Posted AT 4:43 AM EDT on 21/03/06
Scientists hand Ottawa a blueprint for a mass cull of bison
CALGARY — The document reads like a doomsday scenario for Canada's largest free roaming herd of bison.Offer bounties to encourage hunting. Set up hunt camps. Radio-collar "Judas" animals to more easily track herds. Use corral-traps to corner about 4,500 wild animals. Shoot them from the ground and the air. Get rid of the remains so the carcasses -- many infected with bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis -- won't spread diseases.
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