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Billman, H. G., S. St-Hilaire, C. G. Kruse, T. S. Peterson, and C. R. Peterson. 2011. Toxicity of the piscicide rotenone to columbia spotted frog and boreal toad tadpoles. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140:919-927.

Bly-Honness, K. J. C. Truett, and D. Long. 2004. Influence of social bonds on post-release survival of translocated black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Ecological Restoration 22:204-209.

Boyce, W. M., A. Fisher, H. Provencio, E. Rominger, J. Thilsted, and M. Ahlm. 1999. Elaeophorosis in bighorn sheep in New Mexico. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 35:786-789.

Carroll, C., J. A. Vucetich, M. P. Nelson, D. J. Rohlf, and M. K. Phillips. 2010. Geography and recovery under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology 24:395-403.

Carroll, C., M. K. Phillips, C. A. Lopez-Gonzalez, and N. H. Schumaker. 2006. Defining recovery goals and strategies for endangered species: the wolf as a case study. Bioscience 56:25-37.

Carroll, C. M. K. Phillips, and C. A. L. Gonzales. 2004. Spatial analysis of restoration potential and population viability of the wolf (Canis lupus) in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Report to Turner Endangered Species Fund. Bozeman, MT. 71pp.

Carroll, C., M. K. Phillips, N. H. Schumaker, and D. W. Smith. 2003. Impacts of landscape change on wolf restoration success: planning a reintroduction program based on static and dynamic spatial models. Conservation Biology 17:536-548.

Cassirer, E. F., K. M. Rudolph, P. Fowler, V. L. Coggins, D. L. Hunter, and M. W. Miller. 2001. Evaluation of ewe vaccination as a tool for increasing bighorn lamb survival following pasteurellosis epizootics. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 37:49-57.

Chipault, J. G. and D. H. Long. 2010. Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) locked in fight becomes prey of coyotes (Canis latrans). The Southwestern Naturalist 55(2):283-284.

Devine, B., S. Vickerman, and M. K. Phillips. 2000. Invasive species and the conservation community. North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 65:414-422.

Dixon, D. M., K. M. Rudolph, M. L. Kinsel, L. M. Cowan, D. L. Hunter, and A. C. S. Ward. 2002. Viability of air-borne Pasteurella spp. Pages 6-13. Biennial Symposium of the Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council 13, Rapid City, South Dakota.

Eads, D. A., J. G. Chipault, D. E. Biggins, T. M. Livieri, and J. J. Millspaugh. 2010. Nighttime aboveground movements by prairie dogs on colonies inhabited by black-footed ferrets. Western North American Naturalist 70:261-265.

Fisher, A. E. Rominger, P. Miller, O. Byers. 1999. Population and habitat viability assessment workshop for the desert bighorn sheep of New Mexico (Ovis canadensis): final report. IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, Apple Valley, MN.

Foreyt, W. J., D. Hunter, J. G. Cook, and L. L. Smith. 2000. Susceptibility of elk to lungworms from cattle. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 36:729-733.

Fredrickson, R. J., P. Siminski, M. Woolf, and P. W. Hedrick. 2007. Genetic rescue and inbreeding depression in Mexican wolves. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274:2365-2371.

Fritts, S. H., C. M. Mack, D. W. Smith, K. M. Murphy, M. K. Phillips, M. D. Jimenez, E. E. Bangs, J. A. Fontaine, C. C. Niemeyer, W. G. Brewster, and T. J. Kaminski. 2001. Outcomes of hard and soft reseases of reintoduced wolves in central Idaho and the Greater Yellowstone Area. Pages 125-148 in D. S. Maehr, R. F. Noss, and J. L. Larkin, editors. Large mammal restoration: ecological and sociological challenges in the 21st century. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.

Fritts, S. H., E. E. Bangs, J. A. Fontaine, M. R. Johnson, M. K. Phillips, E. D. Koch, and J. R. Gunson. 1997. Planning and implementing a reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. Restoration Ecology 5:7-27.

Golden, H. N., B. S. Shults, and K. E. Kunkel. 2002. Immobilization of wolverines with Telazol® from a helicopter. Wildlife Society Bulletin 30:492-497.

Hagan, G., and R. Costa. 2001. Rare woodpeckers reintroduced to north Florida. Endangered Species Bulletin 26:30-31.

