Wood Bison restoration to Alaska plan (1 Viewer)

locustella · Jan 29, 2013

The animal was eradicated in Alaska more than a century ago. Currently approximately 7,000 wood bison live in the wild - in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba.

http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/45526
US Fish & Wildlife Service Considering Reintroducing Wood Bison to Alaska
ENN: Top Stories

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/wood-bison-may-be-reintroduced-alaska-after-decades-effort
Wood bison may be reintroduced to Alaska after decades of effort
Alaska Dispatch: Outdoors

Farnboro John · Jan 29, 2013

locustella said:
The animal was eradicated in Alaska more than a century ago. Currently approximately 7,000 wood bison live in the wild - in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba.

http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/45526
US Fish & Wildlife Service Considering Reintroducing Wood Bison to Alaska
ENN: Top Stories

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/wood-bison-may-be-reintroduced-alaska-after-decades-effort
Wood bison may be reintroduced to Alaska after decades of effort
Alaska Dispatch: Outdoors

Are these pure Wood Bison? I seem to remember the Plains Bison left have some Wood Bison genes through poor management techniques long ago, but perhaps the flow was all one way.

John

jurek · Jan 29, 2013

There is interesting theory that prehistoric "mammoth steppe" or productive grassy vegetation instead of mossy tundra existed due to grazing and trampling of bison and other herbivores.

There is even a small herd of wood bison in a reserve in Russian Siberia imported to test this theory, and perhaps create hunting opportunities.

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