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A new facility will allow Yellowstone to send more Bison to tribes across America
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A new facility will allow Yellowstone to send more Bison to tribes across America
Wyoming Public Radio | By Penny Preston
Published July 16, 2023 at 5:50 PM MDT
Penny Preston
Since the late nineties, Yellowstone National Park has sent thousands of bison to slaughter. They did it in keeping with a legal agreement with the state of Montana to control populations and keep the animals from leaving the park in search of food in the spring. Yellowstone officials and the Intertribal Buffalo Council, which represents 83 tribes, celebrated an expanded holding facility that will reduce the slaughter, and send more live animals to tribal lands across the country. ... Officials cut the ribbon in an opening ceremony recently.
More than 6,000 bison live in Yellowstone National Park now. It is the greatest number since the early 2000’s, when the park was required to limit the population to 3,000.
In the winter of 1996-97, there were about 3,000 bison in Yellowstone, when gunmen at the Park’s northern border in Montana shot hundreds of them as they were moving north out of the park for food.
“They lost fifty percent of the bison," Yellowstone Park Superintendant Cam Sholly said. "There was no tribal hunting. Bison were killed right on the boundary.”
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Penny Preston
When Penny Preston came to Cody, Wyoming, in 1998, she was already an award winning broadcast journalist, with big market experience. She had anchored in Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Tulsa, and Fayetteville. She’s been a news director in Dallas and Cody, and a bureau chief in Fayetteville, AR. She’s won statewide awards for her television and radio stories in Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Her stories also air on CBS, NBC, NBC Today Show, and CNN network news.
See stories by Penny Preston
A new facility will allow Yellowstone to send more Bison to tribes across America
Wyoming Public Radio | By Penny Preston
Published July 16, 2023 at 5:50 PM MDT
Penny Preston
Since the late nineties, Yellowstone National Park has sent thousands of bison to slaughter. They did it in keeping with a legal agreement with the state of Montana to control populations and keep the animals from leaving the park in search of food in the spring. Yellowstone officials and the Intertribal Buffalo Council, which represents 83 tribes, celebrated an expanded holding facility that will reduce the slaughter, and send more live animals to tribal lands across the country. ... Officials cut the ribbon in an opening ceremony recently.
More than 6,000 bison live in Yellowstone National Park now. It is the greatest number since the early 2000’s, when the park was required to limit the population to 3,000.
In the winter of 1996-97, there were about 3,000 bison in Yellowstone, when gunmen at the Park’s northern border in Montana shot hundreds of them as they were moving north out of the park for food.
“They lost fifty percent of the bison," Yellowstone Park Superintendant Cam Sholly said. "There was no tribal hunting. Bison were killed right on the boundary.”
{snip}
Penny Preston
When Penny Preston came to Cody, Wyoming, in 1998, she was already an award winning broadcast journalist, with big market experience. She had anchored in Dallas, Denver, Nashville, Tulsa, and Fayetteville. She’s been a news director in Dallas and Cody, and a bureau chief in Fayetteville, AR. She’s won statewide awards for her television and radio stories in Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Her stories also air on CBS, NBC, NBC Today Show, and CNN network news.
See stories by Penny Preston