Kelly, B. T., A. Beyer, and M. K. Philllips. 2004. Red wolf (Canis rufus). Pages 87-92 in C. Sillero-Zubiri, M. Hoffman, and D. W. MacDonald, editors. Canids: foxes, wolves, jackals and dogs. Status survey and conservation action plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group, Cambridge, UK.

Kelly, B. T., and M. K. Phillips. 2000. Red wolf (Canis rufus). Pages 247-252 in R. Reading, and B. Miller, editors. Endangered animals: a reference guide to conflicting issues. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, USA.

Khare, S., T. A. Ficht, R. L. Santos, J. Romano, A. R. Ficht, S. Zhang, I. R. Grant, M. Libal, D. Hunter, and L. G. Adams. 2004. Rapid and sensitive detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in bovine milk and feces by a combination of immunmagnetic bead separation-conventional PCR and real-time PCR. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42:1075-1081.

Krausman, P., P. Bangs, K. Kunkel, M. K. Phillips, Z. Parsons, and E. Rominger. 2001. Mountain sheep restoration through private/public partnerships. Pages 231-242 in D. S. Maehr, R. F. Noss, and J. L. Larkin, editors. Large mammal restoration: ecological and sociological challenges in the 21st century. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.

Kruse, C. G., C. S. Guy, and D. W. Willis.  1993.  Comparison of black crappie age and growth characteristics.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 13:856-858.

Kruse, C. G.  1995.  Genetic purity, habitat, and population characteristics of Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the Greybull River Drainage, Wyoming.  Master's thesis, University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Kruse, C. G., W. A. Hubert, and F. J. Rahel. 1996. Sources of variation in counts of mersitic features of Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki bouvieri). Great Basin Naturalist 56:300-307.

Kruse, C. G., W. A. Hubert, and F. J. Rahel. 1997. Age and growth of Yellowstone cutthroat trout in a high-elevation system. Northwest Science 71:30-38.

Kruse, C. G., W. A. Hubert, and F. J. Rahel. 1997. Geomorphic influences on the distribution of cutthroat trout in the Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126:418-427.

Kruse, C. G., and W. A. Hubert. 1997. Proposed standard weight equations (Ws) for interior cutthroat trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:784-790.

Kruse, C. G. and W. A. Hubert. 1998. Single-pass electrofishing predicts trout abundance in mountain streams with sparse habitat. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 18:940-946.

Kruse, C. G. 1998. Influence of non-native trout and geomorphology on distributions of indigenous trout in the Yellowstone River drainage of Wyoming.  Doctoral dissertation, University of Wyoming, Laramie.

Kruse, C. G., and F. J. Rahel. 2001. An assessment of headwater isolation as a conservation strategy for cutthroat trout in the Absaroka Mountains of Wyoming. Northwest Science 75:1-11.

Kruse, C. G., W. A. Hubert, and F. J. Rahel. 2000. Status of Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Wyoming waters. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 20:693-705.

Kruse, C. G., K. Patten, and R. B. Turner.  2007 Restoration of native Rio Grande cutthroat trout in the upper Rio Costilla basin, New Mexico: The long journey home.  Proceedings of Wild Trout IX, October 9-12, 2007.

Kunkel, K., K. Honness, M. Phillips, and L. Carbyn. 2003. Assessing restoration of swift fox in the northern Great Plains. Pages 189-198 in M. A. Sovada, and L. Carbyn, editors. The swift fox: ecology and conservation of swift foxes in a changing world. Canadian Plains Research Center, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Kunkel, K. E. 2003. Ecology, conservation, and restoration of large carnivores in western North America. Pages 250-295 in C. J. Zabel, and R. G. Anthony, editors. Mammal community dynamics: management and conservation in the coniferous forests of western North America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Kunkel, K. E., and D. H. Pletscher. 2001. Winter hunting patterns of wolves in and near Glacier National Park, Montana. Journal of Wildlife Management 65:520-530.

Kunkel, K. E., and D. H. Pletscher. 2000. Habitat factors affecting vulnerability of moose to predation by wolves in southeastern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78:150-157.

Kunkel, K., and D. H. Pletscher. 1999. Species-specific population dynamics of cervids in a multipredator ecosystem. Journal of Wildlife Management 63:1082-1093.

