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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

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

Slaughter in the Key of B

May 24, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
buffalo, HorseButte, montana

There are plenty of things I could be writing about here…but for some reason the State of Montana keeps forcing me to write about the Yellowstone buffalo. Just weeks after Governor Schweitzer publicly pledged that no more buffalo would be...continued

How much to fill up the helicopter? - Buffalo Part 2

May 16, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
buffalo, HorseButte, Interdepartmentalbisonmanagementplan, montana

This week it cost me $40 to fill up my car with gas. That got me to thinking…how much does it cost to fuel up a helicopter?Quite a leap, I know, but I have been reading press reports about the...continued

War on buffalo takes to the air in Montana - Part 1

May 16, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
buffalo, HorseButte, montana, yellowstone

As rites of spring go, this a depressing one…The state of Montana has begun hazing America’s last remaining free-ranging buffalo herds from their traditional calving grounds back into Yellowstone National Park.I know, I know… Hazing. That doesn’t sound so bad,...continued

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