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You see that picture in #14? Does it look like that buffalo is stomping anyone? You ever been to parks with roaming buffalo?
Can they be dangerous? Yes. Have I ever been 10ft (or less)away from one, yes.
Do I think that walking up to an animal who has no fear of you, no instinct to escape, because it's been around people all its life, and then shooting it, is considered hunting? NO

You two are completely ignorant of the purpose of the hunt. Have you ever heard of the term "carrying capacity"?

Let me enlighten you on a few things. The most important thing to remember is that the park can only support so many head of bison (or any other animal) before the ecosystem starts to deteriorate. Overpopulation leads to habitat destruction. Habitat destruction means mass die offs due to starvation and disease. It also means the park cannot support even a fraction of the previous numbers of many kinds of wildlife.

Is that a wise use of a natural resources? No. Is that wise and responsible management of our National parks? No.
The Park Service is guilty of destroying the very natural resource that they are entrusted to protect. By having a policy of hands off, let mother nature do her thing, they are being completely irresponsibly to a level that is almost criminal.

Case in point: Rocky Mountain National Park has 8,000 head of elk due to their policy of "non-management". The carrying capacity of the park is 800 head. The elk are destroying the park. Once pristine stands of aspen are now deforested as high as the elk can reach. One day we will have a severe winter and these elk will starve to death. Then the habitat in the park will be so bad that the population of elk the park can support will be down around 100. Not only that, but the habitat will be so destroyed that the park will take 80 years to recover.
That is exactly why we taxpayers have to feed the elk a Jackson Hole.

Frankly I don't give a rats a** what you pansies think, go hug a tree.