Rebroadcast: A record cull of Yellowstone bison intensifies debate into how to best manage them

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This year more than a third of Yellowstone’s bison have been removed from the herd – most of them shot – after they wandered out of the national park in search of food. That’s intensified the debate into how to best manage the iconic animal. Rick Wallen joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:00.0	How do L.A. is the newest podcast from L.A. Studios?
0:03.5	We help curious Angelina's connect with their city.
0:06.3	Discover the new, navigate the confusing,
0:08.8	and even drive some change along the way.
0:12.2	Find us at L.A.S. dot com slash how to L.A.
0:19.5	This is on point.
0:20.7	I'm Megna Chacrabardi.
0:22.8	The American Bison is a symbol of a country that was
0:26.6	in the past, open and free.
0:29.9	30 to 60 million bison may have
0:33.0	roamed North America before the mid 1800s.
0:37.1	Then came the rapid westward expansion of American settlers.
0:41.2	That brought commercial hunting and mass slaughter
0:43.9	of the animals.
0:45.2	More painfully, the United States Army sought
0:48.6	to starve native tribes into submission.
0:51.8	The lives of Native Americans were intimately
0:54.0	intertwined with the bison.
0:56.2	The army sought to exterminate the bison
0:58.3	from the Great Plains.
1:00.5	In 1867, one Army colonel is said to have ordered his troops,
1:04.5	quote, kill every buffalo you can.
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