The design of biological monitoring systems for pest management (Simulation monographs)
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    American Bison: A Natural History (Organisms and Environments, 6)
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    • Buffalo for Dummies
    • Should be required reading for Americans.
    • Awesome, whether or not you like bison
    • Anyone interested in the American Bison should own this book
    • Best book I read in 2004
    		 American Bison: A Natural History (Organisms and Environments, 6)
    Dale F. Lott
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    ASIN: 0520240626

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    American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has studied the buffalo for many years, relates what is known about this iconic animal's life in the wild and its troubled history with humans. Written with unusual grace and verve, American Bison takes us on a journey into the bison's past and shares a compelling vision for its future, offering along the way a valuable introduction to North American prairie ecology.
    We become Lott's companions in the field as he acquaints us with the social life and physiology of the bison, sharing stories about its impressive physical prowess and fascinating relationships. Describing the entire grassland community in which the bison live, he writes about the wolves, pronghorn, prairie dogs, grizzly bears, and other animals and plants, detailing the interdependent relationships among these inhabitants of a lost landscape. Lott also traces the long and dramatic relationship between the bison and Native Americans, and gives a surprising look at the history of the hide hunts that delivered the coup de grâce to the already dwindling bison population in a few short years.
    This book gives us a peek at the rich and unique ways of life that evolved in the heart of America. Lott also dismantles many of the myths we have created about these ways of life, and about the bison in particular, to reveal the animal itself: ruminating, reproducing, and rutting in its full glory. His portrait of the bison ultimately becomes a plea to conserve its wildness and an eloquent meditation on the importance of the wild in our lives.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Buffalo for Dummies.......2007-08-03

    I searched for this book in my local library to read before buying. After reading it, I decided it was not worth my money.

    I first must say I have quiet a bit of expereince with Buffalo since I have raised them for almost 15 years. Actually you could say they have taught me how to satisfy their needs so they don't leave my ranch. My herd started at two animals and grew to over 50 at one time.

    I was hoping to read a more indepth description of buffalo biology and behavior. Unfortunately I consider this a rather shallow explaination of buffalo behavior. There are parts of the book that I must agree, however. Buffalo are wild animals therefore are often unpredictable. They are large, fast and protective of their young. A buffalo can kill you very quickly and anyone who thinks they have tamed a buffalo can be seriously surprised.

    The author seems to believe that the only real buffalo is a wild animal fenced in a national park. In numerious pages he speaks negatively of ranchers who raise buffalo for meat or other products. Any reader should understand that 90% of all buffalo in the US are privately owned. The original surviving buffalo were privately owned. Governements, both US and Canada have only a small portion of the existing population.

    One item of interest to me is how the scientific community estimated the maximum herd size of the American Buffalo. The process is rather shallow in its data and the estimation procedure. Several of the assumptions used in the calculation do not reflect actual buffalo behavior.

    Oh well, enough of my critisizum. If you want to learn about buffalo read this book but do not consider it complete or accurate. Search out a buffalo herd and visit it. There are herds in every state including AK & HI. Private ranchers will tell and teach you more indepth knowledge than this elementary primer on the subject.

    5 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for Americans........2007-03-29

    What a great job of telling the story of the American Bison and the ecology of the Great Plains! Dale Lott writes in such a pleasing style, the book was a pleasure from start to finish. Having recently moved to a spot in Wyoming where bison are roaming around my house, I wanted to learn more about them. The book delivered beautifully. Buy it!

    5 out of 5 stars Awesome, whether or not you like bison.......2005-07-09

    This is one of those books that should leap into your shopping cart even if you're not inherently interested in the topic. This is easily the best book I've read on any animal, though some books on wolves come close. Given the totemic role of the bison in American culture and history, it's an important book as well.

    I'm not particularly interested in bison, and used to see them as dumb cow-like animals you see everywhere in Yellowstone. I now have much greater respect for the animal. I've also learned the answers to burning questions such as "why, if they are both prairie grazers, are pronghorns (usually) territorial while bison are not?"

