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The Trump administration is planning to evict 950 bison from their grazing pastures on federal lands in Montana.

The Department of the Interior, which has a bison as its logo, has revoked the licence of a rewilding charity trying to restore the natural splendour of the “American Serengeti”, the eco-diverse range of grasslands home to wolves, pronghorns, grizzly bears and mountain lions.

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[–] 62 points 4 months ago (7 children)

The bisons. will be killed

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Going straight back to the 1890s

    Mountain of bison skulls

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Because they need the lands for fracking, or more cows.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago

    The bison are more American than him and his family. Of course he'd try to evict them.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago

    Then the charity should arm themselves and threaten anyone who tries to remove them. Worked for the Bundy clan, and they weren't even legally contracted to graze.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Stop
    Eating
    Beef!

    As much as I loved me some burgers, sirloin tips and churrasco, the cost just isn't worth it.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Just going meat free once a week can be great for your health, wallet and the environment!

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    "...and eat bison instead!"

    Calm down, Ted Turner. \s


    Edit: welp. That's a bit too calm, Ted!

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, my understanding is that Ted Turner basically saved the bison from extinction by deciding to maintain a herd, just so he can serve them up at his restaurant.

    The motivations are what they are, but the outcome is definitely positive.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Some of the most common large animals in the world are only so because they're livestock. Otherwise, they might've been extinct by now (compare cows and aurochs, for example). Between that and funding wildlife conservation through hunting and fishing license revenue, having, let's say, "fraught" motivations like that is not unusual at all.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    When they say deported, does that imply that a different state would take them?

    If not, what a dejecting step in conservation by a state that pretends to be a pristine place for wildlife tourism

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Does... does he think the word is immoogrants?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "They're eating the Buffalo! They're eating the Bisons!"

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    "Not The Onion"

    ...By this point, you could tell me he was genetically engineering Americans into crab people and I wouldn't even bother to check the source.

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    Of course he had to wait until Ted Turner died..... .

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