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Introducing wood bison, a non-native game species into an intact ecosystem is a very bad idea. The purported "evidence" for recent occurrence of wood bison in this area is extremely tenuous at best, and I find it very unconvincing. This program is thus not a re-introduction, as it is being dishonestly portrayed, it is the introduction of a non-native species into an intact ecosystem as basically a method of game farming. One would think that by 2013 we would have realized the error of this kind of uninformed activity (witness: Australia, and many other places). The wilderness of Alaska is not a Texas game farm on which managers should be allowed to test their pet projects and enthusiasms (as is the case here: one long time Fish and Game Biologist is driving this train). This should not be allowed in any way shape or form. What is next: Onyx in the Arctic Refuge? I am greatly surprised by the fact that this uninformed and irresponsible game-farming gambit is being tolerated, let alone facilitated, by professional biologists in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Please come to your senses and do not allow the establishment of this population of non-native animals in Alaska.