“But doesn’t Ted Turner have a lot of them?” a salesperson once asked me. She’d noticed an embroidered bison on my hat. Her comment typified the very limited knowledge that most Americans have about ...

One hundred wood bison will be reintroduced to the Alaskan wilderness later this month, somewhere they have not lived in the wild for over a century. Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren ...

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 ...