And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:18:04 -0700 >To: "Stop the Slaughter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Buffalo Folks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Buffalo Nations Needs Volunteers Now!!!!! & other buffalo news >Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >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! > > >___________________________________________________ >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 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >******************************************************************** > 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. > >- ----end of article-- >___________________________________________________________ >Our web pages are current and full of great info; please share the URL with >friends and others who care.... >http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo >(lotsa good info on Horse Butte) > > >If this has been passed on to you via a friend or a list, please subscribe to >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >to receive the most current news from the field as well as other pertinent >Yellowstone buffalo info (3-4 updates per month)! > > > > >List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >News Submissions or Problems: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >************************************************************************ > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... 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