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Although the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almost all herds are managed like livestock. The Yellowstone area is the only place in the United States where wild bison have been present since before the first Euro-Americans arrived. But these bison pose risks to property and people when they roam outside the park, including the possibility that they can spread the abortion-inducing disease brucellosis to cattle. Yet measures to constrain the population threaten their status as wild animals.

Mary Ann Franke's To Save the Wild Bison is the first book to examine the ecological and political aspects of the bison controversy and how it reflects changing attitudes toward wildlife. The debate has evoked strong emotions from all sides, including park officials, environmentalists, livestock growers, and American Indians. In describing political compromises among competing positions, Franke does not so much champion a cause as critique the process by which federal and state officials have made and carried out bison management policies. She shows that science, however valuable a tool, cannot by itself resolve what is ultimately a choice among conflicting values.

Summary: Good history of bison policy in Yellowstone

Rating: 4

In the 1990s, many people were horrified by TV pictures of hunters and Montana state officials shooting bison as they wandered out of Yellowstone National Park. Acting on behalf of its ranching industry, which fears that bison - - but, interestingly, not elk - - will transmit brucellosis to their cattle. Over a thousand bison have been killed this way in the last decade or so.

If you want to know how we ended up in this position, this is the book for you. Franke provides a history of Yellowstone's bison, park management of those bison, and the policies of other federal and state agencies that have led to the annual bison slaughter. She covers the topic well, and takes a critical stance toward all the players involved.

Though Franke makes her own views clear, there is enough information her for you to disagree with her - - the mark of a good book, to my mind.

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