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Challenges and opportunities for cross-jurisdictional bison conservation in North America.

Pejchar, Liba, Medrano, Lissett, Niemiec, Rebecca M., Barfield, Jennifer P., Davidson, Ana, Hartway, Cynthia·2021·Biological Conservation
DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109029
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Restoring free-roaming mammals that fill critical ecological roles requires large connected landscapes that cross jurisdictional boundaries. Plains bison, once nearly extirpated from North America, are now confined to several larger free-roaming herds and a number of small fenced herds in regions where they are often managed as livestock rather than wildlife. Although bison reintroduction efforts are rapidly gaining momentum, restoring free-roaming bison remains challenged by real and perceived wildlife-human conflict. Thus, developing a shared vision for bison recovery, or at least understanding and acknowledging diverse visions, could be critical to success. To address this need, we surveyed experts from government, academia, and conservation organizations to evaluate if there is a shared long-term vision for bison, and to identify the most significant challenges, promising strategies, and research priorities for achieving this vision. We found that most respondents support a future with fenced herds as well as more free-roaming (unfenced) herds, and value bison as wildlife and cultural animals, rather than for livestock. Key challenges to achieving more free-roaming bison included political will, social acceptability, and management across jurisdictional boundaries. Respondents identified successful strategies for overcoming barriers as bottom-up collaborations, economic incentives, and demonstration projects. Research priorities were largely social rather than biophysical, with a strong focus on how to motivate broad public support for free-roaming herds. As an ecological and cultural keystone species, restoring large and connected bison herds where human-bison co-existence is feasible will reap rewards for nature and people.

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  • Acquiring additional lands will rely on transition of leases from common livestock use to bison grazing, which requires additional funding for leases and infrastructure, and a need to facilitate stakeholder processes in each community to address the spectrum of social tolerance for bison.

    “Acquiring additional lands will rely on transition of leases from common livestock use to bison grazing which requires additional funding for leases and infrastructure, and a need to facilitate stakeholder processes in each community to address the spectrum of social tolerance for bison (Pejchar et al., 2021).”

    From The Potential of Bison Restoration as an Ecological Approach to Future Tribal Food Sovereignty on the Northern Great Plains (2022) · cites this paper as Pejchar et al., 2021

  • If restoration of bison to provide ecological function and services is a goal, it is critical to address tribal needs for funding, enhanced community capacity, solving complex landownership interactions, and developing a well-defined adaptive management plan.

    “However, if restoration of bison to provide ecological function and services is a goal, it is critical to address tribal needs for funding, enhanced community capacity (e.g., training of staff, food distribution frameworks), solving complex landownership interactions (cross boundaries management, sensu lato; Pejchar et al., 2021), and developing a well-defined adaptive management plan (Briske, 201”

    From The Potential of Bison Restoration as an Ecological Approach to Future Tribal Food Sovereignty on the Northern Great Plains (2022) · cites this paper as Pejchar et al., 2021

  • These sociological factors have been found to limit wildlife reintroduction opportunities and have limited bison re-establishment across jurisdictions in the United States.

    “These needs are not unique to bison conservation within the NGP, as each of these sociological factors has been found to limit wildlife reintroduction opportunities (Berger-Tal et al., 2020) and specifically, they have limited bison re-establishment across jurisdictions in the United States (Pejchar et al., 2021).”

    From The Potential of Bison Restoration as an Ecological Approach to Future Tribal Food Sovereignty on the Northern Great Plains (2022) · cites this paper as Pejchar et al., 2021

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Authors
Pejchar, L., Medrano, L., Niemiec, R. M., Barfield, J. P., Davidson, A., & Hartway, C.
Affiliations
  • Colorado State University (US)
  • Wildlife Conservation Society (US)
Corresponding author
Pejchar, Liba
ORCID
Venue
Biological Conservation
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-04
Volume
256
Pages
109029
ISSN
0006-3207 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109029
OpenAlex
W3135278225
Cited by
22
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2020: 1
FWCI
1.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
Biological Conservation (publishedVersion)
Funders
Colorado State University
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Keywords
plains bison, bison, human-wildlife conflict, bison reintroduction, political will, social acceptance, bottom-up collaboration, economic incentives, keystone species, North America

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