Mauramerck

Hi Maura, just sending you a message as per assigned. --Biredale (talk) 13:52, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to Vancouver meetup

Hello,

You are invited to an edit-a-thon at the Prophouse Café on Sunday March 25, as part of Women's History Month events all over the world. If you wish to attend, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon and add your signature to the list.

Thank you! InverseHypercube (talk) 10:05, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed Outline

• Historical decline of the North American bison population (I am in charge of this section)
  • Plains bison
  • Wood bison
  • Social ecology - importance to indigenous people
  • Evolution of hunting practices
  • Implications for preservation efforts

• Origins of wildlife preservation in Canada
  • Ideological development of the wildlife conservation movement
  • Contradictions

• The evolution of federal government wildlife policy in Canada (I will add to this section)
  • Trajectory: preservation → utilitarian conservation → rational, scientific, bureaucratic management that promoted domestication of wildlife and Native people
  • Goals: preservation of wilderness and wildlife; recreational, commercialization, assertion of state authority and control over wildlife and Native people
  • Contradictions in policies
  • Social, cultural, and political forces
    • Internal colonialism – disdain for Native hunting cultures, assertion of state authority, influence of scientific knowledge, modernization agenda for Canada’s north
  • Significance and legacies over the long term – historical and cultural implications

• National Parks
  • Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta
  • Wood Bison National Park in northeastern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories
  • 1925-28: Transfer of plains bison from the overpopulated range in Buffalo National Park to the supposedly understocked range in Wood Buffalo National Park resulted in hybridization between the species and the infection of the northern herds with tuberculosis and brucellosis (Sandlos, 2002, 95).

• Interactions between Aboriginal peoples, preservationists, and government officials
  • Cultural and ecological interactions between Native Americans and Euroamericans in the Great Plains (I will add to this section)
  • Historical conflict between Native hunters and conservationists over bison
  • Assertion of state authority over the traditional hunting cultures of the Cree, Dene, and Inuit peoples
  • Social, cultural, political, and economic implications for Aboriginals
  • Ecological implications for bison populations (I will add to this section)

• Contemporary bison conservation
  • Significance and legacies
  • Current conservation efforts – plans to reintroduce bison to Banff National Park

Article is up

History of bison conservation in Canada Good work! The Interior (Talk) 16:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Go Team Bison :) Chaereankim (talk) 05:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)