It pains me greatly to read of a January in West Yellowstone where BFC volunteers don’t get to see the last wild bison up close every day. Not for the sake of those of us who have been lucky enough to experience that, but for the horrible, horrible implication of their absence.
In terms of issues in US politics, the wild bison is for me a litmus test for Obama. If her doesn’t stop this ridiculous slaughter he is no better than any of the fascists who have run that country.
Buffalo Field Campaign, Update from the Field
Dear Buffalo Friends,
There are still no buffalo within Montana’s borders. Daily recons are patrolling the north and west migration corridors, looking in all the places favored by buffalo, but our shaggy friends are currently living their lives within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. Certainly it is good for the buffalo, for any who cross the imaginary line and enter Montana have hunters waiting for them until February 15. But our hearts and spirits are lonely in the darkness of their absence. We are venturing miles into the park just to get a distant glimpse of their existence. The massive slaughter last year, which took over 1,600 buffalo, coupled with a severe winter kill, ravaged this last wild population; with so few buffalo remaining, and this season’s relatively mild winter, migration is slow to occur.
Filed under: Bison, Wildlife in trouble, activism, anarchy, animal rights, international
