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-----Original Message-----
From: Buffalo Folks <stop-the-slaughter@wildrockies.org>
To: Stop the Slaughter <Stop-the-Slaughter@vortex.wildrockies.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 1:59 AM
Subject: Buffalo NEWS


>Greetings!
>Thanks for all your letters and calls about the capture facility! Even
>though we were only given a minimal (some say... illegally so) comment
>period, they have already received 500 letters from concerned folks.  Not
>to be discouraging...but they didn't listen.  They are going to go ahead
>with the facility and start slaughtering buffalo.
>Please see the update from the field from Buffalo Nations below
>
>What can we do?
>* Take your winter vacation and protect the buffalo! Call 406.646.0070 for
>more details.
>* Write a letter to the editor of your local paper (see sample letter
below)
>The electronic Activist has Contacts for newspapers and media around the
>country: http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/activist/index.html
>* Know a lawyer who would like to do some pro bono work? Pass this on... we
>need an emergency restraining order ASAP!
>* Got any Hi band vhf hand held radios that need a home?  They make great
>stocking stuffers for buffalo activists in the field, i hear!  :-)
>
>Thank you!
>
>final reminder:Long term comments are due in by December 1st; there is
>sample letters and info at http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo
>___________________________________________________
>
>UPDATE from the field
>Horse Butte Capture Facility nears final approval- construction is
>imminent! November 30, 1998- West Yellowstone
>
>As of this afternoon, the Forest Service has neared completion of the
>permitting process for the construction of a new buffalo capture facility
>on Horse Butte. This facility will operate from now until Jan. 31 as part
>of the Department of Livestock's "short term" plan for trapping bison who
>migrate out of Yellowstone.
>
>The facility will trap all bison who migrate out onto the Horse Butte area,
>a favorite traditional wintering spot. Buffalo are commonly seen in the
>winter on this gently sloping, grassy and warm south-facing hillside. Horse
>Butte was an amazing sight last spring, when 300 buffalo were walking all
>around there!  After the buffalo are trapped, all buffalo who test positive
>for brucellosis will be shipped to slaughter. The worst part is, all the
>pregnant females will be killed regardless of whether they test positive or
>negative.  Over 50% of all trapped bison will test positive and be sent to
>slaughter, even thought only infected pregnant females theoretically can
>transmit the disease.
>
>Both the Forest Service and the DOL claim that they will actually save the
>lives of more buffalo by operating the facility! This twist of dis-logic is
>one that only buffalo management agencies could ever dream up. The only way
>they can save the lives of more buffalo is to stop killing buffalo over the
>brucellosis myth, and let the buffalo roam freely.
>
>Thank you for your comments on the short-term plan- the Forest Service
>reported that they received hundreds of comments! Let's keep them busy
>reading letters instead of killing buffalo!
>
>Here's where you come in...
>We need volunteers, pronto! If you are excited by the idea of watching
>buffalo, dogging the Forest Service and DOL, working around our cabin, or
>otherwise helping to protect these beautiful buffalo, we need you now!
>Please tell your friends and family who might want to help out also.
>
>Montana has requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pay up
>to $500,000 dollars per year for the operation of the bison trap.  Do you
>want a half million of your tax dollars used every  year to provide Montana
>the ability to capture our bison on our land?
>Call or fax the following
>USDA officials and tell them not to kill bison with your tax dollars.
>USDA Secretary Daniel Glickman (Telephone: 202-720-3631; Fax: 202-720-2166)
>USDA, APHIS Administrator Dr. Craig Reed (Telephone: 202-720-3668; Fax:
>202-720-3054)
>USDA, APHIS, VS Dpty. Admin. Dr. Tom Walton (Telephone 202-720-5193; Fax:
>202-690-4171)
>
>Remind them that:
>
>* The USDA does not have legal authority over free-ranging wildlife and
>cannot revoke Montana's brucellosis-free status simply because bison have
>emigrated from the Park making it unnecessary to capture bison on public
>lands;
>* There are no cattle on the Gallatin National Forest near West Yellowstone
>in the winter so the capture, testing, and slaughter of Yellowstone bison
>is unnecessary;
>* The USDA should not provide federal funding for a proposal which is
>blatantly illegal;
>* Under no circumstances should your tax dollars be used to pay for the
>capture of Yellowstone bison on federal land.
