Historical overview sources

Additional sources cited below can be reviewed at this link: www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/habitat/bisonconservation.html

Aune, Keith, Dr. Jack Rhyan, Robin Russell, Dr. Tom Roffe, Dr. Barbara Corso. April 2010. Environmental Persistence of Brucella in the Greater Yellowstone Area. 27 pp. (PDF, 1.7MB)

Beja-Pereira, Albano, Betsy Bricker, Shanyuan Chen, Claudia Almendra, P. J. White, and Gordon Luikart. 2009. DNA Genotyping Suggests that Recent Brucellosis Outbreaks in the Greater Yellowstone Area Originated from Elk. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45(4): 1174–1177. (PDF, 160kb)

Boyd, Delaney P. 2003. Conservation of North American Bison: Status and Recommendations. Master’s Dissertation, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. 235 pp.

Boyd, Delaney P. and C. Cormack Gates. 2006. A Brief Review of the Status of Plains Bison in North America. JOW 45(2): 15-21.

Cannon, Kenneth P. 1997. The Analysis of a Late Holocene Bison Skull from Fawn Creek, Lemhi County, Idaho, and Its Implications for Understanding the History and Ecology of Bison in the Intermountain West. Report Prepared for The Department of Agriculture, United States Forest Service, Salmon-Challis National Forest, Salmon, Idaho. 82 pp.

Cannon, Kenneth P. 2001. WHAT THE PAST CAN PROVIDE: CONTRIBUTION OF PREHISTORIC BISON STUDIES TO MODERN BISON MANAGEMENT. Great Plains Research 11(1): 145-174.

Cheville, Norman F., Dale R. McCullough, Lee R. Paulson. 1998. Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area. National Research Council. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 186 pp.

Citizens for Balanced Use, Sen. Rick Ripley, Dustin & VIcki Hofeldt, Ken Hanson, United Property Owners of Montana, Missouri River Stewards v. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. January 2012. Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief. (PDF, 312kb)

Cope, E.D. 1885. The Present Condition of the Yellowstone National Park. The American Naturalist 19(11): 1037-1040.

Fallon, Sylvia PhD. 2009. The ecological importance of bison in mixed-grass prairie ecosystems.

Farr, William E. Winter 2003. Going to Buffalo: Indian Hunting Migrations across the Rocky Mountains: Part 1, Making Meat and Taking Robes. Montana: The Magazine of Western History 53(4): 2-21. (PDF, 5.1MB)

Fleischner, Thomas L. 2010. Livestock Grazing and Wildlife Conservation in the American West: Historical, Policy and Conservation Biology Perspectives. Wild Rangelands: Conserving Wildlife While Maintaining Livestock in Semi-Arid Ecosystems, 1st edition. Edited by J.T. du Toit, R. Kock, and J.C. Deutsch, Blackwell Publishing. (PDF, 1.4MB)

Flores, Dan. 1991. Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850. Journal of American History 78(2): 465-485.

Gardipee, Florence M. 2007. DEVELOPMENT OF FECAL DNA SAMPLING METHODS TO ASSESS GENETIC POPULATION STRUCTURE OF GREATER YELLOWSTONE BISON. Master’s Thesis, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. 63 pp.

Gates, C. Cormack, Brad Stelfox, Tyler Muhly, Tom Chowns, Robert J. Hudson. 2005. THE ECOLOGY OF BISON MOVEMENTS AND DISTRIBUTION IN AND BEYOND YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, A Critical Review With Implications for Winter Use and Transboundary Population Management. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. 329 pp.

Halbert, Natalie D. 2003. THE UTILIZATION OF GENETIC MARKERS TO RESOLVE MODERN MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN HISTORIC BISON POPULATIONS - IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIES CONSERVATION. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. 213 pp.

Harris, Jay. May 2008. 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty Commentary: 1868 Treaty Right Still Valid, Important. Crow News online: www.rnnonline.org/crownews/2008/05/commentary-1868.html

Hedrick, Philip, W. 2009. Conservation Genetics and North American Bison (Bison bison). Journal of Heredity 100(4): 411–420.

Hedrick, Philip, W. 2010. Cattle ancestry in bison- explanations for higher mtDNA than autosomal ancestry. Molecular Ecology 19: 3328–3335.

Hornaday, William T. 1889. The Extermination of the American Bison, From the Report of the National Museum, 1886-’87, pp: 369-548, Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. Republished 2006 by The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Project Gutenberg EBook ™, Fairbanks, Alaska. Online: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17748/17748-h/17748-h.htm

Intergovernmental-InterTribal Information Exchange Meeting for Yellowstone National Park. June 5, 2008. Held at Mammoth Elementary School Yellowstone National Park, Mammoth, Wyoming. Draft Tribal Issues (Word Doc 29kb). Tribal Caucus Notes (Word Doc 21kb).

Isenberg, Andrew C. 2000. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York. 206 pp.

Kantor, Isaac. 2007. Ethnic Cleansing and America's Creation of National Parks. Public Land & Resources Law Review 28(41): 42-62. (PDF, 1.6MB)

Ketcham, Christopher. June 2008. They shoot buffalo, don't they: Hazing America's last wild herd. Harper’s Magazine online: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082064

Kilpatrick, A. Marm, Colin M. Gillin, Peter Daszak. April 2009. Wildlife–livestock conflict: the risk of pathogen transmission from bison to cattle outside Yellowstone National Park. Journal of Applied Ecology 46(2): 476–485.

