The winter of 2007-2008 will bw rememberd as the largest scale wild buffalo
slaughter since the 19th century. Since its inception in 2000, the multiomillon
dollar taxpayer- funded Interagency Bison Management Plan has eliminated almost
3,700 wild buffalo from the Yellowstone ecosystem, mainly on public lands in
America's flagship Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin National Forest.

This season's slaughter or removal, which numbers more than 1,725 wild buffalo,
surpasses that of 1996-1997, when 1,084 buffalo were killed.

Over half the entire yellowstone population has been wiped out with 1,276
buffalo traped and shipped to slaughter houses on order from offcials in the
National Park Service under Superintendent Suzanne Lewis. Six buffalo were shot
in the field for migrating into a drop-dead zone near Yankee Jim Canyon and
Maiden Basin along the Yellowstone River near Gardiner, Montana.

Eighty-one buffalo calves were born in captivity andconfined for weeks inside
the Stephens Creek Trap in Yellowstone. Several were born dead or died shortly
after birth. Tweleve wild buffalodied or were euthanized as a result of injuries
sustained inside this same trap.

One Hundred twelve buffalo calves have been separated from their mothers and
family groups and sent to quarntine pens near Corwin Springs, Montana operated
bythe U.S.Department Of Agriculture. An additional 45 buffalo, captured in
previous seasons, are aleady quarantined at the Slip N Slide Ranch Ranch near
Dome Mounyian.

The Montana Department of livestock under Govenor Brian Schweitzer has targeted
buffalo in hazing operations that have led to the capture and slaughter of
158 wild buffalo migrating into the upper Madisson Valley and Hebgen Lake
Basein near West Yellowstone, Montana. The State of Montana's hunt ended in
February 2008 with 63 wild buffalo killed. Nez Perce hunters took 64 buffalo
and Salish Kootenai hunters shot 39 buffalo under treaty rights this seaseon.

In 2007 the Park Service's summer count estimated 4,700 buffalo. This is the
lastpopulation of wild American buffalo remaining in the United States.
No one knows how many buffalo reain after this seasons's slaughter and
winterkill. The Park Service plans aerial surveys in 0/8 to count how many
survived.

Yellowstone Park released a late winter buffalo count that estimated the
buffalo numbered 2,145 as of April 11, 08; they only observed 1,970 buffalo
but sightability indexes and population modeling increase the estimated
population.
The number of buffalo remaining is likely below 2,000. Yellowstone National Park
projected "at least 400 to 700 additional animals may die due to predation,
malnutrion, other natural causes {e.g. drownig), or motor vehecle accidents
during winter.; {Interagency Bison Management Plan report, 16 April through
30, April 2008}.

In May 2008 Yellowstone National Park reased 333 wild buffalo trapped at
Stephens Creek forcing them out of Gardiner Basin to the Blacktail Plateau,
their hides glued with tags identifing them as survivors of a deadly,Ignorant
plan that imperils America's last wild buffalo.

The Interagency Bison Management Plan is paid for by American people and must
be changed to prtect habitat and restore wild buffalo in their native range
throughout the greater Yellowstone.
Governing Interagency Bison Management Plan records are online:
www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/aboutbuffalo/bisonmanagementplan.html
Darrell Geist is habitat Coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign.

We cant go back to the 19th century but we can be here now,
remember what befalls the beast befalls the son of man, save yourself
save them!

` long night I will add A history of Bison tomorow
these folks were here last night in Bricland Ca. with buffalo music and buffalo ``news, please go to their site please help!

Why would they kill off the last of the wild buffalo in Yellowstone? This baffles me. It it for rare meat? Have they not learned their lesson after slaughtering off all the wolves and ruining the ecosystem forcing them to import them form Canada. I visited Yellowstone a few years right after the spring and was privileged to see many mothers with their babies. They are incredible. This makes me so sad.

This heard is from survivers of the past, a few that made it by miracle into
and made this little comeback, now to finish the Job?
They are being killed because they have a virus in some that can cross over to `beef, so thats the beef, it has never crossed, but great white buffalo hunt `round two is on. We can make change here, Ive called emailed, if many do the `same it just might help. We have to try, this is so damed wrong.
buffalo@wildrockies.org www.BuffaloFieldCampaign.org

Out break of Mad Cowboy disease, claiming herd in Yellow stone


History Repeating:
The 21st Century slaughter
The wild buffalo of the Grreater Yellowstone Ecosystem (CYE) are the last
genetically pure rement of the great herds of millons that once thundered
across the American plains. Descended from just 23 buffalo that survived
the 19th century slaughter, They are the only buffalo to continuosly occupy
their native habitat. Wild and unfenced, this unique population holds
the key to the future of wild buffalo in America.

I hope people can see the urgency, this is buffalo genocide!
Presure from live stock industry!
Their has never been a documented case of wild buffalo transmitting
brucellosis to livestock.
Check this out- Over 120,000 elk inhabit the GYE. Elk which also carry
brucellosis, freely roam without drawing the ire of cattle ranchers
The live stock industry views wild buffalo as a source of competion for
western grasslands on public lands and they slaughter buffalo as a means
of eliminating this perceived competion.
Montana's livestock industry has forced upon the state and federal agencies
a plan whereby wild bison are killed for merly following their instincts.

I say this again because I feel it is true- What befalls the Beast
Befalls the son of man. stop the Genocide call write block

www.BuffaloFieldCampaign.org Buffalo Field Campaign P.O. Box7941
`Missoula, MT 59807



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The cattle ranchers are probably looking for blame for their cattle getting sick. Not that they ever look at how they are caring for their cattle, or what they feed them, or expose them to in terms of pesticides and other toxins.

If I were a cattle rancher, I would look at the use of pesticides in the food supply and in surrounding farms. And then feed their cattle grass, rather than grains and other dead foods.

yes Bryan, Ranchers are looking for someone to blame their failures on,
antibiotics, have to be used on most cattle often, just to weak from bad ``breding and feeding and the chemicals used by that industry.

Another problem here- Wild buffalo represent a spirit of freedom and ``independence
that stands in stark contrast to heavily subsidized public lands livestock ``grazing.

mabey at risk of extinction again, call writewww.BuffaloFieldCampaign.org
phone 406-6460070



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