous attempts have been made by beefalo ranchers to have it entirely removed from the Endangered Species List. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American species has 15 ribs, while the European bison has 14. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a species, the bison has endured much since the arrival of Europeans. (nwf.org)
  • Plus, bison once played a key role in prairie ecosystems, grazing and trampling the ground just enough to allow a wealth of other species-little bluestem grass and black-footed ferrets, kestrels and killdeer, wrens and western wheatgrass-to flourish. (nwf.org)
  • In addition, they are genetically diverse within the bison species and are direct descendants of the original wild herd preserved largely by the efforts of zoologist William Temple Hornaday and Theodore Roosevelt in the early 1900s, after the species nearly had been wiped out. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Dakota County, Minn. started to restore its ecosystem after reintroducing bison, a keystone species that had been absent for more than 100 years. (naco.org)
  • Bison are what Lewanski refers to as a "keystone species," meaning if they're removed from their native ecosystem, the ecosystem ceases to function in the same way. (naco.org)
  • Bison] can also weigh up to 2,000 pounds, so rolling around on the ground they tend to compact the soil to the extent that there's a little divot in the earth that actually holds water, which provides drinking water for other animals on the prairie and a breeding habitat for frogs and toads, all the way to grassland bird species. (naco.org)
  • The scientific name for the species is Bison bison , but many Native Americans use "buffalo," a remnant of the 17th-century French fur traders who likened the creatures to the buffalo found in Africa and Asia. (hcn.org)
  • Some authors consider Bison bison and B. bonasus to be conspecific, grouping the two into a single species (Nowak, 1991). (ultimateungulate.com)
  • The American bison is classified as a low risk, conservation dependent species by the IUCN (2002). (ultimateungulate.com)
  • Researchers have solved the mystery surrounding the origins of European bison, finding that a now-extinct hybrid species was the source. (slashgear.com)
  • This hybrid species formed when the ancestor of European wisent bison - called steppe bison - mated with the ancestors of what are now modern-day cattle: Aurochs. (slashgear.com)
  • This hybrid species paved the way for Europe's wisent bison, though the hybrids themselves eventually died out, leaving a gap and, for the longest while, a big mystery. (slashgear.com)
  • Searching for this possible unknown bison that once roamed Europe led to the discovery of the hybrid species. (slashgear.com)
  • They are herbivores and they graze the western plains alongsie cattle and bison. (cdc.gov)
  • American bison are known for living in the Great Plains, but formerly had a much larger range, including much of the eastern United States and parts of Mexico. (wikipedia.org)
  • But by the end of the 19th century, bison almost had been annihilated, victims of a market for hides and meat as well as a U.S. government policy that let the slaughter continue as a means for undermining Plains Indian tribes. (nwf.org)
  • Millions of bison used to live on the plains of the US, but they were hunted nearly to extinction, and today, there are some 30,000 wild bison. (genomeweb.com)
  • In conjunction with the Minnesota Bison Conservation Herd, the county is reintroducing plains bison in Spring Lake Park Reserve to restore the prairie and benefit its ecosystem. (naco.org)
  • B. b. bison, the great plains of southern Canada and the central United States. (ultimateungulate.com)
  • In the seventeenth century, an estimated 60 million bison roamed the plains of North America. (ultimateungulate.com)
  • The crew drove back down the snow-covered road and over the hill, where a herd of bison slept and grazed several hundred yards away. (nbcnews.com)
  • But, Keith Aune, who directs the bison at the Wildlife Conservation Society, cautions the AP that this is an experimental procedure: when a similar approach was used at the Bronx Zoo, only one out of 25 tries resulted in a bison calf. (genomeweb.com)
  • She is the first bison calf conceived using in vitro fertilization, or IVF, at Colorado State University. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Since Bill Kleiman saw from a distance the surprising profile of a bison calf in the remote conservation reserve he directs, the atmosphere around there has become about as electrifying as it can get. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Five other preserves that, like Nachusa, had received bison from Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota developed a friendly competition over which would host the first calf. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Bison are sometimes bred with domestic cattle and produce offspring called beefalo, in North America, or żubroń, in Poland. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American bison and the European bison (wisent) are the largest surviving terrestrial animals in North America and Europe. (wikipedia.org)
  • References to "woods bison" or "wood bison" from the eastern United States refer to this subspecies, not B. b. athabascae, which was not found in the region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Only the wood bison, Bison bison athabascae , is listed on Appendix II of CITES (CITES, 2003). (ultimateungulate.com)
  • Jennifer Barfield from Colorado State University and her colleagues implanted embryos in four female bison at the Minnesota Zoo last month and are now waiting to see whether they took, the AP reports. (genomeweb.com)
  • The research team thawed a small number of embryos in 2016, and transferred them to nine female bison. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In October 2022, eight bison were brought to Spring Lake Park Reserve from two state parks. (naco.org)
  • The European bison, B. bonasus, or wisent, or zubr, or colloquially European buffalo, is found in Europe and the Caucasus, reintroduced after being extinct in the wild. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the clang of a gate and the rumble of hooves on prairie grassland, 61 genetically pure Bison bison completed a long-awaited return to the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes. (nwf.org)
  • flex & bison is the long-awaited sequel to the classic O'Reilly book, lex & yacc . (oreilly.com)
  • You can help give bison the room they need to roam by adopting a wildlife acre today . (nwf.org)
  • While Dakota County reintroduced the bison to help manage and restore the prairie, there was also an understanding that people would want to come out and see them, which was important to take into account when determining which park the bison would roam, Lewanski said. (naco.org)
  • Mentioned in the famous (and misleading) song "Home on the Range", this large relative of cattle is often incorrectly called a 'buffalo' ["Oh give me a home where the buffalo (*bison) roam, where the deer and the antelope (*pronghorn) play. (ultimateungulate.com)
  • Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars work with Bison with no change. (gnu.org)
  • Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. (gnu.org)
  • The YYPRINT macro, which works only with yacc.c and only for tokens, was obsoleted long ago by %printer, introduced in Bison 1.50 (November 2002). (gnu.org)
  • The difference in this case is that what would be the first lumbar vertebra has ribs attached to it in American bison and is thus counted as the 15th thoracic vertebra, compared to 14 thoracic vertebrae in wisent. (wikipedia.org)
  • As far as had been determined, the mysterious wisent bison has no Pleistocene-era fossil record, instead seemingly appearing from nowhere about 12,000 years ago. (slashgear.com)
  • However, researchers say the mitochondrial DNA also shows that the wisent bison are ultimately closer to modern day cattle. (slashgear.com)
  • The nuclear and mitochondrial analyses together suggest that the common ancestor of the wisent and CladeX mitochondrial lineages originated from asymmetrical hybridization (or sustained introgression) between male steppe bison and female aurochs. (slashgear.com)
  • Francis Marsh, left, and Cody Nowland of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Ore., stand with a bison shot and killed by Marsh's father Jim Marsh on Feb. 13, 2011, near Gardiner, Mont. (nbcnews.com)
  • Conservationists say bison are crucial in restoring prairie, which once spread across 22 million acres - about 60 percent - of Illinois. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Bison also strengthen prairie biodiversity by attracting a wider variety of insects, birds and other animals, conservationists say. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The bovine tribe (Bovini) split about 5 to 10 million years ago into the buffalos (Bubalus and Syncerus) and a group leading to bison and taurine cattle. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fort Peck itself is one of many reservations that owns a "business herd" of genetically mixed bison managed for hunts and meat sales. (nwf.org)
  • The Cayuse Indians once traveled hundreds of miles on horseback to hunt bison, a lean meat rich in protein and high in cultural significance. (nbcnews.com)
  • 44. Eight bison -- four calves and their mothers -- were released in mid-March on public lands in northern Colorado, bringing the total number of animals in the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd to 44. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We are pleased to see the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd thriving and the public response so positive for this collaborative effort," said Meegan Flenniken, planning and resource program manager for Larimer County Department of Natural Resources. (sciencedaily.com)
  • She and the project partners hope to one day have 100 bison in the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The use of this reproductive technology in American bison also opens up another avenue for conservation efforts. (sciencedaily.com)
  • American bison tend to graze more, and browse less than their European relatives. (wikipedia.org)
  • Torbit and his colleagues knew they were up against stiff opposition from ranchers, whose political power in Montana ensured for years that the state continued to slaughter bison that wandered outside the park. (nwf.org)
  • The resumption of culling has upset environmental groups, while the recently approved expansion of bison habitat beyond park boundaries continues to upset ranchers. (google.com)
  • Their lineage represents the last true North American bison, since ranchers interbred many bison with cattle in the following years. (hcn.org)
