Colorado Just Opened the Door to Its First Wild Bison Hunt in More Than a Century

Colorado has opened the door to bison hunting being used as a management tool. The regulatory change aligns with a new state ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife launches potential hunting opportunity for wild bison

Now, free-roaming wild bison are managed by Parks and Wildlife as a big game species, meaning they cannot be killed without a proper license or permission. Privately-owned bison will continue to be ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife building ‘bison roster’ for new potential hunting

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is building a list of prospective bison hunters ー a first for the agency as the iconic animal comes under new state management. Starting this year after the passage of ...
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CPW opens applications for 2026 bison population management hunts

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has opened applications for the bison hunting roster. The list allows hunters to throw ...
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife takes first steps toward managing bison as wildlife

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has begun implementation of a new law aimed at protecting wild bison that migrate to Colorado. The law — which originated as a priority bill in the American Indian Affairs ...
Independent Record

14 bison killed in hunt so far

BILLINGS (LEE) - The bison hunt that started three weeks ago outside Yellowstone National Park is proceeding quietly, with little of the controversy and rancor that some had expected. So far, 14 bison ...
Billings Gazette

Bison-hunt protests promised

On a spring day in 1990, there was chaos near the border of Yellowstone National Park, and D.J. Schubert was in the thick of it, leading protesters who were trying to keep hunters from killing bison ...
Casper Star-Tribune

Tribes aim to hunt bison

BILLINGS, Mont. - A pair of Idaho-based American Indian tribes want to hunt bison in parts of Montana and Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes would become the third ...
Billings Gazette

The Second Season: Number of bison hunting permits increased to 140

It didn't take Montana long to step up the pace in its first bison hunts since 1990. Bison license numbers nearly tripled from 50 last year to 140 this year. There are good reasons for the increase ...
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Bison vs. Buffalo: What Are the Key Differences?

Don’t let this happen to you: You take your family to Yellowstone and point out to your daughter up ahead a large animal. “Look, little Clementine! It’s a buffalo!” But your daughter has been watching ...
Independent Record

Bison hunt to start Wed.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The Montana hunt for bison that leave Yellowstone National Park opens on Wednesday, with the state providing nearly triple the licenses available last year. Shane Colton of the ...