National Park Service Seeking Volunteers to Reduce Grand Canyon Bison Herd
If you pride yourself as someone who is physically able and proficient with a firearm, the National Park Service (NPS) wants your help reducing the budding bison population in Grand Canyon National Park. After months of planning, the National Park Service announced the upcoming cull earlier this month that would see the growing population of […]
Study Points to Elk as More Significant Brucellosis Transmission Risk than Bison
Present in both bison and elk, Brucellosis is an infection that causes infected animals to abort their calves. While the infection has historically affected both species, it is the bison where much of the efforts to contain brucellosis were concentrated. As large grazing animals who often encounter livestock, ranchers have grown abundantly concerned that the […]
Study Indicates Wolves Do Not Necessarily ‘Prey Switch’ to Stabilize Prey Populations
Dating back to the late 1960’s, the term ‘prey switching’ was initially hypothesized in general ecology to describe the way generalist predatory animals switch between prey as the prey species relative abundances change. What this means is that predators, such as wolves, were thought to have switched their preference of prey based on the abundance […]
Vehicle Collisions with Bison a Growing Concern in Grand Teton National Park
With an estimated population of approximately 670, the Jackson bison herd that resides in Grant Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton Nationa Forest, and National Elk Refuge has been a cause for concern with heavy snowfall in the area this winter. As snow accumulates, bison and other large mammals move to lower elevations to find food […]
Bison Officially Return to Banff National Park
February 1, 2017 will forever be remembered as a historic day in Canadian conservation history. Parks Canada announced earlier this week that they successfully released 16 healthy plains bison into a soft-release pasture in Banff’s Panther Valley. It is here where the large mammals will spend the following 16 months before being eligible for a […]
Update: Bison Calf Euthanized After Tourists Put It In Vehicle
Over the weekend, we reported that a bison calf was snatched up by a pair of ill-informed tourists in Yellowstone National Park. The father and son duo grabbed the calf and placed it in the trunk of their car, expressing concern for its safety early last week. After driving the calf to a ranger station […]
Yellowstone Tourists Capture Bison Calf in Their Car, Worried That It Was Too Cold
The ignorant tourists of Yellowstone have struck again, this time abandoning the traditional bison selfie, this time opting for straight bison capture. Karen Richardson was leading a group of fifth-graders on an educational field trip through Yellowstone National Park earlier in the week when she witnessed the puzzling act. As the group of students […]
Woman Approaches and Pets Bison in Yellowstone National Park
After National Parks week kicked off on Saturday, a video surfaced depicting a woman attempting to pet a bison in Yellowstone National Park. Yes, yet another person ignoring each and every caution, warning and rule set out by the National Park Service to keep visitors safe. Eugene True posted the video to Facebook after recording […]
Report: Yellowstone Bison Not Keen on Selfies
In a recently released report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers came to what seems to be a pretty obvious conclusion: the bison in Yellowstone Park do not care for folks with cell phones. While I say that with somewhat of a comical demeanor, the bison are not to blame. People are. […]
Video: Playful Bison Destroys Hay Bale
A video posted last week to the Torch River Bison Facebook page got a lot of attention. The video depicts a bison happily trotting toward a bale of hay before lowering his head and demolishing one side of the bale. The short video shows the bison run up, ram the bale a few times with […]