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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:45:00 -0700
From: Buffalo Folks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stop the Slaughter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Volunteers Needed!
* Update from Buffalo Nations
* Call for Prayer
* 12/4 Press Release to pass to your local Press
If you can't amke it to camp...give us a holler and we'll find something
else you can help with!
Thanks to AWR for the food drive they are doing for the Buffalo Nations
feild camp!!
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Volunteers Needed...Buffalo Nations Field Update 12/7/98
Buffalo Nations urgently needs volunteers, as more than 100 buffalo
have left the park. The snow is flying and piling up, and temperatures are
dropping. If you have the desire to come and work in the field to save the
buffalo for any amount of time: a weekend, a week, or more, please call or
e-mail Buffalo Nations for an update and information on getting down to
West Yellowstone as soon as you can.
Buffalo Nations has been conducting daily patrols since mid-November, and
the Montana Department of Livestock has been out trying to haze the buffalo
back into Yellowstone for as long. The buffalo have been steadily moving
across the safety of Yellowstone Park's boundary. Yesterday, Buffalo
Nations volunteers were out on the highway making sure a herd of at least
40 buffalo safely crossed the road, as they moved to their wintering
grounds. Volunteers warned traffic to slow down for the animals and kept
cars from running into the buffalo as they crossed the road.
If you are interested in coming to West Yellowstone to help out, please
contact our volunteer coordinator, Sarah Chalmers for more information.
We also are looking for donations of food, radio/camera equipment, cold
weather gear, and lots of good thoughts! If you know anyone who can help
please let us know.
Buffalo Nations
PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 phone
406-646-0071 fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Prayer Days for Buffalo
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to invite you all to join in a time of prayer. I am
setting aside a moment to be with the supporters of the Buffalo Nations
activists in helping the Buffalo that are being murdered by the state of
Montana. We will meet at noon on the 9th of Jan.at the Buffalo Nations
compound to say prayers and worship as a new nation of people united
with the cause of helping the buffalo.For more information please Email
me as soon as possible. ThANKS SCOTT FRAZIER
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Department of Livestock Actions Fail to Protect
Yellowstone Bison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 4, 1998
Media Contacts: Sue Nackoney, Mike Bowersox
(406) 646-0070
WEST YELLOWSTONE: Today the Department of
Livestock agents on horseback fired crackerbarrels
and chased 11 buffalo from the Bear Trap housing
area for about two miles and back into Yellowstone
Park.
They then hazed approximately 16 more buffalo from
fields adjacent to the park boundary. Most of these
buffalo were bulls. These buffalo have been outside
of the park and in the housing area almost
continuously for the last two weeks.
Buffalo Nations volunteers have observed that
buffalo who were hazed back to the park during past
DOL operations always return to the same areas by
the next day, even when the areas are two miles out
of the park.
"The Department of Livestock continues to claim they
are saving the buffalo by hazing them back into the
park. But, these same buffalo will continue to come out of the park to
their traditional winter forge grounds
regardless of where the DOL tries to make them go," stated Mike Bowersox of
Buffalo Nations. "However, as
the snow accumulates, continual hazing stresses the buffalo unnecessarily
and increases the potential for
winterkill."
According to the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, bulls, yearlings,
calves and non-pregnant bison are
considered "low risk" for brucellosis transmission. APHIS has stated that
the presence of these animals in the
state is not sufficient cause for revocation of Montana's brucellosis-free
status.
"The actions of the DOL just don't make any sense," stated Sue Nackoney of
Buffalo Nations. "Why aren't
better solutions being discussed, solutions that take a scientific approach
to disease management and a
realistic look at the non-existant potential for these bison to ever
transmit brucellosis to cattle."
Cattle do not return to the West Yellowstone area until June. There are no
cattle nor grazing allotments in the
Bear Trap housing area or in the fields adjacent to the park where buffalo
were hazed today.
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