Last winter, under pressure from the elements, bison left Yellowstone National Park in search of a bite to eat, and were killed. As a professional grizzly bear watcher, I had heard the story many times before. The problem is quite simple. U.S. Army General Phil Sheridan recognized it at the beginning of the park’s creation, […]
Lance Olsen
Posted inOctober 27, 1997: Deconstructing the age of dams
Wildfire also goes boom-bust
Dear HCN, Montana Sen. Conrad Burns and ecologist Richard Keigley seem to share a common discontent: Both criticize land-management policy in Yellowstone National Park (HCN, 9/15/97). Burns recently chastised Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt for park policy that let bison die in the park last winter. Burns said the deaths were proof that “natural regulation” is […]