Denny Rehberg: “I just do not understand how anybody that truly loves their park could support an amendment like this. I was Lieutenant…”

“I just do not understand how anybody that truly loves their park could support an amendment like this. I was Lieutenant Governor before I was a Congressman so I was intimately involved in the negotiations on this process. I am also a land manager. I make my living understanding the mineral cycle and the water cycle, understanding what it is like to overgraze and undergraze and overlog and underlog, that there are various cycles that exist within society. So if I could put it to the sponsors in language that they can understand, maybe I ought to talk like Ranger Rick and suggest to them that when a bull and a cow get together, they have calves. And when you have calves, eventually you overpopulate. They have used the number 4,000 killed. That is over 20 years. Last year three were shot, because they needed to be. Nobody wants to shoot them. But some of them are uncontrollable. But the problem is 40 percent of the herd in Yellowstone Park are infected with brucellosis. Do you not care enough about your bison to want to have a healthy herd? They abort their calves.”