Buffalo slaughter in King County

There was a time when hunters shot buffalo for sport, and the hairy beasts may have gone extinct but for some rational thinking on the topic.

Buffalo are found on a few ranches around the country, and according to a news report, one rancher in King County, Texas, had a herd of about 120 until recently. It seems that 51 of them wandered across his property line onto a neighbor's land. So the neighbor shot them dead.

Here's a link to a news report at Everythinglubbock.com. And here's an interesting sentence from that article:

"The 51 killed is worth more than $280,000."

Good fences make good neighbors. Otherwise don't let your buffalo roam.

Updated 1/26/10: Apparently QB Ranch, the home of those buffalo, is a hunting ranch at which hunters would be expected to pay from $2,000 to $3,500 for the privilege of killing a buffalo. So it's not exactly as if the owner was a conservationist trying to preserve the animals. Additionally, the ranch website price list throws into question the $280,000 value that appeared in the Everythinglubbock.com article: $280,000 ÷ 51 = $5,490.20.

Comments

[rocky horton]

The day this came to be news, I jumped on the band wagon with the national bison people, I got a lot of positive e mails, and some that were not so good, My wifes family may someday be running for public office . so I did not want to be involved, However, I asked the sheriff to give me some news and I was shut out just as the lubbock news stations ,Then the email got hostile and I bowed out.

[Geo]

Thanks for sharing that, Rocky. Good luck with the politics.