Should we reintroduce plains bison back to the eastern united states as semi-free populations in state parks, nature preserves and maybe national parks like great smoky mountains national park? [American_bison_k5680-1] Credit by Jack Dykinga here’s a related post → https://forum.inaturalist.org…

For my dream 176,000 acre nature preserve, it will be a restored grassland ecosystem by cutting a crap ton of trees and prescribed burns in the southeast u.s and how’s your day going?

[image] Monsterkajiu19: For my dream 176,000 acre nature preserve may i make a suggestion? it’s fine if you’re going to start multiple subjects about different kinds of reintroductions, but if you’re going to always pivot back to a plug for your preserve, please just keep those all in the ori…

Sure that’s fine, I can link posts to my previous posts but not in a spammy way.

As I understand it, the bison in the eastern states were an extinct subspecies called Woodland Buffalo. The name suggests that they were ecologically different from Plains Buffalo.

The Plains Bison ( Bison bison bison ) is the historic subspecies of the eastern U.S. The Wood Bison ( Bison bison athabascae ) is still extant in Canada, but with a much-reduced range. It used to be more widespread in western Canada and Alaska.

just to clarify here, the Woodland Bison that jasonhernandez74 is talking about is different from the Wood bison that you’re talking about. as he noted, the Woodland Bison was just an ecologically separate population of Plains Bison. (genetically, they would be more or less the same subspecies.) pr…

[image] pisum: These kinds of things don’t always work as you would expect is one of the most broadly applicable phrases ever written. Right up there with, “It depends.”

Ok, but to restate, the woodland bison was not a separate subspecies as originally stated. They were in fact Plains Bison. And considering the presence of bison in the east was relatively recent, thanks in large part to the burning practices of indigenous peoples, I have no reason to believe that Pl…

Bison reintroduction to the eastern united states

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swampster March 5, 2023, 7:19pm 2

I think first we need to establish continuous habitat and restore pre-colonial fire regimes before we release bison into a system that is no longer suited for them. The southeast, at least, has lost 90% of it’s grasslands.

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Bison reintroduction to the eastern united states

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