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The majority of the world's wood bison herds are located in Northern Canada after a small herd of bison was discovered in the northern part of Wood Buffalo National Park. [7] In 1965, 23 of these bison were relocated to the south side of Elk Island National Park. The 300 surviving there today are considered the most genetically pure wood bison ...
Grand Teton National Park–National Elk Refuge bison herd [3] Wyoming: National Park Service: 1000 Grasslands National Park: Saskatchewan: Parks Canada: 300 Hay-Zama Lakes Wildland Park: Alberta: Alberta Parks: 400 Henry Mountains bison herd [3] Utah: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Bureau of Land Management: 400 Hot Springs State Park [3 ...
The plains bison hybridized with the local 1,500–2,000 wood bison, and carried such diseases as bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis, which they introduced into the wood bison herd. [13] Since that time park officials have tried to undo this damage, making successive culls of diseased animals.
A herd of bison are relocated to Canada's Banff National Park in an effort to reintroduce the animals into the area.
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 Island. When the population exceeds this number, the excess bison are sold. The proceeds of the sales go to help finance the needs of national parks. [14] In the late 19th century, only 300 wood bison ...
Significant public bison herds that do not appear to have hybridized domestic cattle genes are the Yellowstone Park bison herd, the Henry Mountains bison herd, which was started with bison taken from Yellowstone Park, the Wind Cave bison herd, and the Wood Buffalo National Park bison herd and subsidiary herds started from it, in Canada.
In June 2023 25 bison were transferred from Elk Island park in Canada to the Blackfeet confederacy of Montana, they were released into the Chief Mountain Wilderness, they are the first free roaming bison herd on tribal land since the near extinction of the species in the 1800s.
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