Yellowstone National Park
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Here is a news release from the Buffalo Field Campaign. Don’t know if the bison were exactly stolen, but there was no public comment when it looks like they should have had one, and whole idea of birth control for bison or any wildlife is controversial. Ralph Maughan THREATENED WITH POPULATION CONTROL USDA-APHIS Intends to…
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Decision will be appealed 513 bison at risk of being slaughtered Western Watersheds Project, Buffalo Field Campaign, Tatanka Oyate, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Native Ecosystems Council, Yellowstone Buffalo Foundation filed for a temporary restraining order in hopes of keeping Yellowstone National Park from sending 513 bison being held in the Stephens Creek capture facility to slaughter.…
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Those that test positive for brucellosis exposure to be slaughtered The slaughter of bison in Yellowstone has begun in earnest. Today Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers witnessed the capture of at least 300 buffalo in the Stephens Creek capture facility. It appears that 13 of the bison captured were from the group of 25 allowed to…
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The snow is deep, in fact it’s 130% of average in Yellowstone this year. That makes for a bad situation if you are a buffalo there. Do you try to stay in the Park where you can’t get to the food that you know is under all of that snow or do you follow your…
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Church Universal and Triumphant paid about $285 $314 per AUM under the $3 million deal Articles about how the perennial saga of hazing, capturing, slaughtering, and hunting bison is starting once again in and around Yellowstone National Park. There is one change this year though that has left me scratching my head. This is the…
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YELLOWSTONE CAPTURES WILD BISON 23 of America’s Last Wild Bison Trapped at Stephens Creek for Royal Teton Ranch Land Lease Experiment FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 5, 2011 Contacts: Mike Mease, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-646-0070 Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign, 406-644-2499 GARDINER, MONTANA: Yellowstone National Park and Montana Department of Livestock officials captured twenty-three of…
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Grazing and slaughter threaten the viability of bison and other sensitive species- The US Forest Service and the National Park Service are violating the law by not allowing bison the use of public lands. The grazing allotments provide the excuse the Montana Department of Livestock wants for their annual abuse of buffalo inside and outside…
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20 year threat of mining near Yellowstone National Park is over. The New World Mine was proposed to be built just north of Yellowstone National Park in 1990 by a Canadian mining company but it received a lot of opposition because it greatly threatened the headwaters of the Clark Fork of the Yellowstone and Soda…