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wood bison 
a variety of bison, Bison bison athabascae, found in lightly wooded regions of northern Alberta and the Mackenzie District.
See also: wood buffalo
- 1853 There the fur-bearing animals exist in greatest plenty, and many others whose skins are valuable in commerce, as the moose, the wapiti, and the wood-bison.
- 1896 Little is known of the wood-bison, except that he is gradually going the way of the plains species, from the difficulty of maintaining an existence where climate, pasturage, and man are all against him.
- 1955 The great buffalo herds the Indians hunted are gone from the prairies, but their cousins, the wood-bison, are thriving and increasing in the north-eastern corner of Alberta. Their home is Wood Buffalo Park--a refuge larger than all of Belgium--and this is indeed Canada's strangest national park, for it has been set aside much more for animals than for man.
- 1853 There the fur-bearing animals exist in greatest plenty, and many others whose skins are valuable in commerce, as the moose, the wapiti, and the wood-bison.