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Park rangers haze 223 bison into Yellowstone from Gardiner

By SCOTT McMILLION, Chronicle Staff Writer

Park rangers on horseback and in vehicles hazed a large group of bison about 10 miles Thursday, from the Gardiner area to the interior of Yellowstone National Park.


 The herd included 223 animals of both sexes and various ages, said park spokeswoman Marsha Karle, and is the largest such effort in some time.

"They were hazed from around the Gardiner School to the Blacktail Plateau," she said Friday.

This is the first time in a few years that such a large group of bison has moved to the park's northern boundary.

In recent years, most bison movement has been along the west boundary, near the gateway community of West Yellowstone.

An agreement between the state and federal government allows only very limited tolerance for bison outside Yellowstone because of fears the bison will spread brucellosis to Montana's cattle herds.

On the western boundary, the Montana Department of Livestock takes the lead on handling bison. On the northern boundary, the National Park Service assumes the lead role.

DOL has two traps outside the park north of West Yellowstone that are used every winter to test animals and ship some to slaughter.

The Park Service has a trap west of Gardiner it has used for similar purposes in the past, but it hasn't been active for several years.

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