Wednesday, May 30, 2007

STOP THE SLAUGHTER

Please fprward to Dennis from my aunt thanks Southern Hobbit
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Subject: Fw: EMERGENCY ACTION! Slaughter of Buffalo Calves Planned by Montana


Come on girls let's fire up and get mad. Call, email, yell!!!
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From: Buffalo Field Campaign
To: Stop the Slaughter
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:09 AM
Subject: EMERGENCY ACTION! Slaughter of Buffalo Calves Planned by Montana


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Dear Buffalo Supporters,

Montana intends to capture and slaughter wild buffalo, starting this week. Please take a moment to read this alert and contact the three decision-makers listed below, demanding that they cease plans to capture and slaughter approximately 300 wild buffalo, including little calves, their moms, and families.


The Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) has set up a bison trap near the West Yellowstone airport, on state land and they intend to begin capturing approximately 300 wild buffalo - including tiny newborn babies and their whole families - starting Thursday.


Click here to see photos of the beautiful buffalo babies and their families that are slated for execution: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/photos/bisonphotos0607maycalves.html


At an "emergency" Board of Livestock meeting in the Governor's office Tuesday, the decision was made by Montana's acting state veterinarian Jeanne Rankin: the agents will capture and ship all the buffalo to slaughter without testing for brucellosis exposure. Little buffalo calves between one month to a week old will be captured, separated from their moms, and join their family members at the slaughterhouse.


Yellowstone Superintendent Suzanne Lewis was asked at the meeting Tuesday if capturing and transporting the buffalo deeper into Yellowstone would be feasible. While (ironically) the DOL said it is feasible, Suzanne Lewis shot down this option. Apparently Suzanne Lewis would rather forfeit the lives of America's last wild buffalo. She said, "it has never been a policy of the Interagency Bison Management Plan to haul bison into the Park." In other words, she's attempting to wash her hands of this atrocity, handing the fate of these buffalo over to Montana, who intend to haul them all to slaughter.


These buffalo are being charged with the "crime" of trying to live wild and free; in other words, they didn't "stick in the Park" (as if they were velcro) and they are not "responding to hazing" (as if they should behave as cattle). The decision to trap and slaughter comes hot on the heels of brucellosis being discovered in a Montana cattle herd, far to the north and east of Yellowstone, far from any migration route of wild buffalo, far from Yellowstone National Park. There are no cattle currently in the West Yellowstone area and the majority of the bison to be captured and slaughtered pose NO risk of bacteria transmission. Because the bacteria can only be transmitted through contaminated reproductive materials, bison bulls, yearlings, non-pregnant females, calves, and mothers with calves CANNOT transmit the bacteria. Bison are not to blame. Wild bison have never transmitted the livestock disease brucellosis to cattle, and this incident is not their fault either. But the cattle industry wants to blame someone, and as always, they set their sights on wildlife.

These agencies are correctly concerned about the black eye they will receive for committing this act against the nation's last wild buffalo, and with your help, they will get it.

> > > > HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO:
PLEASE CONTACT these three decision-makers TODAY demanding that they cease plans to capture and slaughter the buffalo who are trying to live wild and free! Contact each by phone, fax, and email and let's not let them forget that the world is watching!

* MONTANA GOVERNOR BRIAN SCHWEITZER: Demand that Schweitzer keep his campaign promise to provide tolerance for bison in Montana.
(406) 444-3111 (phone)
(406) 444-5529 (fax)
governor@mt.gov (email)

* MONTANA ACTING STATE VET JEANNE RANKIN: Urge her to withdraw her decision to slaughter Yellowstone bison calves and family groups. Remind her you are boycotting beef and your friends are joining you!
(406) 444-1895 (phone)
(800) 523-3162 (phone)
(406) 444-1929 (fax)
jrankin@mt.gov (email)


* YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK SUPERINTENDENT SUZANNE LEWIS: Ask her if it's really worth the lives of 300 wild buffalo, including newborn calves, to have Montana ship them to slaughter rather than deeper into the Park.
(307) 344-2002 (phone)
(307) 344-2005 (fax)
suzanne_lewis@nps.gov OR yell_superintendent@nps.gov (email)

It's crucial that we flood these offices today! Capture could begin as soon as Thursday, with transport to slaughter beginning Friday. Read BFC's press release from Tuesday at:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0607/pressreleases0607/052907.html

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SAVE THE HERD ~ SPREAD THE WORD!!
Please pass this alert on to everyone you know! Thank you!!
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Media & Outreach
Buffalo Field Campaign
P.O. Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070
bfc-media@wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field every day
to defend the last wild herd of buffalo in America.

Stay informed! Get our weekly email Updates from the Field:
Send your email address to bfc-media@wildrockies.org

BOYCOTT BEEF! It's what's killing wild buffalo.

Speak Out! Contact politicians and involved agencies today:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html

Write a Letter to the Editor of key newspapers:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/lte.html

Help the buffalo by recycling your used cell phones & printer cartridges:
It's free and easy. http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/support/recycleprint.html.

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

NICHOLES INTEREST IN FREE ENERGY PLUS HEALTH& ENVIROMENTAL HER GENERATION








CONGRATULATIONS NICHOLE ORTBERG








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From: poetry.com
To: NICHOLE
Sent: Wed, 23 May 2007 3:23 pm
Subject: Congratulations, Nichole, on becoming a 2007 Poetry Ambassador!



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Dear Nichole,
On behalf of the International Library of Poetry and the National Poetry Month Committee, we would like to congratulate you on receiving the distinguished honor of a 2007 Poetry Ambassador. We would like to thank you for all your efforts during this past month to promote and share your love of poetry with your friends, your family, and your community.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

DEDICATED TO MY SOUTHERN HOBBIT




FOR NICHOLE



FOR NICHOLE ORTBERG SEE SCIENCE SECTION

SOUTHERN HOBBIT NICHOLE HUGS

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Sent: Wed, 16 May 2007 2:24 PM
Subject: Tell the NCRR director to permanently adopt the chimpanzee breeding moratorium


Dear Niece,

Please consider taking action online to urge National Council
Research Resources Director Barbara Alving to adopt a permanent
moratorium on the breeding of federally-owned chimpanzees for
use in research labs. Chimps are highly intelligent, research on
them does not always translate accurately to humans, and
alternative methods are becoming more and more available.

I hope you will join me in urging Dr. Alving to adopt the ban
for next year and into the future. It only takes a minute. Here
is the link:
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/2007_adopt_chimp_breeding_moratorium?rk=Fdav-gp19tcYW

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