The lawsuit was filed on St. Patrick’s Day after the board, at its Feb. 17 meeting, voted unanimously to issue a moratorium on new bison grazing leases.

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 ...

Buffalo, in football and life, just can’t catch a break. Last fall, I drew attention to the heated debate over American bison (Bison bison) grazing on federal (public) and private lands in Montana ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Prairie's bison have been grazing on public lands in Montana since 2005. The U.S. Department of the Interior has said it ...

As Land Board members, our job is simple: defend Montana ranchers, the school trust, and our way of life. We don’t cater to out-of-state billionaires looking to turn our backyard into their playground ...

American Prairie says it has no other option than to sue the Gianforte administration and Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation because the agency refuses to complete an ...

It’s a reminder of the enduring legacy of America’s largest and national mammal — and that their continued presence on the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The March 18 editorial concerning slaughtered bison as source of food took the low road in ...

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 ...

What is it about our national mammal, the bison, and why is it considered such a dire threat to the so called, “cowboy way of life?” I asked a friend of mine from Lewistown, home to American Prairie’s ...

A majestic American bison stands on a rocky hill at sunrise, its breath steaming in the cold air as it looks toward the camera.© A-Z Animals Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the ...