| Yellowstone Bison Slaughter
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| Weekly
Update from the Field August 27, 2009 |
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Update from the Field
Mike Mease is working up a sweat today--as he has every
day for the past week--cutting, hauling, loading, and
unloading the firewood that will keep the Buffalo Field
Campaign (BFC) community warm through the coming Montana
winter. BFC's Campaign Coordinator, who co-founded the
organization more than 12 years ago and has dedicated
virtually every aspect of his life to the effort ever
since, is not one to tire easily. But cutting the more
than 60 cords of wood necessary to heat BFC's main cabin,
two office cabins, and the cabins of neighboring volunteers,
supporters, and community elders, is a herculean task
that would exhaust anyone. While Mike has had occasional
help from summer volunteers not engaged in outreach tabling
in Yellowstone or work in the office, he has been doing
the lion's share of wood gathering by himself.
If you know Mike this will not surprise you. His dedication
to protecting the buffalo and their right to migrate,
and his single-minded focus on accomplishing the task
at hand are unrivalled. But woodcutting is only a small
part of Mike's work. In addition to all the other preparations
necessary for the coming season, Mike is organizing fundraisers
and planning a West Coast speaking tour, both of which
are time-consuming jobs aimed at keeping BFC healthy and
strong and building grassroots support for protecting
wild bison.
Mike will spend the next two weeks gathering firewood
and hauling it back to BFC headquarters where, with your
help, it will be cut to stove-length pieces and neatly
stacked for winter during BFC's annual Woodcut Week. This
year's Woodcut Week will take place between September
14 and 20th and you are invited to join us in West Yellowstone
for a day, a weekend, or for the entire week. Volunteers
are greatly appreciated and will be provided with room
and board and the opportunity to work side by side with
Mike Mease and other dedicated BFC coordinators and volunteers
in the beautiful Yellowstone ecosystem. Please email
Mike or call 406-646-0070 if you are interested and
pass this email on to your friends who live (or are traveling)
in or near the West.
Can't make Woodcut Week in person but want to help anyway?
Donate
Now to help cover the costs of Woodcut Week, including
food and housing for volunteers, firewood permits, and
fuel and maintenance for trucks and saws. Thank you.
For the Buffalo,
Dan Brister
Executive Director
Buffalo Field Campaign
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* Obama Sign-On Letter
In addition to the more than 3,733 emails that you have
already sent to President Obama through BFC's
Take Action Center, we have composed a sign-on letter
we will present to the President in the fall. We are currently
networking with tribes, organizations, and businesses
to gather as many sign-ons as possible and demonstrate
the wide-spread support for protecting America's only
continuously wild population of native bison.
In order to make the effort as successful as possible,
we will need your help. If you are part of a group, business,
or tribe that might like to join us in asking President
Obama to protect America's only continuously wild population
of bison, please read the letter HERE
and contact BFC Executive Director Dan
Brister with questions or to sign-on.
If you can't speak for a group, business, or tribe but
want to help you can still EMAIL
PRESIDENT OBAMA.
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* Last Words
"[The buffalo] have a lone advocate -- The Buffalo
Field Campaign. This diverse group of volunteers led by
founder Mike Mease, comes from all walks of life...Working
day and night, they patrol the Yellowstone border by ski
and snowshoe in extreme conditions, coming face to face
with danger at every turn, from temperamental buffalo
to angry ranchers and government officials to jail time.
They will risk everything, including their lives, to protect
these animals from certain destruction for doing what
they have done for hundreds of years: roaming freely.
from PR
Newswire announcement of "Buffalo Warriors"
upcoming pilot television program produced for Planet
Green by Authentic Entertainment.
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* Kill Tally
AMERICAN BISON ELIMINATED
from the last wild population in the U.S.
2008-2009 Total: 23
2008-2009 Slaughter: 3
2008-2009 Hunt: 1
2008-2009 Quarantine: 0
2008-2009 Shot by Agents: 3
2008-2009 Highway Mortality: 16
2007-2008 Total: 1,632
Total Since 2000: 3,703*
*includes lethal government action, quarantine, hunts,
highway mortalities |
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Media & Outreach
Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media@wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org
BFC is the only group working in the field every day
in defense of the last wild buffalo population in the
U.S.
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