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	Buffalo Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to restore large parts of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, the shortgrass prairie grazed by buffalo.
		Frank and Deborah Popper, who argued in a 1987 essay that the current use of the drier parts of the plains is not sustainable.
		Anne Matthews, Where the Buffalo Roam, publishers notes on a book (1993 Pulitzer finalist in nonfiction) on the Buffalo Commons proposal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buffalo_Commons (501 words)

	THE BUFFALO COMMONS AS REGIONAL METAPHOR AND GEOGRAPHIC METHOD
		In land-use terms, the Buffalo Commons was an umbrella phrase for a large-scale, long-term restoration project to counter the effects of the three cycles.
		The Buffalo Commons would not mean buffalo on every acre; but where Plains land uses were not working well either environmentally or economically, replacement land uses that treated the land more lightly would become inevitable.
		When we first proposed the Buffalo Commons, many people responded to the idea as though we had the power to make it happen (we actually got letters asking where we were planning to locate a fence around the ten- state area), and they resisted.
	www.gprc.org /buffalo_commons_popper.html (5755 words)

	In Montana, buffalo are getting new home to roam - The Boston Globe
		On Thursday, 16 buffalo will be released from a holding pen onto a portion of the nearly 32,000 acres that has been purchased or leased as the start of a wildlife reserve.
		The Buffalo Commons proposal was to restore prairie and wildlife, such as bison, in huge areas of the Plains states where agriculture is no longer sustainable because of dwindling population, drought, or other factors.
		Buffalo Commons is still a hated idea in some places, nearly 20 years after Popper and his wife proposed it.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/11/14/in_montana_buffalo_are_getting_new_home_to_roam (577 words)

	Michael Blake - Dances With Wolves
		While white populations continue to plunge on the plains, the descendents of free roaming hunters of the buffalo are seeing their populations increase.
		A Buffalo Commons will infuse the national spirit with new vitality, creating a living celebration of history and heritage which our descendants will thrill to and cherish as a source of national pride for many lifetimes to come.
		A Buffalo Commons has always been right for America and now is the time to begin the gratifying process of spreading its lovely light over a suffering world.
	www.danceswithwolves.net /buffalo.php (698 words)

	Buffalo Meat and Buffalo Hunting in Kansas
		Located 20 miles Northeast of Hoxie, Kansas, Buffalo Commons gives you the opportunity to harvest a variety of buffalo with a rifle or muzzle loader.
		Although not considered to be truly wild, these buffalo are not tame and should be considered dangerous.
		Buffalo Commons believes the safety and comfort of our hunters and guides are a top priority.
	www.buffalocommons.net (409 words)

	AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Uncommon Buffalo and the Buffalo Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Uncommon Buffalo and the Buffalo Commons
		In the past 20 years or so, the term "Buffalo Commons" has become a popular catchphrase that usually refers to another disaster: the death of the small towns of the High Plains, a result of an exodus of young people, a lack of economic growth and an aging population.
		At first, the term Buffalo Commons was a lightning rod, attracting doomsday prophets and defenders of civilized life in small towns and rural areas across the Great Plains.
	www.alternet.org /envirohealth/19522 (1143 words)

	Buffalo Hunting - Montana - New York Times
		In the Buffalo Commons idea, much of the Great Plains would be returned to the way it was before 19th-century settlement, a wild frontier.
		Creating the Buffalo Commons also would prevent the land from being controlled by large private owners, who often keep hunters off their land.
		Buffalo Bill Cody and Sioux warriors led the duke around the frontier, until Alexis took down a buffalo with Cody's personal rifle, the Lucretia Borgia.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/01/27/travel/escapes/27bison.html?pagewanted=3 (999 words)

	deseretnews.com \| New reserve will give bison place to roam
		They downplay the fear of some locals that the project is the start of turning Phillips County into a "Buffalo Commons," a place where traditional cattle operations are replaced by a sea of open prairie, populated by bison.
		The Buffalo Commons philosophy was to restore prairie and wildlife, like bison, on lands where agriculture is no longer sustainable because of dwindling population, drought or other factors.
		Buffalo Commons remains a dirty word in some parts of eastern Montana and the Plains states, nearly 20 years after Popper and his wife proposed the idea.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635161180,00.html (897 words)

	Bringing back the bison, bringing back an entire way of life
		The Buffalo Commons is a phrase that was coined by Deborah E.
		Over the years the Buffalo Commons idea has evolved becoming a description of the long-range, open-ended series of landuse changes that are occurring on the plains (Popper, 1994).
		With many examples of successful Buffalo Commons areas, these days there are not many who are adamantly opposed to the idea.
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~sustain/global/sensem/ohara97.htm (1004 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		The concept of "Buffalo Commons'' by Frank and Deborah Popper could stir an argument in the West as quickly as water rights in a drought year.
		Buffalo and other native animals and grasses would in some places replace cattle, a nonnative species.
		The Poppers expected that the federal government would be the catalyst for the Buffalo Commons.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/18/build/state/20-buffalo.inc (1204 words)

	wasvo1b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Common law is not only law that is common to a great number of diverse people, but also one that has its basis in the common people, the jury, which tries a case before the peers of the litigants.
		The forces of common law created the Constitution as well as the supreme law of the land, the treaty, an instance of which is the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.
		It was this--that we, the common man, the native, should be given the opportunity to be truly common people, people of the commons, that is, peasants, or shall we say, the new peasants--self-sustaining, family centered gardeners and herders working together to make the prairie prosper.
	www.tolatsga.org /wasvo1b.html (10518 words)

