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Conservation genetics and North American bison (Bison bison).
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Hedrick Philip W
Abstract excerpt
The many millions of North American bison in the mid-19th century were reduced to near extinction by the middle 1880s. Plains bison, the subspecies found in the United States, were saved from extinction primarily by 5 private ranchers and the survival of a small herd in what is now Yellowstone National Park. This bottleneck resulted in the present-day plains bison population being descended from less than 100...
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