Buffalo Field Campaign Weekly Updates from the Field 2006/2007

Stop bison hunt
The proposed solution to Montana's ongoing problem with the bison herds, as authorized by the legislature and condoned by the FWP, would be humorous if the anticipated results were not so tragic. The authorities suggest that Montana's hunters be allowed to shoot, calling such a shooting "fair chase," 25 bison this coming spring. This is supposed to provide a solution to the overgrazing and potential contamination of our livestock industry by brucellosis by the Yellowstone bison herds; that the herd from Yellowstone currently numbers over 4,000 head seems to have escaped the attention of those empowered with the solution of the buffalo problem. To ask the America that lives outside Montana's borders to believe that the "harvest'' of .04 percent of the Yellowstone bison herds is going to solve any problems, real or imagined, inherent in bison management is ludicrous. The PETA people and their numerous allies have the determination and the financial capacity to damage our tourism industry in a big way. Before those Montanans dependent upon tourism for their daily bread are made to bear the brunt of this fiasco, the state's sportsmen should demand this hunt be stopped.

Mike Hankins
P.O. Box 455

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