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1. Louie C
   May 29, 2019 @ 17:00:16

   Conservation groups sue to force federal protection of wild bison

   Warning the bison that once roamed the continental U.S. in the millions are at risk of extinction, three conservation organizations brought a federal complaint Wednesday requesting the animal be listed as a threatened or endangered species.
   Buffalo Field Campaign, Friends of Animals and Western Watershed Project filed the claim against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. The three groups are represented by the Friends of Animals Wildlife Law Program.
   The groups claim failure to grant the request could cause “irreparable ecological harm” to the bison’s natural habitat and the study of bison in Yellowstone National Park. They argue the bison play a “keystone role” in the Great Plains ecosystem and are imperiled by hunting and livestock grazing, infrastructure and climate change.
   The claim also states that when bison wander outside the Yellowstone boundaries in migratory winter months, Montana state agencies in accordance with state plans for bison management may slaughter the animals.
   rom 2005 to 2014, the park’s bison herds declined rapidly from a population of 3,531 to 1,400.
   The Western Watershed Project and Buffalo Field Campaign first submitted a petition to safeguard the species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2014 and again in 2015. When the Fish and Wildlife Service denied the petition in 2016, the organizations filed a lawsuit in response.

   https://www.missoulacurrent.com/outdoors/2019/05/bison-lawsuit/

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2. Louie C
   May 29, 2019 @ 02:18:49

   The Killing Fields
   Hal Herring Feb. 6, 2006

   And then I witness something that I have not seen before, in 30 years of hunting elk and deer and just about everything else, of seeing domestic cows and goats and pigs shot.

   The three remaining bulls stop grazing and slowly walk over to the bull lying in the snow. They put their heads close to him and breathe out great clouds of steam. Their tails go up, not quite straight, but like a shepherd’s crook, and they make some odd grunting noises. Then they circle the downed bull. And keep on circling.
   Canyon, who told me earlier that he was an “enrolled tribal member,” and has not, until now, witnessed a buffalo being killed, says, “They are circling just like we do when we go into the sweatlodge, clockwise, like the world turning!”

   I stand and stare, transfixed. Mike Mease comes up onto the road and tells me that that almost every one of the kills has been just like this. “A lot of times they’ll hook them with their horns to try and get them up,” he says, “and they’ll circle. Somebody who was with us earlier said that elephants do this, too.”

   The bulls show no inclination to move off, or to resume grazing. They face the hunters and stand, tails up, as if they are made from dark stone, as if they will be there like this until the end of winter, or the end of time.

   https://www.hcn.org/issues/315/16076

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3. Louie C
   May 29, 2019 @ 02:17:04

   Something interesting…notice how many “acting” administrative positions are on this list.
   Hasn’t it been established that an acting director, etc. has no legal/administrative authority?
   Notice something else…this position is vacant,,,Vacant, Deputy Director, Congressional and External Relations

   National Park Service

   Contact Information: Mailing Addresses & Phone Numbers

   Headquarters

   Dan Smith, Deputy Director, exercising the authority of the Director of the National Park Service
   Ray Sauvajot, Acting Deputy Director, Operations
   Lena McDowall, Deputy Director, Management and Administration
   Vacant, Deputy Director, Congressional and External Relations
   Chris Powell, Acting Chief of Staff
   Shane Compton, Associate Chief Information Officer
   Jeremy Barnum, Acting Assistant Director, Communications
   Joy Beasley, Acting Associate Director, Cultural Resources, Partnerships and Science
   Tom Medema, Acting Associate Director, Interpretation, Education, and Volunteers
   Melissa Kuckro, Acting Assistant Director, Legislative and Congressional Affairs
   Jennifer Wyse, Acting Associate Director, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science
   Shawn Benge, Associate Director, Park Planning, Facilities, and Lands
   Reggie Chapple, Acting Assistant Director, Partnerships and Civic Engagement
   Tony Nguyen, Associate Director, Workforce and Inclusion
   Vacant, Associate Director, Business Services
   Louis Rowe, Acting Associate Director, Visitor and Resource Protection

   https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/contactinformation.htm

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4. Louie C
   May 29, 2019 @ 02:16:20

   This is a fairly long in-depth article that covers it from all sides

   From The New Food Economy

   Yellowstone’s last wild buffalo are being slaughtered in a range war pitting ranchers against conservationists (a few excerpts)

   Furthermore, the study’s authors write that buffalo and elk aren’t “sympatric,” or don’t mingle, in the wild. Transmission may happen inside Yellowstone, but probably only because the species are kept in artificially close quarters. As the study’s authors put it: “Any possible role for bison as a reservoir [of brucellosis] may only be relevant at small geographic scales.” Confining bison inside the park lowers the risk that they’ll spread brucellosis to cows directly—but, ironically, that very policy may increase the risk that they’ll infect elk, who spread the disease outside the park.

