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…
There is good news! The public protest got all the way to the Secretary of Interior, and it’s clear the governor’s office got plenty involved too. Story in the Billings Gazette. Renewed hazing of bison produces results. By Jim Gransbery. The Buffalo Field Campaign has its news release. Dear Buffalo Friends, We have great news…
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.…
There has been a very unpleasant development near West Yellowstone where a massive show of force was used to haze bison back into the Park (to protect the non-existent cattle from brucellosis). In doing so, the Buffalo Field Campaign, who instead deserves a paycheck from Montana Highway Patrol for trying to protect motorists from frightened…
Post 1083 Article in Billings Gazette. The Gazette article gives the standard line, meaning it doesn’t mention there are no cows near West Yellowstone for the bison to infect with brucellosis. Below is the story as seen by the Buffalo Field Campaign. “Livestock Interests Spin Lies to Public, Media; IBMP Agencies Again Break ‘Tolerance’ Agreement.’…
Post 1011 It should be obvious that harassed bison running out of the lodgepole pine forest across US 191, where most vehicles travel at least 60 mph, is very dangerous. Montana DOL is going to get someone killed. When that tragedy happens, maybe the multi-million dollar lawsuit will make the Department of Livestock change their…
Post 997 Law, private and public property, human safety, and the welfare of Yellowstone area animals mean nothing to these lawless brutes. Here is the news release from the Buffalo Field Campaign. – – – – – – Buffalo Field Campaign P. O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758 406-646-0070 (phone) 406-646-0071 (fax) bfc-media@wildrockies.org http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org…
Yesterday in Congress the first hearings in many years were held over bison management in and near Yellowstone Park. The hearing showed that pressure is building to -change the many years of bison harassment and slaughter by the state of Montana and stance of the federal government agency APHIS which uses the club of losing…
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.