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Update from the Field
Greetings Buffalo Friends,
This week the National Park Service released their summer
count of the Yellowstone bison herd, America's only
continuously wild population. For those aware of last
winter's slaughter of more than a thousand buffalo,
news that this year's estimate is 3,900, a full thousand
buffalo short of last year's count, doesn't come as
a surprise. Wild buffalo in America today number an
alarming .01 percent of this country's historic wild
bison population.
With the buffalo safe, for the moment, grazing the highlands
of Yellowstone National Park, BFC's education and outreach
efforts are going strong. This week marks the close
of our wildly successful summer table in Yellowstone,
where we shared information on the buffalo, their slaughter,
and our hope for their future with thousands of park
visitors from around the world.
We currently have two crews on the road in California
and Colorado, visiting communities, sharing information
and video, and meeting and inspiring supporters old
and new.
Jesse, Mike, and Seamus are giving a presentation in
Berkeley tonight and in the coming week will visit the
following California communities: San Jose, San Francisco,
Menlo Park, Stockton, Sacramento, Monterey, and San
Luis Obispo.
For more info on the West Coast Roadshow:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/aboutus/roadshowswest2006.html
Josh is travelling the Southwest in a grease-powered
car, and will give a presentation tonight in Durango
Colorado. From there he'll visit Moab Utah and Gunnison,
Crested Butte, Carbondale, Boulder, and Nederland Colorado.
For more info on the Southwest Roadshow:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/aboutus/roadshowsouthwest2006.html
If you live in or near one of these communities or know
someone who does, please come out and meet us, hear
stories and watch footage of the buffalo, and get involved
in the essential movement to protect the future of America's
only continuously wild buffalo.
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* Current Ebay Auctions to Benefit Buffalo Field
Campaign
Amazing artist and huge advocate for wild buffalo, Eldorado
has helped make available more beautiful items from
artists of the Oglala-Lakota Nation for auction to help
support BFC's efforts to protect the buffalo. Descriptions
for and links to each item are below. Bidding on all
three beautiful items ends September 12 and 100% of
the proceeds will go directly to Buffalo Field Campaign's
frontlines defense of the bison.
BEADED EARRINGS
These earrings measure about 2 1/4" inches long
(the beaded part), have kidney-type ear-wires, and
were made by a Sioux Indian artisan from the Pine
Ridge Reservation. Having done some beading myself,
I'm guessing the lighting must have poor judging
from the blues beads invading the intended brown,
black, and white theme.
Click here to view photo and to bid:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110029478608LARGE
BUFFALO HOOP PAINTING
Beautiful hoop painting of 'cosmic buffalo' and
mounted warrior. Canvas is of black dyed leather. Tassels
are blue. Top fringe is rabbit fur. It was crafted
by Donovan White Face from the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Click here to view photo and to bid:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110029466943
BEADED MEDALLION
* "Pretty beaded medallion pin made by a member
of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
This wonderful medallion was acquired from the Blue
Feather Alliance, a 501(c)3 nonprofit located in Colorado. They
work exclusively on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
in South Dakota where the poorest county in the United
States is located. One of the things they do to
help the people of Pine Ridge is to buy their arts and
crafts."
* This portion of the text has been borrowed from
a Blue Feather Alliance ebay ad.
Click here to view photo and to bid:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110029492354
In a recent email to us, Eldorado wrote: "For several
years now, you guys have been my heroes. These feeble
efforts on ebay to assist are nothing compared with
the thankless battles you...wage daily to protect our
buffalo brothers. My profoundest respect, admiration
and love." Eldorado, we could not do what we do
without the support and inspiration from people like
you! Thank you, Eldorado and artists, for being with
us and for the buffalo!
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* Last Words - BFC Commentary on Montana Public
Radio
This essay written and read by BFC's Dan Brister, in
response to comments aired last week by the bison-unfriendly
Montana Farm Bureau Federation, speaks for itself:
Celebrating Montana's Native Bison, by Dan Brister
http://www.mtpr.net/commentaries/265
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