Category: yellowstone park
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No S__T
I do believe I have been saying this all along.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/12/news/wyoming/24-vets.txt">Vets wary of disease 'hot-zone' </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal government plan to carve out the Yellowstone area as an animal disease "hot-zone" faces opposition from some state veterinarians, who worry the move would lower cattle industry safeguards.<br />n<br />nCreation of the zone would…
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Headlines
Don't you just love headlines that scream out things that aren't true?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=9162">Open Season on America's last Wild Bison </a><br />n<br />nMontana issues 44 tags for Bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park which has around 4000 head of Bison, and people want to call that open season. A little overboard, isn't…
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Near Record Numbers
I see that the Bison in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/16/news/state/18-rebound.txt">near record numbers</a> at almost 4700 head. Here we have all these Bison running around the park and nowhere do we hear talk about too many bison and over grazing the park. Nowhere do we hear that the Park needs to bring in…
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Bison And Brucellosis
<blockquote>"For Yellowstone bison to be involved in the big picture of bison conservation, they've got to be brucellosis-free," said Tom Roffe, a wildlife veterinarian and biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. And that's why the animals here are being corralled and handled, poked and prodded.<br />n<br />nRoffe has been pushing his agency for…