By Holly Fretwell PERC Research Fellow Adjunct Professor, Montana State University As hundreds of bison make their annual winter migration out of Yellowstone National Park, most are hazed back into the park. Others are captured, quarantined, and occasionally slaughtered. This year, more than 500 bison are being held by state and federal officials. If the […]
As hundreds of bison make their annual winter migration out of Yellowstone National Park, most are hazed back into the park. Others are captured, quarantined, and occasionally slaughtered.
This year, more than 500 bison are being held by state and federal officials. If the bison test positive for brucellosis, […]
by Holly Fretwell Bison continue to raise a ruckus on the range in Wyoming and Montana. The bison that leave Yellowstone National Park eat forage on private land and are suspected of carrying brucellosis, a disease known to cause cows to abort their calves. Should the bison be free to roam the range beyond […]
[…] more tax dollars to be poured into parks, the harsh truth is that it will not increase stewardship. To care for the American Buffalo and wolves in Yellowstone, the vistas in Yosemite, and the artifacts in Mesa Verde national parks and others like them, we need to take the romance out as so aptly […]
[…] The 13,000-acre ranch sits in the middle of the Madison Valley amidst a one million-acre corridor that runs from the small town of Ennis, Montana, south to Yellowstone National Park. The valley is channeled by the Madison River and framed by the Madison and Gravelly mountain ranges. Most of the valley is privately owned, […]
By Lexi Feinberg Once an icon of the American west, bison are now hazed through costly government-driven efforts and killed in droves around Yellowstone National Park during the winter. Their crime: migrating outside of the park’s borders onto public and private land in Montana, searching for food. Fueling the slaughters is ranchers’ fear of […]
[…] example, private concessionaires currently operate the commercial activities (e.g., lodging, retail, and food) in the “crown jewels” of the national parks, including the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone. However, this is a more limited type of concession than discussed above. In the “whole park” context, a concession would essentially be a long-term (10–20 year) […]
[…] that do research in the parks with an eye on commercial opportunities. As for benefits sharing, the National Park Service has granted thousands of research permits. In Yellowstone alone, there are about 40 research studies being conducted at any given time. Commercial firms studying microbes that flourish in Yellowstone’s geysers stand to earn billions, […]
[…] was inspired by a PERC workshop on “New Frontiers in Western Land Institutions” and was made possible by a generous grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. And special thanks to Trey Ratcliff for the cover image, The Morning Steam Through the Forest in Yellowstone, you can see more of his work at www. StuckInCustoms.com.
Once an icon of the American west, bison are now hazed through costly government-driven efforts and killed in droves around Yellowstone National Park during the winter. Their crime: migrating outside of the park’s borders onto public and private land in Montana, searching for food. Fueling the slaughters is ranchers’ fear of brucellosis, a bacterial […]