A green tractor rumbled through the Stephens Creek pasture Thursday, spreading hay from round bales as hundreds of wild bison ran after it, pausing to catch mouthfuls of straw. About 560 bison remain captured at the Stephens Creek facility inside Yellowstone National Park, where they're being held until later this spring. For the first time this winter, park officials on Thursday allowed media and interest groups to see the fenced area where the animals are kept. The bison are being held because some carry a disease that could spread to livestock and hurt the state's ranching industry. The animals tend to migrate outside the park during the winter to find less snowy ground with better grazing, but in doing so they wander toward Montana ranches and threaten cattle. The current solution is to haze them into fenced areas...
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First the elk now the buffalo. I thought the wolves were supposed to control them along with the elk.
It's time to bulldoze all of the cabins, towns and everything else built by man that has crowded out the habitat of that poor beast. Where will the cabin dwellers go? Back to the city!
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