The American bison may be the iconic big game species of the American West, but they don’t belong on Utah’s West Tavaputs Plateau. In recent years, bison have increasingly wandered off the Ute Indian ...

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SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Angered by the killing of pregnant bison outside Yellowstone National Park, a Native American tribal member tried to deliver a bloody bison heart to Montana's governor this ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Nez Perce Tribe will wrap up its second annual bison hunt near Yellowstone National Park this weekend after taking 13 bison and at least two elk since mid-January, state and ...

Deer and elk were no problem for Kashius Gleason. The 19-year-old member of the Yakama Nation had hunted plenty of them around his reservation in Washington. Yet standing in freezing temperatures at ...

HELENA — Critics lashed out Friday at a plan to let hunters shoot buffalo that wander out of Yellowstone National Park, saying such hunting would be a slaughter reminiscent of the near-destruction of ...

The hunt allows for the sale of 25 bison licenses to be used between Nov. 15 and Jan. 15 and 25 more between Jan. 16 and Feb. 15. Sixteen licenses were assigned to Montana's American Indian tribes, ...

HELENA - Besting enormous odds, a Montana soldier on duty in New Orleans has been chosen to participate in Montana's bison hunt, the first in 15 years, and his field companion will be the man who put ...

MISSOULA — The number of licenses to hunt bison that wander into Montana from Yellowstone National Park this winter will almost triple from last season, state wildlife commissioners decided Thursday.

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is hosting a lottery for a guided bison hunt on the Blackfeet Reservation until Dec. 22. The lottery is open to all hunters and each chance costs $10, ...

”I oppose this hunt because I support hunting bison,” said Commissioner Tim Mulligan, of Whitehall, who summed up many of the comments by other commission members. The commissioners who voted against ...