The past abundance of bison on the Great Plains is well documented, but bison were also common throughout the Rocky Mountains. They seem to have been extirpated by Native Americans from the northern ...

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom ...

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 ...

Scenery––and the ... By the early 1800s, nearly all the bison east of the Mississippi were gone, but an estimated thirty million still existed on the Great Plains, though by the end of the ...

Once, vast herds of bison thundered across the ... Today, the Great Plains Nature Center is far more than just pretty scenery. A recently published study analyzing ancient lake sediment for ...

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

Here in Saskatchewan's heart lies a million-acre park, where vast prairies meet parkland and boreal forest, and free-roaming plains bison mingle ... watch mostly for the scenery: Some of the ...