Yellowstone bison represent the best example for preservation of wild plains bison in North America. Why are Yellowstone bison considered special? Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times.

Jan 22, 2025 · In the Yellowstone area, their numbers dwindled to about two dozen bison left in Pelican Valley. In one of the first efforts to preserve a wild species through protection and stewardship, Yellowstone’s managers set about recovering the bison population.

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.

Nov 25, 2024 · 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.

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

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.

What makes Yellowstone's bison so special is that they're the pure descendants (free of cattle genes) of early bison that roamed our country's grasslands. As of July 2015, Yellowstone's bison population was estimated at 4,900—making it the largest bison population on public lands.

Jan 20, 2025 · Since 2019, a total of 294 bison have been transferred from Yellowstone to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes at Fort Peck. Approximately 170 of those bison have then been further distributed to 23 Tribes across 12 states in partnership with the InterTribal Buffalo Council.

In the Yellowstone area, their numbers dwindled to about two dozen bison left in Pelican Valley. In one of the first efforts to preserve a wild species through protection and stewardship, Yellowstone’s managers set about recovering the bison population.