bison

The controversial herd has been blamed for damaging vegetation, archaeological sites and animal habitat. Land managers say they want to keep the population between 200 and 300 animals.

A bipartisan bill pending in Congress would pay to relocate some of the 20,500 buffalo from public lands across the West and Midwest to reservation lands that were historically part of the animals’ range.

More than 200 bison have been removed from the Grand Canyon's North Rim since the program launched in 2018 with 182 transferred to eight different tribes with ties to the animal.

A bison gored and significantly injured an Arizona woman in Yellowstone National Park.

Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver were transferred to several tribes from across the Great Plains, in the latest example of Native Americans reclaiming stewardship over animals their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.

Bison are among the most emblematic animals of the American West. Many Indigenous peoples relied on them for survival. Some, such as the Zuni, have oral histories of hunting them and performing a Buffalo Dance ceremony. Bison are known primarily as Plains animals, but historically they did extend into the Southwest.

Tribes now have a collective 20,000 bison and that’s been growing steadily along with a desire among many Native Americans to reclaim stewardship of an animal their predecessors lived alongside and depended upon for millennia.

Wildlife managers at Grand Canyon National Park say nearly 60 bison have been relocated from the north rim to Oklahoma and South Dakota through the InterTribal Buffalo Council. It’s part of a larger plan to reduce herd size as well as the animals’ environmental impact on the park.

Wildlife managers at Grand Canyon National Park have relocated nearly 60 bison from the North Rim to tribal lands elsewhere in the U.S.

Grand Canyon National Park has decided not to extend a pilot project this fall that used volunteers to kill bison as a way to downsize the herd.