   I first heard the accusation that brucellosis is a cover for concerns about grazing and land use from Stephany Seay, a volunteer with the Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC), whose volunteers embed with Yellowstone’s roving buffalo the way journalists will with platoons in a combat zone.
   “We run daily field patrols with the buffalo every day, all day long, sometimes into the night. Standing with them on the ground they choose to stand on,” she says. “And when the governments or hunters come to harm them, we are there to document and share our footage and stories and experiences with the media, with the public, with decision makers. And we fight for the buffalo on the ground, in the courts, in the policy arena.”
   From Seay’s perspective, the quota of buffalo is far less than what the park can sustain, and the aggressive push to cull the herd suits the cattle industry.
   “Ultimately, this is a range war, this is a centuries old range war,” she says. “Bison are the native bovine of this country, of this continent, and the cattle industry views them as competitors for grass. They’re worried about the buffalo migrating into Montana, which is their nature—they’re a migratory species. But the industry doesn’t want them eating Montana grass. The more you look at this issue the less it becomes about this smoke screen brucellosis.”
   Ultimately, Wallen says, if the buffalo are going to thrive, they’ll have to be allowed to migrate outside the park. And that’s another way people can make a difference, if they want more buffalo: by letting officials know they’re willing to tolerate the risks.
   “That is a value-based question that society needs to answer,” he says. “All wildlife in the United States are public resources. The public needs to weigh in and make sure the leaders in the state of Montana can protect that public resource for the greatest good, for the greatest number of public values. If we want wild bison in modern society, we just need to figure out who and what and how and where. We have the agency expertise at the both the state and federal levels to make all of that happen.”
   https://newfoodeconomy.org/slaughtering-yellowstone-buffalo-brucellosis/

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5. Louie C
   May 29, 2019 @ 02:15:25

   From BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN

   Yellowstone Bison and Brucellosis: Persistent Mythology

   Essentially, the buffalo in Yellowstone are vaccinating themselves for brucellosis, developing an immune response, and clearing the bacteria. There isn’t a single a documented case of brucellosis transmission between buffalo and domestic cattle under natural conditions; ever!
   In Grand Teton National Park, where vaccinated cattle and brucellosis exposed buffalo have been commingling for decades, no transmission has ever occurred. The chances of transmission between wild buffalo and vaccinated domestic cattle have been characterized as “very low.”

   http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/yellowstone-bison-and-brucellosis-persistent-mythology

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6. Louie C
   May 29, 2019 @ 02:14:20

   Seems that it would be the responsibility of a good rancher to vaccinate his cattle:

   From BEEF

   Is your herd health protocol as good as everyone elses?
   Disease prevention via a thorough vaccination program is the foundation of good health.
   Aug 15, 2017

   Vaccination Description

   Brucellosis and Vibriosis/Leptospirosis for heifers
   Bang’s – Brucellosis or Bang’s disease (abortion)

   Clostridial – Multivalent Clostridium (blackleg, enterotoxemia, malignant edema, black disease, sordellii, tetanus)
   M. haemolytica – Mannheimia haemolytica (bacterial pneumonia)
   Pasteurella – Pasteurella multocida (bacterial pneumonia)
   Sommus – Histophilus somni (pneumonia, arthritis, TEME)
   IBR – Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis, Bovine Herpesvirus 1 (abortion, respiratory disease, conjunctivitis)
   BRSV – Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (respiratory disease)
   PI-3 – Parainfluenza-3 Virus (respiratory disease)
   BVD Type 1 & 2 – Bovine Viral Diarrhea (abortion, respiratory disease, diarrhea)
   Vibrio/Lepto – Vibriosis/Leptospirosis (abortion)
   Branding (2 to 4 months of age)
   Clostridial – Viral Respiratory (IBR, BVD Types 1 & 2, BRSV, PI-3), Bacterial Respiratory (pasteurella, m. haemolytica, h. somni))
   Preconditioning (3 to 4 weeks before weaning)
   Clostridial – Viral Respiratory (IBR, BVD Types 1 & 2, BRSV, PI-3), Bacterial Respiratory (pasteurella, m. haemolytica, h. somni))
   Weaning (6 to 8 months of age)
   Clostridial – Viral Respiratory (IBR, BVD Types 1 & 2, BRSV, PI-3), Bacterial Respiratory (pasteurella, m. haemolytica, h. somni))
   Brucellosis and Vibriosis/Leptospirosis for heifers
   https://www.beefmagazine.com/animal-health/your-herd-health-protocol-good-everyone-elses

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7. Louie C
   May 29, 2019 @ 02:13:41

   Yellowstone’s Destruction of our National Mammal
   

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Animal Advocates Radio”Voices Carry for Animals #221″ Anti-Dog Fighting Campaign- Patricia Miles & Danielle Lajic TS Radio Network: Wisconsin Fighting Mad! Guardianship & other hot topics