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From: Wild Rockies InfoNet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Department of Livestock Slaughters 8 More Buffalo
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buffalo Field Campaign)
Department of Livestock Slaughters 8 More Buffalo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 1999
Media Contacts: Sarah Chalmers, Sue Nackoney (406)646-0070
WEST YELLOWSTONE: Thursday, March 25, the Department of Livestock sent 8
buffalo to slaughter from their trap in the Duck Creek drainage after
baiting 10 buffalo with hay on March 23 and holding them in the facility
for 48 hours. Four were bulls and four were pregnant cows. 2 calves who
were released onto Horse Butte walked into the new capture facility today,
which is not currently operating.
The Duck Creek trap is located approximately 100 yards from
Yellowstone Park's boundary. Currently there are over 25 bison inside the
park in the Duck Creek drainage who will possibly attempt to migrate
outside of the park using this natural migration corridor to access lower
elevation habitat outside of the Park.
Snow inside the park at Duck Creek is beginning to melt, and some
forage at the creekside is becoming accessible for the buffalo.
"DOL hay is luring buffalo outside of the park who might otherwise
stay inside and eat their accustomed food for this time of year. The DOL's
practices baiting their facility with hay is more about job security than
disease management," said Sue Nackoney, Buffalo Field Campaign
spokesperson.
Only six of the buffalo tested positive for exposure to
brucellosis, two of the pregnant females tested negative for exposure to
brucellosis. The tests determine exposure to the disease, not the ability
of a test-positive bison to transmit the disease.
"Obviously buffalo are not being killed because of brucellosis.
These buffalo would have to walk almost 10 miles and wait there for over 3
months before there was even any chance of a contacting a cow. Buffalo are
back in the park by summer, and local ranchers are showing flexibility
about the return time for their cows to the area. Yesterday's killings only
show that policies of bison management are becoming more far-fetched all
the time, policies that will only end in tragedy for more buffalo before
the end of the winter," said spokesperson Sarah K. Chalmers.
Groups of buffalo on the Madison River have already begun to
migrate back to the park.
DOL has completed construction of a new trap on Horse Butte, a
peninsula in the Gallatin National Forest, the same area where they release
bison who have been captured and released. "The complicity of the United
States Forest Service and the Governor of Montana on this issue blatantly
shows the public that conservation is not the concern of these offices,"
Chalmers said.
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