Balmoral bison lured away from soggy land
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This article was published 25/04/2009 (6008 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A herd of bison knee-deep in water from overflowed ditches is now high and dry.
The bison are living on a stretch of a little-used municipal road near Balmoral, north of Winnipeg.
"The municipality came and asked what they could do for us," rancher Len Epp said.
So he lured his herd by cutting his fence and dumping a bunch of hay on a farm road. The bison went through the fence to eat the hay. He also sealed off both ends of the road with steel paneling so the livestock couldn’t run off.
"The bison are pretty happy right now. It didn’t take long," said Epp, who manages the herd for his father-in-law.
The makeshift evacuee centre is at the end of dead-end road and shouldn’t affect traffic.
The 230 bison have been in water for more than a week after drainage ditches overflowed due to ice jams in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood.
"They’re going to be OK now. We just have to wait for the water to go down," said Epp, who is also president of the Manitoba Bison Association.
— staff
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