American Serengeti Research

Copy and paste these questions into a google doc and then share with me:

Remember your username is firstname.lastname and your password is your student ID# Share with me: gartonj@billingsschools.org

Questions

1. What is the purpose of the American Prairie Foundation?
2. How big is the Reserve?
3. Where is this reserve located?
4. What are the animals that the foundation wants to protect and or bring back?
5. What is brucellosis?
6. How did bison get it to begin with?
7. Are there other wild animals that carry brucellosis?
8. Why are ranchers concerned about brucellosis?
9. List all the reasons why creating this preserve is a good thing.
10. List all the reasons why some people are against creating this preserve.
11. What do you think? Are you for or against this? Why? Be specific.
12. Remember to list your sources that you use!!! You must use at least three.

Here are some suggestions to help you with your research.

American Prairie Foundation

General information about the Prairie foundation

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/sean_gerrity_american_prairie_reserve_montana/2555

http://www.americanprairie.org

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/prairie-reserve-buys--acre-montana-ranch/article_e82dba05-97ef-53b2-92c7-a4beb0562a6c.html

http://www.ranchersstewardshipalliance.org

Brucellosis information

http://www.cdc.gov/brucellosis/index.html

http://bisoncentre.com/index.php/producers-2/resource-library/advanced-bison-information/diseases-of-bison-/brucellosis-and-bison

www.pbs.org/buffalowar/war1.html

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2427&from=rss

Opposition to Prairie Reserve

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_116a0b7a-ed31-11de-9313-001cc4c03286.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/us/efforts-to-restore-bison-on-the-montana-range-resisted.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/us/bison-return-to-montana-prairie.html

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/aug/22/prairie-preserve-stokes-outrage