American Bison To Return To Northern Montana Reserve For First Time In Over 100 Years

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A plains bison decendent from the Allard-Pablo herd in Elk Island National Park. ceasol/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Some of the few remaining purebred American plains bison will be returning to the land from which they were originally taken in northern Montana over 100 years ago. The last large herd of wild bison, also referred to as buffalo, were captured from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in 1907 and sold to the Canadian government, who then released them into what is now Elk Island National Park.