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Service should be ashamed of bison treatment
by Jennifer Nitz
Op Ed- Bozeman Daily Chronicle
March 16, 2004
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spent last week in Gardiner, the north entrance to Yellowstone
National Park. As I entered the Park I saw a huge eyesore
off to the west. I quickly found out it was a capture
facility. Ever day thereafter I witnessed bison being
hazed, captured, and or sent to a slaughterhouse. Inside
the Park! I thought the Park was supposed to be a place
of security and to protect Earths' natural treasures.
I know the bison is one of the most unique in that they
overcame a near extinction in the late 1800s. Why then
did last week I witness constant harassment of these symbolic
treasures? Well, I read they may have a disease called
brucellosis, which cause cattle to abort their first fetus.
Admittedly, the bison have NEVER passed on this disease
in a natural setting. Yet, killing the bison would reduce
the risk. How can you reduce NEVER?!
How can the Park Service with any integrity or dignity
call this place a National Park, or wear their badge with
a buffalo on it with their heads up when they are engaging
in this activity or not speaking out? When I saw those
bison walk across the landscape, it should have lifted
my heart instead of feeling like it was getting stomped
on!
This morning the Park Service hazed a buffalo into Yellowstone
and shot him! Where is the public outcry that should be
heard and having been heard for about the last decade?
Speak your mind and make the Park Service, the Forest
Service and all other government agencies feel the shame
they deserve.
Jennifer Nitz
West Yellowstone |
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