This isn't right. Buffaloes of the large herd at Yellowstone National Park are subject to seasonal hunting once they leave park grounds and wander into Montana. Here a 12-year-old boy and his father focus on a shot, which hits a bull. The boy discharges a closeup shot into the buffalo and then stands with his trophy. Yellowstone buffalo are descendants of a wild herd and represent a valuable wildlife heritage. Although the present-day herd is considered wild, it is restricted in some of its movements. Besides hunting, hazing by snowmobiles and helicopters often steer the bison into capture pens. The State of Montana has been given the power to deal with errant buffalo, whose natural instincts are to migrate to find grass to eat. Details of the plight of the Yellowstone buffalo can be found at the website of the Buffalo Field Campaign.
Aficionado of the American buffalo and proud member of the Buffalo Warriors, a herd of beer-swilling trail runners and some of the finest humans and criminals on the planet.
"If you were looking for the definitive symbol of the conflict between the cultures that had existed in the American West for at least ten thousand years, and maybe longer, and the culture that was just a building East of the Mississippi River, this culture of technology, of commerce, of grasping after tomorrow before it arrives, you couldn't come up with two more powerful symbols than the Railroad, and the Buffalo, because when the Railroad met the Buffalo, the Iron Age met the Stone Age, the machine arrived in the garden, and the West was changed for ever." - T.H. Watkins
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