Right there. You feel ranchers paying the same federal income tax is good enough because Bison are harder on the resource. By your thinking all wildlife are livestock, There not, They are the resource. Cattle are the ones utilizing resources, and competing with the natural wildlife (resource).
Cattle are not a resource.
1. Ranchers paying taxes has nothing to do with cattle or bison. That had to to with the double taxation argument.
2. Cattle are a resource.