The Ecology and management of the American Bison

• Main Author: Fuller, W.A.
• Other Authors: Department of Zoology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Société nationale de protection de la nature et d'acclimatation de France, Paris (FRA) 1961
• Subjects: Canada; Wood Buffalo; Wood Bison; Wood Buffalo National Park; Plains Bison
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2042/59199

This paper outlines in some detail the population dynamics of a large, free-ranging herd of Bison in Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Canada. That herd increased from a remnant of about 500 in the 1890’s to an estimated 1,500 in 1922. In the late 1920’s 6,600 plains Bison were added to the ori...