{"id":18002,"date":"2016-05-18T07:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2016-05-17T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:46:18","slug":"bison-our-national-mammal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18002","title":{"rendered":"Bison: Our National Mammal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama signed Public Law 114-152, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/BILLS-114hr2908enr\/pdf\/BILLS-114hr2908enr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National Bison Legacy Act<\/a>, on Monday, May 9, designating the bison as our official national mammal. Among the many organizations supporting the legislation were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/itbcbuffalo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">InterTribal Buffalo Council<\/a> &#8211; Its mission is &#8220;Restoring buffalo to the Indian Country, to preserve our historical, cultural, traditional and spiritual relationship for future generations.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsnorthamerica.org\/Wildlife\/Bison\/American-Bison-Society-News-and-Updates.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">American Bison Society<\/a> &#8211; This group was originally established in 1905 after the incredible bison slaughter of of the 1800&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>You can read more about the legislation<\/strong> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/2908?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22pl114-152%5C%22%22%5D%7D&#038;resultIndex=1\" target=\"_blank\">Congress.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/amerbis.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of American Bison book\" class=\"alignright\" \/><strong>You can learn more about bison<\/strong> using Andersen Library resources, such as the books <em>American bison: A natural history<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QL737.U53 L68 2002, or <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/site.ebrary.com\/lib\/whitewater\/detail.action?docID=10058552\" target=\"_blank\">online via ebrary<\/a>) and <em>The hunting of the buffalo<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, SK297 .B7 1962 or preview via <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3zE0lxKhxs0C&#038;dq=hunting+of+the+buffalo.+branch&#038;source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\">Google Books<\/a>). The U.S. Dept. of the Interior, which displays a male buffalo on its departmental seal, provides &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/blog\/15-facts-about-our-national-mammal-american-bison\" target=\"_blank\">15 facts about our national mammal: The American bison<\/a>&#8221; online. Articles may be found using Library databases, such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&#038;AuthType=ip,uid&#038;db=mnh&#038;AN=19414501&#038;site=ehost-live&#038;scope=site\" target=\"_blank\">Conservation genetics and North American bison (<em>Bison bison<\/em>)<\/a>&#8221; (<em>The Journal of Heredity<\/em>, 2009, vol.100:no.4, pp.411-420. doi:10.1093\/jhered\/esp024). Historical information about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/images.library.wisc.edu\/WI\/EFacs\/transactions\/WT1937\/reference\/wi.wt1937.awschorger.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The range of the bison in Wisconsin<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Transactions. of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters<\/em>, 1937, vol.30, pp. 117-130) has been digitized and posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> (visit the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, or choose to email or chat) for assistance with finding additional materials.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out <em>your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama signed Public Law 114-152, the National Bison Legacy Act, on Monday, May 9, designating the bison as our official national mammal. Among the many organizations supporting the legislation were: The InterTribal Buffalo Council &#8211; Its mission is &#8220;Restoring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[110716,110714,178,342,335,783,13969,13966,110715,1424,658],"class_list":["post-18002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-american-buffalo","tag-bison","tag-books","tag-congress","tag-federal-government","tag-government-info","tag-laws","tag-legislation","tag-national-mammal","tag-native-americans","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18002"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18002\/revisions\/18014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}