Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1933
• Subjects: Alaska; Wild Life; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; United States. > Alaska > 20th Century; Canada; Fairbanks; Great Slave Lake; Mackenzie Valley; Pacific; glacier*; glaciers
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102460

Alaska Boasts Buffalo Herd ALASKA BDASTS BUFFALO HERD Transplanted There From Montana—Beasts Acclimate Themselves After Short Time. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 2. (AP)— The snort of the buffalo is heard today on the stamping grounds where his ancestors perished many thousands of years ago, because Uncle Sam is a good "transplanter." The last buffalo in the territory were exterminated in the Pleistocene age by great glaciers from the north, scientists say, but in 1928 the Alaska game commission and the federal bureau of biological survey brought a few bison from Montana to the Jar- vis creek flats, southeast of here. The department of agriculture reported today that the animals have increased until they now number 60, and they have fully acclimated themselves after a few fatal accidents. The nearest wild buffalo to the herd here now live in the region of Great Slave lake, in the Mackenzie valley of central Canada, 1000 miles to the southeast.