FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s decades-long project to restore North America’s largest land mammal to Interior and Western Alaska will begin a new phase this summer with an expansion into a second region. Next ...

It must have been quite something to witness the sight of 60 million bison as they thundered across the Great Plains in the 1800s. Once close to extinction, North America's largest land animal has ...

Wood bison are a larger subspecies of the plains bison found in the Lower 48. They have larger, blockier humps and shorter, pointier beards. They’re the largest native land mammals found in North ...

News-Miner opinion: The Daily News-Miner went on record last January as pleased that wood bison appeared to be flourishing on the Lower Innoko Yukon River region in an effort to create a robust herd ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of bison grazing in a lush Nebraska prairie at sunset with a winding river and three deer in the distance.© A-Z Animals The ...

Nebraska never named the plains bison as its official state mammal, yet this large grazer remains central to the state’s frontier story. Long before sod houses, barbed wire, and steel plows reshaped ...