Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
June 26, 2008

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In this issue:

* Update from the Field
* COMMENT: Montana Buffalo Hunt Planned for 2008-2009
* “Buffalo News” ~ Collaborative Newsletter for the Buffalo Available
* “Let Buffalo Roam” License Plates for Every State!
* Photo of the Week
* Last Words
* Kill Tally

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* Update from the Field

Dear Buffalo Friends,

Summer is here and our field volunteers are now inside the boundaries of Yellowstone with the surviving mighty bison, educating national park visitors. BFC tables inside Yellowstone every summer in an effort to let park visitors know what happens to the buffalo they are there to admire. Our shaggy friends gain a lot of support from people visiting Yellowstone from across the nation and around the globe. If you are planning to visit Yellowstone this summer, look for us in the Park. And, if you have an interest in helping BFC tell the buffalo’s story in Yellowstone this summer, please contact Iwi at summer@buffalofieldcampaign.org.

Meanwhile, Montana’s loss of it’s coveted brucellosis-free status is barely making news headlines. One would think that if this was the huge economic disaster they have always claimed, it would make the front page every day. But, the media has been relatively quiet. And to date, the cattle industry has not been able to rule out that the transmission could have come from cattle. Of course, quick to place blame, the cattle industry immediately points the finger at wildlife inhabiting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, calling for “reductions” in elk and bison populations. Killing half the bison population wasn’t enough to please them, apparently, even though wild bison have never transmitted the cattle disease to cattle. Perhaps it’s time for a reduction in the cattle populations that encroach on this majestic wilderness region, because it’s clearly not working in this landscape. Nor is the industry’s prized practice of “test-and-slaughter” programs aimed at grass-eating wildlife.

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Six groups have collaborated to publish a new Buffalo Newsletter. The newsletter will be distributed to Park visitors by Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers this summer and at events and fundraisers.

The newsletter is a joint project of the Buffalo Field Campaign, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Horse Butte Neighbors of Buffalo, Natural Resources Defense Council, InterTribal Bison Cooperative and Tatanka Oyate of the Seventh Generation Fund.

You can download it here: Buffalo News

NOTE: Because of the size of this newsletter it is more for informational purposes rather than for printing and distributing yourself.

Commissioners Back Proposed Bison Hunting Rules AP

Montana’s bison hunting season and quotas for 2008 would be the same as in 2007 under rules tentatively supported by state wildlife commissioners.