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A systematic study of recent bison, with particular consideration of the wood bison (Publications in Natural Sciences No. 6.). National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario. Canada. Stephenson, R. O. et al. 2001. Wood bison in late Holocene Alaska and adjacent Canada: Paleontological, archaeological and historical records.
Plains bison are often in the smaller range of sizes, and wood bison in the larger range. Head-rump lengths at maximum up to 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) for males and 2.85 m (9 ft 4 in) for females long and the tail adding 30 to 95 cm (1 ft 0 in to 3 ft 1 in).
The CSKT Bison Range (BR) is a nature reserve on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana established for the conservation of American bison. Formerly called the National Bison Range, the size of the bison herd at the BR is 350 adult bison and welcomes 50–60 calves per year.
English: Historical range of wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) Date: 24 August 2023: Source: Adapted from: North America map with states and provinces.svg;
English: Holocene & Historic range map of the two European bison species (Bison bonasus and Bison priscus): Holocene (B. priscus only) in light green; B. bonasus range in the high middle ages in dark green, relict B. bonasus populations in the 20th century in red
The European bison (pl.: bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent [a] (/ ˈ v iː z ə n t / or / ˈ w iː z ə n t /), the zubr [b] (/ ˈ z uː b ə r /), or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, [c] is a European species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison.
May 7—Less than six months after former President Donald Trump signed Bison Range Restoration legislation, there are big changes at the 19,000-acre facility in Northwest Montana as it opens this ...
It thus has a longer history than the term "bison", which was first recorded in 1774. [12] [full citation needed] The "eastern bison" (B. b. pennsylvanicus) from the eastern United States, a junior synonym of B. b. bison [13] had been called "wood(s) bison" or "woodland bison", not referring to B. b. athabascae. [14]