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.
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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.
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