Steve Rinella

It's like, whatever, it's two million acres of paradise surrounded by reality or something like that, right?

So it's like there's these thousands, thousands of animals that live within the park.

Yep.

But-

wild animals aren't good at recognizing like jurisdictional boundaries.

Of course.

And so they're routinely spilling out of the park into surrounding private lands, national forest lands.

And there was just a constant debate about what should the state's tolerance for these animals be?

Uh, what should be their designation?

Yep.

Currently in, in,

Pardon me, listeners, because we talk about this all the time on the show.

Currently, and it blows my mind, if a buffalo walks out of the park into Montana, it crosses the park border, it becomes livestock.

Because the state doesn't recognize any real difference between the owned livestock animals and the wild free-roaming animals.

interesting hook here to say that there is a way that this can work out we've talked about this too colorado recently i don't know if you just saw this colorado recently passed legislation yeah that says if a bison walks into the state on its own four legs right it is wildlife right

Right.

Drawing a distinction.

Yeah.

And not to like discredit private producers.

Totally.