Elk Island is home to herds of Plains bison and Wood Bison and is one of the top wildlife hotspots in Canada. Antelope Island is one of Utah's most underrated natural features (to be fair ...

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 ...

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, it is home to one of the last remaining free-roaming wood bison herds in the world ... includes boreal forest, salt plains, and gypsum karst landforms.

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 ...

Researchers predict there used to be millions of bison in the Great Plains, but pioneer settlements drove them to near extinction by the late 1800s. Today, there are about 5,000 bison in Kansas.