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News about vaccinations and bison acquisition from the Wyoming Livestock Board

The Shoshone tribe, in cooperation with the US Fish & Wildlife Services (USFWS) and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), imported a small group of American bison to a privately (tribal) owned property near Morton and Pilot Butte reservoir on Nov. 3. Since June, these entities have involved the Wyoming state veterinarian in this process to assure that they were legally importing the animals according to Wyoming statute and the Wyoming Livestock Board’s import regulations.

Recent articles in local publications may have given the perception that these bison were released to run in the wild on...

 

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