Forty young bison are isolating at the Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks after arriving from Canada. Some will likely get barged up the Innoko River to be added to a herd that was introduced there seven years ago.
The young wood bison are temporarily staying at the U.A.F. Large Animal Research Station in Fairbanks.
State wood bison biologist Tom Seaton says the young animals were trucked to Fairbanks from Elk Island National Park in Alberta. He says the park has healthy bison available for Canadian conservation efforts, and this year they had enough to send some to Alaska. “We’ve got to go through another 30 days of isolation of them here at LARS and then work toward plans of release,” he said.
“It’s most likely that the wild animals will be very curious about these new young ones, and these new young ones are going to want to connect with those adults. We’ll also use some recorded sounds of bison interactions that might help draw in the wild ones,” he said.
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