article_snippet.sent: A population of wild wood bison were successfully reintroduced to the United States to freely roam the plains of Alaska for the first time in over a century.
article_snippet.sent: Wood bison were imported from Canada to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in 2008 but restoration of the threatened species was delayed.
article_snippet.sent: The population of wild wood bison were successfully reintroduced to the United States for first time in over a century .
article_snippet.sent: The state and federal governments agreed to consider 100 wood bison as 'experimental' without the usual Endangered Species Act requirements.
article_snippet.sent: Two wood bison bulls photographed grazing at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage, Alaska .
article_snippet.sent: Wood bison cows resting and grazing at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center  in Portage, Alaska .
article_snippet.sent: To minimize jostling in the cargo plane the juveniles were transported in small groups within special bison boxes.
article_snippet.sent: Once arrived, Wood bison moved on Wood bison own from the boxes to the snow-covered fields in a fenced area outside Shageluk.
article_snippet.sent: Over the next seven to 14 days Wood bison were moved on a daily basis from one pen to another to keep Some of them from settling into one place.
article_snippet.sent: Before the snowmobile coaxed Some of them with alfalfa cubes and led Some of them to Some of them new permanent location, which should start producing an abundance of sedge – one of the bison’s natural foods –
article_snippet.sent: Wood bison arrive at Wood bison new home, which will have sedge for Wood bison to feed on once once the snow melts .
highlights_snippet.sent: New location should start producing sedge for the bison to feed on .