Bison
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Instead of going along with this, hopefully the next Administration will charge Montana DOL with a criminal offense when they invade Yellowstone Park this way. They should be charged with the felony, not the BFC volunteers. The DOL thugs should remember the way Congress changed in 2006. There will be a new President in 2008.…
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Here is the latest news as reported by the Bozeman Chronicle. By Scott McMillion. The infected cattle at Bridger, Montana, might have originated from near Emigrant (closer to Yellowstone Park, but still not an area where they would ever encounter bison). [Governor] Schweitzer said last week that it doesn’t appear the infected herd ever commingled…
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Well surprise, brucellosis has actually shown up in Montana livestock, and it didn’t come from bison. The news article says there is a possible link to elk. Well duh! Elk passed brucellosis to cattle in Wyoming and Idaho, and both states lost their “brucellosis free status.” I predicted it for years, while they were yelling…
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Post 1030 Here is the latest update from the Buffalo Field Campaign. Below I have posted my condensed version of their email alert. I do disagree with BFC that the solution to the bison imprisonment inside Yellowstone can be solved by boycotting beef. I have come to believe the actions of the Montana Department of…
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The Board of Livestock hired Christian Mackay, a real estate agent and feed salesman whose background includes work in the beef industry and the labor movement, to succeed Marc Bridges. Bridges retired at the end of 2006. Read the rest in an AP story in the Billings Gazette. These little reported things can be critical.…
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Jim MacDonald did an analysis of the arrest of the BFC members that I reported and has recently been in the news. Resistance and the Recent BFC Arrests Outside Yellowstone. By Jim MacDonald. Portland Independent Media Center post 1126
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Bison get final push into Yellowstone; laggards face slaughter. By Matthew Brown. Associated Press Writer BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife officials made a last push Tuesday to get bison back into Yellowstone National Park before they face possible slaughter if caught outside park boundaries. post 1125
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Bay Area Indymedia has the following report in the BFC arrests. Local Papers Spin BFC Arrests, As Expected. While I’ll post what the Montana media reports, I think we are going to have to rely on blogs to get at a lot of the facts, given the local domination of people and the media by…