[george76]

In Park County, how the animals died, and what happened to their corpses, caused some of the greatest outrage. The bison were shot and left to rot where they fell: Experts from the Colorado Department of Agri­cul­ture said they may have lain dead for more than three weeks.

Carcasses were found on two neighboring ranches but also on U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management property.

The problem for Hawn is that just because the bison were on his property does not mean he had any rights to them. Since the 1880s, Colorado has had open range ordinances, whereby livestock can roam freely and it’s up to landowners to fence them out.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A627445

[MileHi]

The problem for Hawn is that just because the bison were on his property does not mean he had any rights to them.

That is one problem. He sure had no rights to the ones that weren't on his property. The guy from Texas is, how do they say, all hat and no cattle. He is probably used to being a big shot, but he might be surprised at the way things work in Colorado.