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Rangers haze bison away from park boundary

By Chronicle Staff

No more Yellowstone National Park bison were captured or sent to slaughter on Friday.


 However, park rangers on horseback hazed 17 bulls from the Stevens Creek area further back inside the park's northern boundary Friday morning, park spokeswoman Cheryl Matthews said.

The number of bison captured in Yellowstone still stands at 299.

Of those, 154 have tested negative for exposure to brucellosis and are being held in a corral northwest of Gardiner. They will be held until spring to stop them from leaving the park's northern boundary. Calves and non-pregnant yearlings testing negatively are being vaccinated for the first time this year.

A total of 145 have tested positive for exposure to brucellosis and have been shipped to slaughter over the past two weeks, Chronicle reports said.

Brucellosis is a disease which causes cows to abort. Ranchers in states which lose the brucellosis-free status must conduct blood tests on cattle being shipped out of state, which will increase their costs.

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