 Currently, about seven thousand wood bison remain in wildernesses located within Northwest Territories, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba.In 2006, as part of an international conservation project, an outherd was established in Yakutia, Russia, where the related steppe bison died out over 6,000 years ago.Additional bison were sent from Alberta's Elk Island National Park in 2011 and 2013 to Russia bringing the total to 120.