American Bison - Buffalo Field Campaign

This manuscript is the product of more than three years of
cooperative effort by numerous contributors, many of whom
are listed as authors. Their knowledge and particularly their
persistence were instrumental in seeing this major undertaking
through to successful completion. The editors express
their appreciation to Joe Truett with the Turner Endangered
Species Fund for his advice on compiling this document. We
acknowledge the support of institutions and organisations that
authorised members of the Bison Specialist Group and others
to contribute to the project. They include the following in no
particular order of priority: U.S. National Park Service; U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Geological Survey Biological
Resources Division; Parks Canada Agency; Canadian Wildlife
Service; Department of National Defense in Canada; Comisión
Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas, Mexico; Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ecología; State of
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; South Dakota Game Fish and
Parks; Alaska Department of Fish and Game; Yukon Department
of the Environment; Northwest Territories Environment and
Natural Resources; Northern Great Plains Office of the World
Wildlife Fund; Wildlife Conservation Society; The American Bison
Society; The Nature Conservancy; Turner Endangered Species
Fund; Turner Enterprises; Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative; Council
of Athabascan Tribal Governments; Faculty of Environmental
Design, and the Department of Archaeology in the Faculty
Acknowledgements
of Social Sciences at the University of Calgary; College of
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M
University; Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks; Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma; the
Canadian Bison Association; and the National Bison Association.
We also wish to acknowledge logistical support provided by
Vermejo Park Ranch, and particularly the generosity of Marv
Jensen and Ted Turner, who co-hosted a meeting of the Bison
Specialist Group in 2005 to organize the writing project. The
Wildlife Conservation Society subsequently hosted two meetings
to develop a vision for bison restoration in North America in
which many members of the American Bison Specialist Group
participated. These workshops were instrumental in building
working relationships, sharing knowledge, and developing a
sense of mission, which contributed to the project’s success.
The U.S. Geological Survey and Wildlife Conservation
Society provided support for technical editing, formatting and
compilation of the document.
Finally, the World Wildlife Fund Northern Great Plains
Program—particularly staff members Steve Forrest and Peder
Groseth—was instrumental in developing a framework for bison
conservation, adding content and guiding the production of
this document by providing financial and technical support for
the first Vermejo meeting and subsequent meetings and for
technical editing, layout, and publication of the final document.
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