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Here is the latest news from Buffalo Field Campaign on the situation just west of the Park where the bison remain in dire threat, but were not captured for slaughter yesterday as DOL originally planned.
Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update From the Field
May 31, 2007
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Dirk Kempthorne has gotten the President to nominate Jim Caswell to replace Kathleen Clarke as the head (the director) of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Caswell was the head of Kempthone’s Office of Endangered Species when Kempthorne’s was Idaho’s governor and has remained in that position since.
During Caswell’s time in the office, most […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Finally a little thought about coyotes and livestock. . . killing coyotes to protect livestock can have just opposite effect. Here Brodie Farquhar writes another on the Casper Star Tribunes explosion of articles on predator control.
Calling a truce. By Brodie Farquhar. Casper Star Tribune.
It seems Wyoming’s predator-fearing livestock politicians don’t realize that […]
Continue Reading →Outdoor writer Ted Williams has weighed on the “RAT” in a Writers on the Range piece.
Writers on the Range: Fees have become a public lands shakedown. By Ted Williams.
A search of this blog will bring many more stories how a not very good demonstration project has become much worse as it was […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Governor Brian Schweitzer, along with Bill Hedstrom, Chair of the Board of Livestock and Christian Mackay, new Executive Officer of the Department of Livestock today called an emergency meeting of the Board of Livestock in light of 7 Montana cows testing positive for the disease brucellosis last week.
“This is a very serious issue for […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Wow this talk about coyotes and livestock, coming out of Wyoming just doesn’t stop. “Battling the wily coyote.” By Jeff Gearino. Southwest Wyoming Bureau Casper Star Tribune.
The article is written from the viewpoint of “predator management supervisor” Rod Merrell.
In the article Merrell keeps saying the coyotes are incredibly smart. […]
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