The Political Economy of Bison Management in Wood Buffalo National Park

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: McCormack, Patricia A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1992
• Subjects: Animal diseases; Animal distribution; Animal husbandry; Animal population; Animal taxonomy; Dams; Environmental impacts; Extinction; History; Hunting; Indians; North American bison; Parks; Prescribed burning; Tuberculosis; Wildlife management; Wood Buffalo National Park; Alberta/N.W.T; Canada; Wood Buffalo; Arctic; Plains Bison
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64471

Nearly a century ago government initiatives saved Canada's wild bison from extinction, and in the 1920s Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) was established as a preserve for wood and plains bison. Today new government initiatives threaten these northern bison with extermination as a "game ma...