Grunter
03-13-2006, 12:31 PM
CanWest News Service
Published: Monday, March 13, 2006
EDMONTON -- A herd of plains bison from Alberta soon will be set free to roam public lands on the southern Prairies for the first time in more than 100 years.
The herd of 70 animals from Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton was shipped to Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan just before Christmas.
Since then, the animals have been adapting to their new surroundings in a 16-hectare holding facility.
Parks Canada biologist Pat Fargey says the plan is to set them loose sometime next month into a 110-square-kilometre parcel of land in the western part of Grasslands park.
Grasslands was established in 1988 to preserve one of the last and largest blocks of undisturbed mixed prairie grassland habitat left in Canada.
© Edmonton Journal 2006
Published: Monday, March 13, 2006
EDMONTON -- A herd of plains bison from Alberta soon will be set free to roam public lands on the southern Prairies for the first time in more than 100 years.
The herd of 70 animals from Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton was shipped to Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan just before Christmas.
Since then, the animals have been adapting to their new surroundings in a 16-hectare holding facility.
Parks Canada biologist Pat Fargey says the plan is to set them loose sometime next month into a 110-square-kilometre parcel of land in the western part of Grasslands park.
Grasslands was established in 1988 to preserve one of the last and largest blocks of undisturbed mixed prairie grassland habitat left in Canada.
© Edmonton Journal 2006