CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST BISON ACTIVIST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : April 13, 1998

Media Contact : Michael Mease, (406)646-0070

"The truth of what the Montana Department of Livestock is doing to the buffalo can not be withheld from the public," Michael Mease, Buffalo Nations co-founder, said after learning charges against him were dropped. "The police can not allow one journalist access and deny another, and justice has prevailed."

The charge of obstructing a peace officer stemmed from a January 29th incident in which Mease entered the dump to document the slaughtering of six bison that had been shot on Horse Butte, near West Yellowstone, Montana.  Mease was arrested for not leaving the premises even though he had permission to be there from the owner of the dump at that time.

The charge against Mease was dismissed on April 8.

"The selective oppression placed on the buffalo is also being placed on the members of Buffalo Nations.  As I was released so shall the buffalo, and we will be here until it happens,"  Mease said.

Buffalo Nations is an organization of volunteers working in West Yellowstone and Gardiner, MT to stop the slaughter of wild buffalo when they migrate outside Yellowstone National Park.

Buffalo Nations
PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 phone
406-646-0071 fax

mailto:buffalo@wildrockies.org

http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo/

For more information on this story, see my bison slaughter page reports of Jan. 30 and Feb. 4.  

Ralph Maughan