{"id":277759,"date":"2010-02-04T07:55:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:55:44","slug":"ted-turner-to-receive-88-yellowstone-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277759","title":{"rendered":"Ted Turner to receive 88 Yellowstone bison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billingsgazette.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/montana\/article_1f4ddec4-1045-11df-bc38-001cc4c03286.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/billingsgazette.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/editorial\/b\/c3\/d96\/bc3d96a8-d56a-5a28-b963-1df4c7560c57.preview-300.jpg?_dc=1259845283\" width=\"212\" align=\"right\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>Billionaire Ted Turner is set to receive 88 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Yellowstone_National_Park%2C_United_States\">Yellowstone National Park<\/a> bison from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Ecoregions_of_Montana_%28EPA%29\">Montana<\/a> that were supposed to be put on public or private lands.<\/p>\n<p>The animals, now housed at a joint federal-state quarantine compound in southern Montana&#8217;s Paradise Valley, are part of a state program geared toward placing disease-free animals on public or tribal lands.<\/p>\n<p>Turner struck a deal with the state that will allow him to keep 75 percent of the bison offspring &#8212; an estimated 188 bison &#8212; in exchange for boarding the animals for five years. Montana would get an estimated 150 bison back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Turner already owns about 50,000 bison, but this group of bison is valued for its pure gene pool.<\/p>\n<p>Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) had asked Turner to submit an offer for the bison last fall after an earlier plan to move them onto a Wyoming reservation fell through. The state has also turned down at least two American Indian reservations that wanted some or all of the bison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a lot of people that wanted [the bison] on public lands. We&#8217;re not ready,&#8221; said Montana wildlife chief David Risley. &#8220;The Turner option, all it does is buy us time to come up with a long-term solution&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billingsgazette.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/montana\/article_1f4ddec4-1045-11df-bc38-001cc4c03286.html\" >AP\/<em>Billings Gazette<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 2). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3106&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3106\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Ted Turner is set to receive 88 Yellowstone National Park bison from Montana that were supposed to be put on public or private lands. The animals, now housed at a joint federal-state quarantine compound in southern Montana&#8217;s Paradise Valley, are part of a state program geared toward placing disease-free animals on public or tribal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}