What to do about the buffalo in Yellowstone National Park is a lot more complex question than we can get into in our family history research newsletter. I didn't find any mention in what was sent to East Texas Roots about what the main problem is with the animals getting out of the park. Apparently the buffalo are carriers of a disease which the area ranchers fear. When their cattle are infected, they have to be destroyed because they cannot be sold. Therefore, they want any buffalo straying on to their range lands to be shot. Lest you worry, those are not the only buffalo herds left. I know of two in Oklahoma. One of them is on the Tall Grass Prairie, a National Preserve, in Osage County, Oklahoma. The other is a small vigorous herd on the Woolaroc Ranch outside Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Woolaroc is owned and supported by the Frank Phillips Foundation. Frank Phillips was the founder of Phillips Petroleum Company.