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Of Bison, Birth Control And An Island Off Southern Calif.

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In an open-aired Jeep, it's a bone-jarring ride into Santa Catalina Island's vast interior. The dirt road winds and climbs, twists and turns, climbing 2,000 feet up. From there, the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean comes back into view, and if you squint, you can see downtown Los Angeles 30 miles off on the horizon. Some days, you can also see wild bison. "This is a really common place to see a bison, you'll see them in groups, and then solitary males, very frequently in this stretch of road," says John Mack, chief conservation officer for the private Catalina Island Conservancy, which manages most of the land here. As if on cue, a couple minutes later, a lone male bison comes into view, standing stoically atop a ridge of a hill blanketed with scrub oak trees. "It's, well, an interesting thing to see," biologist Julie King says from the back seat. King is in charge of managing the 150 wild bison roaming the island. They're by no means native. Fourteen of the animals were brought here in

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