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kidoggy

01-07-2016 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Muley Hunter (Post 4238139)

My best friend is an Indian. Not sure why you brought that up? If i'm biased at all it's against certain white men.

THAT'S WHY I BROUGHT IT UP. WHENEVER THESE discusions start someone inevitably gets upset and starts throwing around the race card, even though it really has nothing to do with what is being discused. just figured to head it off at the pass, so to speak.

btw My friend lives in a teepee when the weather isn't too harsh. True.

I believe you. just don't really care.I myself have been known to stay in a tent on occasion , when hunting or fishing
I have a friend who is a taxidermist, doesn't mean I know everything about how a taxidermist lives or how he disposes of carcasses.

Muley Hunter

01-07-2016 12:00 PM

Actually, you don't know much about anything.

Just my observation, and something else you don't care about.

kidoggy

01-07-2016 12:15 PM

and something else you don't care about.[/QUOTE]

your opinion? lol. you're correct,finally something we agree on.

I do however know , I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG!

flags

01-07-2016 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Muley Hunter (Post 4238131)

That's true, but I think the bison suffered the most.

I disagree. The bison isn't extinct. Seen a passenger pigeon lately? Those things existed in the tens of billions and they are all gone and only exist in museums as taxidermied specimens.

Muley Hunter

01-07-2016 01:17 PM

Bison would have been gone if some people didn't step in. There were 20-30 million at one time. In 1890 there was about 1000. Now we have about 1/2 million and most of those aren't pure bison.

Very few on free range.

JoeA	01-07-2016 04:33 PM

I see references to disease transmission from bison to cattle so often in articles that it sounds like a party line that's repeated from rote memory without thought.

Sure bison are a reservoir for Brucellosis, but why single them out? Are elk or deer that stray outside the Yellowstone subject to similar culls? Their populations carry the disease too.

flags

01-08-2016 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Muley Hunter (Post 4238176)

That's my point. Someone took action to save the bison. Nobody took action to help the Passenger Pigeon. They are all gone and that is a travesty as far as I am concerned.

Valentine

01-24-2016 06:33 AM

Cull ??

I thought they got wolves, at unhuntable Yellowstone, to cull animals.

Topgun 3006

01-24-2016 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Valentine (Post 4241660)

I thought they got wolves, at unhuntable Yellowstone, to cull animals.

Wolves don't do much preying on 2000# Bison unless they are already dying of old age or something. They do a number on moose and elk when the snow gets deep though.

buffybr

01-24-2016 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Muley Hunter (Post 4238142)

I think the Indians themselves would have keep the population down. They were always at war with each other.

They started to band together to fight the white man. Otherwise, I doubt anything would have changed.

The Indians lived here basically the same way for thousands of years. The major change in their way of life started with the coming of the white men from Europe. They didn't even have horses until white men came here.

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