To the south, communal bison hunting seems to have shaped ... people who lived and harvested together on the plains of what is now southern Alberta and the American Midwest. Much of the obsidian ...

Plains bison — once abundant on the prairie ... were released in Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park and an Alberta conservation site south of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park ...

Elk Island National Park is a bit of an Alberta hidden cultural gem. Best known for its leading role in rescuing bison from near-extinction (the park is home to hundreds of plains and wood bison ...

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom ...

But overhunting, habitat loss and interbreeding with plains bison wiped out the wood bison, except for just 200 or so near the border of Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Now they’re coming ...

RANGE: Bison once roamed from Florida through the eastern deciduous forests and Great Plains to the Cascade Mountains in Washington, from Alberta, Canada to Mexico — in other words, nearly the whole ...

Above the northern border of the U.S., the plains extend into the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta ... but it’s perfect for the plains bison. Standing 6 feet tall at the shoulder ...

The research shows that communal bison hunts were likely a key driver of the ... network shared by people who lived and harvested together on the plains of what is now southern Alberta and the ...