{"id":14693,"date":"2016-05-17T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2016-05-17T12:53:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:53:57","slug":"theyre-labeled-wildlife-for-a-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14693","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re labeled &#8216;wildlife&#8217; for a good reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/baby-bison-with-mother.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14696\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/baby-bison-with-mother-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"baby-bison-with-mother\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/baby-bison-with-mother-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/baby-bison-with-mother-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/baby-bison-with-mother.jpg 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those stories that simply sends me into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Some visitors were driving through Yellowstone National Park. They see a newborn bison calf. They pick it up and put it into their SUV, believing it was &#8220;freezing.&#8221; They take the creature to a park office, where I presume the National Park Service rangers were none too happy to receive this arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The rangers sought to return the animal to the wild, return it to the herd from which the visitors &#8220;rescued&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>Mama bison wouldn&#8217;t care for her baby, which at that point was doomed.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the prospect of allowing the young bison to starve to death, the\u00a0rangers\u00a0decided to euthanize the tiny critter.<\/p>\n<p>You know, of course, why this story is so outrageous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/yellowstone-tourists-put-bison-calf-in-car-spurring-warning\/ar-BBt7pJ9?li=BBnbfcL\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/yellowstone-tourists-put-bison-calf-in-car-spurring-warning\/ar-BBt7pJ9?li=BBnbfcL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Park Service spends a lot of time and energy &#8212; not to mention <em>public money<\/em> &#8212; educating the public about the hazards of messing with these creatures. Tourists\u00a0must not\u00a0feed them, pet them, love on them &#8230; <em>pick them up and put them in their vehicles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the bison in particular, they are powerful and often cantankerous beasts that can inflict serious bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0visitors were\u00a0fined $110 for touching the baby bison. A part of me wishes the penalty was a lot stiffer. I also hope the rangers gave these visitors a serious tongue-lashing for what they did.<\/p>\n<p>OK, you are welcome to accuse me of restating the obvious &#8212; but these animals are labeled &#8220;wildlife&#8221; for a very good reason.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those stories that simply sends me into orbit. Some visitors were driving through Yellowstone National Park. They see a newborn bison calf. They pick it up and put it into their SUV, believing it was &#8220;freezing.&#8221; They take the creature to a park office, where I presume the National Park Service &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They&#8217;re labeled &#8216;wildlife&#8217; for a good reason<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6200,3204,6223],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-bison","tag-national-park-service","tag-yellowstone-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14697,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions\/14697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}