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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 ...
Delta Junction herd [3] Alaska: Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Elk Island National Park [3] Alberta: Parks Canada: 315 Farewell Lake herd [3] Alaska: Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Fermilab bison herd [3] Illinois: U.S. Department of Energy: 28 Finney Game Refuge [3] Kansas: Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks: Fort Niobrara ...
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 ...
A herd of bison are relocated to Canada's Banff National Park in an effort to reintroduce the animals into the area.
The herd at the Sweetgrass Station near Peace–Athabasca Delta, followed by Slave River Lowlands herd, preserve a phenotype closer to the original wood bison before the 1920s. They are more true to the original types than the preserved herds at Elk Island National Park and Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary.
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.
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.
The herd at the Sweetgrass Station near the Peace–Athabasca Delta, as well as the Slave River Lowlands herd, preserved phenotypes relatively loyal to the original wood bison before the 1920s, being measured from degrees of morphological overlaps between pure plains bison, even surpassing the preserved herds at Elk Island National Park and ...