American Plains Bison

Author : James Allen Bailey
Publisher : Sweetgrass Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1591521238

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American Plains Bison by James Allen Bailey Pdf

For many, plains bison are the embodiment of wildness and the pre-settlement American West. After millennia of evolution through natural selection, however, the species was nearly wiped out, only to be subjected to domestication for more than 100 years. Domestication alters the bison genome through inbreeding, crossing with cattle genes, shrinking genetic diversity and artificial selection. These forces continue to replace natural selection and valued wild characteristics of bison. Does the future hold only continued domestication for plains bison in the United States? With a view from over 50 years in the profession of wildlife biology, Bailey probes this and other questions in The American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon. The book presents his original and lively analysis of 44 conservation bison herds on native range in the United States. He focuses upon the gray area between wildness and domestication and sheds light on domesticating practices of Native American and government agencies, as well as commercial bison producers. He challenges the profession of wildlife management to expand its views on manipulating wildlife populations. For bison, Bailey makes a strong case for creating large reserves to restore wild bison and their natural contributions to our grassland ecosystems.

Author : Geoff Cunfer,Bill Waiser
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623494742

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Bison and People on the North American Great Plains by Geoff Cunfer,Bill Waiser Pdf

The near disappearance of the American bison in the nineteenth century is commonly understood to be the result of over-hunting, capitalist greed, and all but genocidal military policy. This interpretation remains seductive because of its simplicity; there are villains and victims in this familiar cautionary tale of the American frontier. But as this volume of groundbreaking scholarship shows, the story of the bison’s demise is actually quite nuanced. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains brings together voices from several disciplines to offer new insights on the relationship between humans and animals that approached extinction. The essays here transcend the border between the United States and Canada to provide a continental context. Contributors include historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and Native American perspectives. This book explores the deep past and examines the latest knowledge on bison anatomy and physiology, how bison responded to climate change (especially drought), and early bison hunters and pre-contact trade. It also focuses on the era of European contact, in particular the arrival of the horse, and some of the first known instances of over-hunting. By the nineteenth century bison reached a “tipping point” as a result of new tanning practices, an early attempt at protective legislation, and ventures to introducing cattle as a replacement stock. The book concludes with a Lakota perspective featuring new ethnohistorical research. Bison and People on the North American Great Plains is a major contribution to environmental history, western history, and the growing field of transnational history.

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496203021

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Great Plains Bison by Dan O'Brien Pdf

A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie to its near extinction in the late nineteenth century and the subsequent efforts to restore the bison population. A longtime wildlife biologist and one of the most powerful literary voices on the Great Plains, Dan O'Brien has managed his own ethically run buffalo ranch since 1997. Drawing on both extensive research and decades of personal experience, he details not only the natural history of the bison but also its prominent symbolism in Native American culture and its rise as an icon of the Great Plains. Great Plains Bison is a tribute to the bison's essential place at the heart of the North American prairie and its ability to inspire naturalists and wildlife advocates in the fight to preserve American biodiversity.

Author : Wes Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : American bison
ISBN : 0988011409

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A Field Guide to Plains Bison by Wes Olson Pdf

Author : Ernest Callenbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520925149

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Bring Back the Buffalo! by Ernest Callenbach Pdf

With a new epilogue Though the Plains have been in economic and population decline since the twenties, they are actually within closer reach of vibrant ecological sustainability than any other region of the country. This visionary book offers a constructive alternative to the decline of cattle ranching, depletion of underground water, and dependency on outside energy sources. It shows how bringing back the hardy, majestic bison and using the region's winds to generate power are keys to renewed economic and social health for Plains communities.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802191809

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American Buffalo by David Mamet Pdf

American Buffalo, which won both the Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play and the Obie Award, is considered a classic of the American theater. Newsweek acclaimed Mamet as the “hot young American playwright . . . someone to watch.” The New York Times exclaimed in admiration: “The man can write!” Other critics called the play “a sizzler,” “super,” and “dynamite.” Now from Gregory Mosher, the producer of the original stage production, comes a stunning screen adaptation, directed by Michael Corrente and starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, and Sean Nelson. A classic tragedy, American Buffalo is the story of three men struggling in the pursuit of their distorted vision of the American Dream. By turns touching and cynical, poignant and violent, American Buffalo is a piercing story of how people can be corrupted into betraying their ideals and those they love.

