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Part of a herd of bison in the Lamar Valley near the Lamar River Trail in May 2005.
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Bison
Genocide Against the American Indian, Destruction of the Buffalo, & Imperialism in Iraq (a pdf teach-in I gave on October 12, 2005)
The Great Bison: Symbol of the American West: from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition
Ralph Maughan's Updates on the Bison Situation (new updates on Ralph's blog)
Yellowstone Buffalo Slaughter History by Buffalo Field Campaign (Grassroots activists who have been actively opposing the slaughter of Yellowstone bison - this includes current totals of bison slaughtered)
Yellowstone Bison Fact Sheet by Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison Land Use Fact Sheet by Buffalo Field Campaign
Buffalo and Native Americans by Buffalo Field Campaign 		  National Parks and Conservation Association Bison Page
Bison Prevented from Using Critical Habitat Outside Yellowstone Park from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition
Brucellosis and Yellowstone Bison by the USDA
Facts about bison
More facts about bison
Even more facts about bison
Intertribal Bison Cooperative
Brucellosis from the Centers for Disease Control
American Buffalo: Spirt of a Nation from the PBS series Nature 		  Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area, National Academy of Sciences
Ralph Maughan's Updates on the Bison Situation (new updates on Ralph's blog)
Buffalo: National Wildlife Federation Efforts
Montana State University Center for Bison Studies
The National Bison Association (an organization that promotes the bison as an agricultural commodity)
Bison bison historic range map
Bison (Buffalo) by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic
Montana Department of Livestock Brucellosis and Bison page (No page would be complete without the view, though I believe misguided, of the other side)
Bears
Bearman Yellowstone Bear News
Bearman's Suggested Bear Deterrents
Camping Safe with Bears by the Bearman Kevin Sanders
Yellowstone Bears by the Bearman Kevin Sanders
Ralph Maughan's Grizzly Bear Reports (newer updates on Ralph's blog) 		  Grizzly Bear by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic
Black Bear by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic
Ups and Downs for the Grizzly Bear by The Riverdeep Current
Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, MT
Where Are All the Bears? by Yellowstone Treasures 		  Yellowstone Grizzlies: A Comeback by Tom Reed
Yellowstone's grizzly bears benefitting from squirrels' and wolves' hard work by Shelli Johnson in Yellowstone Journal
White Paper of Grizzly Science by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (1997)
YellowstoneNationalPark.Net bears page
Wolves
Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report (best source on Yellowstone Wolves - new updates on Ralph's blog)   Bearman's Yellowstone Wolf Update
Conflict Yellowstone Wolves 		  Yellowstone Wolf Tracker
Gray Wolf by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic
Elk
Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone's Northern Range (2002) by National Research Council (144 pages of fascinating research on a controversial issue)
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation 		  Facts about elk
More facts about elk
The Elk of Yellowstone Park by Yellowstone Treasures 		  National Elk Refuge Home Page
Elk (Wapiti) by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic
Yellowstone Overgrazed?  An argument that it is not by George Wuerthner
Moose
Facts about moose
More facts about moose 		  Moose by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic   Yellowstone Moose by the National Park Service
Yellowstone Moose by UltimateYellowstonePark.com
Mule Deer
Facts about mule deer   Mule Deer by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic  
Bighorn Sheep
Facts about bighorn sheep   Bighorn Sheep by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic  
Coyote
Facts about coyote
Coyotes of the Lamar Valley by Chris Mlot for Science News Online 		  Coyote by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic   No Longer Top Dog by Roger Di Silvestro in National Wildlife
Fish
Yellowstone National Park fishing regulations
Yellowstone Net Flyfishing Page 		  Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout by Montana Chapter of American Fisheries Society (a lot of info)
Flyfishing with Guy Turk (a column in the Jackson Hole Net Magazine) 		  The Yellowstone Lake Crisis: Confronting a Lake Trout Invasion by the National Park Service, 1995
Pronghorn Antelope
Facts about pronghorn antelope   Pronghorn (Antelope) by Todd Wilkinson Yellowstone Geographic  
Birds
The Trumpeter Swan Society   Threatened & Endangered Birds by Yellowstone National Park.Com  
Miscellaneous
99 Things to Do in Yellowstone (36-40: Wildlife) (pdf from Yellowstone Journal)   Online database listing all the species of animals and plants in Yellowstone National Park   Yellowstone Otters from the PBS show Nature