With many of their natural predators extinct, the bison in Yellowstone National Park are subject to man-made options to controlling their population, ... Nature up close: Bison in winter.

Nature: Bison and calves 01:44. Officials have agreed to allow as many as 900 bison from Yellowstone National Park to be shot by hunters, sent to slaughter or placed in quarantine this winter in a ...

The Innoko Flats wood bison herd is going into its first winter in the wild. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game transported 130 wood bison to Shageluk by air and barge earlier this year, in an ...

This winter, some bison have turned to farmers’ fields because it has been so difficult for them to access forage buried under the snow. There’s a layer of ice up to 2 inches thick within the ...

Over 150 bison have been filmed walking along a main road in Yellowstone as officials issue a warning that the winter migration has begun at the National Park.

“Look at him hold everybody up,” Shaffer, a local of Wyoming ... The total number of bison in a herd can range from about 20 during the winter to an average of about 200 in the summer, the NPS says.

Unlike those years, however, the Park Service is shipping fewer bison to slaughter plants this winter – 88 so far, 107 in the last three years. That's down from 3,100 bison shipped to slaughter ...

The bison rolled in the dirt, twirled a couple 360s, kicked up dirt, and did a hop and a skip before prancing away, bringing an end to a comical display that is quite normal for bison. What it was ...

In early fall, they are close to torpor, a period of dormancy where activity decreases, she said. A viewing shelter and event space adjacent to a new bison exhibit is under construction Tuesday ...

On a winter day that saw temperatures dip below zero, Sue McCann came across a bison showing off its best dance moves at Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis, Wyoming, and captured them on video.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In one of the deadliest winters for Yellowstone National Park bison, state and federal ...