This wasn’t the first time I doubted Ken Burns could make a subject interesting. The first time was when a friend urged me to watch the documentarian’s 1994 series Baseball. Though I took a mild, ...
A small herd of six American buffalo — the largest land mammals in the country — returned to 38 acres of prairie restored in ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. The Indian Buffalo Management Act would establish a permanent buffalo ...
Early in the new Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Buffalo,” a map depicting the national mammal’s native range dips down into Florida. While the state never had huge herds like out west, these ...
BULLHEAD, S.D. — A punishing winter piled up snow on Ron Brownotter’s pastures so high that half of his cattle starved because they couldn’t graze the frigid, windswept prairie surrounding the Grand ...
SATUS, Wash. — Far from the fruited plain, in marshy land on the Yakama Reservation, Darwin Sockzehigh has spotted that rarest of sights in Washington State, a herd of buffalo. "This is one of their ...
Brokenhead Ojibway Nation is seeing a brand new generation of buffalo born for the first time in more than two decades. "It's a big part of our culture as a people. It brings the community together. A ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It took about a year for the bison heart to complete its journey from pumping blood through the hulking grazer of the plains to being microplaned over a bed ...