The Death Knell, Loud and Often

THIS article sums up a bad situation. When I picked up a Casper, Wyoming newspaper upon leaving the Yellowstone Park area this last October, the front page had an article about the near-record number of buffaloes in the park. That was the first I had heard of such a rebound in numbers. My first thought: "Uh oh." I couldn't be happy about the news because I feared increased hunting and harassment of the herd. The death knell won't be the sound of bells, but of rifle shots and helicopters.