See also: SAPL eAlert: Yellowstone Bison Must be Saved from Needless Round-Up and Slaughter.

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Date: Jun 2, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: [ACT NOW] Yellowstone Buffalo On Borrowed Time

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Buffalo are charged with the “crime” of trying to live wild and free

FROM BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN:

Your calls, emails and faxes to decision-makers are making a difference! The buffalo are not going to be killed tomorrow. The agencies are responding to you and have made the decision to give the buffalo a reprieve until Monday. Now is the time to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!

6/2/07: Yellowstone Buffalo On Borrowed Time
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SOURCE OF INFORMATION:

Buffalo Field Campaign
BFC-Media [at] wildrockies.org
EMERGENCY ALERT! Slaughter of Buffalo Calves Planned by Montana
SAVE THE HERD ~ SPREAD THE WORD!!

www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/springslaughter.html

Department of Livestock to Capture and Slaughter Yellowstone Bison

www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0607/pressreleases0607/052907.html

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Governor Brian A. Schweitzer
Office of the Governor, Montana State Capitol Bldg.
P.O. Box 200801
Helena MT 59620-0801
ph: 406-444-3111; fax: 406-444-5529
email: governor [at] mt.gov
web email: governor.mt.gov/contact/commentform.asp

Jeanne M. Rankin, DVM, Acting State Veterinarian
Montana Department of Livestock
Box 202001
Helena, MT 59620
ph: 406-444-1895, 800-523-3162
fax: 406-444-1929; email: jrankin [at] mt.gov

Suzanne Lewis, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190-0168
ph: 307-344-2002; fax: 307-344-2005
email: suzanne_lewis [at] nps.gov, yell_superintendent [at] nps.gov

CC: MONTANA TOURISM OFFICES
West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 458
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
ph: 406-646-7701; email: wycc [at] wyellowstone.com

Montana Promotion Division (Travel Montana)
301 South Park Ave, Helena 59620
ph: 406-841-2870; email: betsy [at] visit.com

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governor [at] mt.gov, jrankin [at] mt.gov, suzanne_lewis [at] nps.gov, yell_superintendent [at] nps.gov, wycc [at] wyellowstone.com, betsy [at] visit.com

Dear Governor Schweitzer, Dr. Rankin and Ms. Lewis:

Please consider me part of the escalating public outrage over plans to roundup and slaughter roughly 300 Yellowstone bison, including newborn calves. I respectfully implore the Governor to uphold his campaign vow of lenience for Montana’s bison and urge the Acting State Veterinarian to abandon this hostile approach to wildlife management.

I understand Montana’s Department of Livestock already erected a bison trap on state grounds close to West Yellowstone airport, but temporarily suspended capture due to public opposition. Please do not resume the roundup and kill plan next week. The government’s taxpayer-funded war on our last migrating buffalo herd must end.

Brucellosis, a European livestock disease, is the apparent rationale behind the continual harassment, quarantine, and massacre of buffalo. Yet there are no documented cases of wild buffalo transmitting brucellosis directly to cows. Elk, believed to spread brucellosis, are not systematically herded and killed. They roam freely, as the buffalo should.

Wildlife and park agencies ought to do their job: Safeguard the free-roaming buffalo herd. It is the responsibility of the livestock industry to practice cattle-based risk management, including vaccination of all livestock against brucellosis.

I cannot support tourism in Montana until officials protect wild buffalo rather than track and kill them. The estimated 50 million buffalo who once ranged public lands have dwindled to less than 3,500. It is irresponsible to let Montana’s Department of Livestock shape their fate.

Thank you,

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