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A 25-year-old woman was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park on Monday morning, officials said.

A bison was walking near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, just north of the Old Faithful geyser, when a tourist approached it, coming within 10 feet. The wild animal then gored the woman and tossed her 10 feet into the air, according to a press release from the National Park Service.

The unnamed woman, who was visiting from Grove City, Ohio, sustained a puncture wound among other injuries, the agency said. She was transported via ambulance to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls.

10 ft. There were also 2 other nit wits within 25 yards of the same Bull and hey its calving time. Duh. News flash Bison injure more people in the Park every year than the bears.

Every once in the while I think about going to the park, find some on the road, put on some skates and show that you can roller skate in a buffalo herd. But, I am SURE it is a BAD idea and you wouldn't do it for very long. I am kind of amazed nobody has tried it for a U tube video:rolleyes:
 
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She paid the price.
What part of stay a safe distance from the bison did she not understand?
 
At Yellowstone- Saw some humanoids standing on the edge of a road looking down into the ditch.
I slowed down and looked.
There was a huge Bull Elk on his knees munching grass. He was pointed at the folks on the road.
I told my Bride, if somebody spooks that Boy, he'll jump up and head onto the road.
And take out a 8 foot swath of stupid.
 
News this morning says the woman died from her injuries.

I was in Yellowstone on May 14th. The usual traffic jam because a big grizzly was about 40 yards off the road. Close enough that I would not get out of my truck but the edge of the road was crowded with tourons.
 
tourons. I like that one.

Nobody that knows cattle will get within 10ft of most "domestic" range bulls on foot without good cause. Especially when it is around cows and calves. They have knocked more than one horse down. Look at rodeo bulls and they are used to being handled. Even the clowns who have tons of experience have barrels
 
A few years ago as we were driving up to the lodge we saw a first aid helicopter flying out. When we got to the lodge we found out a buffalo had taken a run down one of the boardwalks that had a fence on both sides to keep them out. Everyone jumped the fence successfully except one guy in a wheelchair. He did get gored, but his wife did jump the fence and left him. Makes you wonder who planned that Yellowstone trip.
 
About ten years ago, we were on a motorcycle tour of Yellowstone. We stopped to watch some Bison grazing far out in a large meadow. A big sign, right there in the parking area read "DO NOT APPROACH BISON. THEY ARE DANGEROUS AND UNPREDICTABLE." On the local news in Cody that evening, we learned that a tour bus full of Norwegian tourists had stopped at that spot. A lady walked 50 yards out in the meadow to snap a photo of a big bull. As she was walking back to the bus, she was blind sided by the bull, was gored and thrown up in a tree. She died at the scene. We have lots of Bison in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western ND. They go where and do what they want, and most tourists know better than to mess with them.
 
steelslaver said:
Every once in the while I think about going to the park, find some on the road, put on some skates and show that you can roller skate in a buffalo herd. But, I am SURE it is a BAD idea and you wouldn't do it for very long. I am kind of amazed nobody has tried it for a U tube video:rolleyes:
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I haven't heard a reference to that song in years!

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Years ago 3 young buffalo bulls from the Black Hills decided to go on walk about. They showed up south of Miles City, MT about 240 miles from their start point. There are a lot of barb wire fences in between. Yellowstone park has a excess population of about 900-1000 more buffalo than it should have. Heaven forbid anyone should talk about shooting them.


There is a lot of natural wonder in the park, but maybe even more human interference, $$$$ and stupid.
 
I hope that when a wild animal, does what comes naturally when they encounter stupid people, is not "put down" because of public outcry! I know sometimes it is done to dogs that bite folks.
Larry
 
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Years ago 3 young buffalo bulls from the Black Hills decided to go on walk about. They showed up south of Miles City, MT about 240 miles from their start point. There are a lot of barb wire fences in between.
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One needs to inquire of our Iggy on this topic, but I understand a quality 5 strand barbed-wire fence that would keep in the wildest range cattle, is akin to maybe a strand of dental floss to a buffalo! The best cattle fencing won't even slow them down.

One friend who was going to have a hobby herd up in North AR, spent as much as he paid for his entire place having "Bison-Quality" fencing put in to keep his herd corralled. They found most of them in the next county within 24 hours eating up a widow-woman's prize roses. They had made a buffalo "waller" in her manicured Zoysia Grass front lawn too.

