AR-News: (CA) Bison reintroduced to Sask prairie 150 years after hunted to near extincti

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CNEWS 



Fifty purebred plains bison charge through an open gate near Eastend, Sask. 
on Monday. (CP/Jeff McIntosh)
CLAYDON, Sask. (CP) - History was made on a piece of rolling prairie Monday 
when half a dozen horseback riders herded 50 bison from a sprawling holding 
paddock out onto the land they once roamed by the millions. 
It's the first time since they were hunted to the brink of extinction 150 
years ago that they have set a free foot on the grasslands they once virtually 
covered. The shaggy beasts who strolled through the paddock gate were trucked in 
from Elk Island National Park in Alberta to the Old Man on His Back Prairie 
and Heritage Conservation Area south of Swift Current, Sask., last winter. 
The area covers 5,300 hectares in the southwest corner of the province and is 
jointly owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Saskatchewan 
government. 
"They're finally back on the native prairie the way they were a hundred and 
some years ago," said conservancy spokesman Dwane Morvik. 

May 17, 2004 


full story: 
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/05/17/463297-cp.html 

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