My 2 daughters just got back from babysitting 58 buffalo.
They are being kept in 100 a acre pen. and sometime In May they will be released into the wild. The pen Is on the Tanana, and I think they are Is close to the Minto flats area.
I heard they are looking for volunteers to spend a week feeding and keeping an eye on the buffalo.

I see there are no buffalo sitters. LOL

The wolves will look after them.

I was buying fur in Grayling years ago where they released the first bunch. One kept coming into the village eating trash and fighting with dogs.FnG told them they could shoot it and eat it if they wanted. No one wanted to eat it after it was eating trash.
A friend of my in Holy Cross told me he saw a lot of muskrat houses this winter but then his snowmachien hit a frozen one unexpectedly. It turns out they were piles of Buffalo dung. He said watch out for those it was like hitting a stump.

So even on tree-less prairies there was enough Buffalo-chips to collect to smoke / make dried pemican after the hunt was over....much like you snowmachine frozen stumps yukonJ

Those buffalo came from Canada since that's the only place where you can find genetically pure wood land buffalo.

It is amazing how much money and time have been spent to bring woodland buffalo to Alaska. Just think what would happen to our salmon runs if that money and time was spent on them instead...

broncoformudy, Frist, it is not a choice by ADF&G where to spend money, or on what. It is two different pots of money. One for fish and one for game. Secondly, It does not take much money at all, if any. To have the department or the legislature reduce the number of hatchery fish into the ocean. Releasing 800 million pinks from the Valdez hatchery, can not be helping the salmon issue. (short version)

This would be a good Segway into a discussion, on a new thread, of the decline of native salmon stocks throughout.