-----Original Message----- From: Buffalo Folks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stop the Slaughter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 12:19 PM Subject: An update from the only activist group working year round in thePark! >List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >News Submissions or Problems: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >************************************************************************ > >Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the InterAgency Bison Management >Plan for State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park > > >In June, the Draft Environmental Impact Statment (DEIS) for >the interagency bison managment plan for the state of Montana and >Yellowstone National Park was released for public comment. >The DEIS explains seven different alternatves that range from "no action" >(which is not truly a no action alternative and full of quaratine and >killing options) and continuing the interim plan to minimal managment to no >tolerance of bison >outside Yellowstone National Park. > >The perferred alternative by the government agencies involved combines >capture and slaughter facilities, hunting, and intensive quarintine >facilities that would ruin the wildness of the herd. The main objective of >this "preferred alternative" would be to maintain a specific population of >bison that ranges from 1,700-2,500 and at the same time keeping the bison >wild and a free-ranging population. >Sure doesn't sound like a wild herd though with all that handling. > >Buffalo Nations will be researching the environmental impacts that the >alternatives may cause and the legality of them also. At this time Buffalo >Nations will not support any of the alternatives until each one has been >studied >intensely. We will be informing you of our interpretation of the best >actions to take soon. We are also looking at a very interesting >biologists' alternative: Alternative B; the Buffalo Alternative >(http://www.wildrockies.org/PlanB). > >We'll send you an update soon regarding our suggestions on commenting. >Thanks! > >It is important that you go to the public meeting nearest you and speak in >behalf of the buffalo. >Listed below are the public Meetings on the EIS for Bison Management. >All meetings start at 2:00 P.M. and end at 9:00 P.M. Public testimony >will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. > >July 27 Helena, MT Best Western Colonial Inn, >Capitol Room, 2301 >Colonial Dr. > >July 29 Gardiner, MT Gardiner School, 510 Stone St. > >August 10 Jackson, WY Virginian Lodge, Buffalo Room, >750 W. Broadway > >August 11 Idaho Falls, ID Best Western/Stardust Motor >Lodge, Russet >Room, 700 Lindsay Blvd. > >August 13 West Yellowstone, MT Holiday Inn Conference Hotel, >Geyser >Room, 315 Yellowstone Ave. > >August 25 Billings, MT Holiday Inn Billings Plaza, >Lewis and >Clark/Yellowstone Room, 5500 Midland Rd. > >August 27 Cody, WY Holiday Inn, Taggarts Rooms 1, >2, and 3, 1701 >Sheridan Ave. > >September 1 Golden, CO Holiday Inn West Village, Golden >Room, 14707 W. >Colfax Ave. > >September 3 Salt Lake City, UT Wyndham Hotel, Grand Ballroom, >215 West >South Temple > >September 15 Missoula, MT Missoula Public library >301 E Main >Conference Room > >September 17 Washington, DC Sumner School, Museum and >Archives, 1201 >17th St., N.W. > >September 23 San Francisco, CA Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery >St., Sea >Cliff Room > >September 29 Austin, TX Holiday Inn South, 3401 S. >Interstate Highway >35 > >October 6 Minneapolis, MN Thunderbird Hotel and Conference >Center, >Shoshone Room, 2201 E. 78th St. > >Written comments on the DEIS will be taken until October 1, >1998. You can request a copy of the summary DEIS and send comments to >Sarah Bransom, Interagency Bison Management Plan, DSC-RP, P.O. Box 25287, >Denver, CO 80225-0287. > >Please feel free to contact Buffalo Nations on an update of the research >at: >P.O.Box 957, >West Yellowstone, MT 59758, >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Phone:406.646.0070 > >************************************************** >Greetings from Buffalo Nations > >We hope this summer finds you all well > >If you would like to volunteer and see beautiful Yellowstone Park in the >summer and help us with our summer educational tabling...give us a call. > >We are already thinking about chopping wood for this upcoming winter as we >will still need to be with the buffalo. >We could use some help getting snowmobiles... any donation is tax deductible! >thanks! > > > > >
