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The Bison Conservation Transfer Program continues to make history, having relocated the largest number of live Yellowstone bison to American Indian Tribes in the world.

Steve Kelly writes, Last winter, well over 1,000 bison were massacred (shot with high-powered rifles) outside Yellowstone National Park’s boundary with Montana by state-licensed killers and killers from Indian nations claiming 19th-century treaty rights.

If you ask most Montanans — and millions of tourists — how their trip to Yellowstone went, I’m willing to bet their excited response will include something about an encounter

Federal, state and tribal members of the Interagency Bison Management Plan met at Chico Hot Springs Resort Tuesday for confab.

As a result, the Park Service is recommending no more than 1,100 animals be removed from the population this season to ensure the herd size remains above 3,500.

As a result, the Park Service is recommending no more than 1,100 animals be removed from the population this season to ensure the herd size remains above 3,500.

As a result, the Park Service is recommending no more than 1,100 animals be removed from the population this season to ensure the herd size remains above 3,500.

In the first of this MoJo interview series with four superintendents of America’s first national park, Cam Sholly discusses wildlife, visitation, Covid and the 2022 floods

A vibrant installation at todays SHINE St. Petersburg Mural Festival is designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act while spreading awareness about the listed smalltooth sawfish. Imagine a fish with the back end of a shark, the midsection flattened and broad like a stingray, and the front looking like a gnarly hedge trimmer in your garage; thats what a smalltooth sawfish looks like. ...

Arkansas is part of an international collaboration that uses automated radio signals to track the migration of birds, bats and insects. Its called the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, and one Motus tower is on the property of the Little Rock Audubon Center. Dan Scheiman, manager of the Plants for Birds Program at Audubon Delta, a regional office of the National Audubon Society, said researchers place radio tags on birds and, when they fly near the antenna, it picks up their signal. ...