Montana
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If states grab federal lands, what happens to donated private lands? What do the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, and hundreds of other organizations have in common? Their gifts of acquired private land given to the federal government would be at risk if states got hold of the national…
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Wildlife management reform objective one- Speak for Wolves is an opportunity for the American people to unite and demand wildlife management reform and restore our national heritage. This year’s event is set to take place in the Union Pacific Dining Lodge on August 7-9, 2015 in West Yellowstone, Montana. Here is the first objective in reforming…
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More Buffalo Shipped to Slaughter Leaving Stephens Creek Bison Trap Empty. Death Count Passes 400- News Release Contact: Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-646-0071, bfc-media@wildrockies.org Mike Mease, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-646-0071, mease@wildrockies.org Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner Basin, Montana. Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) patrols reported this morning that they witnessed three tribal stock trailers leaving Yellowstone’s Stephens…
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Second rupture under Yellowstone River in four years makes Keystone look more ominous- There has been a massive rupture of the Poplar oil pipeline under the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana. This is about a hundred miles upstream from the North Dakota border and the Yellowstone’s confluence with the Missouri River. The pipeline lay buried…
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Press release Contact: Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-640-0109, bfc-media@wildrockies.org Yellowstone National Park. Gardiner Basin, MT. Since Wednesday an estimated 200 of America’s last wild, migratory buffalo have been crammed into tribal stock trailers at Yellowstone National Park’s Stephens Creek bison trap. The bison have been taken to tribal slaughter facilities by tribal…
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Yes, it looks like pneumonia. It usually is. It comes from domestic sheep most of the time. On December 15, Ken Cole reported in the News, “Bighorn Sheep Near the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park are Dying from Pneumonia.” Well, it continues. Now Brett French reports in the Missoulian that 30 are now dead.…
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Shocking public opinion poll on bison in Montana- A random sample survey of 500 Montana registered voters just released shows that Montanans strongly support free roaming bison on some public lands in the state outside of Yellowstone Park, where they are essentially confined in a legal sense and subject to frequent mass cullings. Folks in…
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About the politics of wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies- Jim Yuskavitch begins his book with the story of wolf B45, the first Idaho wolf to venture into Oregon. She (B45) was a first generation offspring of the wolves brought down from British Columbia for release in Idaho in 1996. Most of his examples and descriptions…