Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
March 25, 2010

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* Groups File Lawsuit Against FWP for Turner Decision
* Update from the Field
* Buffalo on Capitol Hill: Contact Congress Today!
* Thank you Jackson Browne and David Lindley, Guacamole Productions, and Equal Exchange!
* Survey: What’s the Future for Wild Bison in Montana?
* A Call Out for Experienced BFC Volunteers: Please Come Home!
* Last Words
* Kill Tally
* Important Links

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Lawsuit Seeks to Secure Public Access to Bison and Prevent Privatization of Calves

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 23, 2010
Contacts:
Stephany Seay, Buffalo Field Campaign 406-646-0070, bfc-media@wildrockies.org
Summer Nelson, Western Watersheds Project, 406-830-3099, summer@westernwatersheds.org
Glenn Hockett, Gallatin Wildlife Association, 406-586-1729, glhockett@bresnan.net

Buffalo in quarantine - Kim Acheson

GALLATIN COUNTY, MONTANA: Four conservation organizations filed a legal challenge today against the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ (FWP) decision to complete one phase of its Quarantine Feasibility Study on a private ranch of Turner Enterprises, Inc. (TEI), and to give TEI a percentage of the public’s bison at the end of the study. The groups assert that this action violates the state’s public trust responsibilities to protect and manage wildlife for public and not private benefit. The decision privatizes a full 75% of any offspring born to the 86 bison now held on TEI’s Green Ranch. Throughout earlier phases of the study, FWP indicated all bison, including offspring, would be managed as public wildlife and could never be privatized. The plaintiffs assert FWP’s final decision goes against these promises, and against FWP’s public trust duties.
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Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
February 18, 2010

Buffalo Field Campaign relies on donations from people like you to fund our work to protect the bison. Please contribute today to keep us strong in the field and on the policy front.

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* Update from the Field
* Why Yellowstone Bison Do Not Belong on Ted Turner’s Ranch
* Buffalo Battle Nominated for Genesis Award!
* Last Words
* Kill Tally
* Important Links

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Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
February 11, 2010

Buffalo Field Campaign relies on donations from people like you to fund our work to protect the bison. Please contribute today to keep us strong in the field and on the policy front.

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* Update from the Field
* BFC’s Mike Mease to Present Multimedia Shows in Eugene, OR
* BFC Board Member and Volunteers Join Haitian Relief Crew
* Last Words
* Kill Tally
* Important Links

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State of Montana wants to give them to Ted Turner

Buffalo in quarantine - Kim Acheson

As is typical with this issue, the State of Montana has set up a false dichotomy with the bison in the quarantine program. They say that the bison need to be given to billionaire Ted Turner or slaughtered because they have no other options. This is nonsense.

As I have discussed before on Ralph Maughan’s blog, there are other options including working with the Fort Belknap Reservation to locate the quarantined buffalo there, placing them back into the Park, or placing them on a state wildlife refuge, all of which would keep these bison in the public domain which was required under the plan. If Ted Turner receives these 78 buffalo he wants 190 of their progeny in return for his own commercial operations which also violates the agreement with the National Park Service to keep them in the public domain.

“There’s land in Montana,” said Stephany Seay with the Buffalo Field Campaign. “The alternatives are not Turner or slaughter. But that’s what we are being fed.”

Activists call for bison on state land
By DANIEL PERSON Chronicle Staff Writer

Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
January 6, 2010

Buffalo Field Campaign relies on donations from people like you to fund our work to protect the bison. Please contribute today to keep us strong in the field and on the policy front!

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In this issue:
* Thank You Buffalo Friends!
* Update from the Field
* TAKE ACTION! Comment on FWP Bison Quarantine Proposal
* Great Work! Your Messages Get Response from Governor Schweitzer
* Buffalo Battle Showing Again Tonight & Thursday, Jan. 7
* Ski & Ski Boot Donations Needed
* Last Words
* Kill Tally
* Important Links

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** SPECIAL ALERT! **

Buffalo Field Campaign

Dear Friends of the Buffalo,

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) has released a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) on the translocation of quarantined Yellowstone bison and is seeking your input through January 12, 2010.

FWP’s preferred alternative outlines the agency’s intention to hand over 74 Yellowstone bison to billionaire Ted Turner, setting the dangerous precedent of commercializing public bison. BFC has strongly opposed quarantine, alternatively advocating for wild bison to be naturally restored on their historic range via protected habitat and migration corridors. That said, it is important that bison advocates try to help these quarantined Yellowstone buffalo get out of captivity and be released onto public and/or tribal lands, as was the stated goal of the Quarantine Feasibility Study.

Learn more and TAKE ACTION NOW!

Comments are due January 12, 2010.

Alternatively, you may mail your comments to: Bison Translocation Wildlife Division Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

P.O. Box 200701 Helena, MT 59620-0701Email:
QFBison@mt.gov

Thank you so much for being a voice for America’s last wild population of buffalo!

Roam Free,

Media & Outreach Buffalo Field Campaign

P.O. Box 957 West Yellowstone, MT 59758406-646-0070
bfc-media@wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

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