"Yellowstone bison could go to zoos, tribes, Utah" AP October 16, 2014
NEW YORK — Wildlife officials are recommending the relocation of 145 disease-free bison from Yellowstone National Park to tribal lands, a consortium of zoos, and public lands in Utah.
The bison were captured last decade under an experimental program to start herds using Yellowstone animals. They spent years in quarantine to make sure they weren’t carrying the disease brucellosis, which has caused problems for the cattle industry.
Seventy bison would go to Montana’s Fort Peck Indian Reservation and 35 to Oklahoma’s Cherokee Nation under a proposal from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
A consortium that includes the Bronx and Queens zoos in New York would receive 10 of the animals. The remaining 30 would go to Utah’s Division of Wildlife. Officials will consider the plan Thursday.
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Related: "Montana wildlife officials decided Thursday against shipping 145 bison captured from Yellowstone National Park to the Bronx zoo and other locations across the nation, choosing to send them to an American Indian reservation within the state."
