Bison? When an old bull bison with a ridiculous short beard and a head twice as big as his backside ignores you, you, by God, stay ignored. And, if he ignores you, his entire herd ignores you. Even if you bear down on them driving a massive tractor trailer truck, you had better be laying on the air brakes. The buffalo won’t bother to get out of your way.
Obsession development July 18, 2013 involved bison
I watched an old bull, his front half covered with matted fur that drew clouds of insects to hang around him like an aura, ignore the insects. No tossed head or twitched tail for him. I thought I’d take a shot at getting his attention, told him I knew what he tasted like.
He didn’t care.
Murray Lundberg on his website, exporenorth.com, explains that the Yukon Government imported a herd of 34 Wood Bison from Alberta’s Elk Island Herd in 1986. They imported more over the next few years, but, more important, the old bulls apparently do not ignore their cows.
The herd grew naturally.
By 2014 an estimated 1200 bison populated the Alaska Highway between Watson Lake in Yukon Territory and Liard Hot Springs in British Columbia. And they pose a definite hazard to navigation.
The two provincial governments have tried to keep them away from the Highway, trucking them to remote areas, hiring a man to drive along the way firing off noisemakers… But the buffalo find the grass that lines the highway irresistible. And they don’t just ignore truckers and me, they ignore provincial governments too.