Kunkel, K. E., T. K. Ruth, D. H. Pletscher, and M. G. Hornocker. 1999. Winter prey selection by wolves and cougars in and near Glacier National Park, Montana. Journal of Wildlife Management 63:901-910.

List, R., G. Ceballos, C. Curtin, P. J. P. Gogan, J. Pacheco, and J. Truett. 2007. Historic distribution and challenges to bison recovery in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. Conservation Biology 21(6):1487-1494.

Long, D., K. Bly-Honness, J. Truett, and D. Seery. 2005. Population restoration by translocation. Pages 188-209 in J. Hoogland, ed. Conservation and management of the black-tailed prairie dog. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Meadow, R., R. P. Reading, M. Phillips, M. Mehringer, and B. J. Miller. 2005. The influence of persuasive arguments on public attitudes toward a proposed wolf restoration in the southern Rockies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:154-163.

Miller, B. J., R. P. Reading, D. E. Biggins, J. K. Detling, S. C. Forrest, J. L. Hoogland, J. Javersak, S. D. Miller, J. Proctor, J. Truett, and D. W. Uresk. 2007. Prairie dogs: an ecological review and current biopolitics. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:2801-2810.

Miller, B., B. Dugelby, D. Foreman, C. Martinex del Rio, R. Noss, M. Phillips, R. Reading, M. E. Soule, J. Terborgh, and L. Willcox. 2001. The importance of large carnivores to healthy ecosystems. Endangered Species Update 18:202-211.

Myrick, T. 2011. Endangered Species Act: a conversation with Mike Phillips. International Wolf 21:4-8.

Nelson, M. P., J. A. Vucetich, and M. K. Phillips. 2007. Normativity and the meaning of Endangered: reponse to Waples et al. 2007. Conservation Biology 21:1646-1648.

Northcott, J., M. C. Andersen, G. W. Roemer, E. L. Fredrickson, M. DeMers, J. Truett, and P. L. Ford. 2008. Spatial analysis of effects of mowing and burning on colony expansion in reintroduced black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus). Restoration Ecology 16:495-502.

Paquet, P. C., J. A. Vucetich, M. K. Phillips, and L. M. Vucetich. 2001. Mexican wolf recovery: three year program review and assessment. IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, Apple Valley, Minnesota.

Phillips, M. 2010. The future of wolf restoration. International Wolf 20(3):24.

Phillips, M. K., R. Edward, T. Arapkiles. 2004. Restoring the gray wolf to the southern Rocky Mountains: anatomy of a campaign to resolve a conservation issue. Pages 240-262 in N. Fascione, A. Delach, and M. E. Smith, eds. People and predators: from conflict to coexistence. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Phillips, M. K., E. E. Bangs, L. D. Mech, B. T. Kelly, and B. B. Fazio. 2004. Grey wolves - Yellowstone. Pages 297-310 in D. W. Macdonald, and C. Sillero-Zubiri, editors. The biology and conservation of wild canids. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Phillips, M. 2001. A private effort to conserve biodiversity. Endangered Species Bulletin 26:26-29.

Phillips, M. 2001. The southern Rockies: next step in wolf recovery. International Wolf 11(3):32.

Phillips, M. K., N. Fascione, P. Miller, and O. Byers. 2000. Wolves in the southern Rockies: a population and habitat viability assessment. IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, Apple Valley, Minnesota.

Phillips, M. 2000. Conserving biodiversity on and beyond Turner lands. Wild Earth 10:91-94.

Phillips, M., and M. R. Stanley Price, editors. 1999. Carnivore reintroductions. SSC-IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group Newsletter No. 18.

Phillips, M. K. 1998. Individual rights and the Endangered Species Act: the Yellowstone wolf reintroduction as a case study. International Wolf 8:9-12.

Phillips, M. K., and D. W. Smith. 1998. Gray wolves and private landowners in the Greater Yellowstone Area. North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 63:443-450.

Phillips, M. K. 1997. Assessment of reintroduction as a tool for recovering gray wolves in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Re-introduction News 14:6-9.

Pletscher, D. H., R. R. Ream, D. K. Boyd, M. W. Fairchild, and K. E. Kunkel. 1997. Population dynamics of a recolonizing wolf population in the Rocky Mountains. Journal of Wildlife Management 61:459-465.

