And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<http://www.billingsgazette.com/regionframe.htm>
LEGAL LIABILITY FEARS
State agency holds off on bison pen
By JOE KOLMAN
Gazette Bozeman Bureau
WEST YELLOWSTONE - Citing legal liability fears stemming from a
probable confrontation with protesters, the state Department of
Livestock has yet to build a bison corral at Horse Butte that was
approved a month ago.
State Veterinarian Dr. Arnold Gertonson said Thursday that the
agency is asking the Forest Service, which manages the land
where the bison pen would be built, to rewrite the permit so that the
state could not be held liable.
Members of the group formerly known as Buffalo Nations have
been blocking the Forest Service road leading to the proposed site
of the bison pen for more than a month. They have erected five
wooden tripods standing 30 feet high. Two of the tripods include
platforms where members of the group chain themselves to the
structure to make buffalo removal as difficult as possible.
Members of the group, now calling themselves the Buffalo Field
Campaign to reflect the "front line" nature of the protest, claimed
victory this week for putting a crimp in state plans to build the bison
pen.
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