And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Reading a little further down in the article one sees the real
reason for the slaughter of the bison. The US needs to be "brucellosis
free"...that is what the beef industry wants, and if they have to destroy
the YNP bison herd to do it, then that is what they are going to do, imo.
Talk to MDOL on the phone, that 's all you will hear..."Don't you
want the YNP herd to be "healthy"?" They want to treat bison like domestic
cattle. This is the MDOL BIG LIE, that bison are just like cattle only
bison are bigger and they have fur.
A quote from the article below: "The vaccination plan is little
more than an "olive branch," said Jim Peterson, executive vice president of
the Montana Stock Growers Association, that doesn't do much to address the
big picture problem of eradicating brucellosis for good."
<http://www.billingsgazette.com/>
Bison battle
Wildlife groups offer to pay ranchers for vaccinating cattle against disease
By JENNIFER McKEE
Of The Gazette Staff
A national conservation group announced Monday it will pay to vaccinate
cattle near Yellowstone
National Park in an effort to end the Montana practice of shooting bison
when the picturesque and possibly diseased animals wander beyond the park
boundary.
"We're holding out our checkbook," said Steve Torbit, a wildlife biologist
with the National Wildlife Federation in a telephone news conference during
which the group announced the plan. "There's no reason for ranchers to be
held economic hostage."
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