Today's official Winter '96-'97 bison kill-count: 1074
Some 500-700 more have died from the effects of this harsh winter:
Half the yellowstone bison herd is dead!
Help us stop the bison slaughter!
--Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), comes to Yellowstone. USDA
runs APHIS, which threatens Montana's brucellosis-free status if all wild
bison aren't killed
There will be a town meeting with Secretary Glickman and Montana personnel
on Sunday, March 23 at 2:30pm at the Gardiner School in Gardiner, MT. Be
there if at all possible, and we will kick off a series of three protests
outside this meeting.
--protest in Helena, Montana March 24 on the capitol steps.
--form a border patrol on Yellowstone's northern border at Gardiner, MT
March 25
Anyone willing to travel to Helena and Yellowstone is welcome (urged) to
join us. Sorry for the short notice, but we are really trying hard to put
this together. Anyone in Montana, Idaho, or Wyoming please let us know
about the extent of grassroots support we can expect. For more info, call
Rocky Mountain Animal Defense at 303-449-4422 or email:
rosmarin@sobek.colorado.edu
This is your chance to do something about one of the most egregious
massacres of wildlife this century has seen.
--Marc Racicot ordered bison killed nearby while activists and Native
American spiritual leaders conducted a sacred ceremony in the Park--just
for the sake of disrespect.
--Marc Racicot is telling deliberate and obvious lies to concerned people
who contact him: "a majority of them [bison] have become infected with
brucellosis"--Marc Racicot. This statement is completely contradicted by
all researchers, including the state veterinarian.
--Marc Racicot and his paymasters, the cattle industry, want one thing--the
elimination of wild bison as competitors with taxpayer-subsidized cattle on
public lands. And an end to the inconvenience of wild animals to landowners
bordering the park, such as the Church Universal and Triumphant which
demands that the state kill all bison that cross onto its property, and
which insisted that Rosalie Little Thunder, a Native elder attmpting to
pray over a bison carcass, be dragged off to jail to await trial on
criminal tresspass charges.
DONATIONS NEEDED: Send to Bison Advocacy Project/Ecology Center,POB 7381
Missoula, MT 59807.
Give these demands to the politicians and bureaucrats below!
-- Halt the bison extermination program.
-- Cancel cattle-grazing leases on public lands around Yellowstone.
-- Allow bison to travel onto such state and federal lands as they choose.
-- Transfer bison causing damage on private lands to tribal quarantines and
incorporate them into tribal herds.
-- Control, testand vaccinate *cattle* on private lands in the Greater
Yellowstone Area.
-- Transfer management of Montana's wild bison back to the Department of
Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
--EMERGENCY SITUATION ONLY: Feed the remaining bison, 1) to keep more from
being killed; and 2) because with groomed snowmobile trails facilitating
bison migration and a test, slaughter, tag, truck, shoot, and pen
operation, the Park's policy of "natural regulation" is a sham.
In case you hadn't thought of this--don't eat buffalo!
While much buffalo meat is from ranched animals (which is NOT OK), you just
can't tell...
Bidding for Yellowstone bison meat at auction "has mostly been dominated by
RC Western Meats [605-342-0322], a Rapid City, SD, wholesale meatpacker and
distributor. About 70 percent of the meat is ground for burger or snack
products, said co-owner Jud Seaman. His three biggest customers are in
California, Texas and New Jersey, but better cuts go all over the nation.
The products aren't marketed as Yellowstone bison, he said.``Frankly, we
haven't been telling them where it comes from,'' Seaman said. ``It's pretty
controversial.''"
BOYCOTTS OF MONTANA:
-The fund for Animals has called a tourism boycott of Montana. Call the
Montana Travel Bureau 1-800-847-4868 or http://travel.mt.gov (No more
visits till the slaughter stops!)
-BOYCOTT BEEF! Call the Montana Stockgrowers Association at (406) 442-3420
to register your distaste for beef tainted by bison extermination.
***Video clips of the slaughter are available from Cold Mountain, Cold
Rivers POB 7941 Missoula, MT 59807 (406) 728-0867 cmcr@ism.net ***
-APHIS Administrator Terry Medley, (202)720-2511, fax (202)720-3982
-Governor of Montana, Marc Racicot, State Capitol, Helena, MT 59620 (406)
444-3111
-Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, Mike Finley, Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, Wy 82190 (307)344-2002, e-mail:
webmaster@nps.gov
-Montana's US Senators Max Baucus at max@baucus.senate.gov and Conrad Burns
at conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov
-Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, Interior Bldg. 1849 C St. NW,
Washington, DC 20240 Ph: (202) 208-7531, fax: (202) 208-6956, e-mail:
Bruce_Babbitt@IOS.DOI.GOV
-Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, 200 A Whitten Bldg., 1400
Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC, Ph: (202) 720-2166, e-mail:
Agsec@usda.gov
BISON BELONG IN MONTANA!
(\######/) J.D.K. Chipps
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