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A Bibliography on Bison
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/bisonbib/index.htm

Antoniak, R., and C.C. Gates. 1996. Surveillance of the Bison Control Area, December 1995 - April 1996. Department of , Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories. Manuscript Report No. 99. 33 pp

Antoniak, R., and C.C. Gates. 1995. Surveillance of the Bison Control Area, December 1994 - March 1995. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories. Manuscript Report No. 84. 67 pp.

Bidwell, W.A., J.S. Nishi, and T.R. Ellsworth. 2004. Bison Control Area Program Annual Report of Survey Activities December 2003 - April 2004. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories. Manuscript Report No. 156. 50 pp.

Bison Disease Task Force. 1988. Evaluation of brucellosis and tuberculosis in northern Canada. Agriculture Canada and Parks Canada, Ottawa.

Bohnet, S., and C.C. Gates. 1997. Bison Control Program: annual report of survey activities, December 1996 - April 1997. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Manuscript Report No. 100. 33

Boulanger, A.J.M., J. Nishi and T. Ellsworth. 2002. Bison Control Program annual report of survey activities, December 1998-April 1999. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories. Manuscript Report No. 139. 40 pp.

Boulanger, A.J.M., T. Ellsworth and J. Nishi. 1999. Bison Control Program annual report of survey activities, December 1997-April 1998. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories. Manuscript Report No. 110. 37 pp.

Campbell, G.D., J.S. Nishi and T.R. Ellsworth. 2004. Bison Control Area Program Annual Report Of Survey Activities, December 2002 - April 2003. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories. Manuscript Report No. 155. 35 pp.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency. 1999. Risk Assessment on Bovine Brucellosis and Tuberculosis in Wood Buffalo National Park and Area. Unpublished Report, Animal, Plant and Food Risk Assessment Network, Ottawa, ON. 37p

Center for Bison and Wildlife Health, Montana State University 
http://www.montana.edu/~wwwcbs/index.html

Center for Bison Studies Montana State University- Bozeman http://www.montana.edu/~wwwcbs/brucbib.htm

Chisholm, J., L. Comin, and T. Unka. 1998. Concensus-based research to assist with bison management in Wood Buffalo National Park. Pages 199-204 in L. Irby and J. Knight, eds. International Symposium on Bison Ecology and Management in North America. Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.

Connelly, R.G., W.A. Fuller, G. Wobeser, R. Mercredi, and B. Hubert. 1990. Northern diseased bison: report of the Environmental Assessment Panel. Minister of Supply and Services Canada, Ottawa, ON. 47 pp.

Gates, C.C. and J. Wierzchowski. 2003. A Landscape Evaluation of Bison Movements and Distribution in Northern Canada. Addendum to the final report dated December 2001.

Gates, C.C., J. Mitchell, J. Wierzchowski and L. Giles. 2001a. A landscape evaluation of bison movements and distribution in Northern Canada. Axys Environmental Consulting Ltd., Calgary, Alberta. 113 pp. www.axys.net/library.htm

Gates, C.C., R.O. Stephenson, H.W. Reynolds, C.G. van Zyll de Jong, H. Schwantje, M.Hoefs, J.Nishi, N.Cool, J. Chisholm, A. James, and B. Koonz. 2001b. National Recovery Plan for Wood Bison ( Bison bison athabascae). National Recovery Plan No. 21. Recovery of Nationally Endangered Wildlife (RENEW), Ottawa, Ontario.

Gates, C.C. 1993. Biopolitics and pathobiology: diseased bison in northern Canada. Pages 271-288 in R.E. Walker, ed. Proceedings of the Northern Public Bison Herds Symposium, Lacrosse, Wisconsin.

Gates C.C. and S. Gray. 1992. Surveillance of the Bison Free Management Area, NWT. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Manuscript Report No. 50. 29pp

Gates, C.C., T. Chowns, and H. Reynolds. 1992a. Wood Buffalo at the crossroads. Pages 137-165 in Foster, J., D. Harrison, I.S. McLaren and B. Champion, eds. Buffalo. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta.

