The Buffalo Commons: Metaphor as MethodFootnote^*

* We presented an earlier version of this paper to a session on “Whither the Buffalo Commons?” cosponsored by the Rural Development and the Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use Specialty Groups at the 1998 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston. Bradley Baltensberger chaired the session; he and Darrell Napton organized it; and Martyn Bowden, Bret Wallach, and Stephen White commented on the paper. Karen Danielsen, Michael Greenberg, Amy Hannon, Briavel Holcomb, William Howarth, John Kasbanan, Donald Krueckeberg, Robert Lake, Robert Lang, Catherine Lavender, Robert Mason, Anne Matthews, Charles Popper, Dona Schneider, Paul Starrs, Mary Ann Vinton, and Richard Wakeford offered comments at various stages in the preparation of this article, and we thank all of them.

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