	The Buffalo Commons
		THE BUFFALO COMMONS is a cultural and social movement for positive, restorative social and ecological change on the Great Plains.
		As both model and metaphor, the Buffalo Commons includes various, sometimes seemingly disconnected components that all add up to a new healthier life for our region centered around sustainability and regained community.
		The Buffalo Commons engages Prairie/Plains people to get invested in the healthful restoration of their communities and local environment wherever they live.
	www.gprc.org /Buffalo_Commons.html (622 words)

	United States Government Simulation -> The Buffalo Commons Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		All proceeds gained by eco-tourism, buffalo sales, and energy sales will be used to continue the funding of the Buffalo Commons Project.
		Buffalo hunting, with the express purpose of keeping herds to environmental and herd management appropriate levels, will be coordinated through the Department of the Interior with the following maxim in mind; we must never return to the buffalo hunting practices of the 1800s which resulted in the near extinction of the species.
		The intent of the Buffalo Commons bill is to provide farmers who are close to losing everything they have due to the changing quality of the soil with a chance to secure an income for fifteen years and not lose the farm (they can keep 40 acres and their home).
	worldsimulations.com /USG/index.php?showtopic=5089 (4252 words)

	'Buffalo Commons': A prophecy coming true?
		Well, Popper, along with his wife, became notable in the '90s for a study they did on the Great Plains concluding that, in time, buffalo would return to replace the people who would abandon or be driven from the Plains by the changing economy.
		People pooh-poohed the Poppers and their Buffalo Commons theory, which is now looking more and more like a true prophecy.
		The Plains may not be repopulated with buffalo, because ideas to turn buffalo into a profitable commodity have failed along with cattle, hogs and sheep.
	www.bismarcktribune.com /articles/2003/10/06/news/editorials/edt01.txt (663 words)

	Restoration of Bison onto the American Prairie
		Although that is not the case, residents have said "that buffalo taste as tough as a truck tire" (Nikiforuk 1993).
		The Buffalo Commons, as it is called by Frank Popper, bridges conservation, culture, economics, and ecology (Walters 1996).
		Residents in these towns are now mostly merchant shops, and for a buffalo restoration to take place, the people would have to adjust their products.
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~sustain/global/sensem/patel97.htm (1572 words)

	Plains Folk: Buffalo Commons or Mammoth Savannah? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The idea of a Buffalo Commons, as proposed by Deborah and Frank Popper of Rutgers University in 1987, keeps rattling around, stirring people up from Texas to Saskatchewan.
		I know this sounds goofy, because we are accustomed to thinking of grass and buffalo as the natural order of things on the plains, but that's because we've been locked into certain ways of thinking that are, well, bigoted.
		In lieu of a Buffalo Commons, I propose a Mammoth Savannah.
	www.ext.nodak.edu /extnews/newsrelease/2000/081700/06plains.htm (615 words)

	Canku Ota - February 21, 2004 - 'Buffalo Commons' idea gets second look
		A proposal first made in the 1980s to turn large portions of the Kansas prairie back to the buffalo is being examined again as the state's population in rural areas declines.
		On Wednesday, Hayden and the Poppers will be in Manhattan for "The Buffalo Commons Revisited: Conversations about the Future of the Great Plains," a public forum sponsored by the Kansas Center for Rural Initiatives at Kansas State University.
		Today, the Poppers say a Buffalo Commons is only one of many possibilities.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues04/Co02212004/CO_02212004_BuffaloCommons.htm (1526 words)

	Buffalo Field Campaign News Articles "Reborn buffalo nickel not universally lauded" 3/20/05
		The bison as symbol of the West is "the phoniest and most duplicitous sort of action by the United States government," he says.
		If the federal government really cherished the buffalo, he says, it would not permit their slaughter in Yellowstone National Park, and it would work to transform parts of the Plains states into a "buffalo commons," where grasslands are restored and bison are permitted to roam.
		Frank Popper, the Rutgers University professor who, with his scholar wife, Deborah, coined the term buffalo commons in the late 1980s, called the bison a "slippery subject," that like other Western symbols trumpets nature and rural culture, even though the West "in reality is quite urban and suburban."
	www.buffalofieldcampaign.org /media/press0405/news0405/032005.html (790 words)

