FILE - This March 9, 2016 file photo shows bison captured from Yellowstone National Park being held in a government research facility near Corwin Springs, Mont. Yellowstone National Park has started shipping hundreds of wild bison to slaughter for disease control as a quarantine facility that could help spare many of the animals sits empty because of a political dispute. Park officials said 15 bison originally slated for the quarantine on the Fort Peck Reservation were inste…
February 8, 2017
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Hundreds of bison sent to slaughter over tribes' objections
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday started shipping hundreds of wild bison to slaughter for disease control, as a quarantine facility on a Montana Indian reservation that could help spare many of the animals sat empty due to a political dispute.