Wolves Can Stay

to abandon old thinking. This is the approach that was used in the 50's. It was used in the 60's. It was used in the 70's. We've all learned a lot since then."
-Don Berry, Assistant Secretary Department of the Interior

Why are media stars like the Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young pulling together to get the word out regarding the Buffalo Field Campaign and the slaughter of the Yellowstone buffalo?
"This bison herd is as important to this country as Old Faithful, as the Statue of Liberty, as the Grand Canyon. This particular bison herd is the most genetically pure bison herd we have in America today. They've not been interbred with cattle, they are exactly the way they were a thousand years ago."
-Don Berry, Assistant Secretary Department of the Interior

Why has the State of Montana slaughtered thousands of buffalo in the past decade?
"They may be icons of national heritage, but to the cattle ranchers in Montana, the buffalo are symbols of something else, a dreaded disease known as brucellosis."
-Chris Bury, ABC Nightline

Why are Montana Governor Marc Racicot and the Montana Department of Livestock requesting the public's tax dollars to kill buffalo even though the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the federal agency responsible for revoking a state's brucellosis free status, deems it unnecessary?
"We don't feel there is a need to kill every bison that comes out of the Park."
-Patrick Collins, APHIS spokesperson

Why are cattlemen, not biologists managing America's heritage surviving in the Yellowstone buffalo herd?
"There's really no reason to kill these bison at the times of year that they're outside of the park, and there are no cattle present."
-Mike Finley, Superintendent Yellowstone National Park

Why are cattle from Idaho causing Montana to slaughter the last wild and free roaming buffalo in the lower forty-eight states, in the name of Montana's brucellosis free status?

Why are Montana and the federal government waging a war on the Yellowstone buffalo herd in the name of brucellosis eradication while 50,000 elk, also carriers of brucellosis, inter-mingle with the buffalo inside and outside of the Park?

Why has the federal government agreed to the "taking" (killing) of threatened bald eagles and their habitat, endangering our nation's national symbol, to allow Montana to build a bison capture facility on US Forest Service lands?

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