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Special
Message from the Buffalo Field Campaign
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* Ceremony for the Buffalo This Saturday, April 30
* Support Our Work to Protect the Buffalo
* BFC Featured in Sunday Billings Gazette
* View Exclusive Footage of the 17 Buffalo in Quarantine |
* Ceremony for the Buffalo This Saturday, April
30
This Saturday, April 30, we will gather here in West Yellowstone
and throughout the world in prayer for the Yellowstone
buffalo. Clem, a supporter from the West Coast, has generously
arranged to pay for flights for he and Keith, a Dakota
Sioux and Ojibway medicine man who will lead our volunteers
in ceremony for the buffalo. We have been busy gathering
the items necessary for the ceremony and are looking forward
to the weekend.
If you live in the area and would like to join us, please
contact us for more information. If you live afar and
would like to gather with friends and others who care
about the buffalo, please join us in prayer late Saturday
afternoon.
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* Support Our Work to Protect the Buffalo
While many environmental groups operate out of offices
so fancy you'd think you were in the board room of a for-profit
corporation and many of these large groups pay salaries
fit for corporate CEO's with money raised to "protect"
species and ecosystems their staffs never actually see
or experience firsthand, things with us are quite different.
We are a grassroots group in a true sense of the word.
Our work is a direct expression of the thousands of supporters
throughout Montana, across the county, and around the
world who care enough about the future of the buffalo
to contribute ideas, visions, skills, equipment, and money
to support and promote efforts to build lasting protection
for the Yellowstone herd.
While in recent years we have offered small stipends to
a few dedicated volunteers who have dedicated years of
their lives to protecting the wild buffalo of Yellowstone,
the bulk of BFC's work is carried out by volunteers working
80+ hour weeks in extreme conditions for no pay other
than the satisfaction of knowing that their lives and
their beliefs are aligned.
The Buffalo Field Campaign doesn't sell out. We don't
compromise or tone down our message to appease the forces
bent on destroying the last vestige of wildness left in
the world. Enough is enough and we're not afraid to say
so. We know our communications are not always uplifting
as we are in the trenches reporting the truth of what
is happening to the buffalo and their habitat.
Because a growing number of large environmental groups
have jumped on the buffalo bandwagon and started producing
fancy glossy mailings and grant proposals touting their
"work" on behalf of the buffalo, we have found
it increasingly difficult to raise funds to keep our volunteers
in the field and our coordinators engaged in the crucial
media and policy work that will ultimately stop the slaughter.
Fortunately we are not entirely dependent on large foundations
and have always received the majority of our funding through
individual contributions from the people who truly care
for the buffalo and want to see them survive into the
future. If you have never supported our work, or if it's
been a while since you've contributed, please do so now.
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and your donations
will be tax-deductible.
Click the Donate Now button at http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org
or send a donation to:
Buffalo Field Campaign
PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
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* BFC Featured in Sunday Billings Gazette
For those of you who missed the feature story on the Buffalo
Field Campaign in the Bozeman Chronicle in early April,
the piece was picked up by the Associated Press and printed
again in yesterday's Billings Gazette.
You can read it in its entirety by clicking the link below:
* Where buffalo roam: Activists make a stand
for Yellowstone bison
http://billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/24/build/state/45-where-buffalo-roam.inc
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* This is What Quarantine Looks Like: Exclusive
BFC Footage
Visit our home page to view the latest video of the Yellowstone
herd. "This is what Quarantine Looks Like: the Wild
Buffalo of Yellowstone National Park." 17 Buffalo
are currently being held in captivity by the State of
Montana near Gardiner as part of the state's "Quarantine
Feasibility Study." We shot this footage on 4/22/05. |
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Video
by BFC from 4/22/05
"This
is what Quarantine Looks Like: the Wild Buffalo
of Yellowstone National Park." 17 Buffalo
are currently being held in captivity by the State
of Montana near Gardiner as part of the state's
"Quarantine Feasibility Study."
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