Author : George Colpitts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107044906

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Pemmican Empire by George Colpitts Pdf

Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.

Author : Dale F. Lott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520240629

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American Bison by Dale F. Lott Pdf

"This is the best book I've read about American bison and their habitat. It is vivid, concise, witty, erudite, first-hand, and up-to-date. Most important, it argues convincingly that the only way to assure survival of bison and their habitat in the wild is to establish a Great Plains National Park at least 5,000 square miles in extent."—David Rains Wallace, author of The Bonehunter's Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Great Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age "Dr. Lott's scholarship is strong and thorough. American Bison presents an extensive, state-of-the-art review of key points of American bison that are unaddressed or under-addressed by previous books. Moreover, it does it in a popularized, often narrative form that makes the material comprehensible to the educated lay reader as well as to the bison scholar."—James H. Shaw, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State University

Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700624669

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American Serengeti by Dan Flores Pdf

America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, "it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals." In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory—and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Great Plains with its wildlife intact dazzled Americans and Europeans alike, prompting numerous literary tributes. American Serengeti takes its place alongside these celebratory works, showing us the grazers and predators of the plains against the vast opalescent distances, the blue mountains shimmering on the horizon, the great rippling tracts of yellowed grasslands. Far from the empty "flyover country" of recent times, this landscape is alive with a complex ecology at least 20,000 years old—a continental patrimony whose wonders may not be entirely lost, as recent efforts hold out hope of partial restoration of these historic species. Written by an author who has done breakthrough work on the histories of several of these animals—including bison, wild horses, and coyotes—American Serengeti is as rigorous in its research as it is intimate in its sense of wonder—the most deeply informed, closely observed view we have of the Great Plains' wild heritage.

Author : William T. Hornaday
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547247906

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The Extermination of the American Bison by William T. Hornaday Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Extermination of the American Bison" by William T. Hornaday. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Patrick James White,Rick L. Wallen,David E. Hallac,Katrina L. Auttelet,Jennifer A. Jerrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : American bison
ISBN : 0934948305

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Yellowstone Bison by Patrick James White,Rick L. Wallen,David E. Hallac,Katrina L. Auttelet,Jennifer A. Jerrett Pdf

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521003482

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The Destruction of the Bison by Andrew C. Isenberg Pdf

This study, first published in 2000, examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison.

Author : J. David Taylor,Dave Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0865053669

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The Bison and the Great Plains by J. David Taylor,Dave Taylor Pdf

Text and photographs depict the life of the bison on the Great Plains.

Author : Keith Aune,Glenn Plumb
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439666845

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Theodore Roosevelt & Bison Restoration on the Great Plains by Keith Aune,Glenn Plumb Pdf

This history chronicles the 19th century plan to reintroduce wild bison into Western Montana and the rise of Roosevelt’s conservation movement. In the late 1800s, the rapid depletion of the American bison population prompted calls for the preservation of wildlife and wild lands in North America. Following a legendary hunt for the last wild bison in central Montana, Dr. William Hornady sought to immortalize the West's most iconic species. Activists like Theodore Roosevelt rose to the call, initiating a restoration plan that seemed almost incomprehensible in that era. This thoroughly researched history follows the ambitious project from the first animals bred at the Bronx Zoo to today's National Bison Range. Glenn Plumb, a former chief wildlife biologist for the National Park Service, and Keith Aune, the former Wildlife Conservation Society director of bison programs, demonstrate how the success of bison repopulation bolstered Roosevelt's broader conservation efforts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American bison
ISBN : 1558684069

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Bison by Anonim Pdf

In a celebration of the wild hoofed animal that descended from the prehistoric bison and was the lifeblood of the Plains Indians, the author and photographer document this awesome beast in all its grandeur and beauty.100 color photos.