For American wildlife, 1886 was a fateful year. In Montana Territory that year the taxidermist William Temple Hornaday was skinning an unlucky coyote in his campsite when a man named “Doc Zahl” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ken Burns on his new PBS doc, ‘The American Buffalo’ — and what we can learn about ‘de-extinction’ From his N.H. home, the 5-time Emmy winner’s discussed his first biography of an animal, premiering ...

Ken Burns, American director of big multi-part documentaries on big American subjects, is back Monday with “The American Buffalo” on PBS. As history is the thing we need to learn from so as not to ...

In 1872, when Congress established the world’s first national park near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River, the principal selling point was its incomparable array of spouting geysers, boiling mud ...

William Temple Hornaday must have been miserable. It was November tipping into December of 1886 when Hornaday and his crew of seven pushed into the cold, joyless, wind-chapped badlands of what is now ...

A new PBS documentary, “The American Buffalo,” traces the history of our country’s national mammal and its significance to the people in North America. The film takes viewers on a journey from a time ...

The American bison is one of the most iconic animals of the Great Plains, instantly recognizable for its massive size, shaggy brown coat, powerful shoulders, and distinctive horns. Once roaming North ...

This wasn’t the first time I doubted Ken Burns could make a subject interesting. The first time was when a friend urged me to watch the documentarian’s 1994 series Baseball. Though I took a mild, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. The Indian Buffalo Management Act would establish a permanent buffalo ...