Gates, C.C., B. Elkin, L. Kearey , and T. Chowns. 1992b. Surveillance of the Bison Free Management Area, Jan-June 1992. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories. Manuscript Report No. 65. 26pp.

Gates, C.C. and N.C. Larter. 1990. Growth and dispersal of an erupting large herbivore population in northern Canada: The Mackenzie wood bison (Bison bison athabascae). Arctic 43(3)

Government of the Northwest Territories. Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources: NWT Wildlife Act. Section 61 (August 10, 1992), Yellowknife

Harper, W.L., J.P. Elliott, I. Hatter, and H. Schwantje. 2000. Management plan for wood bison in British Columbia. Wildlife Bulletin No. B-102. BC Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks. Victoria, BC. 43 pp.

Huff, D.E. and J. Chisholm. 1999. Managing diseased bison in the U.S. and the Canadian National Parks. International Symposium on Society & Resource Management, 6-10 July 1999, Brisbane, Australia

Joly, D.O., and F. Messier. 2004a. Factors affecting apparent prevalence of tuberculosis and brucellosis in wood bison. Journal of Animal Ecology. 73: 623-631.

Joly, D.O., and F. Messier. 2004b. Testing hypotheses of bison population decline (1970-1999) in Wood Buffalo National Park: synergism between exotic disease and predation. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 82: 1165-1176.

Joly, D.O., and F. Messier. 2001. Limiting effects of bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis on wood bison within Wood Buffalo National Park. University of Saskatchewan, Final Report, March 2001, submitted to Wood Buffalo National Park, Heritage Canada, Fort Smith, NT.

Komers, P.E., F. Messier and C.C. Gates. 1993.  Group structure in wood bison: nutritional and reproductive determinants. Can. J. Zool. 71.

Komers, P.E., F. Messier and C.C. Gates. 1992. Search or relax: the case of bachelor wood bison. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 31.

Larter, N.C., Gates, C.C., Nishi, J., Ellsworth, T., Sinclaire, A.R.E., 2000. Dynamics of reintroduction in an indigenous large ungulate: The wood bison of northern Canada. Animal Conservation. 4: 299-309.

Larter, N.C. and C.C. Gates. 1993. Home range size of wood bison: effects of age, sex and forage availability. J. Mammalogy 71.

Larter, N.C. and C.C. Gates. 1991. Diet and habitat selection of wood bison in relation to seasonal changes in forage quantity and quality. Can. J. Zool. 69

MacLaren (eds.) Alberta: Studies in the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 3(1), Special Issue on the Buffalo. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 

Nishi, J.S, 2002.  Surveillance Activities Under the Northwest Territories Bison Control Area Program (1987-2000), Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Government of the Northwest Territories, Manuscript Report No. 145.  32p.

Northern Buffalo Management Board. 1993. Northern Buffalo Management Program Report submitted to the Government of Canada, December 1992. Unpublished Report. 131p. Research Advisory Committee. 2001. Final Report to the Canadian Minister of Heritage and the Constituents of the Research Advisory Committee, Bison Research and Containment Program. Wood Buffalo National Park Unpublished Report, Fort Smith, NT. 29 p.

Reynolds, H. W., R. D. Glaholt, and A. W. L. Hawley. 1982. Bison. Chapter 49 in Chapman and Feldhamer (eds), Wild Mammals of North America.  The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Roe, F. G. 1970. The North American Buffalo. A critical study of the species in its wild state. Second edition. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tessaro, S.V., C.C. Gates and L.B. Forbs. 1993. The Brucellosis and tuberculosis status of wood bison in the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary, Northwest Territories, Canada. Can. J. Vet. Res. 57.  

Tessaro, S.V., L.B. Forbes and C. Turcotte. 1990. A survey of brucellosis and tuberculosis in bison in and around Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada. Canadian Veterinary Journal. 31: 174-180.

Wobeser, G. 1992. Disease in Northern Bison: What to do? A personal perspective. Pages 179-188 in Foster, J.D. Harrison,  I.S. McLaren and B. Champion , eds. Buffalo. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta.

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