CNN News

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summary:


The federal government protects the bison as a national heritage saved from the brink of extinction while the state of Montana labels them a nuisance and tried to kill them to achieve a population control. It was a tug of war between the federal government and the state government. The state of Montana claims that the bison may infect the disease Brucellosis to their livestock. However, environmentalists say there are no known cases of Brucellosis being transmitted from a bison to a cow, supposing that the real reason is the ranchers have no enough grazing land to the bison. Now a long-term solution is still under discussion, but it's hard to end the bison killing in the short time.



thoughts and reflections:

After reading this news,I think it's really a dilemma to decide whether to save the bison or not. In the federal government's place, they want to protect the bison from being extinct; while in the state of Montana's place, they dislike those creatures because they don't have enough food to provide them. What's worse, the state government even took a measurement that the bison which try to leave will be sent to a slaughter houses. This kind of action is aimed to achieve population control, but it seemed too cruel to get the identifications of social masses and environmentalists. As for me, I think the two sides must strike a balance between the eclolgy and the provisions. And in the article, it said that "the trails groomed by the park for winter visitors on snowmobiles hasten the bison migration to the killing fields", so I think that the government can prevent the visitors from doing such recreation, in order to reduce those unnecessary destruction to our environment, and can also save some food for the bison more or less.