Buffalo vs. Montana...

Here's a comprehensive and up-to-date look at the depressing political machinations involved in wild bison moving out of Yellowstone Park and into Montana cattle grazing lands. This issue, of course, is brucellosis, a disease carried by wild bison that doesn't harm the bison, but can cause spontaneous abortions in domestic cattle.


In The Third Revolution, they solved this problem by getting rid of all of the cattle in the state (this was precipitated a trade embargo related to the little dust-up Montana was having with the U.S. federal government at the time). Unlike domestic cattle, bison are native to the land, eat the native grasses, can deal with predators on their own and don't need to be sheltered in the winter. And yes, they make better burgers...