DCHP-3

woodland bison

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

Quotations

1891
With the exception of the Woodland buffalo, in the northern parts of Assiniboia or Saskatchewan, there is now probably not a native buffalo of the plains to be found.
1898
The wood buffalo, or--to use a more exact term--woodland bison, is described as larger and darker than the buffalo of the plains.
1909
Evidently the beautiful thick coat of the woodland bisons allows them to laugh at the mosquito. . . .
1947
Near our campsite we discovered the tracks of many of the woodland buffalo, and the remains of a very smelly skunk.