Traveling west on U.S. Route 36 from Delaware, Marysville and points east, one is immediately struck by how much rich open farmland remains in rural Ohio. This land was met with astonishment by early ...
For centuries, the Athabascan people of Alaska relied on wood bison for survival. That is until the species, deemed by the National Park Service as the largest terrestrial animal in North America, ...
This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. Five miles doesn’t seem far on the vast, windblown plains of the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.
With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped out. Year and Population 1800 – 5 million 1875 – 1 million 1880 – 395,000 ...
Reintroduced animal populations face many challenges. When they are introduced to habitats with human infrastructure, it adds an extra layer of complication! Bison in the Canadian boreal forest are ...
The American bison is an incredibly interesting critter. Sometimes called buffalo, this name is a misnomer and suggests that the American bison is somehow related to the buffalo of the Old World. So ...