A controversy in Colorado over bison
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What happens when bison stray onto a neighbor’s land? In Colorado’s high country, 32 of them ended up dead. DeeDee Correll reports in today’s L.A. Times:
When 32 bison lumbered across a fence that separated their owners’ vast, wind-swept expanse of land from a neighboring ranch in March, they ended up dead.Some fell where they were shot. Others scattered, galloping for miles before they succumbed in the snow.They were victims, contend the bison owners, of a murder plot hatched by the neighbor, a Texan frustrated by what he called the repeated trespassing of the herd onto his land.Law enforcement officials are closemouthed, saying only that they are investigating.
At issue is Colorado’s open range law. And perhaps the animals themselves. According to Dave Carter, executive director of the National Bison Assn., based in Colorado, the animals are difficult to control.
--Alice Short