Buffalo Field Campaign Weekly Updates from the Field 2006/2007

WEST YELLOWSTONE - At least 13 bison from Yellowstone National Park have died on U.S. 191 this winter, including six killed over the weekend when a semitrailer smashed into a herd near here, a spokesman for the Buffalo Field Campaign said.

Dan Brister, spokesman for the protest group headquartered near West Yellowstone, said Monday his group puts up signs and posts volunteers along the roadway to warn drivers when bison are on the highway.

But everybody had gone home by the time the accident occurred Saturday night near the Cougar Creek drainage, seven miles north of West Yellowstone, he said.

State officials also have posted temporary signs on the shoulder of the road warning drivers that animals may wander onto the two-lane highway.

Brister said his group is working with state highway officials to put up more effective signs warning of bison on the highway.

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