ARCTIC A Surviving Herd of Endangered Wood Bison at Hook Lake, N.W.T.?

• Main Author: Jack Van Camp
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Key words; wildlife; bison; taxonomy; conservation; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Wood Buffalo; Slave River; Wood Bison; Wood Buffalo National Park; Bison bison bison; Plains Bison
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.461.2340; http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/download/1672/1651/

ABSTRACT. Bison in the Hook Lake area of the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) are classified and managed as low value, diseased, plains bison (Bison bison bison) x wood bison (B. b. athabascae) hybrids. Their classification is founded on the hypothesis of universal hybridization in Wood Buffalo Nation...