    Lott likes to tell stories as a way to present natural history. This strategy is very effective. He is a professor emeritus of natural history but wears his learning lightly, in part because of these stories.

    Lott is also uniquely qualified to write this book. He grew up on the national bison range, so he has been around these animals all his life. It's easy to imagine walking the prairie with Lott, listening to his stories about bison. He tells stories and explains nature as well as Bernd Heinrich, though Lott is less quirky (which could be either a good thing or a bad thing).

    Though the book is short, it's pretty exhaustive in its coverage of the bison. He covers habitat, behavior, some other animals in the ecosystem (badgers, coyotes, black-footed ferrets, prairie dogs), relations with humans, and conservation issues.

    I don't normally praise a book's production values, but kudos to the University of California Press for making a beautiful trade paperback. You can get a sense of this from the cover picture here at Amazon. The layout and organization, the photographic plates in the middle of the book, and the pictures at the head of each part (group of chapters) look great. It's a pleasure to hold in your hands as you read it.

    The book makes an argument for a large grasslands park, probably in conjunction with Canada's Grasslands NP. This argumentation isn't particularly effective, though. If you're inclined to favor such an idea, Lott will have an emotional appeal to you. If you're opposed, you won't get any hard-nosed arguments that will try to persuade you to change your mind. (In either case, I would recommend Manning's "Grassland" as making a more powerful case for such a park.)

    Anyway, check out all the other reviews. Everybody loves this book and you will too.

    4 out of 5 stars Anyone interested in the American Bison should own this book.......2005-04-08

    Not just a book about the American Bison (commonly called Buffalo)itself but also just about anything connected with them. You'll get information about herd ranges- past & present, current population estimates (and worries about the future of the herd, and scholars best guesses about what historical numbers might have been.
    Dr. Lott writes extensively about behavior of the bison, some of this comes from 3 generations of personal family experience and includes items I hadn't read or heard of before. You'll even find extensive material about plant and other animal life that live with these animals and how many of them are interrelated.
    He even covers the human/hunting aspects and their effects on what the bison was/is. Someone out to hunt buffalo might get some hints but the book isn't aimed at them.
    If you've ever seen a buffalo you'll want this book, you really ought to consider it even if you don't ever plan on looking them up (That is the skimpiest part of the book, finding out just where the remaining bison herds are today).
    I gave $40 for the hardcover, I think the paperback is $11.95, not cheap but a pretty good value for one of the best bison books I've got.

    5 out of 5 stars Best book I read in 2004.......2005-03-17

    I can't believe it's true, but it was the best book for me in 2004. Of course, I have a particular interest in bison and prairie wildlife but most of the books I read on those subjects are pretty dull and a chore to work through.

    In stark contrast, Lott's book is a joy to read. Just because a species is interesting doesn't ensure that a book on it will be. Lott gives these amazing creatures the treatment they deserve. The reader can tell that Lott really enjoyed writing this book. His writing is entertaining, humorous when appropriate and packed with a ton of information.

    Eveb if you're not into wildlife, bison or the prairie, I'd still recommend this book. Bison are an important part of the ecology, history and psychology of this nation. Lott reminds us that bison are in our blood.
    Buffalo: Natural History & Conservation (Worldlife Library)
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      Harold Picton
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      Buffalo Country: A Northern Plains Narrative
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      • Buffalo Country TAKES you there!
      		 Buffalo Country: A Northern Plains Narrative
      Edward Raventon
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      Edward Raventon follows the old trails high into the forested buttes, across sagebrush prairies, and down into sculpted badlands and cobbled riverbeds--recounting a land of unique natural history that once evolved great herds of animals along with the native cultures that effloresced and disintegrated with them.

