500-plus Yellowstone bison hazed, none killed

Roughly 500 to 600 bison that migrated out of Yellowstone National Park last winter are back on their summer feeding grounds, after being hazed into the park by state and federal personnel. Only one migrating bison was killed this winter, by a Montana hunter. The prior winter 1,601 bison were killed, most of them captured and slaughtered to prevent the spread of the disease brucellosis to cattle. The disease causes pregnant cattle, elk and bison to miscarry. About half of Yellowstone bison carry the disease, but there have been no recorded bison to cattle transmissions in the wild. With Yellowstone’s bison population down sharply - about 3,000 now versus 4,700 two years ago - this winter’s migration in search of food at lower elevations was smaller than in recent years. Christian Mackay, the head of the Montana Department of Livestock, said the hazing program lasted about 10 days and pushed the bison into an area about 15 miles inside the park in northeastern Wyoming...AP

You can call it buffalo-pooling, or better yet, mega-hazing...