Controversial buffalo hunt starts in Wyoming - Reuters

Source: Reuters

Controversial buffalo hunt starts in Wyoming
Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:07am EDT

By Laura Zuckerman

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - For the first time in nearly
a decade, hunters on Saturday begin tracking and killing
buffalo on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,
where federal wildlife managers plan to cut the herd from
1,200 to 500 over the next five years.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials say buffalo at the
refuge, home to one of the nation's largest free-roaming
herds of the symbol of the American West, must be killed
because of overgrazing and because they carry diseases
that could be transmitted to domestic livestock.

The hunt aims to cull 300 buffalo -- also called bison --
by December.

The move has raised concern in the upscale community of
Jackson, where the lure of the jagged peaks of the Teton
Range and wildlife-watching draw tens of thousands of
tourists each year. It also has alarmed animal groups,
which say shooting creatures accustomed to humans is
far from sporting.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1423918220070915

people on our planet continue to starve to death. Why not relocate them to a sustainable area?

I hear they have some buffalo there now and they are trying to revive sections of it. What better of a way to do it than bring in the buffalo!

Oye Mitakuye Oyasin!!

WTF? They weren't completely extinct before so we now must finish the job?
Another fuck up attributed to bu$h regime and their cronies.

You just know who has a bunker there don't you?

There are a bunch of rich freaks living there and all they want is the land and all they can get from it.

As for the buffalo, there are now many more in the Tetons. I know of none being in Jackson Hole itself however.

They are viewed as "problematic" in Yellowstone National Park as they cross the roads at will. I strongly suspect that anyone stupid enough to run into one with a car would have a totaled out car if lucky.

So you see, they use this as an excuse. This way they can hire more outsourced workers from places like Australia to finish the job.

It is a sicko mess there and they should just let the buffalo have it! There is some fine wilderness left in the Tetons and the buffalo would thrive along with what wildlife is still left.

Enough said.

...leave the perimeters of the Park ( darn it all that they just can't read the signs) and 'intrude' into land of the Ranchers who are then screaming about Brucellosis - which was detected for the first time in 1917 in Wild Bison. And what is Brucellosis? Yup, a European disease that affects Livestock and is carried by Cows and was thus transmitted to the Buffalo.....

There were buffalo around yes, but it did not seem to be that many.

Wouldn't you just know that this "new" disease is from the cattle brought in by the Europeans ... :eyes:

.......at least about the Yellow Stone Bison...go here:

http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/index.html

1016 Buffalo were killed in the Winter of 2005/2006

In the Winter of 2006/2007 'only' 60...but another Winter is coming....so.....who knows.....

....wouldn't be fit for printing....so I say nothing.....:mad:

God, what a sick world we're in.