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The effort to reintroduce wood bison to Southwest Alaska is growing — literally
Wood Bison once roamed across southwest Alaska, throughout the interior and into Canada, but nearly vanished in the early 1900s.
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In 1979, The Frozen Carcass Of A 50,000-Year-Old Bison Was Found In Alaska, And A Paleontologist Used Some Of The Neck Meat To Make An Ancient Bison Stew
The bison lived during the Ice Age. Radiocarbon dating showed that it was at least 36,000 years old, but Josh Reuters, the curator of archaeology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, claimed ...
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Resurgence of the wood bison
It’s believed that at one point this wild ruminant, North America’s largest land mammal, numbered about 168,000, with a range that stretched from northern Saskatchewan to the Yukon and Alaska. In 1893 ...