An interesting facet of the meat=murder factory farm vs organic family
farm debate is that these animals are being killed to be eaten by no one
in order to "save" the animals to be eaten by someone when the animals
eaten by someone aren't even from here and the animals they're killing and
discarding are from here and have already been decimated .....
Subject: Buffalo Nations Needs Volunteers Now!!!!! & other buffalo news
Although the proper scientific monitoring has not been done
& despite the fact that hundreds of american citizens are against
decimating pristine endangered and threatened and sensitive animal and
plant habitat in the name of a few below cost cattle leases...
the Montana DOL is starting to build a capture/ship to
slaughter facility in Horse Butte.
People are needed in camp
and if you can't make it down...
Letters are needed to public servants making these decisions
Local letters to the editors are importnant
Show the video..."Bufffalo Bull" in your community
tax deductible contributions will be used for housing, feeding and gas to
get volunteers to the feild.
We also need some donations to purchase more equipment (radios., video
tapes, etc)
Thanks for all your efforts in behalf of the buffalo.
We can unite and make a difference!
for the earth and her creatures!
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Volunteers Needed Now
Buffalo Nations Field Camp is the only group working in the field, every
day, to stop the indiscriminate slaughter of the Greater Yellowstone wild
buffalo herd. We are a diverse group of people from around the world
standing with the buffalo and protecting their habitat.
The past two weeks have been particularly busy. At dawn on January 7
Buffalo Nations volunteers saved eleven Buffalo from capture and possible
slaughter near the Department of Livestock's capture facility at Duck
Creek. The activists had shepherded 10 buffalo who were grazing near the
facility back into the park, and one buffalo was liberated from within the
facility itself. Ten other buffalo were captured and 8 shipped to
slaughter the following day.
On January 12, 2 buffalo were baited into the facility at Duck Creek with
hay laid down by the Department of Livestock. Later that day 8 more
buffalo were hazed 6 miles through 3 feet of snow by DOL on snowmobiles.
One buffalo of this 8 was able to escape the hazing operation but the other
7 were hazed into the capture facility. The next day, before dawn, Buffalo
Nations volunteer Sue Nackoney sat in a 30 foot tripod in the middle of
Duck Creek Road in an attempt to prevent DOL from shipping any buffalo to
slaughter. Law enforcement officers were able to remover her with a cherry
picker by 10 am and take her to jail. On the 14th, four of the nine
buffalo were released at Horse Butte and five were shipped to slaughter.
The DOL has killed thirteen buffalo so far this winter. Last winter only
11 were killed. We are certain that this is just the beginning. The DOL
has made it clear that they will continue to capture and kill buffalo that
leave the park under the myth of brucellosis.
Today the Department of Livestock began construction of a new capture
facility on Forest Service land at Horse Butte, near West Yellowstone,
Montana. Buffalo Nations Volunteers have been on patrol around the clock
for the past 10 days at the existing Duck Creek Capture facility. In order
for us to be effective we will have to do the same at Horse Butte. We are
short on volunteers, however, and are putting out this plea to anyone who
is able to come and help out.
If you have always wanted to help the buffalo and have not been able to
make it happen, now is the time. We can house and feed you. The
volunteers we have here now are exhausted and in need of relief. If you
can make time to be here for even a weekend, you can help save the buffalo.
Please call Volunteer Coordinator Sarah K. Chalmers to get more
information about volunteering.
Buffalo Nations
PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 phone
406-646-0071 fax
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From the Boseman Chronicle: <http://www.gomontana.com/index.shtml>
By SCOTT McMILLION Chronicle Staff Writer
01/16/1999
Construction starts on new bison trap
Contractors for the Montana Department of Livestock began preparing Friday
to build a new bison trap north of West Yellowstone.
"Snow removal began at 8 a.m. this morning," said Rob Tierney, acting head
of DOL's brands inspection division and supervisor of bison operations in
the West Yellowstone area.
The portable, 100-by-300-foot trap will stand on Gallatin National Forest
land and Tierney said he expects it to cost $5,000 to $10,000 to erect. It
is the same trap that stood near the Madison River two winters ago (without
catching any bison) and is made of steel fence panels lined with sheets of
plywood.
It will be in the Horse Butte area, which is traditionally popular with
bison that wander from nearby Yellowstone National Park.
It's designed to capture bison so they can be tested for brucellosis. The
animals that test positive for exposure to the disease are sent to
slaughter. Animals that test negative and aren't pregnant are released
nearby.
Though the snow removal contractor has begun working, Tierney said no
contractor for erecting the tent has been selected. State law requires
three bids. One bid came in unsolicited and DOL sought out two others,
Tierney said.
"Our intent is to get it set up forthwith," he said.
The Forest Service last year gave DOL permission to build the trap and is
now deciding whether to permit its operation for the next 10 years between
Feb. 1 and April 30.
Ollecke Rappe-Daniels, spokeswoman for the agency at regional headquarters
in Missoula, said officials are now going through the approximately 250
public comments received on the matter and preparing responses.
"We should finish that up in a couple of days," she said, and she expects
to see a decision during the week of Jan. 25.
Another trap already stands on private land a few miles east of the new
trap and much closer to the park line. Of the 19 bison trapped there this
winter, 13 have been shipped to slaughter.
Sue Nackoney, spokeswoman for Buffalo Nations, the protest group that has
been decrying DOL and trying to interfere with its actions, said Friday her
group will continue its work.
"We'll be everywhere," she said. " That's our goal, to protect these areas.
We don't want to see any more buffalo die."
Some Buffalo Nations members, including Nackoney and co-founder Michael
Mease, have already been arrested for interfering with DOL operations.
Nackoney suspended herself from a wooden tripod Wednesday to block the road
leading to the existing trap.
The protesters point to the fact that there are no cattle within dozens of
miles of the traps and say there is no need to kill the bison, especially
at this time of year.
A key federal agency in the brucellosis issue also reiterated last week its
position that DOL does not need to kill "low-risk" animals like bulls and
calves to protect the state's brucellosis-free status, which saves ranchers
money by ensuring the health of cattle and letting them avoid testing
before export.
DOL is staying with its own definition of low risk, however. That
definition includes only animals that have been trapped and tested negative
for the disease.
The DOL board will discuss the federal low-risk definition at a meeting
next week.
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