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Google sponsored links Big Valley Buffalo Online - 100% free range USDA buffalo meat 8 steaks & 6 burgers Combo: $69.95!bigvalleybuffalo.com Buffalo Gal Bison Meats - Affordable buffalo meat products. Free shipping on select gift packs!www.buffalogal.com  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - On a spring day in 1990, there was chaos near the border of Yellowstone National Park. Bison were running. Hunters were facing off with activists who were trying to keep them from killing the bison. And D.J. Schubert was in the thick of it, leading the protesters.Cameras captured it all, igniting a public outrage that Schubert believes ultimately led the...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. JACKSON, Wyo. - Even in a herd of 750, Boris the bison stands out. His hair is a reddish rust color instead of the more common black or brown. His horns are wider and thicker and his head appears big for his body — even by bison standards. But Boris is unique in more than just appearance. Each year, the aging bull bison plods more than 200 miles round-trip from Yellowstone National Park's Hayden Valley to Jackson Hole and back again — a record-making trip in some eyes. "As far as...

The latest pork-barrelling of US farmers will benefit the likes of Ted Turner and David Rockefeller but not Australian farmers, reports Caroline Overington. Ted Turner is many things but he is not cash-strapped. Despite the collapse of AOL Time Warner shares, he is still worth about $US5 billion and some of that money he spends on his new obsession: bison. Turner, 62, is the largest bison producer in the United States and he can afford to be because he is also one of the largest private holders of land. Turner has 14 ranches totalling 700,000 hectares, upon which 30,000 bison...

DENVER – A bison boomlet is under way as Americans look for an Atkins diet-friendly and mad cow-proof alternative to beef. Although the bison industry is just a baby when it comes to U.S. meat production, there are signs of heightened interest as producers recover from a mid-1990s slump brought on by overproduction. "People see it more, probably sample it more and they like it," said Roy Rozell, who manages a bison ranch in Colorado. A good indicator of the bison industry's turnaround is Ted's Montana Grill, a national chain of 18 restaurants co-founded by Ted Turner, media mogul and...

ENTERPRISE - Buffalo are again roaming the wilderness in Eastern Oregon. The shaggy beasts are indigenous to the state but are now classified as domestic livestock, not wildlife, under animal and health statutes that govern their importation into Oregon. But that hasn't kept them confined to fenced pastures. Ranchers are raising an estimated 2,000 of the naturally migratory animals, and several herds have escaped. Their presence is a headache for private landowners and public land managers - and a hairy surprise for some hikers - across Eastern Oregon. Yet some ranchers advocate setting more bison free as a natural solution...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- The busiest street in Great Falls became a home for roaming buffalo. Three bison broke out of Mickey's Packing Plant on the southern edge of Great Falls Thursday and took to 10th Avenue South, one of the state's busiest thoroughfares. They stopped by a nursing home, ran through a park and visited Giant Springs Heritage Park before being herded into a pasture and shot several hours after the first report of them hitting the town.Diane Moog was on 38th Street when she saw the herd coming at her van."I could not believe my eyes," Moog...

<p>As Diane Moog sat in her Ford van on 38th Street staring down three charging bison, she couldn't help but wonder how she was going to explain the situation to her insurance agent.</p> <p>Fortunately, the bison veered in another direction, sparing Moog and her tan van.</p>

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada is buying 60 new combat vehicles to provide the battlefield gunfire once delivered by tanks, even though the army concluded five years ago that the armoured Stryker was a bad choice. Defence Minister John McCallum will announce the multi-million-dollar purchase Wednesday, sources said. The Stryker is an eight-wheeled, 18-tonne, lightly armoured vehicle equipped with a 105-mm cannon. The United States is buying 2,100 of them in various variants, from GM Defence is London, Ont., and General Dynamics Land Systems in Michigan. The Americans named the vehicle after two of their Medal of Honour winners. It's not...

CUSTER, S.D. -- Custer State Park officials are keeping an eye out for anything unusual after receiving two messages from someone claiming to speak for buffalo that want to break out of the park. The park closed a visitors' center near the buffalo corrals for about a week in early June after the second message was received, but officials have not had to take any other major precautions, Custer State Park Director Rollie Noem said. "We've been concerned about it, but not to the point of scrambling around looking under every rock," Noem said. "We're just trying to keep an...

Ted Turner, apparently, is not a happy camper. Or a jolly rancher. That is because it has been a bad year to own stock in AOL Time Warner and livestock in the form of bison. And Turner, the vice chairman of AOL Time Warner, owns a lot of both. His huge stake in AOL Time Warner - he is the company's largest individual shareholder - was worth $7.2 billion when the merger of America Online and Time Warner closed in January 2001. It is now valued at $1.76 billion. Then there is the bear market in buffaloes. Turner, who is...

.c The Associated Press BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - For the first time in nearly five years, the state of Montana this week began slaughtering bison that wander from Yellowstone National Park without testing the animals first for disease. A state-federal bison management plan allows the slaughter without testing if the herd at Yellowstone surpasses 3,000 animals. The current population is estimated at 3,300, the highest since the winter of 1996-97, when nearly 1,100 bison were killed by state and federal management officials when they left the park and entered Montana. As of Friday, only 32 of the more than 100...