Bison

Bam!! All of a sudden you see a flash of brown cross in front of you as you are driving from your parents’ house after visiting for Thanksgiving, you try to stop to avoid hitting the deer, but you end up hitting it and spinning out into the ditch causing you a lot of money in damage that has happened to your vehicle. That happens to many people in a year; there were 1.23 million car accidents involving deer and vehicles between July 2, 2011 and June 30, 2012. Many people think deer hunting…

Big Bison Resort would benefit from positive reinforcement, as this will continue to increase the likelihood that employers are doing their very best for the company and giving great customer service. Positive reinforcement is defined by encouragement of good employee behaviors, to promote the repetition of those good behaviors. The company can apply the principles of reinforcement more effectively by managing rewards and punishment. To use reinforcement, the reward system has to support the…

Do you know what the name Hopi means. There are many interesting facts about the Hopi tribe like. That they do the rain dance and the snake dance. Plus they mostly live in Arizona. And the Hopi talked the Uto-Aztecan Men in the Hopi tribe wore headbands made out of leather and woman wore cotton dresses that are called mantas. The Hopi's colthing was made out of cotton how cool is that. The Hopi people talked the Uto-Azteca language. Some of the traditions the Hopi did where the rain…

sport and it brings its fans along for the ride. The best fans are the die-hard fans, the jaded fans, and the band-wagon fans. Die-hard fans make football games entertaining because of their crazy antics. Most North Dakota State University (NDSU) Bison fans are die-hard fans. Fans like this paint their faces green and gold, paint their chests green and gold, and dye their hair green and gold. A few even go as far as getting tattoos of their team mascot, Thundar, or the NDSU logo. License…

and wildlife worldwide (Wyoming, n.d.). Brucella abortus is the only species of the Brucella that has been identified in bison (Bison bison). Brucellosis has caused the federal and state governments, as well as, the livestock industry billions of dollars in direct losses…

cause abortions, arthritis, male reproductive tract lesions, retained placentas, and bursitis (Rhyan, et al. 2013). Many bison carry antibodies to the virus. The active virus is present in only the reproductive tract of pregnant females (Lavigne, 2002). The most common route of transmission is oral. Bison and elk, like most ungulates, lick…

the hypothesis: there is a positive correlation between poor bison management practices in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, poor elk management practices in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Montana, and the spread of brucellosis in both wildlife and livestock during the past two decades; preventing bison from full population recovery. This theory is proven through the evaluation of the following data: the correlation between bison captured that tested positive for brucellosis and…

at Yellowstone National Park Setting: Yellowstone National Park Visitor center Purpose: To show the ecological importance of Bison in ecosystems Video Script Yellowstone National Park is the only place in the United States where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. The bison at Yellowstone are extraordinary because they are the nation’s largest bison population. Unlike most other herds, this population is divided into two breeding herds, northern and central, together…

The United States of America has a long American Indian history. These people were the first people to inhabit the new world or the Western Hemisphere of the Earth. South Dakota is the current home of the Sioux Nation tribe. South Dakota has ten reservations located in our state, one that covers part of Nebraska (Johnston, n.d., para. 4). South Dakota is one of the many states where American Indian traditions are still celebrated. Through all the struggles and the triumphant Sioux pride has…

Now, thanks to severe winter weather, they're starving - and leaving the park searching for food. The starvation of bison is not an accident of nature but the intended consequence of a disastrous National Park Service policy. Yellowstone's wildlife hubbub began early in this century, when overly zealous protection by park managers allowed elk and bison populations to explode. Each winter, thousands of elk fled the park to be shot by hunters at the boundary at a place known by 1910 as the…