Focus on elk as disease persists near Yellowstone
By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Writer

Federal officials are considering a tentative proposal that calls for capturing or killing infected elk in Yellowstone National Park to eliminate a serious livestock disease carried by animals in the area.

This is another example of how EXTREME the livestock industry has become in this country. They want to control all of the wildlife and not take any responsibility for how they manage their own livestock.

The incompetence of the State Vets is astounding. They have killed more that 6600 bison since 1985 of which nearly 3700 have been killed under the IBMP which was instituted in 2000. After all of this death and destruction, the millions of dollars, and the lies Montana has still lost its brucellosis free status.

In a guest opinion piece on the New West website Steve Roth of the Montana Stockgrowers Association had this to say:

Our primary concern is that if split-state status is implemented, there will be less incentive for Montanans to work together to attain the ultimate goal: complete eradication of brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA).

In other words they want to hold everyone hostage to their non-atainable political goal of eliminating brucellosis from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. If they were to allow a split-state status then the ranchers who live outside of the GYE wouldn’t put pressure on the government to try this crazy scheme. Now that the state of Montana has lost its brucellosis free status all of those ranchers will be affected because the MSGA wants to make a political point.