By Stephany Seay, Darrell Geist, and Ken Cole
A female buffalo separated from her family group who will all be killed, is held in a sorting pen at Yellowstone’s Stephens Creek buffalo trap, where she waits before being loaded onto a stock trailer that will take her to the slaughter […]
Continue Reading →Typical recent rancher activities underscores their extremism-
Recently we reported on Arizona/Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy who thinks he doesn’t have to pay grazing fees because he thinks the federal government does not own the U.S. public lands where his grazing allotment (now rescinded) lies. He threatens force to prevent his illegal cattle from […]
Continue Reading →Finally, some Yellowstone bison moved to form the basis of a second (or more) herds-
Genetically pure bison were released in northeast Montana on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation today. The sudden move came after years of delay and after state officials signed an agreement with Assiniboine and Sioux tribal leaders.
While there are many […]
Continue Reading →“On bigotry and bison management at Yellowstone National Park”-
It think this is a fine opinion piece in New West. Is Gardiner, Montana, the Selma, Alabama, of Wildlife Conservation? By Michael Leach, Guest Writer.
I kind of feel the same way as Leach.
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Note that Leach, who used […]
Ridiculous lawsuit to show who is boss over everything and everyone in Montana is being heard today.
Montana Stockgrowers Association is suing to make sure bison are removed from the Horse Butte, which is devoid of cattle, by May 15th of each year. They would force the State of Montana to violate private property rights […]
Continue Reading →Take Back Our Public Lands
By Tom Woodbury, Western Watersheds Project,
Addition by Ralph Maughan. This is also in New West. You can comment there as well as on this blog.
2008 should be remembered as the year of the buffalo. Over 1600 bison were slaughtered in Montana that year, about half […]
Continue Reading →Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
June 18, 2009
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In this issue:
* Update from the Field – Four Bulls Killed by Agents
* Our Friend Frog: BFC Celebrates His Life, Mourns His Passing
* Last Words
* Kill Tally
Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
May 28, 2009
In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* Help BFC Help the Buffalo
* Ground the DOL’s Helicopter: Contact the FAA
* Traditional Prayer Ceremony on Horse Butte May 31
* Support the […]
Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
May 21, 2009
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In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* Complain to FAA About the DOL’s Helicopter Use
* Traditional Prayer Ceremony on Horse Butte May 31
* Join BFC on the […]
Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
May 14, 2009
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In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* The Wild in Us
* Join the Front Lines
* BFC Media Crew Needs a Laptop
* Last Words
* […]
