they are pretty tasty! Worked on a bison ranch- we’d butcher one when the male got older and replace it with younger one- made bison hotdogs- it was like eating steak- flavor was awesome. steaks were good too- they didn’t run a lot- though they had large corrals- so were pretty tender- plus we grained em and gave em silage- they were pretty pampered-
I’m not sure about the laws, as the ranch spans NM and TX.
We made a lost cattle report in Texas at the county level, so no think they’re mine at this point. But NM is weird.
They can easily clear a fence. They just stay because they want to.