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LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — A Park County judge granted temporary restraining orders Wednesday to halt state agencies from allowing bison to roam into parts of Montana from Yellowstone National Park.

The Livingston Enterprise reports District Judge Nels Swandal issued the orders at the request of Park County and the Park County Stockgrowers Association.

The judge says that until further legal proceedings occur, government agencies are prohibited from implementing changes made this spring to a federal-state bison management agreement.

Those changes allowed bison to roam into parts of the Gardiner Basin where they previously had been prohibited because of worries over the animal disease brucellosis. Most of the animals have since gone back into the park or been captured to keep them out of the basin.

A May 25 hearing is scheduled in two lawsuits over the issue.