NATIVE_NEWS: Bison - Montana and the blame game
Posted by Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] : An opinion piece from the Bozeman Chronicle: This season's version of the "blame game". Who is to blame for the slaughter of the YNP bison? Racicot would like to blame the NPS, or more frequently APHIS or DOI. The blame for the slaughter rests solely at the feet of the governor of Montana - Racicot. He is the one who allows the cattle industry to dictate. It is the fight for the use of public grazing land, the cattlemen want cheap grazing and they are killing bison to get it. http://database.newswest.com/cgi-bin/T3CGI.exe/bdc/bdcNews.taf?functi on=detailLocal_uid1=21330 By Chronicle Staff 12/10/1999 12:00:00 AM. Park winter use plan should be tossed Snowmobiling in Yellowstone National Park is a complicated and bitterly divisive issue. But a Park Service proposal to snowplow the road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful for bus and car traffic has united warring factions in opposition to the plan. People of all political persuasions, from animal rights activists clad in plastic shoes and outrage to the most avid fans of high-marking, ear-splitting, exhaust-belching snowmobiles, find themselves holding their nose over the concept. Between the extremes are moderate politicians, from the commissioners of Gallatin and Park counties to Sen. Max Baucus, who described the plan as simply "nutty." Now enters Republican Governor Marc Racicot, who pointed out last week -- as have many others in the past -- that the plowing scheme is likely to funnel more bison into Montana, where they face a grim fate. -see complete article at url above
NATIVE_NEWS: BISON SLAUGHTERED IN VAIN
And now:Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 15:04:59 PST From: Jennifer Carter Subject: Bison Slaughtered I wanted to let you know that I recieved a fax from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and they have gotten the test results back from the bison that have been killed this year and 13 of the first 15 did not have brucellosis that were killed. You can recieve a copy of this information by contacting Jon Catton at 406-586-1593 or email them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/
NATIVE_NEWS: Bison
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some good urls regarding the bison situation: Some good links: http://www.twosocks.com/bison.htm and some good articles, by Fred DuBray and others, not new but still true: http://www.hcn.org/1998/jun08/dir/Feature_Don't_fenc.html
NATIVE_NEWS: Bison Hazing Continues
And now:Sonja Keohane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the Boseman Chronicle. Anybody know what happened to the statement APHIS made in the winter of 96-97 that said allowing the bison to wander into Montana would not cause them to rescind Montana's brucellosis free status? If that is still true, then there is no reason to haze? http://www3.gomontana.com/ Hazing operation continues The Montana Department of Livestock hazed dozens of bison into Yellowstone National Park north of West Yellowstone Wednesday, though there is disagreement over just how many animals were involved and whether the operation did any good. More bison remain outside the park, and those animals will be chased into the park as soon as possible, DOL acting chief Marc Bridges said in a press release. Wednesday's actions affected 45 bison, DOL said, and was the sixth such effort so far this winter. The protest group Buffalo Nations, which is monitoring bison operations in the area, said there were 50 bison in the group, which had been in the Duck Creek area near the junction of highways 191 and 287. The group also accused livestock officials of chasing 35 elk that were in the area at the time. DOL officials could not be reached for comment late Wednesday. DOL says it is hazing the animals so they won't have to be killed. About half of the park's bison test positive for exposure to brucellosis, though a much smaller number are actively infected. Montana's beef herds enjoy a brucellosis-free status and the industry says that status could be imperiled if possibly infected animals are allowed to wander in the state. Buffalo Nations and other bison advocates maintain DOL's fears of disease transmission are overblown and that hazing the animals stresses them by making them run through deep snow. In past winters, hazing has been marginally effective. As snows pile up in the park and forage is increasingly hard to reach, bison become more determined to leave and find something to eat. That's when they enter the controversy -- and frequently the crosshairs -- in Montana.