	Wounded Hawk: Buffalo Roamed
		The Poppers coined the Buffalo Commons Metaphor in response to the continuous decline in human population of the Great Plains over the past fifty years.
		Their suggestion to bring down fences and reestablish the buffalo and restore the plains to its former grandeur and rugged beauty has met with serious critisism and acclaim.
		Their follow-up article, The Buffalo Commons as a Regional Metaphor and Geographic Method, written in 1997, discusses their surprise to the public response to the Buffalo Commons story.
	www.natureshift.org /Whawk/lodge/buffalo/commons.html (396 words)

	portland imc - 2003.11.11 - BUFFALO COMMONS: Boldest idea in US today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Restoring a large chunk of the plains -- which cover nearly one-fifth of the lower 48 states -- to their original state may also be the best way to revive local economies and keep such hamlets as Rawson from becoming ghost towns.
		That should be possible, for such states as Colorado, Utah and Idaho have boomed by branching out from their traditional economic base to embrace tourism and recreation, and Buffalo Commons would become one of the world's wonders.
		If the thunder of buffalo hooves is again heard on the open plains, that will not be the death knell of such hamlets as Rawlins -- it will be their last, best hope.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/11/274688.shtml (880 words)

	Where the buffalo roam, again / Humans are disappearing from Great Plains as bison and other wildlife return (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The concept of the Buffalo Commons was floated by New Jersey sociologists Frank and Deborah Popper in 1988.
		The highest and best use for the area, the Poppers argued, was in its pristine state: A restored prairie cleared of fences and abandoned ranches, reseeded with native bunchgrasses, teeming with wildlife.
		Buffalo Commons, it seems, is destined to occur - no matter what it's called, no matter who loves or hates it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/22/MN39309.DTL (2748 words)

	Honor the Earth: Initiatives: Buffalo: News: 94 Buffalo Killed at Yellowstone, Momentum Grows To Stop the Slaughter
		The unsubstantiated premise that buffalo pose a disease threat to cattle is also the basis of a long-term bison management plan released by the National Park Service in June of 1998.
		Honor the Earth's Indigenous Buffalo Commons Initiative is an innovative program that advocates for the protection and restoration of buffalo on the Great Plains, encouraging the dream of the buffaloes return.
		Slain buffalo mothers have left orphaned calves, at least one of which starved to death, and the deaths of pregnant mothers has significantly endangered the viability of the herd.
	www.honorearth.com /initiatives/buffalo/news/1999-09-15.html (975 words)

	IMSA®: PBLN @ IMSA: Buffalo Commons
		Specifically, you are charged with the responsibility of sifting through a wide variety of opinions, ideas, editorials, and other materials so that you can make an informed recommendation on where a Buffalo Commons should be established.
		Your recommendation must include a discussion of the problems relating to the establishment of the Commons and your estimate of the consequences of such establishment for the people of the Great Plains in particular, and for the people of the United States in general.
		Within a reasonable amount of time, the President expects a recomendation from you about possible locations for the Buffalo Commons along with a statement of impact.
	www.imsa.edu /programs/pbln/problems/buffalo/documents/chair.php (275 words)

	Cooper Center: Sample Paper, Marked
		"Buffalo Commons" was developed in New Jersey by two Rutgers University professors, Frank and Deborah Popper.
		I was born in Nebraska and have a sentimental attachment to the area, but my argument with the Buffalo Commons proposal is not based on this fact alone.
		They state that the weak economy of the great plains, combined with low investment, construction and population density are adequate justification for their proposal.
	www.nebrwesleyan.edu /services/coopercenter/sample_marked.html (390 words)

	.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
		On Thursday, 16 buffalo will be released from a holding pen onto a portion of the nearly 32,000 acres of land that has been purchased or leased as the start of a wildlife reserve.
		Gerrity and Freese say the goal is to replicate and preserve a thriving, natural prairie ecosystem that will bring people to ranching communities that are, in some cases, struggling for survival.
		They downplay the fear of some locals that the project is the start of turning Phillips County into a “Buffalo Commons,” a region where cattle ranching is replaced by a sea of open prairie populated by bison.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2005/11/14/news/the_west/monwes01.txt (735 words)

	Colorado Luis: Buffalo Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The idea of creating some kind of Buffalo Commons out on the plains is very intriguing and it would be too bad if it were to be tarred by association with the truly wacky idea of trying to introduce wild African species out there.
		The Buffalo Commons wins the award for today as the wierdest idea that just might work.
		The buffalo commons project is looking for at least ten million acres.
	coloradoluis.typepad.com /blog/2005/08/buffalo_commons.html (357 words)

	Buffalo Commons Cum Indian Territory: An Uncommon Need/Demand :: Alternative Press Review :: Your Guide Beyond the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The “Buffalo Commons” on my mind these days—so much so that I cannot sleep because of it—is the venue for bison and prairie restoration plus that Rutgers University’s Frank and Deborah Popper came up with thirteen years ago...only steps from where I once worked for the same institution.
		A Buffalo Commons which incorporated desecrated adjacent lands/unceded territory on behalf of Indians would also go a long way toward “rectifying” the realm/reams of injustices that have been inflicted on indigenous people from the inception of our Euro-nation, the ongoing genocide*.
		But it is the positive angles associated with embracing the Buffalo Commons concept plus that we should focus on, the bases for unity.
	www.altpr.org /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=343&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (4156 words)

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