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Take Action-- "Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation
Act"
Introduced in Congress Co-sponsors needed
* Update
From the Field
* Volunteers Needed in West Yellowstone
* Buffalo Field Campaign Wish List
* BFC East Coast / Great Plains Road Show Schedule
* Last Words
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Urge Your Rep. to co-sponsor the Yellowstone Buffalo
Preservation Act
The
"Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act"
(H.R. 3446), bipartisan buffalo protection legislation,
was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives
on Wednesday, November 5. Congressional co-sponsors
are needed immediately.
Please
call your U.S. Representative and urge them to co-sponsor
the Hinchey-Bass Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation
Act (H.R. 3446). The bill places a moratorium on the
hazing, capture, and slaughter of Yellowstone buffalo
until the following conditions are met:
1.
The Yellowstone herd is allowed to freely range
on federal lands to the north and west of Yellowstone
National Park.
2. Management authority of buffalo
within Yellowstone park rests solely with the
National Park Service.
3. The land exchange on the north
side of the park, already initiated and paid for
with 13 million taxpayer dollars, is finalized
and the small cattle herd currently grazing on
key wildlife habitat is removed.
4. The Stephen's Creek buffalo
trap, located inside Yellowstone National Park,
is dismantled and removed.
5. Agency officials allow Yellowstone
buffalo, like other wildlife, to freely roam on
lands adjacent to the park.
Contact
your Representative immediately and urge them to
co-sponsor H.R. 3446.
If you don't know who your Representative is, find
out by logging onto www.congress.org or call the
Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
Reply to this email for more information.
For a recent news story on the Bill, click here:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2003/11/06/build/state/30-bisonbill.inc
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* Update From the Field
Volunteers Needed in West Yellowstone
We are happy to report that another week has passed
with no buffalo being slaughtered by the Montana
Department of Livestock (DOL). Not that they didn't
try. The agents came to town, wasted thousands of
taxpayer dollars, and were once again outsmarted
by the buffalo. Every week from now until June the
DOL and federal agencies will descend on the Yellowstone
ecosystem, spending millions of dollars to haze,
capture, and slaughter the Yellowstone buffalo,
America's only continuously wild herd. The agencies
say they are doing this to protect livestock from
brucellosis, but there will be no cattle in the
area until at least mid June and there has never
been a documented case of brucellosis transmission
from wild buffalo to livestock.
The BFC is in dire need of field volunteers. We
are the only group working in the field every day
to stop the slaughter of the Yellowstone buffalo.
Daily patrols monitor buffalo migrations and do
all in our power to keep them out of harm's way.
We currently have less than ten volunteers and need
help. If your heart has been telling you you need
to help protect the Buffalo, now is the time. We
thank everyone for supporting our efforts in all
of the beautiful different ways. Now even the Halls
of Congress are ringing with the hoofs of buffalo
and the tragedy occurring in Yellowstone. It takes
all of us in all of our different ways to STOP THIS
SLAUGHTER. The light can now be seen at the end
of the tunnel and our persistence must keep strong.
Together we will make CHANGE.
With the Buffalo,
Mike Mease
Campaign Coordinator
Buffalo Field Campaign
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* Buffalo Field Campaign Wish List
AA Rechargeable Batteries (Nicad or Nimh)
Digital still and video cameras
Blank VHS and mini DV tapes
Wool blankets
Wool and Gortex gloves
Winter boots (-20 degrees or lower)
Cross country ski boots.
Long underwear bottoms. No cotton please.
Spice grinder
Five quart dutch oven
"Joy of Cooking" cookbook
Bulk food (nuts, trail-mix, chocolate etc.)
Automotive repair tools
Carpentry tools
The Buffalo Field Campaign is a grassroots effort
made up of volunteers who patrol the Yellowstone
boundary to protect the Yellowstone herd and hold
the management agencies accountable for their actions.
We are the only group working in the field every
day to stop the slaughter of Yellowstone's wild
buffalo. BFC volunteers defend the buffalo's traditional
winter and spring habitat and advocate for their
protection. Since 1997 we have hosted more than
1700 volunteers from across the country and around
the world.
If you would like to contribute to our efforts there
is much you can do. We receive the majority of our
funding from individual supporters. Help us prepare
for the coming winter with a tax deductible contribution.
Every little bit helps. Send donations to the address
below.
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* BFC East Coast / Great Plains Road Show Schedule
November 6, 7pm
With musician Danny Dolinger
Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia
Rouss Hall, Room 202
contact: Christina <shewulf@firstva.com>
434-971-7678
November 8, 10am - 5pm
King William, VA
Upper Mattaponi Tribal Grounds
Veteran's Day Pow-Wow
contact: Jeannie Chewning
<mailto:jchewning@globalweb.net>
(804) 329-2652
November 9, 10am - 4pm
King William, VA
Upper Mattaponi Tribal Grounds
Veteran's Day Pow-Wow
contact: Jeannie Chewning
<mailto:jchewning@globalweb.net>
(804) 329-2652
November 19, 7pm
Kansas State University
Big 12 Room
* Last Words
"If the public gets used to the idea
that bison, like elk and deer, should be free to
roam on federal lands, then it may lead to a reduction
in the amount of public lands forage aloted to livestock.
That's what the ranchers really fear."
--Wyoming
Department of Game and Fish Official
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