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      5 out of 5 stars Buffalo Country TAKES you there!.......2007-10-04

      Remember falling asleep in American History class? That's because "Buffalo Country" wasn't your textbook. If all you recall from Earth Science 101 is a box of nameless rocks on a shelf, Ed Raventon was NOT your teacher!
      Ed tracks bison through the northern plains where I meet heroes and scoundrels among the traders, settlers, explorers and soldiers. I couldn't imagine the thunder of sound as thousands of buffalo lumbered through the Black Hills...but NOW I can!
      The only way to improve on Mr. Raventon's book "Buffalo Country" is to make the trip to the northern plains yourself...and that's what I plan to do soon - on my motorcycle - with "Buffalo Country" in my saddlebag!
      Buffalo Book: The Full Saga Of The American Animal
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      • Quite a mouth full
      • Everything you wanted to know about buffalo
      • The Quintessential Western Animal
      		 Buffalo Book: The Full Saga Of The American Animal
      David A. Dary
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      ASIN: 0804009317

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Quite a mouth full.......2005-10-12

      David Dary's book is unique among wildlife history sagas in that it provides exactly what the title suggests- " the full saga of the animal" We are treated to a natural history of the American Buffalo from its ancient ancestors up until the animal's current resurgence as a popular food source. In between, the reader is treated to well-composed and down right interesting images of the great bison herds of the midwest- (numbering in some 75 million), and mounds of bones and skulls left over from the great slaughter at the end of the nineteent century. We learn of the Native American reliance upon the great bison...and that without the use of bison as a food resource, the West might never had been won. Dary's book is a must for History buffs and general readers who want a well-written and competantly documented saga...of the animal that really should be the actual symbol of America.

      5 out of 5 stars Everything you wanted to know about buffalo .......2005-03-21

      This is one of the better and more complete books about the American Bison, aka buffalo. The author starts with the forerunners of the modern day buffalo, about 10,000 years ago, and works his way up to the present. Along the way he has chapters about the Indians and their use of the buffalo, the slaughter of the buffalo for its hides in the 1870s, and the rescue of the buffalo from extinction. He draws his material from an enormous number of sources, interspersing eye-witness acounts of the buffalo with scholarly observations. Several dozen photos, some of them historical, enhance the narrative.

      The most interesting material in the book is the story of the buffalo's salvation from extinction. One authority estimated that 75 million buffalo lived in North America before the white man arrived, but only 800 buffalo survived in 1895. That small group has grown to a present population of about 100,000. The story of saving the buffalo tells of Eastern idealists and Western ranchers with characters like "Prairie Dog" Morrow, Charles Goodnight, and "Buffalo" Jones playing important roles.

      This is a fine book of Western Americana and natural history which even includes a mini-cookbook for buffalo meat in an appendix.

      Smallchief

      5 out of 5 stars The Quintessential Western Animal.......2000-04-01

      See a camel, think of the Sahara; see a kangaroo and think of Australia; see a buffalo and your mind will wander to the American West. No other animal is as emblematic of the region -- and (to the best of my experience) no other book offers as thorough an exploration of this animal as does The Buffalo Book. This is excellent reading in several fields: zoology, wildlife conservation, history, Native American culture, and -- by no means least -- plain old entertainment. If your literary tastes lean towards any or all of the above topics, don't miss The Buffalo Book!
      Bison: Symbol of the American West
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        Michael S. Sample
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        Easy-to-read facts about bison. Includes 52 outstanding color photos.
        The fossil Bison of Alaska and preliminary revision of the genus (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 89, article 3)
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          Morris F Skinner
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          Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists (Bison Book)
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • Wonderful book - could use more illustrations though
          		 Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists (Bison Book)
          Paul Russell Cutright
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          ASIN: 0803263341

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          First published in 1969, Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists remains the most comprehensive account of the scientific studies carried out by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their overland expedition to the Pacific Northwest and back in 1804–6. Summaries of the animals, plants, topographical features, and Indian tribes encountered are included at the end of each chapter devoted to a particular leg of the journey. This is the work for which the distinguished biologist and author Paul Russell Cutright will be remembered longest.

