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State wildlife officials say they plan to allow bison back into the Gardiner Basin north of Yellowstone National Park this winter.

The governor told the new chief of Yellowstone National Park Tuesday that bison herds should be thinned inside the park to prevent them from spilling into parts of Montana where they could spread an animal disease to livestock.

Knee deep in snow, Francis Marsh crouched behind a boulder and peered through the rifle scope at his target 40 yards away.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided not to consider listing wild plains bison as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

Wildlife advocates on Thursday asked a federal judge in Montana to stop the impending slaughter of many of the hundreds of bison captured this week as they attempted to migrate out of Yellowstone National Park.

CORWIN SPRINGS, Mont. a For the first time since the 1800s, a small group of wild bison were herded Wednesday through fresh-fallen snow to reach their historical grazing grounds north of Yellowstone National Park.

Ted Turner's bid to get 74 wild bison from Yellowstone National Park is drawing stiff opposition from those who say the animals are being given up for private profit instead of conservation.

A coalition of environmental and American Indian groups sued two federal agencies Monday to stop the mass slaughter of bison that migrate outside Yellowstone National Park in search of food.