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Update:YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A judge has ordered three bison activists arrested in Yellowstone National Park to be detained until at least Monday.
Thomas Brown of Hardwick, Vermont; Cody J. Cyson of Minnetonka, Minnesota; and Hanna Ponder of Donnelly, Idaho, appeared Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Carman at the Yellowstone Justice Center.
All three have been cited for entering a closed area, which is a misdemeanor. Brown and Cyson were also cited for interfering with agency functions after park officials said they chained themselves to a corral used to hold bison early Tuesday.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports Carman granted a federal prosecutor's request to delay court proceedings until Monday and to detain the three defendants until then.
The three are affiliated with an advocacy group called Wild Buffalo Defense that seeks to draw attention to the slaughter of bison.
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BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials say rangers arrested two people who were trying to chain themselves to a corral where wild bison are held.
Park spokeswoman Vicki Regula says rangers arrested the two people Tuesday afternoon. She declined to identify them or say whether they were being detained or charged.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported the people arrested are affiliated with an advocacy group called Wild Buffalo Defense and seek to draw attention to the slaughter of bison.
The corrals are where bison are held when they are captured leaving the park. Some are shipped to slaughter to reduce the herd's size and over concerns of disease spread.
Bison escaped from the corrals in January and February after intruders cut through fences.
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This story has been updated to correct that the arrests were made Tuesday afternoon.
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Information from: Bozeman Daily Chronicle, http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com
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