NYP: More than three dozen bison from Yellowstone National Park migrating toward Montana were captured in recent days, as officials began an effort to reduce the park’s herd by up to 900 animals.
Twenty-seven of the bison were sent to Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, where they will be slaughtered for food, Yellowstone bison coordinator Tim Reid told the Associated Press on Thursday.
Federal, tribal and state officials announced late last year a plan to reduce the park’s 5,000 bison in an effort to stop the spread of Brucellosis, a bacterial disease that can cause cows to abort their calves. The disease can spread to humans but is rare in the US, the report states. more
I hope they inspect those animals for disease before slaughter and consuming. Yuck. Brucellosis. Fun food.
Wait. They will slaughter possibly healthy bison to stop the spread of a bacteria that forces spontaneous abortions in bison? Couldn’t this possibly leave inflicted bison alive to continue to spread the disease? What kind of convoluted logic is this?
I meant afflicted
Oh good, another federal-sponsored vaccination program by Pfizer. And Nancy P’s stock portfolio just made a few more million.
Bison Lives Matter, not.
What did the mama buffalo say to her son when he left the herd? Bison!
Allow natural selection to play out. Unless the bison are mingling with cattle.
Should thin the herd of bureaucrats. Meddling parasites.
Don’t let planned parenthood find out about this. They’d like the idea of spontaneous abortion. Ghouls.
The only way it seems to eradicate the disease is to innoculate the herds, but then they would not be entirely wild animals.
It’s a shame that D.C. has completely despoiled every agency in gov’t and caused us to look askance at all of them.
Relocate them to my freezer. I love that stuff.
Democrats decided Beef was just to expensive for them.
“Twenty-seven of the bison were sent to Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes”
27 for 7,753 people, one quarter pounder each.
Send the sick ones to Wuhan.
What does a bison coordinator do and where are the hide hunters when the Pork Service needs them?
Less calves, less farts, less globull warming.
You know what would be a shitload of fun?
About 450 Bison in Central Park; another 450 in downtown LA.
Call buffalo bill
Tim Reid was great on “WKRP in Cincinnati.”
Didn’t know he’d gotten into buffalo.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Mask them up. 6’ social distancing , shots all around. Make heap big quarantine. Let Indians do they’re Native hunting.
My wife and I enjoyed the buffalo when we visited Yellowstone about a decade ago during the week before Memorial Day. One morning we were looking at Old Faithful through an Old Faithful Lodge cafeteria window when a bison took a leisurely stroll through the people who were waiting outside for the geiser to erupt. Thankfully, no mayhem ensued.
When our trip ended on Friday, we were driving out of the park as the first summer horde of tourists were driving in whilst sharing their lane of the road with buffalo that were also wandering into the park. Said buffalo looked to be walking about a mile an hour or less.