Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montana’s official state animal remains the grizzly bear, selected by schoolchildren in the early 1980s. Grizzlies represent ...

Quick Take Achieving population restoration required surviving a historical collapse to fewer than 1,000 total bison. The brucellosis classification forces legal disputes over grazing access outside ...

Across Montana’s eastern plains, few sights register as strongly as a bison herd navigating open grassland. Although the grizzly bear is the official state animal, the plains bison has come to ...

The Bison Range is a true Montana treasure and I'm glad both parties could find an agreement that protects the range's integrity and recognizes the role of the tribe (s). I look forward to working ...

The national wildlife refuge is open year-round, but the mostly one-way drive that winds more than 2,000 feet above its start and end delivers the Bison Range in all its glory. If all you want from a ...

An annual funding agreement with the tribes to perform about half the jobs at the Moiese refuge "kept the Bison Range isolated and insulated" from reductions occurring nationwide, according to Dean ...

PABLO – The plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit that seeks to derail a proposal to transfer the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes “lost credibility on Bison Range issues ...

A few stories have been published in a couple of Montana newspapers saying that talks are underway to “transfer” the Bison Range from the National Wildlife Refuge System into a tribal “trust” status.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reducing the number of federal workers at Montana's National Bison Range, citing a lack of funding, and is moving some of the animals to federal ...