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.
Mr. Hawn has 32 criminal charges against him... The property Mr. Hawn owns isn’t used as a ranch; it’s just a vacation area. In the first place, a rancher doesn’t hate animals and KILL them!
There isn’t any one that knows that the buffalo did any damage to anything; they’re just guessing.
It could have been a herd of elk that stays in that area; or even Hawn’s horses rubbing on his solar panels and TV dishes could have been the problem.
Vaughn Downare
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