The last drawing for a guided bison hunt on the Blackfeet Reservation is coming up Jan. 5, and hunters can still purchase ...

BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION — When Jeff Laursen and Gerald “Buzz” Cobell looked down at the dead buffalo, they saw two very different things. As the half-ton, scraggly-haired bull lay on its side, ...

‘‘These bison have no fear of people and will stand and stare in curiosity as they are gunned down,’’ she said. In a state where hunting animals to fill a freezer is a way of life, a bison is a prize ...

Every winter for the last decade, Andrew Wildbill has driven 12 hours from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation to lead a bison hunting party on the northern border of Yellowstone ...

BILLINGS - The night before the bison hunt, Mike Rossi was so nervous about getting a clean kill and protesters getting in his way that he couldn’t sleep. But more than a month after taking down a ...

Deer and elk were no problem for Kashius Gleason. The 19-year-old member of the Yakama Nation had hunted plenty of them around his reservation in Washington. Yet standing in freezing temperatures at ...

A motorist on the Alaska Highway photographed a group of bison that had taken to traveling on the road last winter, because deep snow with a couple of layers of ice made it hard for wildlife to use ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Blackfeet Nation announced it will host two trophy bison hunts, both of which will be coordinated by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The following was sent out by the Blackfeet ...

The hundreds of applicants who seek fewer than 30 available bison hunting licenses in Custer State Park could soon face a price increase of $1,500 for trophy bulls and $1,000 for non-trophy bulls. The ...

Yellowstone National Park bison advocates are at odds over whether the killing of more than 1,100 of the animals by tribal members this winter is a hunt, a harvest or a slaughter. “How in the world is ...

HELENA, Mont. — An unusually harsh winter that buried Yellowstone National Park under a heavy blanket of snow and ice this year pushed a large portion of the park’s bison herd down to lower elevations ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The night before the bison hunt, Mike Rossi was so nervous about getting a clean kill and protesters getting in his way that he couldn't sleep. But more than a month after ...