Nov 25, 2024 · Yellowstone bison historically occupied approximately 7,720 square miles (20,000 sq km) in the headwaters of the Yellowstone and Madison rivers. Today, this range is restricted to primarily Yellowstone National Park and some adjacent areas of Montana.

Nov 26, 2024 · Yellowstone works with its partners to control numbers, limit bison migrating out of the park, and help Tribes restore Yellowstone bison to their livelihoods. We develop the best available science to preserve our national mammal.

The management of bison near the boundary of Yellowstone National Park, which includes hazing, capture, culling, and vaccination, is unsettling to many people.

Mar 13, 2024 · Lack of tolerance for wild bison outside Yellowstone poses one of the greatest obstacles to the continued conservation of America’s national mammal. People who live and work in and around Yellowstone have been sharing the landscape with bison for over a century.

Yellowstone preserves the most important bison herd in the United States. Learn more about the near extinction and recovery of these remarkable animals, how they make it through harsh winters, and what their survival says about our ability to share the landscape with another species.

Jan 24, 2005 · THE BISON OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK are unique among bison herds in the United States, being descendants, in part, of the only continuously wild herd in this country.

Today, July 24, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a decision about the future management of bison at Yellowstone National Park.

It's an exciting time to help lead bison recovery in Yellowstone National Park (YNP). In August 2019, we transferred 55 male bison from the Yellowstone population to the Fort Peck tribes. Spanning six days, 19 trailers carrying 3-year-old bison traveled across the Montana prairies returning bison to areas where they once roamed. It was the

Currently, the park’s bison population is managed through three main ways: (1) Tribal hunts and state hunts outside Yellowstone’s boundary; (2) capture and transfer to Tribes for shipment to slaughter; and (3) capture for brucellosis testing and transfer to …

Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where bison (Bison bison) have lived continuously since prehistoric times.