2. The Trail Back from Near Extinction

2006

2 November 2006. NASA SNOW DATA HELPS MAINTAIN NATION'S LARGEST, OLDEST BISON HERD. From NASA Earth Observatory. NASA satellite data and computer models are helping track bison in Yellowstone National Park as they migrate with the melting snowpack.

2004

13 January 2004. Groups fear for Yellowstone bison, By Becky Bohrer, Associated Press. BILLINGS, Mont. - With Yellowstone National Park's bison population at its highest level in years, some environmentalists fear huge numbers of the beasts will wander into Montana this winter and be killed in the name of controlling disease. Fueling their concerns is a recent spell of harsh weather - hard winters historically have led to more bison leaving the park in search of food - and fears that officials will take a hard line against bison after a Wyoming cattle herd was found infected with brucellosis, a disease also present in the Yellowstone bison herd.

2003

Spring 2003. Reclaiming the Modoc. Article by Jim McCarthy in Terrain magazine, Ecology Center. Wolves are migrating back to a northeast California county, "where the West still lives." Ranchers may be waiting with rifles.

2002

Fall 2002. Welcome to the Whoopee Lab (examples of endangered species), from OnEarth (NRDC), p. 11. Fourteen individuals away from extinction in the late 1970s, North America's red wolves ran into each other so rarely that they began mating with western coyotes. With the species facing demise and conservationists facing few options, these last wolves ended up in a captive breeding program-in which wild species are placed in research facilities and mated under the supervision of biologists.

2000

The 2000 redlist of threatened species -- International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

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