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Wildlife

Bison, elk & the wild herds

The national bird nests along Wyoming's rivers and lakes, a conservation success now thriving across the state.

Each spring, male sage-grouse strut on ancient dancing grounds — a spectacle at the center of a vast conservation fight.

North America's largest waterfowl, once nearly lost, glides again on Wyoming's icy winter waters.

Wyoming's largest cat roams nearly everywhere yet is seen almost nowhere, a ghost of the rimrock and timber.

Each autumn the eerie call of rutting bull elk echoes across Wyoming, one of the great sounds of the wild West.

More common and more retiring than its grizzly cousin, the black bear thrives across Wyoming's forests.