Bison

  • For those of you with a Harper’s Magazine subscription, you’re in for a treat with Christopher Ketcham’s article They shoot buffalo, don’t they: Hazing America’s last wild herd in Harper’s most recent edition. Ketcham gets it right again. For those of you, like myself, who don’t have a subscription to the publication, get on down…

  • The buffalo held at Stephens Creek capture facility have been released and are heading back into the park on their own. Bison heading back to summer ranges On the west side of the park, buffalo are being hazed deep into the park using helicopters, ATVs, and horses from the Horse Butte Peninsula.

  • Groups: Stop hazing bison near Yellowstone – Jackson Hole Daily It has got to be hell watching what is happening with those bison calves being pushed 20 + miles.

  • After one of the most devastating winters for Yellowstone bison to-date, the five agencies of the Interagency Bison Management Plan are announcing the implementation of a haze today that, among other things, will expect remaining buffalo calves to march 20 + miles back into the park. Buffalo Field Campaign Blog has some comments, and the…

  • I found this documentary (The Bison Haze) linked to the Buffalo Field Campaign blog.

  • This is from the Buffalo Field Campaign. I edited it to put all their links at the end (suggestion, more people will read the news if they find it quickly). Ralph Maughan _____________________________________ Buffalo Field Campaign Yellowstone Bison Update from the Field May 1, 2008 —————————— In this issue: * Update from the Field *…

  • National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, in partnership with several conservation and tourism organizations (click here to see full list ), most notably Wyoming Travel and Tourism have launched a giant “geotourism” program for the Greater Yellowstone Region (click here for the main page of the project website). The effort is intended to “celebrate…

  • The various bison killing agencies have announced they will kill no more bison around Yellowstone this spring.  They did not mention whether they would haze the starving animals off of greening areas such as Horse Butte. They indicated that although the number had been cut in half, there would be no problem regenerating the herd…

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