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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has embarked on a mission to end the slaughter of buffalo outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. "There's no logical reason to pick on the bison to shoot and slaughter," Babbitt told reporters. To combat brucellosis, a disease found in bison that causes abortions, infertility and reduced milk production when transmitted to cattle, Montana officials are permitted to shoot any buffalo that wander outside of the park. Babbit advocates a different approach in the fight against brucellosis: more research, less guns. Specifically, the Interior Secretary has asked the National Academy of Sciences...
...move around in search of food, thus increasing their survival rate and boosting their population (from 400 in 1970 to 3,500 last fall). Now the matter has come to a head. Ice and snowdrifts piled high by the fiercest winter weather in 50 years have buried the buffalo's usual feeding grounds and driven the starving animals to remote ranges. Warns Mary Meagher, a wildlife biologist at the park: "The buffalo herds are heading for a crash...
...Purcell toured Yellowstone this winter the new, noisy way--by snowmobile. And like thousands of visitors who clamber onto winter scooters every week to explore America's oldest national park, they can't get over those close encounters with wild elk, moose, trumpeter swans, coyotes and, closest of all, buffalo. The huge, hairy beasts--some weighing as much as a Volkswagen--ambled right down the middle of the road, often forcing drivers to hit their brakes to avoid a meaty collision. "We got within 5 ft. of them!" says an excited John Purcell. "I've never seen so many bison...
Meanwhile, the plight of Yellowstone's buffalo only gets worse. As riflemen dispatched more than 50 animals last week, hundreds of others, weak from hunger, lumbered through the thick drifts trying to stave off starvation by chewing on whatever bark and pine needles they could reach. Some good will is coming from the situation, however. Meat from the slain animals, properly treated, is being distributed to needy Indians and other groups...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has embarked on a mission to end the slaughter of buffalo outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. "There's no logical reason to pick on the bison to shoot and slaughter," Babbitt told reporters. To combat brucellosis, a disease found in bison that causes abortions, infertility and reduced milk production when transmitted to cattle, Montana officials are permitted to shoot any buffalo that wander outside of the park. Babbit advocates a different approach in the fight against brucellosis: more research, less guns. Specifically, the Interior Secretary has asked the National Academy of Sciences...