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Nationwide park officers are planning to assemble and cut back the bison herd in Theodore Roosevelt Nationwide Park in North Dakota, rehoming the animals to quite a lot of Native American tribes.
The “bison seize” is scheduled to begin on Saturday and proceed by the week within the park’s South Unit close to Medora. The operation can be closed to the general public for security causes.
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The park plans to scale back its roughly 700 bison to 400. The park will take away bison of differing ages.
A bison grazes at Theodore Roosevelt Nationwide Park in western North Dakota, Might 24, 2017. (AP Picture/Blake Nicholson, File)
Bison faraway from the park can be rehomed and are available underneath tribal administration, InterTribal Buffalo Council Govt Director Troy Heinert instructed The Related Press.
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The bison will present genetic range and enhance numbers of present tribal herds, he stated. The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will obtain bison; extra bison may go to different tribes, relying on demographics, stated Heinert, who’s Sicangu Lakota.
A helicopter will herd bison right into a holding space, with a survey of the panorama and a inhabitants depend earlier than the gathering of the bison.
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The park alternates captures yearly between its North Unit and South Unit, to take care of the numbers of the herd on account of restricted house and grazing and for herd well being causes, Deputy Superintendent Maureen McGee-Ballinger instructed the AP.
Theodore Roosevelt Nationwide Park to take away practically half its bison inhabitants
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