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41 bison hazed back into Yellowstone
Posted on Jan. 13

By the Associated Press

BOZEMAN - A group of 41 bison was hazed into Yellowstone National Park from nearby Church Universal and Triumphant lands, park officials said.

''It's really the first significant action we've had'' this winter, park spokesman Al Nash said of Tuesday's hazing.

The cows, calves and bulls had wandered about 1.5 miles out of the park along the west side of the Yellowstone River. No bison hunting is allowed on that side of the river.

Church officials don't want the bison near their cattle, so a state/federal bison plan calls for them to be hazed from church property.

On the east side of the river, where hunting is allowed, relatively few bison have made an appearance this winter.

''We're not to the point where it would be hard for them to get forage,'' inside the park, Nash said Thursday.


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