[quote=SteveFromNY ]
"It's my understanding that TV developers are using the buffalo as a combination tax-dodge and tourist attraction".
Agree with this part in that it maintains undeveloped land as ag. land at a lower assessed value. Eventually at build out buff will be moved to another pasture. I too was amazed at the "idiots" (for sake of a better word) that would extend hands and arms through slatted fences to feed a carrot to an animal weighing in near 1000 lbs. Simply moving their head up or down will injure your arm if in between the slats and above or below its head/neck. Learned this early on when sorting cattle in pens and loading chutes.
Also have seen bulls go through "electric fences" when the scent of a cow in heat was picked up.