{"id":7027,"date":"2016-03-28T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bison-taken-from-interior-alaska-village-by-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:01:42","slug":"bison-taken-from-interior-alaska-village-by-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bison-taken-from-interior-alaska-village-by-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bison taken from interior Alaska village by helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRAYLING \u2014 <\/strong>A tagged bison had to be taken from an interior Alaska village by helicopter after it seemed to be stranded there.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that on Feb. 23, Bull 123 was anesthetized so he could be flown out of Grayling, located on the Yukon River.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Fish and Game biologist Tom Seaton blindfolded the bison, collected a number of samples and administered medications before loading Bull 123 onto a tarp-sling. The sling was sewn shut to keep the bison in and strung under a helicopter, which traveled at about 60 mph for 22 miles to a sedge meadow where another lone bull of the same age had been feeding.<\/p>\n<p>The young bull had been hanging around Grayling since early December despite the community\u2019s attempts to chase him out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAYLING \u2014 A tagged bison had to be taken from an interior Alaska village by helicopter after it seemed to be stranded there. The Fairbanks Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>-Miner reported that on Feb. 23, Bull 123 was anesthetized so he could be flown out of Grayling, located on the Yukon River. Department of Fish and Game biologist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}