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 [article provided by Pat Morris. Thanks!]

Tue, 29 Feb 2000
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KULR/143275.asp

Biologist anticipates bison decline at Yellowstone

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - A wildlife biologist predicts bison
numbers In Yellowstone National Park will continue to fall, from a high
of about 4,000 in 1994.

Mary Meagher says park roads have altered the ecosystem. She predicts
the population will  decline from its current number, an estimated 2,400
bison. Given the mild winter and availability of food within the park, only
one bison has left Yellowstone so far this winter. As a result, there has
been hardly any activity under a plan that allows Montana livestock officials
to shoot or trap bison, or haze them back into the park. But in the long term,
Meagher says the easy winter isn't very significant. She says the road
system in Yellowstone has so altered the ecosystem that the bison herd
can only decline.
 

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