There are several warning signs at Antelope Island State Park, but managers see people approaching the bison almost every day.
ANTELOPE ISLAND — No matter how many times Arne Van Wagoner has seen them, he can't get enough of them.His camera is full of wildlife photos, but there's something about seeing all the bison at Antelope Island State Park that really makes him smile. It's why he and his wife made the trip to the island Tuesday afternoon from their Tooele home.However, for as much as he loves seeing the herd of bison, he doesn't dare get close to them.
"They just don't care," Van Wagoner said. "They tell you up at Yellowstone not to mess with anything, but they do." "The warning is to not approach bison. So, we ask folks, I know Yellowstone says 25 yards, we just try to extend that and say maybe a football field and don't approach closer than that," said Wendy Wilson, assistant park manager at Antelope Island. "If they turn their head and look at you, they're aware of you and you're probably too close. If they cock their tail, you are definitely too close.
"They look like big fluffy cows, right? They're not. They're wild animals. They have tempers and they have their spatial bubbles," Wilson said. "We're threats to them, and so if they feel threatened by us, and if they don't feel like there's a good escape for them, then they'll come after us to protect themselves."
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