My friend told me later, and when enough time had passed to laugh about the fiasco, "that I would rather try to fence in a tornado, or the moon and stars in the sky." At least he was poetic in defeat.
 
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I watched a guy in Yellowstone once who was getting real close to a cow elk with a calf behind her. She was bobbing her head and hooving the ground, and I just knew he was going to get clobbered. He was yelling to his friend, "Look, she's crazy!" I thought, "How ironic!" Then a park ranger showed up and yelled at him, and he lived to be stupid another day.
 
Believe it or not, at Shelby Farms Park just outside of Memphis, there is a fair sized herd of Bison. Usually about 30-40 of them. They breed them there and every couple of years send some out west for re-population purposes. They're pretty much raised free range with very little interaction with the park personnel. They have their own fenced off section in the park.
Despite warning signs, you often see people parked on the side of the road, lining the fence in an effort to pet them. Some Bison will allow it, but most don't want anything to do with people.
Every few years, some idiot will climb the fence and enter their territory. It rarely ends well. :rolleyes:
 
Knew of someone who was raising Beefalo in SE Idaho about 40 years ago. He liked the taste of 50-50 Beef- Buffalo but kept them at 25% Buffalo as they could stay in fenced areas. Even 50-50 wandered where they wanted.
If you'r ever curious about Buffalo fence, go to the National Bison Range 40 Miles N of Missoula. 2" x 12" pine and about 8 foot tall for corrals. Wire fences are close posts and tall.
 
About 15 years ago, 2 buddies and I were riding home from Sturgis through Yellowstone when we came across a traffic jam. Herd of about 150 bison on both sides of the road, right next to the road. Everyone had stopped as the wildlife has the right of way in the park. There were 2 huge double decker tour buses full of Japanese tourists, one bus of German tourists and about 30 or so cars, SUVs, vans and trucks. This was early August so there were young calves scattered through the herd. Small bison draw Japanese tourists like a moth to a flame. They were out and about, taking pictures of the bison as if they were fashion models. Some of them even were getting in between cows and calves. That didn't count the usual stupidity from everyone else, who were doing the same thing on a smaller scale. There was 1, count them, 1 Ranger watching the whole thing. When I opined that we were probably gonna lose some Japanese if he didn't do something, he told me that with that many people, speaking who knows what languages, and with him being alone, there wasn't much he could do. We had to make some time, so we rolled our bikes past the traffic jam and went on about our way. Luckily the bison were in a peaceful mood that day.
 
I started Mule pack trips from Montana 's Bear tooth Wilderness into YELLOWSTONE in 1981. A woman was gored and killed that August after she went up to Bull and kicked him to get him to stand for picture. I believe at least one person is gored every year since then.
Mostly women and usually from Ohio or New Jersey. I guess they think they are in a Petting Zoo.
 
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I was once kind of force to walk by a bull elk. We went in the park by Gardner one winter to where the hot springs enters the river as wife and girls wanted to soak there. When we pulled into the parking lot there were some elk grazing in the brush around the perimeter. They were paying no attention to the people who were not bothering them or approaching them. Walked about a 1/2 mile down the trail and saw a few more elk all a ways off the path.
Wife and step daughters took off their outer clothes and went in water in swim suits. I was not that ambitious and knew it would be nippy getting out to walk back to car. I spent my time watching some more elk mixed with mule deer grazing right across the little river. Girls get done and put on their sweats and jackets and we walked back along the path which has asphalt on it near the parking lot. Go past the outhouse and right beside the path is a big bull elk, just laying there chewing his cud. On the other side of the path is a drop to the river. We could have backed up past the outhouse and cut through the brush with the other elk or just go along our way. Figuring he was relaxed and obviously really used to people we walk on by just like everyone else had. Uncomfortable. I was armed, but shooting an elk in the park would not be good and trying to do it while he was knocking you around would be worse.

In many of the inhabited parts of the park you will see elk wondering around between buildings on the streets etc. They are pretty used to people. But once again don't push them or in any way make them think your aggressive or they are cornered.

It is like the white tail that are often in my yard. They know me they are used to me, and we get along, but, I don't trust them 100% and keep an eye out. They start thumping a hoof, you need to move away. I have no doubt that if they though they were cornered they would tun right over me.
 
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