Reducing the buffalo in Yellowstone
 

I just read in this mornings paper that the Dept of Interior is planning on reducing the American Bison herd in yellow stone by 600 to 900 animals. They are deciding if they want to do it by hunting or by roundup and then taking the animals to slaughter. The reason for herd reduction is to prevent the buffalo from migrating out of the park. I remember several years back reading about ranchers complaining about the buffalo coming out of the park and grazing with their cattle and giving the cattle diseases, I suppose that is the reason behind it. It would probably be a good idea to contact your congressmen and senators and tell them the reduction should be a cull hunt by sportsmen. It would be a pretty great opportunity to hunt buffalo in Yellowstone.

Good Luck with that! I dont think it would go over to well with the tree huggers. They would rather let the wolves chew them up and if they cant deplete the population the way they did with the elk, there will be a roundup and sale to slaughterhouse.

It will more than likely come down to which one the Parks and Wildlife will be able to make the most money from. Sale of tags or sale of the meat. At today's prices for Bison, it will more than likely come down to slaughter.

so raise the cost of the tag . or even better raffle em off. there are lots of fool hunters that would pay much ,much more to hunt em then they could ever get to slaughter em.

Wouldn't be the first time they've thinned that herd by issuing licenses.

I would love that opportunity. Yellowstone is an amazing place.
-Jake

Yellowstone is an amazing place, but I wouldn't call shooting a Yellowstone Bison "hunting", gathering groceries, sure, but not hunting.

I've taken a few in various places. It's pretty much just gathering groceries anywhere to be honest. Find the herd, pick out the animal you want, shoot, chase away the others, then the hard part begins. I actually kinda felt a little bad for the stupid critters. No smarter than cows and if you have ever worked with cattle, you will know there isn't a much dumber animal on the planet.

with the exception of humans.

yeah sign me up for one of those tags !