Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
September 18, 2008

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“LET BUFFALO ROAM” LICENSE PLATES AVAILABLE NOW!
Show your support with Montana’s NEW “Let Buffalo Roam” license plate!  Official plates are available for Montana vehicles, or speak for the buffalo in any state or country with a sample plate!

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In this issue:
* Update from the Field - Idaho Bull Shot
* IBMP Meeting Updates & Future Dates
* Horse Butte Residents Intervene in Stockgrowers’ Lawsuit
* Wood Cut Weekend October 11 & 12
* West Coast Road Show Wrapping Up
* NEW BFC T-Shirt Available Now!
* Last Words
* Kill Tally

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State Vets Plan to Eliminate Brucellosis in Yellowstone Bison
KULR-TV - Billings,MT,USA
By Alden Downing

This shows the true colors of the livestock industry and how they want to control how our wildlife is managed for their benefit. Buffalo in the Yellowstone are among the few genetically pure buffalo left in North America and they are the only buffalo which have a continuos connection to the land that they inhabit.

This plan has been tried in the past and it was an utter failure. This continuous genetic bottleneck will result in a decline of genetic diversity and will negatively effect the health the heard thus putting them at risk of extinction.

Brucellosis is endemic in many species of wildlife and is exacerbated by the elk feedgrounds in Wyoming.

Ralph Maughan has posted his feelings about this plan here:
http://wolves.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/state-vets-plan-to-elminate-brucellosis-in-yellowstone-bison/

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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Cattle group calls for elk, bison reductions in Yellowstone

Rather than facing the real issue with brucellosis, namely the elk feed grounds in Wyoming where artificially high concentrations increase the prevalence of brucellosis, the California-based U.S. Cattlemen’s’ Association wants you, the public, to accept more killing of Yellowstone wildlife for industry.

13 More Cattle in Wyoming Have Brucellosis.
By BOB MOEN of the Associated Press

These cattle appear to be from the same herd that tested positive for brucellosis last week.

Ralph Maughan has posted about the previous cases.
Brucellosis now confirmed in cows near Sublette County, WY elk feedlot