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Bison Hazing

By SCOTT McMILLION

Chronicle Staff Writer


 State, federal and Gallatin County officials conducted a large bison hazing operation north of West Yellowstone Wednesday.

A total of 71 bulls, cows and calves were chased on horseback from the Horse Butte and Madison River areas and into Yellowstone National Park, said Karen Cooper, spokeswoman for the Montana Department of Livestock.

She said protesters had erected a barricade on a Forest Service road in the Horse Butte area and one protester had been detained. She said she did not know if an arrest was made.

Bison typically move west from the park in large numbers in April, seeking the green grass that emerges there a little earlier than it does inside the park.

Cooper said hazing will continue and conditions are favorable for doing so with horses. If the bison refuse to be hazed, they will be trapped.

Last April, more than 1,600 animals were pushed back inside the park from the west side, though that total includes a number of animals that were hazed more than once.

There are about 4,000 bison in the park.

Scott McMillion is at scottm@dailychronicle.com

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