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Show QA The Salt Lake Tribune, Fisherman Finds Body Of Missing Idahoan Monday, January 20, 1986 Resilient Buffalo May Find Home on the Radar Range By ' extras," says Mark Jecker Jim Carrier of the Arizona Game and Fish Department, which manages two buffalo herds totaling 200 head. There are lots of Denver Post Writer - When the FORT PIERRE, S.D. storm had cleared that winter on the Missouri Breaks, Nellie and Roy Hopck found dead cattle all over the place. Their ranch was unprotected from, the wind, with few trees and fewer buildings. But a handful of buffalo did fine, said Nellie. They didn't mind the storm. They ran and played when it was blizzardy. The Houcks learned, from that storm, that buffalo are survivors. Left to their own, they reproduce generously, they forage in trying conditions, and they even eat snow when water is scarce. And unlike cattle, with their they face storms head-on- , thick head protection and strong circulation, rather than be driven by the wind into drifts and fences to die. Little wonder buffalo herds once numbered in the millions and stretched for miles. Today, a century after they were slaughtered to near extinction, there are 75,000 buffalo in the United States, and the biggest problem for their keepers is what to do with the buffalo" In South Dakota and Montana, auctions are held each year to reduce public herds. Arizona and Utah allow buffalo hunting. This year Montana opened a season on a few head that roamed out of Yellowstone National Park. At this years National Western Stock Show in Denver, buffalo were judged and sold, for there is a growing market for the lean meat, and an increasing number of ranchers trading their cattle for bison. I think its going to get real big pretty soon, said Gene Linnebur, a Byers, Colo., wheat farmeiwho also raises 1,000 head. Today, the Houcks own 3,000 head, the largest buffalo herd in the United States. They sell meat from a slaughterhouse on the ranch. park spokesman. Between 100 and 500 animals die every winter. While a stink was raised over the Montana season on Yellowstone buffalo, hunting proceeded as usual last fall in Arizona and Utah, where herds are reduced by hunting. Arizona issued 61 permits last year, costing $240 for a yearling to $750 for a bull. Utah, which estimates there are 300 g buffalo in Henrys Mountains north of Lake Powell, allowed 40 hunters to take any mature animal last year. The buffalo today evolved from remnant herds found at the turn of the century and saved by protectionists. Yellowstone had 100 buffalo when the park was created in 1872. The herd at the National Bison Range in Montana began with four animals rounded up by an Indian, Walking Coyote, and raised by the Salish and Kootenai tribes. The seed stock for much of the free-rangin- South Dakota buffalo came from five calves captured by a frontiersman in 1881 near Fort Pierre and kept on a private ranch. In 1914, 25 head were hauled by wagon train to the new Custer State Park in the Black Hills. From that beginning, there are now 950 buffalo in what is considered the best managed herd in the United Staes. Each fall, the Custer park auctions 0 head to individuals for meat, to ranchers like Houck and Linnebur and to other preserves. At the 1985 auction, prices doubled, averaging $512 for bull calves and $558 for heifers. A mature cow brought as much as $1,300. Our prices are generally 25 percent higher than beef, said Tom assistant park director. In addition to meat, there is a big market in buffalo byproducts hides, sinew and hooves, tie said. According to the National Buffalo Association in Fort Pierre, new buffalo ranches were established this year in Oklahoma, Utah, New York and Florida, based on a strong faith in the future price of buffalo meat. The meat has 30 percent less cholesterol, Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy 25 percent more protein, and 30 to 50 said. Searchers began looking for Hanpercent fewer calories than beef, said Jan. 11 after he was. reported ner an association Judy Hebbring, missing. spokesman. YAMAHA PIANOSAND OTHERS 400-50- e, - The body of a RIRIE, Idaho (AP) missing Kirie man has been found in the South Fork of the Snake River about 300 yards below where his boat capsized a week earlier. Larry Hanner, 50, was found by a fisherman in a logjam on Saturday, a All Sizes, Styles, Finishes Pianos Organs Sheet Music Rentals Sales Guitars School Instruments SUGAR HOUSE 1915 E. 4800 So. 2233 Highland Driva Across From Cottonwood Mall Mon. 10-- 9 Mon. 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