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Algernon Moncrieff

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Sat Jun 21, 2014, 11:16 AM Jun 2014

5 Entities in the Running to Get Yellowstone Bison

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/entities-running-yellowstone-bison-24159702

Montana wildlife officials on Monday released a short list of five entities that could receive bison from Yellowstone National Park under an experimental program to establish new herds of the animals.

The roughly 145 bison have been held in recent years on behalf of the state at a Bozeman-area ranch owned by philanthropist Ted Turner. They were captured from the park in 2005 and 2006, put into quarantine and tested repeatedly to make sure they don't have the disease brucellosis, which can lead to miscarriages in livestock if the disease is spread.

Ten entities have expressed interested in receiving the animals. That was narrowed to five proposals based on guidance from a panel of state, federal and tribal officials that met last week, said Ron Aasheim, spokesman for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

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5 Entities in the Running to Get Yellowstone Bison (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Jun 2014 OP
Spread those buffalo butts around! Shrike47 Jun 2014 #1

Shrike47

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1. Spread those buffalo butts around!
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 11:30 AM
Jun 2014

We went to Yellowstone a few years ago. Wonderful time, but when you are driving, plan for very slow journeys because at some point, you will be following buffalo and you will be moving at buffalo walking speed, looking at their hind ends.

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