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FWP doesn't know the meaning of 'species' or 'native'

How did that line go? What's in a name? A rose would smell as sweet..... It seems MT Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) is following Shakespeare's musings. We no longer hear about 'wild, free-ranging' bison. Now they are being labeled as a 'native species' and FWP is looking for, "somewhere in Montana where animals (bison) could be managed as a native species". Apparently, FWP does not know the meaning of either 'species' or 'native'. All plains bison in North America (federal, private and Indian Reservation herds) belong to the same genus and species (Bison bison). In addition, a native species i...

 

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