Bison Habitat Maps (8 Available)

1. Yellowstone Bison Herd Migration (Click on Map for Larger Image)


2. Upper Gallatin River Bison Winter Range (Click on Map for Larger Image)



3. Historic Bison Range (Click on Map for Larger Image)

4. Spatial Density Dependence in Yellowstone National Park Bison (Click on Map for Larger Image)


5. WHAT THE PAST CAN PROVIDE: CONTRIBUTION OF PREHISTORIC BISON STUDIES TO MODERN BISON MANAGEMENT (Click on Map for Larger Image)

6. THE ECOLOGY OF BISON MOVEMENTS AND DISTRIBUTION IN AND BEYOND YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK(Click on Map for Larger Image)

7. Carrying capacity, migration, and dispersal in Yellowstone bison(Click on Map for Larger Image)

8. The Ecological Future of the North American Bison (Click on Map for Larger Image)


Map Sources
1. U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. December 20, 2000. Final Environmental Impact Statement and Bison Management Plan for the State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park, Volume I.

2. Jourdonnais, Craig, Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks. 2006. Winter Range Assessment for Bison in the Upper Gallatin River Drainage: DRAFT FWP population objective for bison wintering in the Taylor Fork/Porcupine areas.

3. Hornaday, William T. 1889. The Extermination of the American Bison, From the Report of the National Museum, 1886-’87, pp: 369-548, Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. Republished 2006 by The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Project Gutenberg EBook ™, Fairbanks, Alaska.

4. Taper, M.L., M. Meagher, C.L. Jerde. 2000. The Phenology of Space: Spatial Aspects of Bison Density Dependence in Yellowstone National Park.

5. Cannon, Kenneth P. 2001. WHAT THE PAST CAN PROVIDE: CONTRIBUTION OF PREHISTORIC BISON STUDIES TO MODERN BISON MANAGEMENT. Great Plains Research 11(1): 145-174.

6. Gates, C. Cormack, Brad Stelfox, Tyler Muhly, Tom Chowns, Robert J. Hudson. 2005. THE ECOLOGY OF BISON MOVEMENTS AND DISTRIBUTION IN AND BEYOND YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, A Critical Review With Implications for Winter Use and Transboundary Population Management. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

7. Plumb et al. 2009. Carrying capacity, migration, and dispersal in Yellowstone bison. Biological Conservation 142: 2377–2387.

8. Sanderson et al. 2008. The Ecological Future of the North American Bison: Conceiving Long-Term, Large-Scale Conservation of Wildlife. Conservation Biology 22(2): 252-266.