Knapp, Alan K., John M. Blair, John M. Briggs, Scott L. Collins, David C. Hartnett, Loretta C. Johnson, E. Gene Towne. 1999. The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie, Bison increase habitat heterogeneity and alter a broad array of plant, community, and ecosystem processes. BioScience 49(1): 39-50.

Little Thunder, Rosalie. June 2010. Rosalie Little Thunder Declaration of Standing and Exhibit, Western Watersheds Project v. Salazar online: www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/legal/bisonhabitatlawsuit.html. (PDF, 140kb)

Looking Horse, Chief Arvol. April 2008. Declaration: To Save the Buffalo Nation.

Magnon, Robert and Michael Fox. March 19, 2011. Guest opinion: Let tribes restore wild, healthy bison to Montana. Billings Gazette, online: www.billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/article_43f8123e-7f8e-5cbc-b90f-ae4878a48954.html

Meagher, Margaret M. 1973. The Bison of Yellowstone National Park. Scientific Monograph Series Number One. National Park Service, Washington, D.C. 161 pp.

Meagher, M. and Margaret E. Meyer. 1994. On the Origin of Brucellosis in Bison of Yellowstone National Park: A Review. Conservation Biology 8(3): 645-653.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Keith Aune, and USDA APHIS Veterinary Services, Dr. Jack Rhyan, National Wildlife Research Center. October, 2004. Preliminary Environmental Assessment, Feasibility Study of Bison Quarantine -Phase I. (PDF 267 kb)

Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks Commission. December 9, 2011. Bison Translocation to Fort Belknap and Fort Peck Reservations. (PDF ,60kb)

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and Montana Dept. of Livestock. February 2012. Adaptive Management Adjustments to the Interagency Bison Management Plan. (PDF, 104kb)

Montana, Governor Brian Schweitzer. February 15, 2011. Executive Order 1-2011, EXECUTIVE ORDER PROHIBITING THE IMPORTATION OF BISON INTO THE STATE OF MONTANA FOR A PERIOD OF 90 DAYS. (PDF, 788kb)

Nabokov, Peter, PhD. and Lawrence Loendorf PhD. 2000. American Indians and Yellowstone National Park, A Documentary Overview.

National Congress of American Indians. November 14-19 2010. Resolution #ABQ-10-036 2010 adopted by the General Assembly at the 2010 Annual Convention of the National Congress of American Indians, held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (PDF, 96kb)

SANDERSON, ERIC W., KENT H. REDFORD, BILL WEBER, KEITH AUNE, DICK BALDES, JOEL BERGER, DAVE CARTER, CHARLES CURTIN, JAMES DERR, STEVE DOBROTT, EVA FEARN, CRAIG FLEENER, STEVE FORREST, CRAIG GERLACH, C. CORMACK GATES, JOHN E. GROSS, PETER GOGAN, SHAUN GRASSEL, JODI A. HILTY, MARV JENSEN, KYRAN KUNKEL, DUANE LAMMERS, RURIK LIST, KAREN MINKOWSKI, TOM OLSON, CHRIS PAGUE, PAUL B. ROBERTSON, AND BOB STEPHENSON. 2008. The Ecological Future of the North American Bison: Conceiving Long-Term, Large-Scale Conservation of Wildlife. Conservation Biology 22(2): 252-266.

Schullery, Paul and L. Whittlesey. 2006. Greater Yellowstone bison distribution and abundance in the early historical period. Pages 135–140 in A. Wondrak Biel, editors, Greater Yellowstone Public Lands: A Century of Discovery, Hard Lessons, and Bright Prospects. Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. October 17–19, 2005, Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Yellowstone Center for Resources.

Smits, David D. Autumn 1994. The Frontier Army and the Destruction of the Buffalo: 1865-1883. The Western Historical Quarterly (25)3: 312-338.

Suagee, Dean B. Summer 1999. The Cultural Heritage of American Indian Tribes and the Preservation of Biological Diversity. Arizona State Law Journal 31: 483-538. (PDF, 3.5MB)

The Wildlife Society. April 11, 2000. Position Statement of the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society on Wild Bison in Montana.

United States of America. Treaty of July 16, 1855, 12 Stat. 975. Ratified March 8, 1859. Treaty of Hellgate. (PDF, 992kb)

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Peter Dratch. January 24, 2011. Correspondence on use of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping technology to investigate introgression of cattle genes in American bison herds. (PDF, 135kb) Freedom of Information Act response, Darrell Geist, Buffalo Field Campaign. (PDF, 136kb)

U.S. District Court, Judge Charles C. Lovell. February 14, 2011. Opinion and Order. In the United States District Court for the District of Montana, Missoula Division, Western Watersheds Project et al, vs. Salazar et al,. CV 09-159-M-CCL. (PDF, 324kb)

U.S. Government Accountability Office. March 7, 2008. YELLOWSTONE BISON Interagency Plan and Agencies' Management Need Improvement to Better Address Bison-Cattle Brucellosis Controversy. GAO-08-291.

White, P.J., Rick L. Wallen, Chris Geremia, John J. Treanor, Douglas W. Blanton. 2011. Management of Yellowstone bison and brucellosis transmission risk – Implications for conservation and restoration. Biological Conservation doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.01.003. (In Press)

Wood, Hebbring Judith. Spring 2000. The Origin of Public Bison Herds in the United States. The Secular Past, the Mythic Past, and the Impending Future. Wicazo Sa Review 15(1): 157-182.

Yellowstone National Park. April 16-30 2008. YELLOWSTONE BISON POPULATION MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. (PDF,420kb)