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Yellowstone bison

  • Today's statement by Buffalo Field Campaign on the hazing

    Ralph Maughan

    PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS VIOLATED BY LIVESTOCK AGENTS HAZING WILD BISON: Property Owners Welcome Bison, Not DOL, on Cattle-Free Horse Butte FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 29, 2008 Press Contacts: Janae & Rob Galanis, 406-646-4848 Ed & Vicky Millspaugh, Hebgen Lake Estates, 406-646-9176, (cell) 406-580-0321 Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-646-0070 WEST YELLOWSTONE, MT – With…

  • Harper's gets it right on Buffalo

    Brian Ertz

    For those of you with a Harper’s Magazine subscription, you’re in for a treat with Christopher Ketcham’s article They shoot buffalo, don’t they: Hazing America’s last wild herd in Harper’s most recent edition. Ketcham gets it right again. For those of you, like myself, who don’t have a subscription to the publication, get on down…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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