The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a group called PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) settled a lawsuit this week that focuses on a missing conservation plan for the National Bison Range
This is a really neat event that has been postponed with no reschedule date set yet. Every year they are rounded up to check on their health, and animals are donated or sold.
The hundreds of bison that roam the far northern reaches of Arizona are descendants of the massive animals brought to the region in the early 1900s as part of a crossbreeding operation.
Attorneys for the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a lawsuit this week over a potential transfer of the National Bison Range to the Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana.
During House Natural Resources Committee hearings this week, Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke questioned Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze on the issue of Bison. Specifically, Zinke asked if the same limitations on grazing would apply to bison as they do to cattle ranchers, and whether or not brucellosis had been a consideration.