Despite an executive order signed by Governor Steve Bullock on May 22 that restricts Montana Department of Livestock agents from entering “private property without landowner permission unless there is an imminent threat of disease transmission from bison to livestock or people”, Montana Department of Livestock agents trespassed onto the property of West Yellowstone resident Ed Ryberg’s property on June 23. The reason, there were bison on his property that they felt compelled to haze back into Yellowstone National Park. They don’t just haze them — using helicopters, horses, ATVs, and cracker shells mind you — into Yellowstone National Park, they haze them deep into the neighboring state of Wyoming.
Ed Ryberg isn’t too happy about this either, as can be ascertained from his letter to the Missoulian newspaper.
Source: www.thewildlifenews.com
GR: Bureaucratic practice often overshoots legal limitations. Perhaps Montana should employ an environment ombudsman to assist citizens in land, water, and wildlife issues. (Yeah, right.)
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