bison

running of the bulls, Yellowstone style

By Jim Stanford on August 23, 2012

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Earlier this summer, three tourists were gored by bison in separate incidents in Yellowstone National Park.

This nearly makes four, or five, or six.

August will be over soon.

Enjoy.

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• Utard films herself being gored by bison (July 27, 2010)

Posted under Entertainment, Environment, Humor

Tags: bison, tourists, wildlife, yellowstone

where the buffalo roam, by convertible

By Jim Stanford on March 9, 2011

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Anyone up for a cruise down Antelope Flats?

I know, more contenders for a future Darwin Award. I guess you can get away with this sort of thing up in Canada, eh?

But I’ll take these loving folks over the insanity of the Park Service, which has rounded up about 550 wild bison in Yellowstone and is ready to slaughter them. On our dime. If only some GOP budget cutters were aware of this.

Kurt Repanshek weighs the merit of a park hunt as an alternative strategy.

Posted under Entertainment, Environment, Humor, Politics

Tags: bison, canada, montana, wildlife, yellowstone

Utard films herself being gored by bison

By Jim Stanford on July 27, 2010

Comments: 33 Comments

Here’s the story of a Farr West, Utah, woman who videotaped a bison trampling her in Yellowstone National Park last week.

Not explained in any of the media coverage of the incident: who threw the stick at the bison, and why no charges have been pressed for harassing wildlife.

If this clip doesn’t sate your running-of-the-bulls blood lust for tourist trampling, there are much better videos on YouTube of bison attacks.

Be smart, people. Stick to the stuffed bison on the Jackson Town Square.

Posted under Environment, Wyoming

Tags: bison, utah, wildlife, yellowstone

a night for bison

By Jim Stanford on March 26, 2009

Comments: 4 Comments

Wild bison are an icon for Wyoming and America. The publicly funded slaughter of these animals by the Park Service is a national disgrace.

Of all the wildlife and land management issues in our region, none is more maddening than the slaughter of bison in Yellowstone National Park.

Try explaining to a group of tourists that half the bison population of Yellowstone died in the winter of 2007-08, and the National Park Service was responsible for killing more than 1,600 animals. And they, the tourists, paid for it with millions of their tax dollars.

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And the bison were killed for migrating out of the park onto public land in Montana, and testing positive for a disease, brucellosis, that’s exceedingly rare to transmit to cattle. And there are few, if any, cattle on said public land. And brucellosis is a disease originally introduced to wildlife from domestic livestock. And so on.

Buffalo Field Campaign, a group of rugged and passionate activists based in West Yellowstone, Mont., has done yeoman’s work in fighting to stop this madness.

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Posted under Environment, Politics

Tags: bison, conservation, wildlife, yellowstone