I’ve never seen it written anywhere if these bison were wounded and not killed on Hawns property. That might account for them dying on the other property.
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That’s a good question B4. I live in the east, and we don’t have open range laws here. I did encounter cows wandering in the road in Louisiana when I lived there. My sis lived in the sticks and had neighbors that let their cows roam.
I have not given the OR laws much thought, so am not qualified to speak on that. I just know if any of these animals were shot on federal property, someone is in trouble.
Could be these animals were wounded, then wandered onto federal property, but I would think those shooters (they are not hunters) would want to recover the bison if they were shot for meat. I assume they used scopes, and would know the animal bolted if wounded, would try to recover them.