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SF Gate -- Friday, November 14, 2003
Edited by Chad Rockwell
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WHO'S WELL-ENDORSED?
Mayoral candidates Gonzalez and Newsom battle for key endorsements.

BACK IN THE BLACK
Emeryville school district emerges from bankruptcy after 2-year turnaround.

PETERSON'S MARINA VISITS
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CITY TOW GETTING THE BOOT?
Newcomer firm expected to land lucrative SF towing contract.

A LIGHT FEMALE TOUCH
Few blockbuster women chefs are coming out of the woodwork. Bay group hopes to change that.

BERNAL'S WILY COYOTE
Furry visitor to Bernal Heights delights, perturbs dog walkers.

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JUICE IS LOOSE
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SOUTH DAKOTA HERE WE COME
Bison on Santa Catalina Island sent to new home

Greg Risling, Associated Press

Dozens of long-standing residents of Santa Catalina Island are trading their ocean views for a vast playground in the Great Plains -- though not by choice.

About a third of the Southern California island's 300 bison were shipped off this week to South Dakota, where they will live on two Indian reservations. They arrived in South Dakota Thursday.

Their trip has been nearly a year in the making as conservationists and animal welfare advocates worked to find an amicable solution to a decades-old problem: The nonnative animals have destroyed island plant life as their numbers have swelled.

"They didn't want to go," joked Bill Dyer, regional director of In Defense of Animals, which raised more than $25,000 for travel expenses. "We are happy that the Indian tribes are taking the animals with the understanding that the bison would not be slaughtered."

A study released last year showed that bison severely damaged native plants by grazing, wallowing in dirt and rubbing themselves against trees to scratch or shed their thick coats. The animals also spread nonnative plants by carrying seeds in their hair.

The animals, however, are extremely popular with tourists, the lifeblood of the island economy.

"We have a similar affinity for the bison as we do the bald eagle," said Rick Sweitzer, an assistant biology professor at the University of North Dakota who helped conduct the bison study. "They are the symbol of the wild interior."

Bison have lived on Catalina Island since the 1920s, when 14 animals were brought in for a movie shoot.

The finished film, "The Vanishing American," had no footage of bison. Still, the wooly beasts became a mainstay on Santa Catalina a few years later, after chewing gum mogul William Wrigley Jr. acquired a majority interest in the company that owned the island.

The Catalina Island Conservancy now oversees 88 percent of Catalina and helped plan the bison's return to their ancestral homeland. On Monday, 106 bison were herded onto cattle trucks and ferried 26 miles to the mainland as part of their 1,700-mile trip.

In South Dakota, Sioux tribal members greeted the bison with a traditional blessing.

Karen Sussman, a resident of the Cheyenne River Reservation who found homes for the bison, said their arrival in South Dakota fulfills a prophesy told by some in the community that predicted the return of the animals to the plains.

"They really are coming home," Sussman said by cell phone as bison were being unloaded near Eagle Butte. "That's the exciting thing about this, to see that they're coming home."

The bison are the latest nonnative species to lose some of their numbers on Catalina Island.

Recent efforts to remove pigs and goats have helped some native plant life resurface, but Sweitzer estimates it will take several years to determine if there is any lasting impact of removing bison.

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