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  • Slaughter of bison roils ranch town (CO)

    05/04/2008 10:31:21 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 103 replies · 9+ views
    LA Times ^ | May 4, 2008 | DeeDee Correll
    In a breach of the local code of ethics -- and possibly the law -- 32 are killed after straying onto a neighbor's land.FAIRPLAY, COLO. -- This is not a place where buffalo are welcome to roam. When 32 bison lumbered across a fence that separated their owners' vast, wind-swept expanse of land from a neighboring ranch in March, they ended up dead. Some fell where they were shot. Others scattered, galloping for miles before they succumbed in the snow. They were victims, contend the bison's owners, of a murder plot hatched by the neighbor, a Texan frustrated by what...