Livestock Interests Chase Bison out of Montana

-Buffalo Field Campaign
WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA: The Montana Department of Livestock initiated full-scale hazing operations today to force wild bison off of cattle-free Horse Butte and surrounding public lands on the Gallatin National Forest.
The Department of Livestock also violated the private property rights of the Galanis family, who owns the 700+ acre Yellowstone Ranch Preserve [...]

Hayduke Lives!!

Democracy Now was recorded in Bozeman, Montana yesterday. Bozeman is just outside Yellowstone National Park. Bozeman was where we’d drive for groceries and other supplies when I was volunteering with the Buffalo Field Campaign, so I consider it one of my many home towns. It’s also where I saw Micheal Franti and Spearhead. That was [...]

Wild Buffalo Return With The Spring

Buffalo Field Campaign Update from the Field
by Stephany Seay, BFC
Dear Buffalo Friends,
Wild buffalo have returned with the Spring!
The song of mountain bluebirds is in the air, and tracks of the mighty bison are upon the land once again. After a long winter without the buffalo in Montana, the unspoken question hung in the air: [...]

Wild Bison Update

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 [...]

Yellowstone bison could go to Wyoming Reservation

By Matthew Brown (AP)
BILLINGS, Mont. » State and federal officials have recommended relocating a small herd of bison from Yellowstone National Park to a Wyoming Indian reservation, part of a bid to restore a species that once numbered in the tens of millions.
The 41 animals are now being held in a federal disease quarantine [...]

Bison make a new home on the range — in Utah

By Mike Stark, Associated Press
ANTELOPE ISLAND, Utah — For the first time in nearly 70 years, Utah has a new free-roaming bison herd.
State officials this week are taking the final steps toward restoring bison to the Book Cliffs, a remote and rugged area in eastern Utah where bison images appear on ancient rock art [...]

Study Reveals What We Already Know: Roaming Buffalo Pose Low Risk

by Matthew Brown (AP)
A new study says more bison could be allowed to migrate outside Yellowstone National Park without significantly increasing the risk of spreading a disease carried by the animals to livestock.
Yellowstone’s estimated 3,000 bison are periodically culled during their winter migration to prevent the spread of the disease brucellosis to cattle.

Ranchers oppose Yellowstone bison relocation

Billing, Montana (AP) 1-09
Ranchers are voicing concern about plans to relocate some Yellowstone Park bison to Indian reservations in Montana and Wyoming.
The ranchers are worried about the animals’ history of carrying brucellosis, a disease that causes domestic cows to miscarry.
At issue is the relocation of more than 40 bison, kept under quarantine for three years [...]

Cattle industry seeks to stop buffalo from roaming

BY MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) Attorneys for Montana’s cattle industry have gone to court seeking to block a new agreement that allows more bison to roam freely outside Yellowstone National Park.
In the last two decades more than 5,000 bison leaving the park have been slaughtered by government agencies and shot by [...]

Forest Service OKs bison fence near Yellowstone

-ap
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service has given Montana wildlife officials permission to construct a four-foot high, seven-mile long electric fence near Gardiner to steer bison that migrate out of Yellowstone National Park to acceptable grazing land.
The fencing is required as part of a lease agreement with the Royal Teton Ranch, which enables [...]