Brucellosis focus shifts from bison to elk

By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — Government agencies killed more than 6,000 wild bison leaving Yellowstone National Park over the last two decades — the grisly result of efforts to contain a serious livestock disease carried by the animals.
But the crosshairs are shifting to a new target, elk, as the disease infects cattle in [...]

Rosalee Little Thunder on Ongoing Buffalo Slaughter

Release of captured bison back into Yellowstone signals short repreive from harrassment and slaughter

-By Cory Hatch Jackson Hole, Wyoming News
Wildlife managers released roughly 300 Yellowstone bison back into the park Monday morning after roughly a month of captivity near the park’s North Entrance.
The bison include about 80 calves that were born at the Stephens Creek Bison Capture Facility. Twelve bison died at the facility, including several calves, most [...]

Wild Bison Defence Update May

* Buffalo Advocates Rally in Helena
With banners and tombstones in hand, and strong hearts that have withstood a season of tremendous buffalo slaughter, Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers trekked to Montana’s capitol, Helena, on Wednesday, May 15, for a rally to draw attention to Montana Governor Schweitzer’s role in the shameful slaughter of America’s last wild [...]

Wild Bison Defence Update For May 8

-from Buffalo Field Campaign
* Update from the Field
The road through Yellowstone is now open to cars. In years past, during this season, on a drive through the park you would be hard pressed not to see several hundred buffalo and many newborn calves. This season, people who have taken this drive have felt as if [...]

Sloppy Reporting from the Billings Gazette

Buffaloed on May 6th 2008
In an earlier post on the Buffalo Field Campaign blog about the sale of Bison meat to the Montana Food Bank the Billings Gazette got it wrong. BFC received this response to the article from the Montana Food Bank Network.
Hi. My name is James Dodge and I am the Food [...]

Government failing to protect wood bison in Alberta

Canadian Press
Calgary — Sierra Club Canada says neither the provincial nor the federal governments are doing enough to protect the wood bison in Northern Alberta from illegal hunting.
Executive director Stephen Hazell said the bison is listed as endangered in Alberta and as threatened under federal law.
The Sierra Club is especially concerned because aboriginals have discovered [...]

Uncommon Number of NWT Bison Found Dead

Dead bison probably starved
Roxanna Thompson, Northern News Services
DEH GAH GOT’IE KOE/FORT PROVIDENCE - Starvation is probably behind the deaths of five bison found outside of Fort Providence, according to wildlife officials.
The carcasses of the animals were reported in mid-March after being spotted during an aerial survey conducted as part of the bison control area surveillance [...]

15,000 Pounds of Yellowstone Bison Meat SOLD to Montana Food Banks

-from the Buffalo Field Campaign blog
KXMC is reporting that 15,000 pounds of Yellowstone bison meat was SOLD to the Montana Food Bank Network for 42¢ per pound. I (BFC Media Coordinator) have been personally told many times by Yellowstone officials and read in numerous press releases by MDoL that the meat is DONATED to food [...]

Officials halt bison slaughter

(Too little too late. This is a highly misleading headline, as buffalo operations are usually finished for the most part by this time of year anyway. Spring greenup is happening, and the buffalo are migrating back into the safety of the park.)
By BRETT FRENCH,Billings Gazette
More than 2,400 bison from Yellowstone National Park’s wild herds have [...]