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By 1957, wood bison were thought to have been finally extinct in Canada due to hybridization with the plains bison, which took place in Wood Buffalo National Park between 1925 and 1928. [ 8 ] As wood bison species became threatened with the hybridization, relocation and breeding conservation programs specific to wood bison were established in 1963.
Buffalo National Park was created near the town of Wainwright in east central Alberta on June 5, 1909. It was closed in 1940 and delisted in 1947 when the land was transferred to the Department of National Defence .
Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km 2 (17,275 sq mi). [3] It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories . Larger in area than Switzerland , [ 4 ] it is the second-largest national park in the world. [ 5 ]
Between 1925 and 1928, 6,673 plains bisons, compared to 1,500–2,000 wood bisons, were translocated from Buffalo National Park into the Wood Buffalo National Park by the Government of Canada, to avoid mass culling because of overpopulation, [29] despite protests from conservation biologists.
The park borders Wood Buffalo National Park to the north, Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park to the east, and has a short southern border with Birch Mountains Wildland Provincial Park. The shape is a rough triangle. The longest side bordering Wood Buffalo is 93 km (58 mi) east to west. The height north to south is 76 km (47 mi).
Buffalo is commonly used as it continues to hold cultural significance, particularly for Indigenous people. [ 2 ] Recovery began in the late 19th century with a handful of individuals independently saving the last surviving bison and the government efforts to protect the remnant herd in Yellowstone National Park .
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They lie above or marginal to a 2.0 to 2.4 billion year old Precambrian craton called the Buffalo Head terrane, which has no surface exposure. Near the fields the Precambrian rocks are overlain by about 500 m (1,600 ft) to 2,200 m (7,200 ft) of Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks , and covered by unconsolidated glacial and post-glacial sediments.