Bison herd breaks loose

The Bismarck Tribune reports:

For weeks, Waliser and other Selfridge area landowners have been seeing renegade, possibly starving bison, crashing fences and running loose into their yards, hay yards and pastures. At least 500 bison have moved north out of an 18-mile stretch of pasture that runs along Highway 6 between McLaughlin, S.D., and Selfridge. The animals are part of a 6,000-head herd belonging to the vast Wilder Ranch that straddles the North Dakota and South Dakota state line, part of a corporation owned by Maurice Wilder of Clearwater, Fla. Sioux County Sheriff Larry Landeis said he estimates about 1,000 bison are ranging on the north end of the pasture, more than a dozen miles from the Wilder Ranch feedlots near the headquarters outside McLaughlin. "They've got 1,000 animals up here and they ain't getting fed," Landeis said.