— Parks Canada says a second bison bull that wandered out of Banff National Park has been captured and relocated to a paddock in southern Alberta, unlike the first that had to be destroyed last week. Officials said both bison left a 1,200-square-kilometre reintroduction zone separately in early August and had been moving on provincial land northward and eastward of the national park. “The large bull was successfully captured and immobilized and flown (by helicopter) to a horse trailer, which allowed us to transport it to a bison paddock in Waterton Lakes National Park,” Bill Hunt, resource conservation manager with Banff National Park, said during a media teleconference late Monday afternoon. Sixteen plains bison from Elk Island National Park were reintroduced to the park in February 2017 into the remote Panther River Valley, about 40 kilometres north of Banff. They disappeared from the area due to overhunting before the national park was created in 1885.

Source: National Post August 20, 2018 23:22 UTC