Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Just a few nights ago, my wife Tracy (our host for the evening) and I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservation efforts over the last century-plus have successfully restored most big-game species to North America—but not bison.

The American buffalo, or bison, is a massive animal. It can weigh more than a ton and span over 10 feet wide, excluding its tail. As fascinating as the mammal is, a four-hour series centering on its ...

Anyone with an interest in history should be quite familiar with the Ken Burns playbook, which he puts to characteristically impressive use in “American Buffalo,” a documentary weaving together the ...

The Indian Buffalo Management Act would establish a permanent buffalo program at the U.S. Department of the Interior. To the sounds of drumming and singing, a truckload of buffalo scramble down a dirt ...

I watched a PBS documentary by Ken Burns on the extermination of the American buffalo in the nineteenth century. Buffalos by the millions roamed the plains for millennia. Buffalo and Native Americans ...

Walking through the several small rooms that comprise the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibit "Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists" (through April 12 ...

Ken Burns, Julie Dunfey and Dayton Duncan on creating their latest documentary. Ken Burns, Julie Dunfey and Dayton Duncan give us a behind-the-scenes look at the production of The American Buffalo.

At the end of the 18th century, according to modern estimates, the American buffalo population numbered around 60 million, with herds roaming freely across North America. Bison sustained Indigenous ...

At times it seems like the earth is so upset about what happened to the American buffalo that it literally vomits up the remains. It’s amazing how bones continue to pop out of the ground. I found my ...

Gore’s trail of slaughter across Colorado, Wyoming and Montana is just one bloody episode in Mr. Burns’s latest glance at the American past. At the outset, it feels like an odd choice of topic. The ...