www.buffalofieldcamp aign.org A hunter from the Salish-Kootenai tribe speaks to Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers about the current bison hunt on the Montana borders of Yellowstone.
www.buffalofieldcamp aign.org On March 14 and 15 the Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) captured and slaughtered 33 Yellowstone buffalo. These buffalo had been peacefully grazing on the shore of Hebgen Lake since early January. This is the same herd that DOL agents chased onto thin ice on January 11, drowning two in the frigid water.
www.buffalofieldcamp aign.org 1/12/06 Bison Management Runs Amok: National Park Service Sends 24 Buffalo to Slaughter, Captures 100 More; DOL Hazes Buffalo through Lake Ice, Killing Two
www.buffalofieldcamp aign.org Another Bison was shot near the Duck Creek capture facility, the capture facility is located on bison poacher Dale Koelzers property bording Yellowstone National Park
The day after the bipod protest came down, Montana Department of Livestock showed their true colors. Not a cow within 40 miles, not a cow to ever return to Horse Butte but not an ounce of tolerance from the Great State of Montana.
www.buffalofieldcamp aign.org Rosalie Little Thunder, a Lakota Elder and BFC co-founder, discusses the buffalo, Native American involvment in the hunt, and reminds us that there is another way of thinking and living.
www.buffalofieldcamp aign.org Homeowner expresses his distaste for DOL activities and his wish to live in peace with wild buffalo. He was infuriated after a DOL helicopter stormed through his neighborhood, uninvited and unnanounced, to haze bull bison.
www.buffalofieldcamp aign.org The capture facility is very traumatic for a wild animal. Even buffalo calfs are sent to slaughter. Buffalo graze in the spring time on Horse Butte and then move back into Yellowstone National Park. Why don't we protect Horse Butte for buffalo habitat instead of cattle grazing?