Buffalo Field Campaign Update

Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
August 21, 2008

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Show your support with Montana's NEW "Let Buffalo Roam" license plate! Official
plates are available for Montana vehicles, or speak for the buffalo in any state or
country with a sample plate!

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In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* LAST CALL! Hear the Music, Meet the Woman: Bonnie Raitt ~ Only 5 BFC Benefit
Tickets Left!
* BFC Needs Your Help!! Wood Cut Week August 28 - September 3
* Last Words
* Kill Tally

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* Update from the Field

Dear Buffalo Friends,

Summers in Montana sure don't last long. Already there are subtle hints of fall in
the air. The buffalo rut season is coming to a close, and soon BFC's tabling in
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks will end. It has been an encouraging
summer talking with park visitors. BFC has been discovering that more and more
people are aware of what's happening to the buffalo and are ready to do whatever it
takes to stop the madness. Many thanks go to Iwi, Hunter, Brandy, Noah, and all the
other summer volunteers who helped reach out for the buffalo, and to all the Park
visitors who are doing what they can to help the buffalo! We are already preparing
for next summer's tabling events, so if you are interested, please contact us at
buffalo [at] wildrockies.org.

We are also thinking ahead to the winter as the warm months begin to slightly give
way to the coming cold. Summer is just barely long enough to get a few critical
things done before we find ourselves under many feet of snow. Buffalo migration
will soon begin again, and before we know it, BFC will be back out on the front
lines, documenting all actions made against the last wild buffalo and telling the
world what we are witnessing, in our collective effort to make lasting, positive
change for the last wild buffalo.

As we prepare for another long, frigid, snow-packed winter we can use your help to
gather and cut firewood that will keep our field volunteers from freezing as they
stand vigilance over the last wild buffalo! It's good, hard work that requires a
team effort, so please join us for any amount of time. Wood Cut Week is happening
next week (see below for details) and BFC will host another Wood Cut Weekend in
mid-October. Bring friends and chain saws!

But, summer isn't quite over yet, and before it is, Bonnie Raitt is coming to Big
Sky, Montana to share her beautiful music. The special benefit tickets that will go
directly towards the front lines work of BFC are going fast. Get yours now as there
are only 5 left! Details are below.

Buffalo advocates in Montana, across the country, and even in Europe are showing
their support for letting buffalo roam their ancestral lands by acquiring the new
"Let Buffalo Roam" license plates! The plates are beautiful, and they say it all:
LET BUFFALO ROAM! Official plates are available for vehicles in Montana, and sample
plates are available to anyone in any state or country. Learn how to get your
plates and also how to help spread the word by visiting
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org.

BFC and the growing number of buffalo champions remain steadfast in our efforts to
expose the livestock industry's war against wild buffalo for the tragic sham that it
is. Tribal voices are growing stronger, and communities in buffalo country are
becoming more and more vocal against the insane actions of Montana and the
Interagency Bison Management Plan. See what residents of Horse Butte are doing to
protect the buffalo from a livestock lawsuit
http://media-newswire.com/release_1070942.html.

Thank you all for your continued support and for being strong voices for the last
wild population of American bison. Press on! Together we are seeing big changes on
the horizon.

Roam Free!
~Stephany

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* LAST CALL! Hear the Music, Meet the Woman: Bonnie Raitt ~ Only 5 BFC Benefit
Tickets Left!

There are only 5 special Bonnie Raitt tickets left for her concert in Big Sky,
Montana on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Proceeds from benefit ticket purchases go
directly towards BFC's front lines work to defend the last wild buffalo. Have some
fun, enjoy amazing music, help the buffalo, and meet Bonnie Raitt BACK STAGE after
the show!

Get yours now http://www.novoiceunheard.org/TicketOrderBR2.html

Bonnie Raitt has been a strong, generous supporter of BFC and the buffalo for years.
Here's an excerpt from an August 18, 2008 Bozeman Daily Chronicle article by Jodi
Hausen about Bonnie's upcoming concert:

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For the Raitt concert, she said, there were 3,000 tickets initially; by the end of
last week there were less than 300 left. "They start to go and all of a sudden,
they're gone," Hicks said.

Bonnie Raitt is doing a little fundraising herself for a local organization. She
reserved 10 tickets that will be sold at $200 each and will include the concert and
an after-show backstage visit with her. Proceeds from the sales of those tickets
will be donated to the Buffalo Field Campaign.

Many groups, including the Buffalo Field Campaign, have come out against a
brucellosis management plan that has sent more than 1,600 Yellowstone bison to
slaughter this past year. Brucellosis is a disease that can be spread from bison to
cattle causing them to abort their fetuses.

In a written statement, Raitt's publicist, Annie Heller-Gutwillig wrote: "Bonnie
has supported (the Buffalo Field Campaign) a couple of times over the last decade
and it seemed to make great sense to support them on this tour stop in Big Sky that
is just about 200 miles away from their base of operations in West Yellowstone."
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This is the last call and there are only 5 tickets left!
Get yours now http://www.novoiceunheard.org/TicketOrderBR2.html

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* BFC Needs Your Help for Wood Cut Week

Come to beautiful West Yellowstone, headquarters of Buffalo Field Campaign, and help
us gather, cut, and stack the firewood that will keep our field volunteers warm, dry
and alive through Montana's long, harsh winter. Any amount of time you can spare
will be great - spend a day, a couple of days, the whole week and bring your
friends, and if you can, a chain saw. Room and board provided. There is also
plenty of magnificent camping space available either on BFC land or on the millions
of gorgeous acres of national forest that is literally our back yard.

Wood Cut Week is August 28 through September 3. Any amount of time you can spend
helping will be fabulous.

Please RSVP with barb at buffalo [at] wildrockies.org or 406-646-0070.

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* Last Words

"The presence of brucellosis is not a public health risk to consumers, livestock
officials said."

From the Belgrade News, State Loses Brucellosis Free Status, Michael Tucker, 6-10-08
http://www.belgrade-news.com/view.php?article=9257

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* Kill Tally

AMERICAN BISON ELIMINATED from the last wild population in the U.S.
2007-2008 Total: 1,616
2007-2008 Slaughter: 1,450
2007-2008 Hunt: 166
2007-2008 Quarantine: 112

Total Since 2000: 3,681*
*includes lethal government action, quarantine, hunts

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Media & Outreach
Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media [at] wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field every day
in defense of the last wild buffalo population in the U.S.