Northern bison sanctuary or big ranch?: Wood Buffalo National Park

• Main Author: Sandlos, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society 2013
• Subjects: Wood Buffalo; Wood Bison; Wood Buffalo National Park
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/2420/; https://research.library.mun.ca/2420/1/WoodBuffaloNationalPark.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/2420/2/WoodBuffaloNationalPark.pdf; http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/northern-bison-sanctuary-or-big-ranch-wood-buffalo-national-park

Wood Buffalo National Park claims many distinctions: it is North America’s biggest national park (and the world’s second biggest at 44,807 km² ), a UNESCO World Heritage site, home to the largest free-roaming herd of wood bison, the first federal park in Canada’s territorial north, summer home to th...