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- <text id=90TT2703>
- <title>
- Oct. 15, 1990: American Notes:Hunting
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 15, 1990 High Anxiety
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 47
- American Notes
- HUNTING
- They Still Shoot Bison
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Though there are no documented cases of wild bison infecting
- cattle with brucellosis (which causes cows to abort their
- calves), Montana in 1985 decided to fight the disease by
- letting hunters kill bison that wandered out of Yellowstone
- National Park. The tactic aroused a national outcry. In the
- worst slaughter, two winters ago, hunters killed 569 of the
- park's 2,700 bison.
- </p>
- <p> This year Governor Stan Stephens hopes to defuse some of the
- public anger when the shooting resumes. Under his new plan,
- hunters will be permitted to shoot only straying male bison.
- Federal park rangers and state game wardens will kill the
- females, and the meat will be distributed to needy people.
- Bison calves will be captured and neutered, then sold at public
- auction. The proceeds will pay for the butchering of their
- mothers.
- </p>
- <p> Calling the plan "bizarre," Don Bachman of the Greater
- Yellowstone Coalition predicts that the complaints will be just
- as loud this year. The hunt's organizers, he says, "have really
- stepped in the buffalo chip."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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