THRIVING IN ALASKA
‘‘ TRANSPLANTED’ ’ BISON FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 22. The suort-pf the buffalo is heard on the stamping grounds where his ancestors perished many thousands of years ago. The last buffalo in the territory was exterminatetd in the Pleistocene Age by great glaciers from the north, scientists say, but in 1928 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 animals have increased until they number 60. The nearest wild buffalo to the herd here now live in tbe region of Great Slave Lake, in the Mackenzie Valley of Central Canada, 1000 miles to the southeast.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18287, 4 January 1934, Page 5
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