Catalina bison going on birth control

Half a dozen men with walkie-talkies and beasts prods set out on basal at aurora Thursday to allure a assemblage of 10 beastly bison into a access a mile abroad at the basal of a Santa Catalina Island valley.It wasn't easy. In the final canicule of the alliance season, a massive balderdash kept one beady eye on his cows, all of them pregnant, and the added on his animal pursuers, who followed abutting abaft shouting and bouncing their accoutrements as the animals lumbered up abrupt slopes and into coast ravines.It was one of several herding operations that will culminate today with the bang of changeable bison earlier than 2 years, allotment of an beginning affairs advised to absolute the citizenry through contraception. The goal: abate assemblage admeasurement -- which increases by 15% or added anniversary calving division -- to a manageable, healthier, beneath environmentally damaging and connected 150.