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Besides using the meat, fat, and organs for food, plains tribes have traditionally created a wide variety of tools and items from bison. These include arrow points, awls, beads, berry pounders, hide scrapers, hoes, needles from bones, spoons from the horns, bow strings and thread from the sinew, waterproof containers from the bladder, paint brushes from the tail and bones with intact marrow ...
In 1909 the fence was finished and 325 bison were relocated to Buffalo National Park. However, 40–70 bison [10] evaded capture and became the ancestors of today's herd in Elk Island National Park. Since 2007, Parks Canada has actively managed a herd of about 400 pure-bred and disease-free plains bison [12] and 300 wood bison [13] in Elk ...
There, the plains bison and wood bison mingled and created a hybridized species of bison. The plains bison carried new diseases that were transmitted to the existing wood bison population. When bison populations collapsed in the mid-19th century, Aboriginal groups that relied on the bison had to find new ways to support themselves.
Plains bison were transferred here from Buffalo National Park in the 1920s, but they carried disease and hybridized with the wood bison, causing their numbers to drop. Location and extent of the park (dark green) Established in 1922, the park was created on Crown land acquired through Treaty 8 between Canada and the local First Nations.
A herd of bison are relocated to Canada's Banff National Park in an effort to reintroduce the animals into the area.
The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison, B. b. bison, and the wood bison, B. b. athabascae, which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. A third subspecies, the eastern bison (B. b. pennsylvanicus) is no longer considered a valid taxon, being a junior synonym of B. b. bison. [3]
With its mission accomplished, the park was closed in 1940. In 1980, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Alberta and the legacy of the former Buffalo National Park, four bison from Elk Island National Park were moved to Wainwright. Today, about a dozen bison reside on CFB Wainwright in Bud Cotton Paddock, named for the first Park Warden.
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