A historical map shows the ranges affected by the extermination of the American bison over time. Library of Congress. By the late 1860s, the U.S. Army was encouraging this mass slaughter.

Bison, longhorns and business thriving at Green Plains Farm Credit: Bill Lackey Glen Courtright's Corriente cattle, which stay outside all year, at his Clark County farm Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025.

As the prairie landscape steadily vanishes, the root cause is often overshadowed by the spotlight on industrial practices, with experts pointing to agriculture and energy development as the ...

Any meat from the animals won’t be sold. ... After being hunted to near extinction, there are roughly 450,000 Plains bison now living in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Without the buffalo, rhe great plains filled with polluting cities, petroleum-powered agriculture and animal farms and slaughter houses that feed the monster of climate chaos that now is on a ...

By the late 1880s, there were only about 281 plains bison left, including 23 in Yellowstone National Park, ... bison meat harvested from Native American lands is being sold or donated, ...

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Bison raising and the market for bison meat remain relatively niche. In today’s ranching industry, cattle are king. Still, some buffalo ranchers hope to see these animals become more popular.

For more than 10,000 years, bison served as the primary source of the livelihood for many Native Americans in regions of the Great Plains, the Northwest and the Rocky Mountains.

In the state of Colorado, bison are “livestock,” unable to roam free like elk or pronghorn. Returning bison to their original range on the Great Plains will require landscape-scale, transboundary ...

Bison, which evolved on the treeless plains, are much more comfortable at high temperatures. When they cool off, they prefer to catch a hilltop breeze. They’re not inclined to overgraze because ...