Wood Bison Adjusting to New Life in the Alaska Wilderness
Megan Edge
Alaska Dispatch News
May 12, 2015
Nearly a hundred wood bison roaming free in the area of the Lower Innoko and Yukon rivers are adjusting after being released into the wild last month, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The agency said Tuesday that the animals’ eating, roaming and herding habits are what they should be for wood bison in the wild.
The animals were flown to Western Alaska in the beginning of April from the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Before their reintroduction, the species had been extinct in Alaska for more than a century.
Cathie Harms, Fish and Game’s regional program manager with the Division of Wildlife Conservation, said that the day after their release some of the bison wandered as far as 10 miles away and were soon wary of humans.
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