Fish and Game Transporting Wood Bison to Interior

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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is planning to transport Wood Bison to the village of Shageluk later this month. Wood Bison have been extinct in Alaska for over a century, but animals transplanted here from Canada’s Yukon could re-populate interior Alaska with the species, and offer an alternative subsistence food source.

Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.

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