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In this issue:
* Special Alert! Help Buffalo on the Hill - Reach Out to Congress
* Update from the Field
* BFC & Coffee Jones Present the Buffalo Blend
* Bonnie Raitt BFC Benefit Tickets ~ Only 7 Tickets Left!
* COMMENT: Montana Buffalo Hunt Planned for 2008-2009
* “Let Buffalo Roam” License Plates for Every State!
* Buffalo (and Elk!) in the News
* Last Words
* Kill Tally
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* Special Alert! Help Buffalo on the Hill - Reach Out to Congress

Yellowstone buffalo need your help in the halls of Congress. Do you live near or plan to visit the Washington D.C. area? We would like to distribute our new collaborative newsletter, Buffalo News, to members of the U.S. Congress returning from their Independence Day break this week. With 535 members to reach, can you help us distribute newsletters to Congressional offices throughout the country? If you’re not heading towards the nation’s capitol, any time is a good time to visit your House and Senate district offices. Most members of Congress have offices in close proximity to where you live, and they want to hear from constituents about their concerns. Let them know the buffalo are a big concern for you, and you want them to take positive action to help make room to roam for the United State’s last wild population of American bison. District office locations and contact information are available on your House and Senate member’s web sites. Visit the links below.

We will send you copies of Buffalo News for you to distribute on the Hill or to district offices. Please drop us an email to Help Buffalo on the Hill: buffalo@wildrockies.org

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Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
June 12, 2008

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In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* For the Buffalo! Bonnie Raitt Benefit Tickets Available!
* Buffalo in the News
* “Let Buffalo Roam” License Plates for Every State!
* Last Words
* Kill Tally

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* Update from the Field

Dear Buffalo Friends,

Big news has hit Montana: the state has lost its coveted brucellosis-free status.

Another Montana cattle herd was found to be infected with the livestock disease. That’s two cattle herds in less than two years, and so Montana’s status as being certified “brucellosis-free” is out the window.

The source of transmission is not yet known, but it is certain that it’s not wild buffalo. The owner of the infected herd, Arthur Burns of Emigrant, MT, had his cattle approximately 30 miles north of Yellowstone National Park.

The industry is already pointing fingers at elk, just as they did last spring. In May 2007, a cattle herd that had been pastured near Emigrant was found infected, but neither the Department of Livestock (DOL) nor the Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) produced any evidence linking Yellowstone wildlife–or clearing domestic or imported cattle–as the source of last year’s infection.

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