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          4 out of 5 stars Wonderful book - could use more illustrations though.......2003-09-07

          This book is a fascinating natural history of the Lewis and Clark expedition that deals not just with flora and fauna but also with geology, geography, medicine, and the ethnography of the tribes the explorers met on their way to the Pacific and back. The story is told chronologically, with enough detail that if your main interest is natural history this could be the only history of the expedition you will want to read.

          The author writes in a surprisingly readable style. The book's only drawback is the almost total lack of illustrations. Judging from the nice drawing on the cover, taken from a page of the explorers' journals, there were illustrations available but they didn't make it into the text. There were so many times when even a line drawing would have been helpful. At the very least some maps (one for each chapter, showing rivers, the explorers' path, and major landmarks along with maybe a light outline of present state boundaries) should be added to future editions.

          The bottom line: this is a good book with a wealth of information. You may want to keep a map and/or a wildlife guide handy as you read, though.
          The Time of the Buffalo
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • Excellent, but dated
          • A definitive work on the buffalo which is also fun to read.
          		 The Time of the Buffalo
          Tom McHugh
          Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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          ASIN: 0803281056

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          The magnificent beast that once roamed from Alaska to the Carolinas "in numbers numberless" is splendidly memorialized in The Time of the Buffalo, which begins with its genesis in the Ice Age, traces its evolution and natural history, observes its patterns of behavior, and records its life-and-death relationship with three cultures of man. Here are the ways in which the buffalo crucially affected (and was affected by) the hunters of the Pleistocene epoch and, in our era, the life of the Plains Indians and nineteenth-century frontiersmen. Here is the creature itself—seen as an integral part of a rich ecological and cultural tapestry.



          Combining extensive field research on live herds with the study of historical records, Tom McHugh offers a rare closeup of the buffalo's habits and life cycle, detailing such aspects as mating, calving, stampedes, play, and aggression. In equally fascinating detail he tells how the Plains Indians used the buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter, and endowed it with spirit; how the European settlers viewed it first as an object of awe and then as a source of plunder and how, by nearly exterminating this single species, they destroyed all the Plains cultures. An account of the movement to save the buffalo completes this informative and moving work—the 1972 winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award in the nonfiction category as well as being voted the year's best western historical book by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars Excellent, but dated.......2002-06-17

          Though I attended a school with a buffalo as its mascot, I never tried to learn much about them till recently. Purchasing this book was part of my effort to learn more, and the book was useful for that. The book is very readable, and a very interesting overview of the buffalo. Unfortunately, it dates from the 1970s, and knowledge has moved on since then. The most obvious example of this is coverage of "Blue Babe"--A frozen buffalo from several thousand years ago which was discovered after this book was published. I'm sure there are other places where our understanding of buffalo and their place in the scheme of the prairie has changed, but I'm not expert enough to identify them. I really like the book, but would like to see it updated to reflect new findings.

          5 out of 5 stars A definitive work on the buffalo which is also fun to read........1999-01-29

          This full-scale study of the buffalo splendidly memorializes the magnificent beast that once roamed from Alaska to the Carolinas. Illustrated with maps, drawings, paintings and photographs, this informative account begins with the genesis of the buffalo in the Ice Age and traces his evolution, natural history, patterns of behavior, and relationships with three cultures.

          You may consider this review biased since I am the brother of the author (who is now deceased). However, I found the book great fun to read and the technical aspects of the material are beyond reproach. In 1984, Tom McHugh wrote:

          "Some reviewers have called my book, The Time of the Buffalo, the definitive work on the subject. The book actually had its beginnings in my doctoral thesis, a study of social behavior in buffalo. For the book, I expanded my thesis to include the effect of the buffalo on the life of ancient hunters, the Plains Indians, the American frontier. Photographs of buffalo behavior that I originally made for the thesis eventually led to my being chosen as director of photography for Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning feature, `The Vanishing Prairie.'"
          American Bison: A Natural History.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
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            		American Bison: A Natural History.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
            Steven W. Buskirk
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            This digital document is an article from Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1266 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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            The bison of the Western area of the Mississippi Basin (Proceedings of the Colorado Museum of Natural History)
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              J. D Figgins
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