Wyoming bison rancher weighs in

Dear Editor,

As bison ranchers for 23 years, we would like to comment on the APR’s proposal to tear out their interior fences and let bison graze all year long, apparently without grazing management of any kind. As we suspect you are aware, it is a myth that bison do not overgraze their habitat. They have preferred plants, just like any species, and they will hit the same plants over and over, until those plants are severely damaged or gone.

Let us give you a personal example, when we first started raising bison, we adopted the “free-ranging” ideal. We had a small herd of 200 bison on 11,000 a...