Outside the refuge, bison hunting has been allowed in northwest Wyoming for many years. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes did not indicate any intent to hunt bison in Wyoming outside the elk refuge.

JACKSON - Officials at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson say elk and bison hunting at the refuge largely has kept the animals off of winter forage areas so far this year.

JACKSON — National Elk Refuge staffer Frank Durbian spent Thursday morning watching members of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribes hold a ceremony, then take down three bull bison on ancestral ...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- Wildlife managers say they're extending the bison hunting season on the National Elk Refuge by three weeks in an effort to thin the Jackson herd.

BILLINGS – Although elk infected with brucellosis freely roam southwestern Montana and have been responsible for infecting cattle with the disease, “bison in Yellowstone present a much higher ...

JACKSON - People looking for bison-hunting opportunities in Jackson Hole are in luck, as a final bison management plan aims to reduce the herd by more than half, from about 1,200 animals to 500 ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said reducing the bison population in the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming to 500 from 1,100 is necessary because of overgrazing and because many carry ...

Scientists documented the first new generation of aspen trees in Yellowstone this summer, 30 years after wolves were ...

Bison chow down on alfalfa pellets on the National Elk Refuge in March 2013. Elk, which are subordinate, wait for the chance to feed.