Although the proper scientific monitoring has not been done & despite the fact that hundreds of american citizens are against decimating pristine endangered and threatened and sensitive animal and plant habitat in the name of a few below cost cattle leases... the Montana DOL is starting to build a capture/ship to slaughter facility in Horse Butte.
People are needed in camp and if you can't make it down... Letters are needed to public servants making these decisions Local letters to the editors are importnant Show the video..."Bufffalo Bull" in your community tax deductible contributions will be used for housing, feeding and gas to get volunteers to the feild. We also need some donations to purchase more equipment (radios., video tapes, etc) Thanks for all your efforts in behalf of the buffalo. We can unite and make a difference! for the earth and her creatures!
Volunteers Needed Now.
Buffalo Nations Field Camp is the only group working in the field, every day, to stop the indiscriminate slaughter of the Greater Yellowstone wild buffalo herd. We are a diverse group of people from around the world standing with the buffalo and protecting their habitat.
The past two weeks have been particularly busy. At dawn on January 7 Buffalo Nations volunteers saved eleven Buffalo from capture and possible slaughter near the Department of Livestock's capture facility at Duck Creek. The activists had shepherded 10 buffalo who were grazing near the facility back into the park, and one buffalo was liberated from within the facility itself. Ten other buffalo were captured and 8 shipped to slaughter the following day.
On January 12, 2 buffalo were baited into the facility at Duck Creek with hay laid down by the Department of Livestock. Later that day 8 more buffalo were hazed 6 miles through 3 feet of snow by DOL on snowmobiles. One buffalo of this 8 was able to escape the hazing operation but the other 7 were hazed into the capture facility. The next day, before dawn, Buffalo Nations volunteer Sue Nackoney sat in a 30 foot tripod in the middle of Duck Creek Road in an attempt to prevent DOL from shipping any buffalo to slaughter. Law enforcement officers were able to remover her with a cherry picker by 10 am and take her to jail. On the 14th, four of the nine buffalo were released at Horse Butte and five were shipped to slaughter.
The DOL has killed thirteen buffalo so far this winter. Last winter only 11 were killed. We are certain that this is just the beginning. The DOL has made it clear that they will continue to capture and kill buffalo that leave the park under the myth of brucellosis.
Today the Department of Livestock began construction of a new capture facility on Forest Service land at Horse Butte, near West Yellowstone, Montana. Buffalo Nations Volunteers have been on patrol around the clock for the past 10 days at the existing Duck Creek Capture facility. In order for us to be effective we will have to do the same at Horse Butte. We are short on volunteers, however, and are putting out this plea to anyone who is able to come and help out.
If you have always wanted to help the buffalo and have not been able to make it happen, now is the time. We can house and feed you. The volunteers we have here now are exhausted and in need of relief. If you can make time to be here for even a weekend, you can help save the buffalo. Please call Volunteer Coordinator Sarah K. Chalmers to get more information about volunteering.
Buffalo Nations
PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 phone
406-646-0071 fax
mailto:buffalo@wildrockies.org