>
>Tomorrow, December 1, is the deadline for commenting on the long-term plan,
>which will allow for operation of the facility from February 1 through the
>spring. Demand a full Environmental Assessment for the operation of the
>facility!
>
>Buffalo Nations
>PO Box 957
>West Yellowstone, MT 59758
>406-646-0070 phone
>406-646-0071 fax
>buffalo@wildrockies.org
>
>_____________________________________________________________
>
>Sample letter to your local paper and why not send one to a national one
also?
>Write one from your heart...it always sounds better.
>
>
>TO:   Managing Editor
>  Local and NAtional Paper
>  FAX: ###-###-###
>
>FROM:
>
>DATE:
>RE:  Letter to the Editor
>
>
>Dear Mr./ Ms. _____________,
>
>Yellowstone's approach to managing the nation's largest free ranging bison
>herd will have not only worldwide implications but large impacts on the
>taxpayers of this nation.  Our government has decided that these wild
>creatures fates should  be decided by ranchers not scientists.
>
>A recent $50 million federal plan to manage the longest free-roaming herd
>of Amercan Buffalo was bad news for the icon of the West. It involves
>capturing, confining, killing, quarantining, and trucking to
>slaughterhouses some of the last wild buffalo.  To let them roam free on
>public lands would not only save the buffalo but save the taxpayers money.
>
>To make it worse, the U.S. Forest Service has now decided to give the
>Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) special considerations and allow them
>to construct an eyesore of a bison capture facility, slaughter them
>(including all pregnant females), and force taxpayers to pay for this.  All
>for the interests of a few corporate ranchers who want to continue grazing
>cattle with hefty subsidies on pubic lands. The facility will be right next
>to federally protected bald eagle nesting grounds.
>
>Helicopters buzzing over bald eagle nests, bullets whizzing past
>snowmobilers, buffalo bellowing while being loaded onto trucks to be taken
>to slaughter. I'm sure it will be great for local residents who live
>nearby and, of course, for all the tourists who come to Montana, not for
>peace and quiet and nature, but to watch wildlife being slaughtered.  When
>do you think Montana will figure it out?
>
>If you think this is to crazy to be true, just check it out with the head
>of the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck.  You might mention to him that maybe
>he could save money by cutting all technical posts in the Forest Service
>since according to them, they aren't doing their own science, but depending
>on the pseudo science of the Montana DOL.
>
>This time they have gone too far. Apparently it wasn't enough to
>senselessly kill one third of our nation's last wild buffalo and let the
>Montana DOL keep all proceeds from the carcasses.  This time they want a
>Federal Agency to throw the National Environmental Protection Act out along
>with the well being of another national symbol, the bald eagle.  Montana
>also has requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pay up to
>$500,000 dollars per year for the operation of the bison trap.  I for one
>do not want a half million of my tax dollars used every  year to provide
>Montana the ability to capture our bison on our land!  How about you?
>
>________________________________________________________
>
>Remember:
>The people making these decisions have names and bosses...you, for one.
>
>Write
>Mike Dombeck, Chief, Forest Service,
>Auditor's Bldg
>201 14th Street, S.W. at Independence Ave., S.W.
>Washington, DC 20024
>202-205-1661.
>M*@fs.fed.us
>
>& Why not let his bosses know we will not take this illegal violation of
>NEPA and that wild buffalo are important to us
>Pres. Bill Clinton; president@whitehouse.gov
>Vice Pres. Gore; vice.president@whitehouse.gov
>The White House mailing address is:
>1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
>Washington, D.C. 20500
>Phone: (202) 456-1414
>Fax: (202) 456-2461
>______________________________________________________
>for the buffalo!
>Our web pages are being updated ...
>http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo
>
>
>It is time to rally Buffalo allies before the killing begins again!
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