However, the increasing number of bison and the expected expansion of bison populations out of forest habitats, as well as the potential creation of new free-ranging herds, may increase the risk of human-bison conflict in the future (Hofman-Kamińska and Kowalczyk 2010).
It has opposed the establishment of free-roaming bison populations that could compete with cattle for grass on federal grazing lands or endanger herds with disease.
We also asked what factors would influence the amount and distribution of damage in two bison populations differing in density, habitat conditions, management and farming practices.
Private herds held by ranchers and national parks enabled restoration of the bison population which were recorded at ~1 million in 2009 [ 1- 3].
Hunting eliminated bison populations east of the Mississippi River by 1833 and reduced the numbers in the Missouri basin to a mere few hundred.
The present study outlines a comprehensive chrono-spatial framework of the palaeoecological adaptations among several western Palaearctic Bison populations.
Northeastern Poland, which is inhabited by three bison populations (650 individuals in total), constitutes the core of the global bison population.
Bear and bison populations, we learn, are not simply left in a state of nature: they too are managed.
Dale R. McIntyre of Bartlesville, Okla., sent this response to my posting on a plan to rebuild wild bison populations in the West: The 39,000-acre Tallgrass Prairie Preserve near Pawhuska, Okla., is already doing exactly what you describe in this posting: returning the land to a state of nature with the dominant species, the bison, in its proper place.
It is hypothesized that substantial recovery of the wood bison population toward historical levels will be constrained in northern Alberta by the availability of summer forage, and the limited extent of graminoid wetlands that provide winter foraging habitat.
