Only 200 cattle are grazed on public lands in the cattle-buffalo conflict zone. These National Forest lands were established expressly to protect winter range for buffalo and other park wildlife. The Forest Service could close grazing allotments or modify the stocking dates of such allotments to provide much needed winter range for buffalo and to ensure
no buffalo/cattle overlap.

Like other wildlife in Yellowstone, buffalo should be managed by qualified wildlife agencies, not the livestock industry, while employing contemporary management techniques with full public involvement. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, should establish a buffer zone around the park within which all cattle would be tested for brucellosis before being permitted to leave the zone. This would eliminate the problem of ranchers in other parts of the state being adversely affected if, in the extremely unlikely event, Montana's brucellosis-free status were ever rescinded.

Please also see Solutions to the Slaughter &
News Article 6/06/03- Tribes offer alternative to bison slaughter