If the goal is to prevent disease, would leaving gut piles and rotting buffalo carcasses be effective? (Just asking, not trying to be inflammatory.)
Of the 16 bison shot weeks prior, it was confirmed that seven cow bisons had unborn calves in utero, it said.
“Monte Downare has stated that all of the 20 cow bison killed on the property were bred and would have calved in 15 to 20 days.”
As brucellosis is spread through urine and contaminated water, the carcases on open ground probably do not present a great risk. If it were my place, the dead would not be left laying in an occupied pasture.