Plans

While <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/18/build/state/30-brucellosis-end.inc" target="_new">removing all the bison</a> from Yellowstone National Park will Remove the brucellosis threat it poses, I don't really see the National Park Service and the American public allowing Montana to destroy or remove all the Bison from the park. What fantasy world is Governor BS living in to think the public is going to allow this? While I agree the current hazing done by the Park Service and the State is a joke, it's the only thing the Park Service will allow to happen to their bison.<br />n<br />nIf the park were stripped of its bison and then repopulated with their descendants, how are you going to keep the bison from getting the disease from the elk again. Even if Wyoming were to close its feeding grounds, which they all ready have said they won't do, brucellosis would still be in the elk herd and be able to be transferred to bison for a long time to come so the problem will remain and not be solved. It's been observed that elk transfer brucellosis to cattle and since cattle and bison are enough alike to interbreed I am sure the elk could pass it to bison easily enough. <br />n<br />nOne other quick question on this proposal. Who is going to pay for all of this? The state has always maintained that the bison are the Park service's responsibility and cleaning up the brucellosis issue should fall on them. The Park Service has always said they really don't concern themselves with the brucellosis situation and aren't going to pay a dime for it. I never have quite figured out this stance since eradicating brucellosis was a task the Federal Government pursued to protect the health of the American public, why don't they do something about it with the animals under their control instead of expecting the states to do something about it.<br />n<br />nHaving bold plans and ideas are one thing, but reality has to intrude somewhere and this proposal falls way outside the bounds that I see the American public accepting. Destroying the whole bison herd will not be acceptable to the public so it won't happen, mark my words.<br />n<br />n<b>Reality in our century is not something to be faced. Graham Greene</b>