President Theodore Roosevelt and others formed in 1905 to help save the animal from extinction was named the American Bison Association. But still, the usage of “buffalo” has persisted ...

Bulls from both species of bison are about six feet high, while buffalo of both types are closer to four or five feet. Though we will mainly focus on the American Bison and the African Buffalo ...

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

Bison numbers were already in decline by the ... central to grasslands health and restore truly wild herds of American buffalo. Dan Flores retired in 2014 as the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western ...

Tens of millions of American bison, often called buffalo, were once abundant across the plains and as far east as New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to the National Park Service.

Settlers killed the bison to sell their skins, and the U.S. military used the mass slaughter of the buffalo as a way to weaken and undermine the Native American tribes that relied on the animal ...