The Wood Bison is a distinct northern subspecies of the North American Bison. Reduced by hunting from a total population of about 168,000 to less than 250 individuals by 1900, the Wood Bison has ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reclassify the wood bison, a Canadian relative of the American plains bison, from “endangered” to “threatened” under the Endangered ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reclassified the wood bison, a Canadian relative of the American plains bison, from “endangered” to “threatened” under the Endangered Species ...

In 2008, there were 61 plains bison conservation herds in North America containing about 20,500 animals, and 11 conservation herds of wood bison, containing nearly 11,000 animals.

The wood bison, a larger cousin to the American Plains bison, was used by Athabascan natives for clothing, food and shelter. But by the early 1800s, the mammals had disappeared from Alaska.

American bison are classified into two subspecies: the plains bison (Bison bison bison), formerly found in much of North America, and the wood bison (Bison bison athabascae), found in Canada's ...

"To say we're excited is an understatement." Wood bison are the larger of two subspecies of American bison but did not roam in what are now the Lower 48 states.

Eight external characters distinguishing plains bison (Bos bison bison) and wood bison (B. b. athabascae) were analyzed in six extant populations of plains bison and five populations of animals with ...

Wood bison are the larger of two subspecies of American bison but did not roam in Lower 48 states. The smaller subspecies are plains bison, which were not native to Alaska but were introduced to ...

The wood bison, a larger cousin to the American Plains bison, will be moved in specially designed containers, first by truck and then by plane, to Shageluk, an isolated Native village about 300 ...