By Mary Ann Franke
Even if the yankee bison used to be kept from near-extinction within the 19th century, this present day just about all herds are controlled like farm animals. The Yellowstone sector is the single position within the usa the place wild bison were current considering the fact that sooner than the 1st Euro-Americans arrived. yet those bison pose dangers to estate and folks once they roam open air the park, together with the chance that they could unfold the abortion-inducing affliction brucellosis to farm animals. but measures to constrain the inhabitants threaten their prestige as wild animals.Mary Ann Franke’s to save lots of the Wild Bison is the 1st ebook to check the ecological and political elements of the bison controversy and the way it displays altering attitudes towards flora and fauna. the controversy has evoked powerful feelings from each side, together with park officers, environmentalists, farm animals growers, and American Indians. In describing political compromises between competing positions, Franke doesn't a lot champion a reason as critique the method through which federal and country officers have made and performed bison administration regulations. She indicates that technology, notwithstanding worthy a device, can't on its own get to the bottom of what's eventually a decision between conflicting values.
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7 But even with help from Creator Sun, a successful bison drive depended on having enough bison nearby; the momentum of the moving mass of bison could push hundreds to their death. Any notion that such behavior indicates the bison’s stupidity may be dispelled by the many incidents in which humans have trampled each other to death when attempting to flee in a panic through a confined area. Bison are not the only species for which a herd mentality has been both a defense and a vulnerability. CHAPTER 2 A Removable Resource The controversy over management of wild bison in Yellowstone that intensified during the 1990s raised the question of whether large bison herds were native to the area or were the result of what Euro-Americans did after they arrived.
24 The Euro-Americans were not the only ones to think that the buffalo of my enemy is better off dead. Tenacity of Purpose The herding defense used by bison to protect their calves from predation by wolves was of little value against hunters on horseback, but the bison did become warier of humans. Approaching hunters could trigger a stampede that resulted in winded horses and fallen riders instead of dead buffalo. Colonel Richard Dodge observed, “A buffalo can run only about two-thirds as fast as a good horse; but what he lacks in speed he makes up in bottom or endurance, in tenacity of purpose, and in most extraordinary 18 BISON WITHOUT BORDERS vitality.
But it was the unrestrained white poachers who were seeking out the few bison in the park; the Indians were hunting for food and took any game they could find. And despite Harris’s best efforts, poachers continued to kill bison in the park and then flee with the heads and hides. Those averse to the risk of entering the park camped just outside the boundary and waited for the bison to wander out. Wanted Dead or Alive Under different circumstances, nothing could have induced me to engage in such a mean, cruel, and utterly heartless enterprise as the hunting down of the last representatives of a vanishing race, but there was no alternative.