  • Park regulations state that visitors must stay at least 25 yards (23 meters) from animals like bison, elk, and pronghorn at all times, and 100 yards (91 meters) from bears and wolves. (yahoo.com)
  • Since 1985, nearly 7,000 bison have been slaughtered as a result of this controversial policy, according to the Buffalo Field Campaign, a Montana-based advocacy group. (nwf.org)
  • However, true buffalo inhabit the Old World continents of Africa and Asia, and are of an entirely different morphology than bison. (ultimateungulate.com)
  • American bison can weigh from around 400 to 1,270 kilograms (880 to 2,800 pounds) and European bison can weigh from 800 to 1,000 kg (1,800 to 2,200 lb). (wikipedia.org)
  • In our global analysis, we find a substantial association between the biomass of large herbivores and varied tree cover in protected areas, notably for browsers and mixed-feeders such as elephants, bison and moose and in non-extreme climates", explains the study's senior author, Jens-Christian Svenning, professor at Aarhus University. (lu.se)
  • Barfield said her research team had previously focused on using in vivo produced embryos, ones that were fertilized inside a bison, and subsequently moved to a different animal. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The video (which you can see below) was shared via Instagram account TouronsOfYellowstone , which calls out bad behavior at US National Parks - often involving bison. (yahoo.com)
  • GNU Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-free grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized LR (GLR) parser employing LALR(1) parser tables. (gnu.org)
  • Bison can also generate IELR(1) or canonical LR(1) parser tables. (gnu.org)
  • Without the bison grazing, the prairie grass can get up to 6 feet tall, which prevents proper sunlight from getting to flowers, which then negatively impacts the area's insects, birds and mammals. (naco.org)
  • American bison ( Bison bison ) are the largest terrestrial mammals in the Western Hemisphere ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The horns of the European bison point through the plane of their faces, making them more adept at fighting through the interlocking of horns in the same manner as domestic cattle, unlike the American bison, which favours butting. (wikipedia.org)
  • American bison are more easily tamed than their European cousins, and breed with domestic cattle more readily. (wikipedia.org)
  • GNU Bison's home page is https://gnu.org/software/bison/ . (gnu.org)
  • The researchers point toward the existence of two distinct types of bison, the American bison and the European bison. (slashgear.com)
  • While researchers have long been able to trace the history of the American bison, its European counterpart has remained a big source of speculation. (slashgear.com)
  • This indicated that there may have been a second variety of bison alive during that time that had thus far eluded modern researchers. (slashgear.com)
  • A bison (PL: bison) is a large bovine in the genus Bison (Greek: "wild ox" (bison)) within the tribe Bovini. (wikipedia.org)
  • Park staff would like to remind visitors that bison are large, powerful, and wild,' said the National Park Service (NPS) in a statement after this year's second attack, which happened at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. (yahoo.com)
  • Illinois, a state known as the Land of Lincoln, Obama, corn, soybeans and the City of Big Shoulders, hosted what may be the first birth of a wild bison east of the Mississippi River in nearly two centuries. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The 30 bison brought to Nachusa in late fall as the key component to an ambitious prairie restoration of the 3,500-acre preserve near Franklin Grove have several traits that make them distinctly wild, Kleiman said. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Determining how wild a bison is, Carter added, can be "a matter of degrees" that has to do with a very small number of bison that carry a tiny percentage of cattle DNA and whether the animals live in an open ranch or preserve. (chicagotribune.com)
  • The wild animals were corralled for transfer to Native American tribes, part of an effort by Indigenous groups to expand the number of bison on reservations. (csmonitor.com)
  • Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from beneath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral where 100 wild bison awaited transfer to the Rosebud Indian Reservation. (csmonitor.com)
  • Robert Magnan, Fish and Game Department director for the Fort Peck tribes, coaxed a few reluctant bulls into the large holding facility bordered by 8-foot-high, bison-proof fences. (nwf.org)
  • Native American tribes have been steadily rebuilding the bison population, with 82 tribes taking care of more than 20,000 animals. (csmonitor.com)
  • He took a brief call from Iowa about another herd being transferred to tribes in Minnesota and Oklahoma, then spoke with a fellow trucker about yet more bison destined for Wisconsin. (csmonitor.com)
  • Dave Carter, executive director of the National Bison Association, said the birth of a bison on the open prairie east of the Mississippi River is "a pretty rare thing. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Bison are grazing the prairie in Dakota County, Minn. again for the first time in over a century. (naco.org)
