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(109,352 posts) Thu Jan 22, 2015, 09:55 PM Jan 2015

YELLOWSTONE BEGINS TRANSFERRING BISON FOR SLAUGHTER [View all]

Source: AP

BY MATTHEW BROWN

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Yellowstone National Park has begun shipping wild bison for slaughter as part of a plan to reduce the park's population by as many as 900 animals this winter.

On Wednesday and Thursday, more than 150 bison captured near the park's northern border with Montana were removed from holding, loaded onto trailers and shipped off, according to the Buffalo Field Campaign, a wildlife advocacy group.

There were 4,900 bison in the park last summer. For more than two decades, officials have tried to curb the animals' winter migration into Montana to guard against potential disease transmission to livestock.

Park spokesman Al Nash confirmed the shipments of recently-captured animals for slaughter. But he said the park no longer plans to offer timely updates on how many bison are captured and shipped.

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Interagency Bison Management Plan: : http://ibmp.info

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YELLOWSTONE BEGINS TRANSFERRING BISON FOR SLAUGHTER [View all] Omaha Steve Jan 2015 OP

For a second I thought this had something to do with their Yellowstone oil spill rocktivity Jan 2015 #1

No! 2naSalit Jan 2015 #4

It is about brucellosis, not grazing Drahthaardogs Jan 2015 #20

Nice try but totally a red herring. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #23

This posses me the hell off...give them birth control if they have to keep #s down adigal Jan 2015 #24

Ummm... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #30

Ummm....don't be condescending. Of course I understand, and in NJ, they gave the WILD deer birth adigal Jan 2015 #60

The elk are held up with artificial feeding stations Drahthaardogs Jan 2015 #26

Only in Wyoming. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #29

If there's an animal issue on DU, that one will be all over the thread posting nonsense. LeftyMom Jan 2015 #42

Well they made the 2naSalit Jan 2015 #44

+1000 Thanks for your posts here. I learned something. Beartracks Jan 2015 #56

Thanks for reading them! 2naSalit Jan 2015 #57

But attempts to link outbreaks to park buffalo proven false Panich52 Jan 2015 #59

This reply should get a DURec Panich52 Jan 2015 #58

sad just sad marym625 Jan 2015 #2

Not sad at all, the meat is going to Native Americans. MicaelS Jan 2015 #6

Well that's true marym625 Jan 2015 #7

Personally, I'd prefer that it replace beef. Adrahil Jan 2015 #14

It's far better than beef if you eat meat. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #46

I have no problem with that Omaha Steve Jan 2015 #9

And what you won't hear is... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #31

Updates from the field... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #47

Thank you! marym625 Jan 2015 #48

No problem 2naSalit Jan 2015 #49

I was just reading marym625 Jan 2015 #50

Thanks, I think OS covered it well enough... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #51

Oh he did a great job! marym625 Jan 2015 #52

I get your point. Perhaps I will put up another OP... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #53

Same here marym625 Jan 2015 #54

Thanks for encouragement. n/t 2naSalit Jan 2015 #55

So what group of idiots are in charge of this one? NCarolinawoman Jan 2015 #3

This has been an ongoing travesty 2naSalit Jan 2015 #5

Really Again turbinetree Jan 2015 #8

Absolutely correct. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #32

Money raised for conservation has to cease going to hunters and slaughters!!!!!!!!!!!!!! glinda Jan 2015 #10

Ironically, hunting woud be the ideal way to address this issue NickB79 Jan 2015 #19

Most of the money for conservation comes from the Pittman Robertson Act Drahthaardogs Jan 2015 #21

My personal viewpoint is that this thinking is backwards. glinda Jan 2015 #61

You are probably right about the 'intentions" I got no argument there Drahthaardogs Jan 2015 #62

Enough already!!! CountAllVotes Jan 2015 #11

Horrible! Why can't we leave wildlife alone? How much disease have migrating buffalo sinkingfeeling Jan 2015 #12

Imagine, how did the world ever evolve without humans F'ing it up and controlling what RKP5637 Jan 2015 #27

Absoutely none. period. n/t 2naSalit Jan 2015 #33

Their instinct is to migrate.Yellowstone should be triple the size & allow winter movement for bison Sunlei Jan 2015 #13

There is hunting on the northern range. I think it's just ending or will soon. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #34

Hate to see it - packman Jan 2015 #15

Oh, this has been going on for decades. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #35

Petition to stop this Omaha Steve Jan 2015 #16

Governor Bullock doesn't believe he can be "soft" on bison, like Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer? Judi Lynn Jan 2015 #22

A more comprehensive web site 2naSalit Jan 2015 #36

"potential disease transmission"---what's the REAL reason? wordpix Jan 2015 #17

It's ranching interests. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #37

Short of expanding the park, this has to happen NickB79 Jan 2015 #18

Bison staying in the park 2naSalit Jan 2015 #41

When I was a kid in the early 60s, my family visited South Dakota aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2015 #25

Those bison are interbred with cows. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #39

They sure looked like buffalo aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2015 #43

Wouldn't more natural predators like more wolves help here? FLPanhandle Jan 2015 #28

Not really 2naSalit Jan 2015 #38

The same idiots love shooting wolves. LeftyMom Jan 2015 #45

Omaha Steve... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #40