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Bison advocates try to reseed herds in West
A hundred years after Buffalo Bill and others hunted herds to near extinction, a group near Yellowstone National Park is attempting to restore the bison population.
The group’s scientists test the bison for disease. Those that pass may be transferred as soon as this winter to American Indian reservations in Montana.
“Our goal is to put them back on the landscape across the country, wherever state agencies and tribes can manage them appropriately,” said Jack Rhyan, a veterinarian with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which operates the Corwin Springs compound with the state of Montana.
After reaching a low of 500 animals in the 1880s, 21,000 wild buffalo are living in the United States today. Another 500,000 are raised commercially for meat production.
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