Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. POPLAR — It was a circuitous route, but Yellowstone National Park bison recently crossed into ...

Utah’s wide-open country, like much of the plains and the West, was bison range for millennia. It sustained not only these massive herbivores, but an interconnected web of species impacted by them, ...

Preventing total extinction necessitated a successful recovery from a remnant population of only 1,000 bison. The Homestead Act of 1862 turned 160-acre parcels into logistical obstacles for natural ...