Bison
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This is the time to contact Governor Schweitzer asking for bison habitat, especially since Republican Montana congressman Dennis Rehburg shot down an effort in Congress to provide it. I’d think the Democratic governor would want to knock of this obstreperous retrograde Republican holdover. _________________ Here is the BFC update. In this issue: * Update from…
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Story by the Associated Press. If Montana is not willing to provide bison habitat, I’d certainly prefer that tribes get their treaty priority first. Montana should not just get to suck off of the surplus from Yellowstone Park. If they want bison to hunt, they should allow bison to use the vacant habitat just west…
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It seems the cattle industry has maintained it’s scapegoat for the time being. Montana representative Rehberg killed a house amendment based on Schweitzer’s plan to buffer the rest of the state’s brucellosis free status from those that wander around Yellowstone. That would have protected the buffalo AND the livestock industry’s sacred brucellosis free status. Rehberg…
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This story in the Tooele (TA will a) Transcript Bulletin brings some perspective on the Utah bear attack. The same is true in Idaho where there are also wolves. Bear maulings in the form of grizzly bear reactions and bison gorings change the equation a bit in Wyoming. The most dangerous large animal by far…
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post 1200 Rather than slaughter the bison it just captured, public opinion has once again forced Montana to once again push them into the Park. The push continues today. Yesterday Park visitors witnessed the unprecedented hazing of bison all the way to 7-Mile Bridge and beyond (on the West Entrance road). Associated Press story. Next…
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-Important update. See the June 12 story on bison- I don’t like to step on the story that federal Judge Winmill just overturned Bush’s bastardized BLM rules because it is the more important story, but folks will probably be more likely to read that Montana has doublecrossed folks and captured the bison and sent the…
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This came from a Buffalo Field Campaign news release today. Buffalo in the News 6/5/07 LTE: Golden Pen Award ~ Right a wrong, preserve wild bison. Billings Gazette (Montana)http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/03/opinion/letters/46-golden.txt 6/5/07 LTE: Bison wrong target for DOL slaughter. Billings Gazette (Montana)http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/03/opinion/letters/50-wrongtarget.txt 6/4/07 Officials hopeful they won’t have to truck renegade bison Billings Gazette (Montana) http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/04/news/wyoming/15-bison.txt 6/2/07…
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The repreive given the bison has worked so far, and no more brucellosis has been found in testing of cattle around Montana. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is never determined how the cattle at Bridger, Montana got brucellosis. Story in Billings Gazette. By Jan Falstad