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Implement adaptive management procedures as needed. Adaptive management, as a restoration strategy, is essential because what happens at one stage in restoration informs or dictates what needs to happen next; Capacity building should be informed by results of the monitoring programme and targeted toward the highest priorities and weakest aspects of management. 10.5 Summary The next 10-20 years present opportunities for conserving American bison as a wild species and restoring it as an important ecological presence in many North American ecosystems. Taking an ecosystem approach, which puts people and their natural resource use practices at the centre of decision-making, offers a paradigm for balancing the sometimes competing demands of bison conservation, the use of bison and biological diversity by people, and sustaining human communities in areas where there are many resource users combined with important natural values. To achieve ecological restoration at broad scales (large herds roaming across vast landscapes, at numerous locations) will require flexible approaches that can be adapted to a variety of legal and socio-economic conditions. Assembling large landscapes for conservation herds will typically involve several land tenure holders, potentially including public agencies, tribal 112 American Bison: Status Survey and Conservation Guidelines 2010 governments, non-profit private organisations, and for-profit corporations or individual entrepreneurs. Diverse mandates, interests, and incentives will influence how stakeholders choose to manage land and wildlife, including bison. Creative new approaches are needed for forging enduring partnerships among land tenure holders for cooperative undertakings. Strategies may range from top-down government programmes to bottom-up market-based or cultural-based initiatives. Progress towards large-scale restoration will require a much more supportive framework of government policies and significant investment by both public and private sectors. Awareness and substantial public support are necessary at both the local level where restoration occurs, and among national constituencies for whom the bison is an iconic component of North America’s natural and cultural heritage. For ecological restoration of bison to be successful, careful assessment and understanding of biophysical, social, economic, legal, and political conditions are required for planning and implementation. This is particularly true where both community and agency support and involvement are required. This chapter provided guidelines for planning and implementing an ecological restoration project for bison, including feasibility assessment, selection of stock, preparation and release methods, assessing socio-economic and legal requirements, monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1 Introduction: The Context
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Chapter 2 History of Bison in North
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Charles Alloway (Manitoba), Charles
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nomadic “Plains Indian Culture”
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Chapter 3 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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demonstrate that Bison and Bos were
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from their original habitat near th
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Chapter 4 Genetics As a science, po
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Selection for diversity in one syst
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the conservation of the wild specie
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