Tweet
By Matthew Brown
Billings, Montana (AP)
A high-profile initiative to spare a small number of Yellowstone bison from slaughter has been delayed until at least this fall, after a Wyoming Indian reservation reversed its plan to take the animals.
Because about half of Yellowstone National Park’s bison test positive for the livestock disease brucellosis, most of those that roam outside the park are captured and slaughtered. More than 1,600 were killed in 2008.
Billings, Montana (AP)
A high-profile initiative to spare a small number of Yellowstone bison from slaughter has been delayed until at least this fall, after a Wyoming Indian reservation reversed its plan to take the animals.
Because about half of Yellowstone National Park’s bison test positive for the livestock disease brucellosis, most of those that roam outside the park are captured and slaughtered. More than 1,600 were killed in 2008.
