Re-Wilding Bison

[idcwby]

Feds Spending $25 Million On Bison Restoration, But Won’t Give Details

The Department of the Interior announced its plans to restore wild bison herds in states across the West months ago, but has been quiet about the plan…

cowboystatedaily.com

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

If the Nature Conservancy and other groups like them, get their way, there would be NO grazing permits for cows and sheep on federal land.

 

[JimP]

It is interesting here in Colorado that the CP&W was approached by the Utah DWR when Utah established a bison herd in the Book Cliffs north of I-70 between the Green River and the Colorado boarder and asked if they would be interested in a joint effort in establishing a hunt able herd. Colorado's CP&W told them to pound sand.

Utah went ahead and established a herd in the Book Cliffs with transplants from the Henry Mountains and they very quickly took hold out there. Then they started to establish small herds that would migrate into Colorado. Colorado still didn't want anything to do with them and consider them feral evasive spices and that they can be hunted without a license or tag. I have heard of a dozen or so that have been shot in Colorado by some lucky hunters who have ran across them.

 

[buckbull]

It is interesting here in Colorado that the CP&W was approached by the Utah DWR when Utah established a bison herd in the Book Cliffs north of I-70 between the Green River and the Colorado boarder and asked if they would be interested in a joint effort in establishing a hunt able herd. Colorado's CP&W told them to pound sand.

Utah went ahead and established a herd in the Book Cliffs with transplants from the Henry Mountains and they very quickly took hold out there. Then they started to establish small herds that would migrate into Colorado. Colorado still didn't want anything to do with them and consider them feral evasive spices and that they can be hunted without a license or tag. I have heard of a dozen or so that have been shot in Colorado by some lucky hunters who have ran across them.

Do you know why Colorado did not want them? I assume ranchers would through a fit since they would be a PITA to deal with.

 

[JimP]

Do you know why Colorado did not want them? I assume ranchers would through a fit since they would be a PITA to deal with.

I have no idea other than Colorado just didn't want to deal with them and the testing for brucellocsis like Utah does. As a FYI, every bison hunter in Utah has to take a blood sample from their kill and send it in for testing. In all the years that Utah has had a bison herd they have never had a positive test for brucellocsis.

I got my information on Colorado not wanting to deal with them from the Utah DWR field biologist that was involved with the bison herd in the Book Cliffs. I called and talked to him when I heard of bison that were near the Colorado border and figured that they would sooner or later cross over into Colorado.

 

[kidoggy]

25 mills just a drop in the bucket. who would miss such a paltry sum?