# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reclassifying the Wood Bison Under the Endangered Species Act as Threatened Throughout Its Range
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2012-05-03 · Effective 2012-06-04 · 77 FR 26191
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-10635
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 26191
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2012-05-03
- **Effective date:** 2012-06-04
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R9-IA-2008-0123
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are reclassifying the wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) from endangered to threatened. This action is based on a review of the best available scientific and commercial data, which indicate that the primary threat that led to population decline, unregulated hunting, is no longer a threat and that recovery actions have led to a substantial increase in the number of herds that have a stable or increasing trend in population size. Critical habitat has not been designated because free- ranging wood bison only occur in Canada and we do not designate critical habitat in foreign countries.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/05/03/2012-10635/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-reclassifying-the-wood-bison-under-the-endangered)
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