Word: parked
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...brings back images of the great buffalo massacres of the 19th century. Since last October, Montana hunters have gunned down a record number of bison that have been roaming outside the bounds of fire-ravaged Yellowstone National Park, foraging on neighboring ranch and forest land. The state legislature made bison a big-game animal again in 1985, after game wardens had had to shoot 88 stray bison and hunters complained that the privilege should have been theirs...
...cattle, can infect their herds with brucellosis, a disease that causes cows to abort their calves -- though there are no documented cases of such bison-to-cattle infections. More than 200 bison have been bagged so far this season. Government biologists say the toll will not deplete the park's bison population of 2,700, but animal-rights groups want federal authorities to provide feeding spots for the animals inside the park. "The object is to put a head on somebody's wall," says Ted Crail of the Animal Protection Institute in Sacramento. "That is no way to treat...
Unwilling to let the elephant be wiped out, some governments have declared war on illegal killing. In Kenya armed patrols have orders to shoot poachers. Sometimes, though, the culprits are a formidable force themselves. At Kenya's Tsavo National Park, scores of poachers dressed in battle fatigues and armed with automatic weapons killed one policeman and wounded several others...
...make a killing of their own. The more notorious the case nowadays, the longer seems the line of authors in and around the courtroom, armed with notebooks and contracts. Last year's "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers for strangling Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, for example, will soon yield Wasted, a book by Linda Wolfe (The Professor and the Prostitute). The Tawana Brawley affair has inspired a team of six New York Times reporters and an editor to collaborate on a volume projected for release in late 1989. Politics and sex were the surefire ingredients...
...ever sees anything off the beaten track in Washington, because there is so much on it, but if you want to escape crowds, check out the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks. This serene Georgetown park has a museum of Byzantine Art and a HOLLIS-listed library. Or take a walk in Rock Creek Park, a sinuous strip of hilly forest in the heart of the city...