COUNTY WILL PROBE DEATH OF MALE BISON CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS CITED.Byline: Daily News NEWHALL - Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County parks and law enforcement officials, by order of the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, are convening con·vene v. con·vened, con·ven·ing, con·venes v.intr. To come together usually for an official or public purpose; assemble formally. v.tr. 1. to investigate last week's mysterious bison death at Hart Park. The board approved Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's proposal for taking a second look at the bull's death by the heads of the county Parks and Recreation and Animal Care and Control departments along with sheriff's and public safety officials. ``We have a dead bison, and we have county departments with different accounts of what happened the day following,'' said Tony Bell, a spokesman for Antonovich, whose district includes Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . ``That's troubling to the supervisor. We would like to see our county agencies working in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem , cooperatively with county services.'' The departments were ordered to report back to the board in one week. The partially eaten carcass carcass, carcase 1. the body of an animal killed for meat. The head, the legs below the knees and hocks, the tail, the skin and most of the viscera are removed. The kidneys are left in and in most instances the body is split down the middle through the sternum and the vertebral of the 1 1/2-year-old bull - the only male among the park's 11 bison - was discovered July 27 in a pen. The pen is inaccessible to animals without human intervention, officials said. Park officials have said shoe prints were discovered near the body, which was partially eaten by coyotes or other animals. County Parks and Recreation officials opted against a postmortem examination postmortem examination n. See autopsy. of the carcass, citing expense and the length of time that passed between the animal's death and its discovery, a Hart park supervisor said. ``We're looking forward to a full account of the incident by all the agencies involved so that we can ascertain what really happened, and whether or not our county departments or personnel acted appropriately, and who if anyone should be held accountable,'' Bell said. |
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