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  • Agencies to let more bison outside Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Bison will be able to occupy the Horse Butte area for the first time- Finally, the bison will be able to leave the Park and occupy this now cow-free area area for the first time this winter. Conservation groups and the couple who bought Horse Butte have prepared the way, and it looks like the…

  • Kempthorne announces federal bison initiative

    Ralph Maughan

    This is a surprise, for sure. What does it mean? Kempthorne announces federal bison initiative. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide. It seems to me that on the basis of what JB and others have commented here, that this plan (assuming it to be real) could withstand a petition for putting the bison…

  • Buffalo Field Campaign mobilizes to protect bison in Island Park

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho’s livestock politicians is as regressive as Montana about bison leaving Yellowstone, but a bison bull has wandered into Idaho near Henry’s Lake, and they are out to kill him. The Buffalo Field Campaign wants to document what goes on to give it some media attention. Buffalo Field Campaign mobilizes to protect bison in Island…

  • Montana officially loses its brucellosis free status

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana officially loses its brucellosis free status. Billings Gazette. By Matthew Brown. AP This is entirely a problem of their own making, or I just I should say the Montana Stockgrowers Association, who bulldozed away efforts to split the state into two zone when it came to brucellosis. It’s hard to have sympathy when such…

  • Wolf packs attack the toughest prey in Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Wolf packs attack the toughest prey in Yellowstone. By Brett French. Billings Gazette Staff. “It’s not easy being a bison-eating wolf in Yellowstone National Park.” Mollies Pack has become a rugged bison-killing wolf pack. They are a pack ideal for this with their big brawny male wolves. It’s no accident. With elk, big males in…

  • Bison advocates go for space

    Ralph Maughan

    Bison Advocates go for space. By Jeff Martin, USA TODAY

  • Bison Brawl. Horse Butte residents seeks to shield animals from over-reaching lawsuit

    Ralph Maughan

    Bison Brawl. Horse Butte residents seeks to shield animals from over-reaching lawsuit. By Matthew Brown. Brown writes that the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, the Montana Stockgrowers Association who filed the suit on behalf of rancher Bob Myers and the Sitz Angus Ranch, run cattle near Horse Butte. I did a Google search. The Sitz Angus…

  • More of Turner's bison die in anthrax outbreak

    Ralph Maughan

    More of Turner’s bison die in anthrax outbreak. By The Associated Press

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