  • fire we do utilize as a tool as we restore and maintain these prairies, but we're very interested in that third driver, the natural grazing, and the primary grazer on the prairie is the bison … they impact the ecosystem in so many various ways, so it's been really exciting to reintroduce that piece. (naco.org)
  • The bison impacts the prairie in so many other ways, too," Lewanski said. (naco.org)
  • So, we have a pretty good sense of what's out there, and now that we reintroduced the bison, we will continue to do those studies over time so we can really document what impact the bison are having on our prairie in this particular park. (naco.org)
  • the majority of persons were ≥10 ft (3 m) from the bison, unlike the 3-6 ft (1-2 m) reported with recent photography-related injuries. (cdc.gov)
  • Since 2000, several government agencies have administered the Interagency Bison Management Plan, which uses culling to manage the population at around 3,000 head. (google.com)
  • The herd's unique genetics didn't help in recent years when some bison wandered from the park. (nwf.org)
  • This led to dramatic herd growth and to bison exiting the park in winter in search of forage. (google.com)
  • Hunting is illegal in the park, but during harsh winters, bison migrate to lower elevations outside the park in search of food. (nbcnews.com)
  • The reintroduction was made possible through the state's Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, which devoted $560,000 to build the necessary infrastructure, including fencing, gates and water troughs - "all the things that keep the bison and park visitors healthy and safe," Lewanski said. (naco.org)
  • There's a greenway that goes through the park, so people jumping on their bikes or walking, they can wander between these paddocks and there's great opportunities to view the bison. (naco.org)
  • In case you needed yet another reason not to taunt animals 10 times larger than you, here you go: A man visiting Antelope Island State Park in Utah provoked a 1500 pound bison and the bison, being a bison, rammed the man into a nearby fence . (gawker.com)
  • The picture on the Kickstarter page showing the Bison grill being used on top of a public grill at the park is a good use for this. (coolthings.com)
  • After the occurrence of 33 bison-related injuries during 1983-1985 (range = 10-13/year), the park implemented successful outreach campaigns ( 1 ) to reduce the average number of injuries to 0.8/year (range = 0-2/year) during 2010-2014 (unpublished data, National Park Service, September 2015). (cdc.gov)
  • Adult American bison are less slim in build and have shorter legs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Grooming is a surprisingly frequent activity among bison, with animals rubbing themselves on trees until all of the bark has been torn off, and the trunk left smooth. (ultimateungulate.com)
  • The body of the American bison is typically hairier, though its tail has less hair than that of the European bison. (wikipedia.org)
  • In bison, and these are typically farmed bison, you would see a severe pneumonia and death. (cdc.gov)
  • A third subspecies, the eastern bison (B. b. pennsylvanicus) is no longer considered a valid taxon, being a junior synonym of B. b. bison. (wikipedia.org)
  • Adults grow up to 2 metres (6 feet 7 inches) in height and 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) in length for American bison and up to 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) in height and 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) in length for European bison. (wikipedia.org)
  • European bison tend to be taller than American bison. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although superficially similar, physical and behavioural differences exist between the American and European bison. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American bison has four lumbar vertebrae, while the European has five. (wikipedia.org)
  • The American bison has one of the most dramatic stories regarding human impact on the environment. (ultimateungulate.com)
  • European bison do share some close similarities with their American counterparts, though, at least at the DNA level. (slashgear.com)
  • American Indian bison herd managers completed surveys using a convenience sampling method. (cdc.gov)
  • By the light of a semi-circle of motor-vehicle headlights, a welcoming committee of Fort Peck tribal officials and members watched with wonder as the massive bison thundered from cattle trailers towed by pickup trucks. (nwf.org)
  • Assessment of tribal bison worker hazards using trusted research facilitators. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusion: This collaborative research study contributes to a better understanding of hazards faced by tribal bison workers. (cdc.gov)
  • The incredible landscape can sustain a significant bison population and expand the already diverse hunting opportunities present in the CMR. (nwf.org)
  • Where traditionally manufacturers in the Wave Oscillation genre have (some say lazily) gone down the well-charted route of heft and mass, the Righteous Bison has been designed with the handler in mind. (wetanz.com)
  • Another beneficial element of the initiative is how it celebrates the historic impact of bison for the Dakota people, who are indigenous to the region, according to Lewanski. (naco.org)
  • With the arrival of settlers, the bison were pushed out of their native land and ruthlessly hunted - until, by 1890, less than 1,000 animals survived. (ultimateungulate.com)