Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 6:26:00 PM
Buffalo Field Campaign Newsletter, November
Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC)
Update from the Field
November 9, 2006
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In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* Gold Lake Benefit Dinner for BFC in Honor of the Last Wild Buffalo
* Channel G TV Showcases BFC Footage from the Field!
* Last Words
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* Update from the Field
Dear Buffalo Friends,
All remains quiet in the field for the moment. We are relishing the
peace because in less than a week, Montana's canned bison hunt will
begin. Like last year, BFC will maintain a presence in Gardiner as
well as West Yellowstone. We will bear witness for the buffalo and
tell their story.
Please consider making a secure donation to BFC today to help keep us
on the front lines with the buffalo. Mail your donation to the
address at the end of this update or click here to make a secure
donation over the web:
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?id=1807
As you know, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) expanded the
bison "hunt" for this year, issuing 140 permits to kill Yellowstone
bison, as opposed to the 50 issued last year. Some tags are for the
West Yellowstone area, and some are for the Gardiner area. Some are
for bulls or cow/calf and some are specifically for cow or calf. View
the breakdown by going to the BFC press release issued this summer:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0506/pressreleases0506/080306.html.
If there's good news, it's that this canned hunt was organized by
wildlife managers who didn't implement knowledge of bison migration
habits. Some gunners will definitely come away empty-handed. Maybe
that's what it will take for hunters to finally understand that until
there is significant year-round habitat, until wild buffalo establish
a viable, resident population throughout the state, until the
Department of Livestock is stripped of authority, and until Montana
honors the buffalo and respects them as a native wildlife species,
the "hunt" is not only unfair, unethical, and unjust, it's plain
WRONG by any definition.
The Yellowstone buffalo are America's last continuously wild herd and
number fewer than 4,000 animals. Their once vast numbers have been
reduced to less than .01 percent of their historic population. They
are genetically and behaviorally unique, yet with such a small
population, threatened with wanton government destruction year after
year, the last wild buffalo are in real danger of an eventual
collapse. Wild buffalo are essential to the health of grassland
ecosystems, they are the icon of the American West, and they
represent a profound sacredness to First Nations People. Wild
buffalo deserve protection and respect, not cruelty and indifference.
They deserve to be honored, not persecuted. The land hungers for
their return. When the land teemed with millions of buffalo, they
gave of themselves freely. We now live in a time when we must give
back to them.
Please continue to call, write, fax and email Montana Governor Brian
Schweitzer. Insist that he take real and positive action for the
last wild buffalo and encourage Montana to co-exist with these
gentle, shaggy giants who have walked this land for over ten thousand
years.
Montana
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