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FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 17, 2020 file photo, a bison walks in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley near Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo. Park officials said, Yellowstone National Park is done capturing wild bison for the year after rounding up hundreds of the burly animals and sending most to slaughter as part of a population control program. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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Yellowstone slaughters wild bison to shrink park's herds
March 30, 2020 11:10 a.m.

Yellowstone slaughters wild bison to shrink park's herds

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park is done capturing wild bison for the year after rounding up almost 550 of the wild animals and sending most to slaughter as part of a population control program, park officials said.