Northern Bison Summary

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In a summary paper (Disease in Northern Bison: what to do? in Buffalo, 1992), a panel member from the University of Saskatchewan (Gary Wobeser, a veterinary pathologist and wildlife disease expert, my undergraduate classmate at Guelph) pointed out that there were about 2,000 disease-free non-hybrid wood bison in the Mackenzie Sanctuary to the north which inevitably could become diseased from the park’s infected herd. He argued that the park’s bison population that had been declining for 20 years was a risk “to cattle, humans and a major conservation effort to restore wood bison.” He concluded…“in reality, there are only two actual options…One is to decide that nothing should be done, the other is to eliminate the diseases.” An interesting comparison to Wobeser’s reference to the wood bison is in Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe, R. Dale Guthrie (1990). After extensive studies of bison anatomy, Guthrie decided the wood bison and the extinct steppe bison (Bison priscus) were, in some anatomical features, more closely related to each other than to the plains bison. He wrote…“In …show more content…
Productivity of biological resources, human adaptability to environmental change, and the ecosystem changes themselves were important considerations. Worldwide, efforts were first organized on a five-biome basis with grasslands and deciduous forests expected to receive most attention. In Europe, one of the major projects was tracking down the effects of acid rain on forests in Lower Saxony (Germany). In Canada, much IBP effort was directed to very northern subarctic and arctic biomes; the high-arctic panel documented 71 sites in Yukon and Northwest Territories forests and the sub-arctic panel documented 81 tundra
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