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ABS <strong>American</strong> <strong>Bison</strong> Society<br />

ABSG <strong>American</strong> <strong>Bison</strong> Specialist Group, a division of<br />

the IUCN BSG<br />

ADFG Alaska Department of Fish and Game<br />

AGFD Arizona Game and Fish Department<br />

ALCES® A Landscape Cumulative Effects Simulator,<br />

FOREM Technologies<br />

ANPP Herbaceous above ground net primary<br />

productivity<br />

APF <strong>American</strong> Prairie Foundation<br />

APFRAN Animal Plant and Food Risk Assessment<br />

Network, Canada<br />

APHIS U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and<br />

Plant Health Inspection Service<br />

BLU Bluetongue<br />

BNP Badlands National Park, South Dakota<br />

BRCP <strong>Bison</strong> Research and Containment Program,<br />

Northwest Territories<br />

BSE Bovine spongiform encephalopathy<br />

BSG IUCN <strong>Bison</strong> Specialist Group<br />

BTB Bovine tuberculosis<br />

BVD Bovine viral diarrhoea<br />

CAMP Conservation Action Management Plan<br />

process, IUCN Captive Breeding Specialist<br />

Group<br />

CATG Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments,<br />

Alaska<br />

CBA Canadian <strong>Bison</strong> Association<br />

CBD International Convention on Biological<br />

Diversity<br />

CBSG IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist<br />

Group<br />

CDOJ Canadian Department of Justice<br />

CFIA Canadian Food Inspection Agency<br />

CITES Convention on International Trade in<br />

Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora<br />

CMN Canadian Museum of Nature<br />

CONANP Comision Nacional De Areas Naturales<br />

Protegidas, Mexico<br />

COSEWIC Committee on the Status of Endangered<br />

Wildlife in Canada<br />

CSP Custer State Park, South Dakota<br />

CWS Canadian Wildlife Service<br />

Acronyms<br />

CWCS Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy<br />

DNDC The Department of National Defence, Canada<br />

EHD Epizootic hemorrhagic disease<br />

EINP Elk Island National Park, Alberta<br />

EIS Environmental Impact Statement<br />

ESA U.S. Endangered Species Act<br />

ESU Evolutionarily significant unit<br />

FAD Foreign Animal Disease<br />

FEARP Federal Environmental Assessment Review<br />

Panel, Canada<br />

FMD Foot-and-mouth disease, or heartwater<br />

FNNWR Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge,<br />

Nebraska<br />

GEU Geminate evolutionary unit<br />

GTNP Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming<br />

GWBE Greater Wood <strong>Buffalo</strong> Ecosystem, Canada<br />

GWBNP Greater Wood <strong>Buffalo</strong> National Park, Canada<br />

GYA Greater Yellowstone Area<br />

HMSP Henry Mountains State Park, Utah<br />

HOAA Health of Animals Act, Canada<br />

InVEST Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services<br />

and Tradeoffs<br />

ITBC Intertribal <strong>Bison</strong> Cooperative<br />

IUCN SSC IUCN Species Survival Commission<br />

IUCN SUSG IUCN Sustainable Use Specialist Group<br />

JD Johne’s disease<br />

MBS Mackenzie <strong>Bison</strong> Sanctuary, Northwest<br />

Territories<br />

MCA Montana Code Annotated<br />

MCF Malignant catarrhal fever<br />

MDOL State of Montana Department of Livestock<br />

MFWP State of Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife<br />

and Parks<br />

MLVA Multiple locus, variable number, tandem repeat<br />

analysis<br />

MtDNA Mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid<br />

N Population size<br />

<strong>American</strong> <strong>Bison</strong>: Status Survey and Conservation Guidelines 2010 xiii

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