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Offline Sourdough

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Wood Bison Project
« on: April 14, 2007, 08:58:49 AM »
The Reintroduction of Wood Bison is going forth.  USF&W is finally getting into the spirit and no longer resisting the reintroduction.  They are still looking at releasing them on the Yukon Flats, Mento Flats, and Inoko Flats.  Hopefully the animals will be imported from Canada next winter.  Maybe in 25 to 30 years we will have several huntable herds here in Alaska.
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Re: Wood Bison Project
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2007, 09:39:03 PM »
Wow this is great news.  I met a guy who may have had a part in the original idea.  The way I understand it, there is evidence that wood bison may have been in these areas until firearms were brought in.  It would be considered a restoration and not an introduction. But I don't know the whole story. I just hope that sport and subsistence hunters will share hunting opportunities when populations are big enough.

Keep us posted. Or fill us in on more of the story if you know it.

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Re: Wood Bison Project
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2007, 08:10:21 AM »
They better teach them about wolves before they release them into the wild....  They are going to have some serious stress out there as a starting herd.
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Re: Wood Bison Project
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2007, 01:19:29 PM »
Not a problem.  Wood Bison are so big nothing messes with the Mama.  Not wolves or grizzlies.  It's what they call preditor resistant.  Yes, preditor's could kill the babies if they could get past the Mama, but not likely.

As for them being here.  The villege Elders talk about their father's father, (Their Grandfather) killing Bison so large it could feed the entire village for several weeks.  The miners in the Yukon Flats are constantly finding Bison bones and horns from Wood Bison.  We are not talking about fossels, we're talking about actual bones preserved in the peat bogs.  Dating of these finds gives the dates ranging from 250 to 150 years ago.  That means the Wood Bison was killed out about the time of the War of Northern Aggression. 
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