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| Letter
to Editor - Helena Independent Record - Helena, MT
by Virginia Greninger
March 5, 2004
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I
am shocked at the insensitive, careless and wasteful use
of citizen tax dollars by the Montana Department of Livestock's
(DOL) campaign to capture and slaughter Yellowstone buffalo.
This week alone, Yellowstone Park employees, under pressure
from the Montana DOL, captured fifty-three buffalo and
shipped them to slaughter due to the fear of transmission
of the livestock dis-ease brucellosis. Twenty-four yearlings
and calves were vaccinated with an ineffective brucellosis
vaccine developed for cattle and eartagged as if they
were livestock. Those twenty-four, along with another
twelve, will be held in confinement until spring. All
of this is occurring within the borders of the world's
first national park, even though there has never been
a documented transmission of brucellosis from wild bison
to livestock.
This is not just a local issue, this is a national concern.
As a non-resident of Montana, I will take my tourism dollars
elsewhere, and urge everyone else to do the same until
the impetuous slaughter of America's buffalo in the State
of Montana ceases.
Virginia Greninger
247 Loma Entrada
Santa Fe, N.M. 87501
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