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Yellowstone National Park

  • 9 injured when lightning strikes Old Faithful watchers

    Ralph Maughan

    Just one needed hospitalization! 9 injured when lightning strikes Old Faithful watchers. AP

  • Yellowstone to Look at Ways to Improve Park's North Entrance

    Ralph Maughan

    Do you have ideas? Yellowstone National Park is doing an environmental assessment and thinking of ways to improve the historic entrance to Yellowstone Park— “An environmental assessment will be prepared in coming months, looking at subjects including vehicle circulation, congestion, and parking; pedestrian safety; signage, and vegetation challenges; all while preserving the historic nature of…

  • Montana Stockgrowers' Suit Over Bison Management Dismissed

    Ralph Maughan

    I’d say this is a minor victory. The Stockgrowers wanted even more severe “management” of bison that we already have to witness. Stockgrowers’ Suit Over Bison Management Dismissed. Matt Gouras. Associated Press Writer

  • Buffalo Roam Into Controversy

    Brian Ertz

    The privatization of public bison has spurred quite the controversy in Montana The insanity of bison mis-management in and around Yellowstone National Park has prompted the privatization of this iconic wildlife species. Buffalo Roam Into Controversy ~ (Audio) ~ NPR – On Point Bison from the park have been hazed and quarantined for ‘study’ under the…

  • Mangy Druid wolf shot south of Butte, MT

    Ralph Maughan

    Druid 690F shot by rancher south of Butte- She was sick and beaten up by attacks from other wolves. She was trying for some livestock. Butte, of course, is quite a distance from Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone Park wolf killed near Butte. By Nick Gevock. Montana Standard

  • Official disagreement whether Interagency Bison Management Plan is worthwhile

    Ralph Maughan

    In fact, the Montana state veterinarian and MT Dept. of Livestock are the only ones who think it has worked- Interagency Bison Management Plan or IBMP is the controversial bison management plan adopted in 2000 to keep brucellosis from spreading from Yellowstone Park bison to cattle outside the Park.   No brucellosis has spread from bison,…

  • Notes on Jim Beer's many hour long speech at Bozeman, May 16

    Ralph Maughan

    Bozeman naturalist’s notes on the event- There has been a lot of discussion on the blog of the speech Jim Beer’s gave Sunday May 16th, 2010 at the Gran Tree Inn in Bozeman, from 1 PM to 5 PM. The speech was sponsored by Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, which has been complaining…

  • Firsthand witness account of Tuesay's Buffalo haze

    Ralph Maughan

    Jim McDonald’s Account of Montana’s DOL pushing bison into Yellowstone Park- This is the time of year when Montana’s Department of Livestock pushes bison back into the Park for no real reason except to demonstrate that they run things in the area. Activist Jim McDonald has written a long essay on a blog describing the…

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