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…
The outcry against Montana DOL’s slaughter plans probably had something to do with this bit of good news. What DOL should really do is delay the slaughter permanently because there are are no cattle west of the Park near West Yellowstone. The Horse Butte (former) grazing allotment was bought out by a conservation group, and…
This info came today from the Buffalo Field Campaign. HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO: PLEASE CONTACT these three decision-makers TODAY demanding that they cease plans to capture and slaughter the buffalo who are trying to live wild and free! Contact each by phone, fax, and email and let’s not let them forget that the world…
State vet details plan to slaughter up to 300 bison. By Charles S. Johnson. Billings Gazette State Bureau. Here is the msm’s story on the meeting and the slaughter to come. All the standard lies are repeated. It is infuriating to sit here in Idaho and hear them talk in Montana about the disaster is…
They haven’t found any reason why the cattle at Bridger, Montana turned up with brucellosis. They know it wasn’t bison. But, they can’t just let scientific investigation run its course. They have to kill something. So tomorrow they will be rounding up the approximately 250 bison that keep leaving Yellowstone Park to feast on the…
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.…
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
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…
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.