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Lost tracks : National Buffalo Park, 1909-1939
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ISBN: 1897425104 9786612819506 128281950X 1897425112 9781897425114 9781897425107 Year: 2008 Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press,

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While contemporaries and historians alike hailed the establishment of Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta as a wildlife saving effort, the political climate of the early 20th century worked against it. The Canadian Parks Branch was never sufficiently funded to operate BNP effectively or to remedy the crises the animals faced as a result. Cross-breeding experiments with bison and domestic cattle proved unfruitful. Attempts at commercializing the herd had no success. Ultimately, the Department of National Defence repurposed the park for military training and the bison disappeared once m

The global threat of new and reemerging infectious diseases
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ISBN: 0833032933 0833034154 9780833034151 9780833032935 Year: 2003 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. Rand

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In the post-cold war era, new amorphous challenges to national and international security have emerged. These threats do not stem from the actions of clearly defined individual states but from diffuse issues that transcend sovereign borders and bear directly off the the effects of increasing globalization. Such 'gray area' phenomena are redefining the nature and understanding of global stability, challenging policymakers to develop new, non-state -centered paradigms of security. This report focuses specifically on the threat posed by new and reemerging infectious diseases, providing a more com


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Acquisition of drugs and biologics for chemical and biological warfare defense
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ISBN: 1598754408 Year: 2003 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,

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The 1990-1991 Gulf War made clear the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) need to effectively acquire drugs and biologics, mainly vaccines, as American troops faced the real threat of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents being used in combat.

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