After more than a century of conservation efforts, researchers have discovered that the bison in Yellowstone National Park now form a single, large breeding population. This is a major shift from past ...

But the vast majority of these — more than 220,000 bison — are private, commercial herds that are managed as domestic livestock. By contrast, on native range south of Canada there are about 17,000 ...

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The National Bison Association (NBA) and the Canadian Bison Association (CBA) are expressing concern that the tariffs President Donald Trump threatened to place on Canada will disrupt the supply ...

Montana House Bill 504 seeks to add bison producers to add them to a list of animals included in the livestock loss ...

Researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have discovered that bison in Yellowstone National Park — the only group of American bison that has ...

In total, there are an estimated 400,000 bison in the US between the wild and domesticated bison that live on ranches. Because of the increased numbers, hunters have been allowed to hunt bison ...

Of course, bison are largely domesticated animals at this point, having been fenced in for generations. In some ways, they act no differently from cattle, even when roaming free on a 9,000-acre ranch.

“This is just expanding the livestock laws and adding domestic bison,” Tilleman said. The bill received a hearing in the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday afternoon. The committee did not ...

The Livestock Loss Board handles those claims. However, a small — but growing — number of bison producers don’t have access to the same system and can’t file claims over animals that have ...