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N.D. Bison Moved to New Home in Nebraska
Topic Started: Dec 9 2006, 01:08 AM (45 Views)
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N.D. Bison Moved to New Home in Nebraska
Dec 7, 6:47 PM (ET)

SULLYS HILL NATIONAL GAME PRESERVE, N.D. (AP) - Bison being moved from here to Nebraska as part of a new federal approach to managing the animals were gathered up and shipped out Thursday with no problems, an official says.

The herd is being moved from the Sullys Hill preserve to the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska, as part of a multistate management plan announced earlier. Sullys Hill will get seven new bison from the National Buffalo Range in Montana.

The moves are aimed at better managing the bison and preserving their genetic purity.

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is beginning to manage our nation's refuge bison herds on a more holistic basis," said Paul Halko, a Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager for Sullys Hill, near Devils Lake, as well as Benson and Nelson counties.

The Sullys Hill refuge, which covers just 1,675 acres, was crowded with the herd of 38 bison and a separate herd of about 25 elk, Halko said.

"The animals do consume a lot of forage. They're big, grazing animals. We (at Sullys Hill) have more of a responsibility to the habitat of other species, such as neotropical migrating songbirds," he said.

On Wednesday, the bison were put in a system of corrals and separated into bulls, cows, yearlings and calves, said Roger Hollevoet, the Fish and Wildlife manager of the Devils Lake Wetland Management District.

http://story.news.ask.com/article/20061207/D8LSAGD80.html
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I guess it is a good idea jezzie. But usually when we medle, we screw it up!!! santa3
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