Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 8/11/2026 Crops grown beneath elevated solar arrays. US Tribes get bison. How extreme heat is costing us sleep. And more....
Bison Bison Return to Native American Lands, Revitalizing Sacred Rituals More than a century after a mass bison slaughter, the animals are restoring Great Plains ecosystems and reinvigorating Indigenous customs like the sun dance.
Yellowstone Bison Bison Haven't Moved Like This In A Century And The Effects On The Land Are Staggering Scientists America's largest native herbivore continues to demonstrate its vital role as an ecosystem engineer.
Texas Bison Why Are Buffalo Returning to Texas After 136 Years? The near extinction of buffalo across North America had devastating consequences—especially for Indigenous communities, for whom buffalo were a source of food, shelter, spiritual connection, and governance.
Resources They Released Hundreds of Bisons Into a Dying Forest and After 10 Years, Result Was Insane Once nearly extinct, the European bison is making a powerful return to the wild.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 3/25/2025 How to spot trout in deep water. Buffalo return to Indigenous lands. The noble mission of Tom Opre. And more….
Biodiversity How Bison Are Saving America's Lost Prairie American prairies were once home to as many as 60 million bison. But when ranching and agriculture displaced elk and bison from the prairies, America’s grasslands all but disappeared.
Bison Where the Bison Could Roam Scott Heidebrink, the director of bison restoration for the American Prairie Reserve in northeast Montana, checks on a herd. “There are ways that bison were impacting the landscape that we haven’t even thought about,” he said. Nomadic bison would be welcome at Pitchstone Waters. A huge problem is that
"Invasion Biology" Scientists Disagree on Bison Impacts to Yellowstone’s Northern Range A new report claiming that bison are damaging the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park is drawing criticism from a park wildlife biologist who questions whether the scientists behind it are “looking too narrowly” at the range.
