From fast casual to fine dining, bison is increasingly a Colorado menu staple. The hearty creatures, once systemically ...

Together, they now manage over 30,000 bison, up roughly 40 per cent from a decade ago, Mr. Heinert said. Bison roam a million acres of U.S. tribal land.

Once the trailer is lined up with a pen overgrown with tall grass, the animal bursts out, an American bison in all its six-foot, shaggy-headed, humped-shoulder glory.

TOPPENISH, Yakima County — On a frigid winter morning at the Yakama Nation’s Satus Ranch, a herd of 150 American bison ranged on the valley floor, backdropped by snowy Mount Adams. Right now ...