Males on bikes accused of harassing Yellowstone bison

Two brothers accused of driving bikes off-road and harassing bison in Yellowstone Nationwide Park have pleaded not responsible

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Two brothers accused of driving bikes off-road and harassing bison in Yellowstone Nationwide Park have pleaded not responsible.

Dallin McAllister, 25, of Provo, Utah, and Tyler McAllister, 36, of Gilbert, Arizona, entered the pleas Monday earlier than U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Mark Carman in Yellowstone. Every was charged with working a motorized vehicle in prohibited areas and feeding, touching, teasing, scary or deliberately disturbing wildlife.

The 2 drove off-road close to Fountain Flats Drive in western Yellowstone Friday night, park spokeswoman Ashton Hooker stated.

Video posted on-line confirmed motorcyclists driving off-road inside a number of ft (2 meters) of a gaggle of operating bison, together with some calves, the Bozeman Each day Chronicle reported.

Tyler McAllister did not instantly return a cellphone message Tuesday at his solar energy enterprise. Dallin McAllister did not instantly reply to a request for remark Tuesday by means of Fb.

Guests in Yellowstone are required to remain 25 yards (23 meters) from bison and no less than 100 yards (91 meters) from bears and wolves. Guests could not go off street on autos or bicycles.

Yellowstone guests had no less than two different run-ins with bison this 12 months. A bison knocked a girl down close to Previous Devoted in Might.

A bison gored a girl after she approached it to take a photograph close to Yellowstone Lake’s Bridge Bay in June. She was flown by helicopter to a hospital.