And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Boy, this one will make your hair stand on end...they are "saving"
bison, now the MDOL...huh?
And they have absolutely no scientific basis for this statement, as
far as I know: "Bridges said an estimated 50 percent of Yellowstone's
bison carry the disease brucellosis"
<http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm>
Montana officials: Hazing saving hundreds of bison
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Hazing operations so far this year have saved as many
as 500 bison that migrated from Yellowstone National Park into Montana, a
state official said Monday.
Marc Bridges of the Montana Board of Livestock said that total included
another 98 bison chased back into the park last Friday, the seventh hazing
operation of the fall.
Continued hazing operations have "maintained Montana's critical
brucellosis-free status and avoided the need to kill any of these
disease-exposed bison, in keeping with the terms of the interim bison
management agreement adopted by both the state and the National Park
Service," said Bridges, acting executive officer and the person in charge
of Montana's bison management effort.
During the mild weather of last winter, relatively few bison left
Yellowstone and only a few were killed or shipped to slaughter. But during
the previous winter, about 1,100 Yellowstone bison were killed.
Bridges said an estimated 50 percent of Yellowstone's bison carry the
disease brucellosis, which causes abortions in cattle and can cause
undulant fever in humans.
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