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Poll Finds Strong Public Support for Bison Restoration in Montana
Buffalo Bull © Ken Cole In February the National Wildlife Federation conducted a poll of 400 Montana voters and found that they are strongly in support of bison recovery in Montana. Particularly, 70%...
View ArticleBuffalo Field Campaign: On-the-ground activism
Here are a couple of articles about the Buffalo Field Campaign and how they, and other groups are funded. Contrary to popular belief BFC’s top paid people don’t make much money (trust me, I know this...
View ArticleWild American Bison “Stolen” From Yellowstone National Park
Here is a news release from the Buffalo Field Campaign. Don’t know if the bison were exactly stolen, but there was no public comment when it looks like they should have had one, and whole idea of birth...
View ArticleWWP and BFC file to intervene in bison lawsuit
This week Western Watersheds Project and Buffalo Field Campaign filed to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Park County and the Park County Stockgrowers Association which oppose the state plan which...
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Changes in Brucellosis Rules Remove Some Leverage from the Montana Livestock...
Changes help livestock industry overall but does it change much on the ground for wildlife? Last week it was announced that another herd of cattle had likely become infected with brucellosis. Six...
View ArticleJudge issues temporary restraining order against helicopter hazing of bison...
U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell has issued a 14-day restraining order against using helicopters to haze bison back into Yellowstone National Park because of well documented grizzly bear activity in...
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Montana Department of Livestock violates private property rights on behalf of...
In today’s Buffalo Field Campaign Update from the Field the depths that Montana’s livestock barons will stoop to protect livestock interests is revealed. Because the Montana Department of Livestock is...
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New research indicates hybrid bison may not be as fit as those without cattle...
With the exception of the Yellowstone population and a few other small herds of bison which came from Yellowstone, virtually all of the buffalo in in the U.S. are hybrids with cattle genes. The amount...
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Strange Bedfellows Hold Ground for Bison in Montana
Today Montana Judge E. Wayne Phillips shot down a lawsuit brought by powerful livestock interests to stop the State of Montana from allowing bison to use areas of Montana outside of Yellowstone...
View ArticleBuffalo Field Campaign helps Bison and Motorists
Each spring hundreds of bison leave Yellowstone National Park in search of greening grass and birthing grounds. While on this search bison regularly cross highways 191 and 287 in the Hebgen Basin of...
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When the Science Doesn’t Validate Your Position, Cherry Pick Your Own
The war for the public’s mind In the war against our wildlife and habitat, there are other sub wars (tactics) taking place; such as the media and the manipulated science wars. It has long been...
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An Open Letter to Tribal Leaders and the American People.
FROM: Rosalie Little Thunder, Pte Oyate Darrell Geist, Buffalo Field Campaign We write to you still in the aftershock of the unconscionable tribal participation in the most recent government...
View ArticleMontana Department of Livestock Proves Once Again that Only Livestock Owners...
Despite an executive order signed by Governor Steve Bullock on May 22 that restricts Montana Department of Livestock agents from entering “private property without landowner permission unless there is...
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Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for the Imperiled Yellowstone Bison
MONTANA: Western Watersheds Project and Buffalo Field Campaign petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) today to list the Yellowstone bison under the Endangered Species Act. Yellowstone...
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Supporting Bison Quarantine Betrays Commitment to Wildlife Defense
In a recent blog post, Defenders of Wildlife is grossly misleading the public claiming that they have “saved the last wild bison” by participating in and supporting the quarantine of buffalo that...
View ArticleMistreatment and Slaughter of Wild Migratory Bison: Cultural and Moral...
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset. Crowfoot,...
View ArticleYellowstone Bison Petitioned Under ESA
A number of environmental organizations, Western Watersheds Project, The Buffalo Field Campaign, and Friends of Animals, have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Yellowstone bison...
View ArticleYellowstone Bison Are Not Livestock
In response to a guest editorial I published in the Missoulian on the shameful slaughter of Yellowstone’s bison, a group of three retired USDA range managers wrote a commentary that was published in...
View ArticleStop Bison Slaughter
The Louvre Museum in France houses some of the most famous art works in the world, including paintings by such well-known artists as Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. What would you think...
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Annual Bison Carnage
Bison Yellowstone NP, Wyoming Hunters gutting bison shoot on Gallatin NF by Gardiner Montana State, federal and tribal representatives voted again to slaughter 600-900 Yellowstone Park bison this...
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