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Letter
to the Editor, Buffalo Skull on Montana's new quarters has significance
West Yellowstone News
6/01/07 |
To the
Editor:
As a community for whom the buffalo are a major tourist attraction,
West Yellowstone can enjoy the unveiling of the twenty-five
near life-size painted buffalo statues this weekend.
It is a sad commentary, however, that many living buffalo, whom
these twenty-five portray, will be forced this week into a newly
set-up capture facility at the West Yellowstone Airport. There
are no cattle on Horse Butte, nor will there be, to justify
such aggressive action. All buffalo
caught outside the Park....bulls, cows and new born calves...will
be rounded up and removed...PERMANENTLY!
Something is rotten here. We celebrate symbolic buffalo while
the Department of Livestock and its allied agencies slaughter
the living.
Suddenly, the buffalo skull on Montana's new quarters has a
righteous significance.
Donna Cook
West Yellowstone |
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