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More bison shipped to slaughter

By SCOTT McMILLION, Chronicle Staff Writer

The National Park Service shipped another 47 bison to slaughter Friday, bringing the week's total to 231 animals.


 No animals remain in the Yellowstone National Park bison trap at Stephens Creek, northwest of Gardiner, park spokeswoman Marsha Karle said Friday.

If more bison approach that area, plans call for trying to haze them deeper into the park, at least over the weekend.

"We'll probably try to do some hazing over the weekend if the animals are in a position where we need to," Karle said. "We're hoping not to have any (bison) in the pen over the weekend."

This week marks the first time since 1997 that the Park Service has used its trap. This is also the first time the Park Service has killed bison since it adopted a new bison management plan in December 2000.

That plan, park bosses say, requires them to kill bison that approach the park's boundary west of the Yellowstone River if the overall size of the herd is above 3,000 animals.

There were 3,800 to 4,000 bison in the park during autumn counts.

Most bison control in recent years has been on the park's western boundary, where the Montana Department of Livestock runs the show.

There, the biggest bison migrations are in the spring.

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