During a winter trip to Yellowstone National Park, I stayed at a hotel in Gardiner, Montana. This cart of bison legs appeared one afternoon in the hotel parking lot. Any bison that leave Yellowstone National Park near the north entrance during the winter are captured and held in pens. Some are slaughtered and others are transferred to other holding facilities for distribution to tribal lands. The reason is because wild bison can carry a disease called brucellosis, a condition that causes a fetus to prematurely abort and it can be transferred to domestic cows on nearby cattle ranches. It was hard to look at the processed legs yet the gruesomeness of the scene caught my eye and kept me entranced. My heart sank to see such beautiful animals on display in such a horrible manner, but local ranchers have a point to make. This is the constant battle in the U.S. of property owners and land managers, including ranchers, farmers and the National Park Service management, to find ways to coexist in an every shrinking world.