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

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Van Camp, Jack
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1989
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal taxonomy; Extirpation; Genetics; History; North American bison; Wildlife management; Alberta; Northern; Hook Lake (60 41 N; 112 45 W) region; N.W.T; Northwest Territories; Wood Buffalo; Arctic; Slave River; Wood Bison; Wood Buffalo National Park; Bison bison bison; Plains Bison
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64726

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 National Park (WB...