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  • Where the bison could roam

    Ralph Maughan

    JB suggested I make a map based on Google Earth showing the topographic boundaries that would be natural choke points to keep free ranging outside-Yellowstone-Park bison confined so that they don’t keep continually expanding their range. Within this area, outside the Park, there would be a bison hunt to keep the population approximately stable. Additional…

  • Winter conflicts with bison could increase

    Ralph Maughan

    Winter conflicts with bison could increase. By Corey Hatch. Jackson Hole News and Guide. I don’t like this headline. There is a conflict only because the government chooses to make one. There is plenty of unused winter habitat for the bison outside the Park. It is that they are just not allowed to use it,…

  • Critics hit bill on bark beetles. Senator Barrasso’s forest bill claims called ‘dishonest.’

    Ralph Maughan

    Earlier I posted about Wyoming US Senator John Barrasso’s “Wyoming Forest and Watershed Restoration Act of 2007” which would allow the state of Wyoming to subcontract US Forest Service lands to timber companies with the notion that this would somehow stop the beetle epidemic that is sweeping the state (actually sweeping most of the Rocky…

  • Guest Opinion: Public, private property lost to brucellosis policy

    Ralph Maughan

    Finally an essay how Montana and Wyoming’s brucellosis policy tramples on private property rights. By Glenn Hockett. Billings Gazette. Guest Opinion: Public, private property lost to brucellosis policy. He also points out the continuing frenzy over brucellosis  amidst the lackadaisical approach to other livestock diseases.

  • Buffalo Field Campaign Update. Things OK for now. Awful DOL slaughter expected in March

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is the latest alert/update from the Buffalo Field Campaign. I usually post them to help this hard working and group of brave volunteers. In the winter they have to confront daily the brutal Montana Department of Livestock, but in recent years also the Bushified Forest Service, and the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Department. Sometimes they…

  • Agencies that manage Yellowstone bison plan public meeting in Bozeman Dec. 4

    Ralph Maughan

    The National Park Service, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS],  Forest Service, Montana Department of Livestock and Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks will hold this meeting. Story.

  • Outdated approach used to fight [Greater Yellowstone] brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    Billings Gazette. Guest opinion by Don Woerner.  Outdated approach used to fight brucellosis. This veterinarian pretty much demolishes the agencies’ approach to brucellosis in elk and bison in the greater Yellowstone area as well as demolishes myths such as that the Greater Yellowstone bison and elk are the last reservoir of brucellosis in the United…

  • Yellowstone Bison: Madison Valley Landowners Get Tough with Montana DOL

    Ralph Maughan

    A couple just bought much of the top of Horse Butte, a place bison love to come when they leave Yellowstone Park searching for grass, and where Montana DOL loves to capture them for slaughter and haze them back in the Park to “protect” the non-existent cattle from getting brucellosis from the bison. The new…

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