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...FRANCISCO--Violet the orangutan is on the pill. King L'ear the bison was rendered harmless with a bovine vasectomy And Maxine the cougar is using a Norplant-style implant...
Last week a U.S. district judge in Montana rejected such arguments and denied the request by the Fund for Animals to stop the bison hunt. Citing the threat that brucellosis infection will spread to cattle, Judge Charles Lovell maintained that "hunting is a time-honored avocation and a legitimate and recognized method of animal control." The Fund for Animals promptly filed an appeal...
Many ranchers feel that the threat from contaminated wildlife is a government problem but complain that federal policy has just made matters worse. They argue that Yellowstone's herds of elk and bison are overpopulating and overgrazing the park's ranges and forage base and that park managers are doing nothing to control the problem -- all in the name of natural management. "The National Park Service is causing damage by letting nature take its course," charges rancher Pete Story. "Only through management by man can the park be kept in a natural state. Our fear is not nature...
...recommendation calls for restricting cattle grazing on public lands during the high-risk months, closing some public grazing lands altogether and creating a livestock-free zone around the park. There are also humane, if artificial, ways of controlling the herds, such as using cattle dogs to keep the bison in the park. Cattlemen oppose a plan to reintroduce wolves to the Yellowstone ecosystem to help restore a natural predator for the bison on the ground that the wolves would soon be preying on cattle herds...
State representative Bob Raney plans to introduce a bill in the Montana legislature that would suspend bison-hunting licenses until a joint state- federal study on the problem is completed. "My problem at this point," says Raney, "is that we're killing off American bison without knowing if there is an alternative to killing them. I know what we've done up to this point is not proper." Especially considering that the victims are direct descendants of the 20 bison that originally sought refuge in the park and thereby survived the 19th century slaughter that all but eliminated the species...