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[environmental change] Wood bison in Alaska

“Make way for the wood bison. The Fairbanks Daily News Miner reports that the state’s Department of Fish and Game has just trucked 53 Canadian bison to Alaska in a long effort to restore bison to the Interior. The animals will remain in quarantine at a big game farm near Anchorage for up to two years before being released. They’ll likely be considered endangered; it will take years for the herd to regenerate. Wood bison roamed Alaska in large numbers as few as 200 years ago before becoming extinct about 100 years ago. The animals were trucked 2,000 miles from Elk Island National Park in Alberta.” http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/448624.html