THRIVING IN ALASKA.
"TRANSPLANTED" BISON. FAIRBANKS (Alaska), December 22. The snort of the buffalo is heard on the stamping grounds where his ancestors perished many thousands of years ago. The last buffalo in the territory was exterminated in the Pleistocene Age by great glaciers from the north, scientists say, but in 1028 the Alaska Game Commission and the Federal Bureau of Biological Survey brought a few bison from Montana to the Jarvis Creek flats, south-east of here. The Department of Agriculture reports that the animal", have increased until they number 60. 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.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 308, 30 December 1933, Page 9
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