https://www.conservationbigyear.com/july-19-quitting-beef-for-bird-conservation/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 https://www.conservationbigyear.com/july-19-quitting-beef-for-bird-conservation/#comment-508 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:45:54 +0000 http://www.conservationbigyear.com/?p=458#comment-508 Hi Laura- great article as usual! This summer, I traveled to Yellowstone as a co-instructor of a course about human-wolf conflicts surrounding the reintroduction to the national park. We met with both wolf biologists and ranchers to hear their perspectives. I was sorry to say that after visiting a ranch, I was further convinced that beef was in conflict with conservation. A particularly interesting tidbit from the head wolf biologist at the park was that wolves will attack bison last of the possible ungulate prey. This strengthened my prior leaning toward choosing bison meat over cow, when buying red meat at the grocery. While wolves will go after cattle, leading to ranchers wanting to “control” for them (shoot them), it seems bison will naturally deter them due to already-extant ecological relationships…

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