(From the Buffalo Field Campaign)
“NEW FILM: Silencing the Thunder
Independent film maker and Montana State University student, Eddie Roqueta, has just released an incredible 26-minute documentary about the ongoing war against America’s last wild buffalo.”
Winter 2013 – Magnificent Yellowstone buffalo, one of the last wild, free roaming bison. A natural treasure!
Please help save them! Stop the slaughter!
Visit the Buffalo Field Campaign for more information.
Just like the wolves, bison are voiceless, speak for them!
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Yellowstone to cull (kill) 900 buffalo this year
Posted on September 18, 2014 by Envirothink
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In order to reduce its bison population this winter, authorities in Yellowstone National Park plan to cull (read slaughter) as many as 900 buffalo, or a fifth of the herd. They’d do this by killing off those animals that stray from the park. This would be the largest such culling in seven years, the park’s wildlife…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Why are we so ruled by the oppositional opinions of ranchers and hunters (“sportsmen”} and misinformed public and rancher politicians and conservative rancher legislators? You cannot confuse them with the facts. Per Lewis Carroll, “I have said it thrice, what I say three times is true.” It has been suggested and planned that bison be designated for placement (by FWP Montana) in other parts of the state. They are brucellosis free, tested, repeatedly so. Yet public meetings about the issue are attended almost unanimously by rancher-farmer crowds yelling, “No way!” Bison wander out of Yellowstone into traditional winter grazing ground, and ranchers protest and stockmen corral them, haze them and slaughter them. Instead of managing the cattle and ranchers around Yellowstone, ranchers want to manage the bison and keep them from going into a traditional outlet for grazing near Gardiner. The reports on any brucellosis of the past 70 years passing from bison to cattle are anecdotal, unproven, and none documented, only once in a Texas A&M lab setting closely confined with cattle. Brucellosis is more likely by elk who are more numerous and routinely come and go by the thousands. Now ranchers are proposing killing elk and fencing them off from their herds. Montana FWP, US Dept. of Agriculture Wildlife Services, and USFWS are agencies that serve ranchers, farmers and sportsmen more than wildlife. For a change, on a larger species, other than elk or deer, FWP was somewhat of an advocate for conservation and preservation of an American icon; but then usually folds vis a vis stockmen, who oppose bison, wild horses, wolves, grizzlies also. A relatively few bison have been quarantined for months and then finally allowed to be placed other places in the state; hopefully it is a start. Bison managment in Montana needs to be taken away from the Department of Livestock and put with MT FWP.