Maria Daines
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6/30/2006 6:42:29 AM
Persecution of the last wild buffalo herd continues....
Buffalo Field Campaign
Update from the Field
June 29, 2006
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In this issue:
* Update from the Field ~ Bulls Hazed, Babies Slaughtered, Hunt
Expanded, Habitat Possibilities
* Summer Tablers Needed! Speak for the Buffalo in Yellowstone
* Bring BFC to Your Community! West & East Coast Road Shows Forming!
* Last Words
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* Update from the Field
Dear Buffalo Friends,
Since we last wrote, much has happened. While Summer months do bring
a respite from the daily persecution of wild buffalo, state and
federal agencies continue their dark work harassing, domesticating,
killing, and planning more harm to America's last wild buffalo.
~ Bulls Hazed: Welcome to Montana (Unless You're a Buffalo)
A few bull buffalo have had the "audacity" to remain in Montana, on
their chosen ground, outside Yellowstone's western boundaries. The
MT Department of Livestock (DOL) agents, of course, cannot tolerate
this display of free will. They must remind the buffalo who's in
charge and where their place is, regardless of the fact that bull
bison cannot transmit brucellosis and pose no threat to livestock.
So, more of your federal tax dollars continue to be wasted to harass
wild buffalo, forcing them off of their native land for no
justifiable reason.
~ Quarantine Kills: Baby Buffalo Sent to Slaughter
On June 19, forty-eight yearling buffalo were sent to slaughter, half
of those who've been confined at the Corwin Springs quarantine
facility. This slaughter brings the '05-'06 death toll to 1,011 wild
buffalo.
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0506/pressreleases0506/061906.html.
It wasn't that these babies had brucellosis, no, this is all part of
the experimental study being conducted by U.S.D.A. Animal & Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
(FWP). These baby buffalo were slaughtered in the name of Science.
Babies from the last wild herd were stolen from the wild so
scientists can dissect them, study their tissues, and destroy life to
"create" a disease-free herd. This is part the government's "bison
restoration" efforts. Quarantine is twisted, sinister and fully
funded with your tax dollars. This is also more blood on
Yellowstone's hands; the majority of these babies were handed over to
APHIS and FWP by the National Park Service (others were handed over
by the DOL). Their families were all sent to slaughter before they
were ever tested for brucellosis, yet the agencies continue to insist
that this persecution is about brucellosis. What this is is
genocide. The ultimate message is that livestock has priority over
wildlife. The government tries to disguise quarantine as an effort
to "restore" bison to the American landscape, yet we see wild bison
trying to restore themselves all the time and the government keeps
trying to stop it. So they come up with a plan that gives them
control and they use words like "restoration" to try to sell it to
the public. Make no mistake about it, quarantine kills,
domesticates, destroys wildness, shatters family units, and makes a
mockery of the mighty bison and what it means to be wild and
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