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HELENA, Mont. -- The hunting of bison that wander from Yellowstone National Park will resume next month, more than a decade after the practice was canceled amid a barrage of protests from around the country.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission on Thursday approved reviving a limited hunting season for the animals when they leave the park in search of winter forage.

The 4-1 vote authorized the issuing of 10 licenses for hunting bison between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15 in an area north of the park where migration is most likely as snowfall increases in the park.
Another hunt would begin in November and last for three months, but commissioners did not set the number of licenses to be issued for that hunt.

The argument over hunting Yellowstone bison peaked in 1990 when animal-rights protesters confronted hunters as they took aim at the animals grazing outside the park.
The hunting was seen as a way of controlling the animals wandering from the park by the hundreds in some winters. Ranchers fear the bison will transmit brucellosis, a disease that causes cows to abort, although critics say bison have not been shown to spread the disease to cattle in the wild.

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