Buffalo played a crucial role in Indigenous cultures. They provided food, clothing, tools, and spiritual connection, with ...

HELENA (AP) - Opponents of a proposed bison hunt are predicting a national storm of controversy if Montana moves ahead with plans to let hunters kill the animals that wander outside Yellowstone ...

Like those doom-forecasting witches in Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, members of animal rights advocacy groups may as well have been dropping eyes of newt into boiling caldrons recently as they told a ...

In 2016, President Barack Obama signed a federal bill into law making American bison the national mammal of the United States. Earlier this week at Genesee Park in Golden, Governor Jared Polis signed ...

It didn't take Montana long to step up the pace in its first bison hunts since 1990. Bison license numbers nearly tripled from 50 last year to 140 this year. There are good reasons for the increase ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - A pair of Idaho-based American Indian tribes want to hunt bison in parts of Montana and Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes would become the third ...

BILLINGS (LEE) - The bison hunt that started three weeks ago outside Yellowstone National Park is proceeding quietly, with little of the controversy and rancor that some had expected. So far, 14 bison ...

The hunt - the first in 15 years - is designed as "fair chase." Hunters will have to find their own bison, shoot them and remove them from the field. "Just like any other big game hunt, they'll be on ...