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Running from a Lie: Halt Horse Butte Hazing of Bison

May 15, 2009

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
bison, brucellosis, buffalo, helicopter, horsebutte, montana, northernrockies, wildlife, yellowstone

We got word that state and federal wildlife officials were unnecessarily hazing America's last genetically wild buffalo off of a peninsula west of Yellowstone National Park in Montana yesterday. I started pulling together a blog posting and about halfway...continued

From Scapegoats to Science? Changes afoot in bison debate

January 9, 2009

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
bison, bozemandailychronicle, buffalo, gye, yellowstone

With news that wildlife officials will likely make changes in the way Yellowstone National Park's bison herds are managed, there has been an interesting shift to the tone of the debate recently. Sure, it is still chock-full of emotional bombast...continued

Can you scapegoat a bison?

July 10, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
bison, brucellosis, buffalo, montana, wyoming

Sadly, outbreaks of the cattle disease brucellosis have popped up in Montana and Wyoming recently. Though there has never been a documented case of the disease being transmitted from buffalo to cattle in the wild---and the geography of the outbreak...continued

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