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wood bison

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a variety of bison, Bison bison athabascae, found in lightly wooded regions of northern Alberta and the Mackenzie District.

See: wood buffalo

Quotations

1853

There the fur-bearing animals exist in greatest plenty, and many others whose skins are valuable in commerce, as the moose, the wapiti, and the wood-bison.

1896

Little is known of the wood-bison, except that he is gradually going the way of the plains species, from the difficulty of maintaining an existence where climate, pasturage, and man are all against him.

1955

The great buffalo herds the Indians hunted are gone from the prairies, but their cousins, the wood-bison, are thriving and increasing in the north-eastern corner of Alberta. Their home is Wood Buffalo Park--a refuge larger than all of Belgium--and this is indeed Canada's strangest national park, for it has been set aside much more for animals than for man.