Pope, K. L., and C. G. Kruse. 2007. Condition. Pages 423-471 in C. S. Guy, and M. L. Brown, editors. Analysis and interpretation of freshwater fisheries data. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

Reading, R. P., B. Miller, A. L. Masching, R. Edward, and M. K. Phillips, editors. 2010. Awakening spirits: wolves in the southern Rockies. Fulcrum, Golden, Colorado, USA.

Rorabaugh, J, M. Kreutzian, M. Sredl, C. Painter, R. Aguilar, J. C. Bravo, and C. Kruse.  2008.  Chiricahua leopard frog inches toward recovery.  Endangered Species Bulletin 33(1):11-14.

Senecal, J. R. 2001. Survival, movements, and habitat use of translocated fox squirrels on St. Phillips and Hall Islands, South Carolina. M.S. Thesis. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. 83pp.

Smith, D. W., E. E. Bangs, J. K. Oakleaf, C. Mack, J. Fontaine, D. Boyd, M. Jimenez, D. H. Pletscher, C. C. Niemeyer, T. J. Meier, D. R. Stahler, J. Holyan, and D. L. Murray. 2010. Survival of colonizing wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains of the United States, 1982-2004. Journal of Wildlife Management 74(4):620-634.

Smith, D. W., L. D. Mech, M. Meagher, W. E. Clark, R. Jaffe, M. K. Phillips, and J. A. Mack. 2000. Wolf-bison interactions in Yellowstone National Park. Journal of Mammalogy 81:1128-1135.

Smith, D. W., and M. K. Phillips. 2000. Northern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus nubilis). Pages 219-223 in R. Reading, and B. Miller, editors. Endangered animals: a reference guide to conflicting issues. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, USA.

Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project. 2000. Summary of base data and landscape variables for wolf habitat suitability on the Vermejo Park Ranch and surrounding areas. Report to Turner Endangered Species Fund. Bozeman, MT. 37pp. (plus figures).

Truett, J. C. 2010. Grass: in search of human habitat. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California.[download Chapter 1].

Truett, J., and M. Phillips. 2009. Beyond historic baselines: restoring bolson tortoises to Pleistocene range. Ecological Restoration 27:144-151.

Truett, J. C., K. Bly-Honness, D. H. Long, and M. K. Phillips. 2006. Habitat restoration and management. Pages 97-110 in J. Roelle, B. J. Miller, J. L. Godbey, and D. E. Biggins, eds. Recovery of the black-footed ferret: progress and continuing challenges. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5293.

Truett, J. C., M. A. Zablan, and K. Kunkel. 2005. Ecological impact assessment and habitat conservation plans. Pages 503-523 in C. E. Braun, ed. Techniques for wildlife investigations and management. Sixth edition. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, MD.

Truett, J. C. 2003. Migrations of grassland communities and grazing philosophies in the Great Plains: a review and implications for management. Great Plains Research 13:3-26.

Truett, J. C. 2002. Aplomado falcons and grazing: invoking history to plan restoration. Southwestern Naturalist 47:379-400.

Truett, J. C., J. L. D. Dullum, M. R. Matchett, E. Owens, and D. Seery. 2001. Translocating prairie dogs: a review. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:863-872.

Truett, J. C., M. K. Phillips, K. Kunkel, and R. Miller. 2001. Managing bison to restore biodiversity. Great Plains Research 11:123-144.

Truett, J. C. 2000. Introduction. Pages 2-13 in J. C. Truett, and S. R. Johnson, editors. The natural history of an Arctic oil field: development and the biota. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.

Truett, J. C. 2000. Synthesis. Pages 401-408 in J. C. Truett, and S. R. Johnson, editors. The natural history of an Arctic oil field: development and the biota. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.

Truett, J. C., and S. R. Johnson, editors. 2000. The natural history of an Arctic oil field: development and the biota. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.

Truett, J. C., and T. Savage. 1998. Reintroducing prairie dogs into desert grasslands. Restoration and Management Notes (now Ecological Restoration) 16:189-195.

Turner, B. 2000. Determined to conserve. Defenders 75:44-46.

Vucetich, J. A., M. P. Nelson, and M. K. Phillips. 2006. The normative dimension and legal meaning of endangered and recovery in the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology 20:1383-1390.