Category: brucellosis
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Lost in Translation
I found an <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5130714.stm?ls">interesting article</a> out of Britain that seems to have lost something in translation.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The emptiness (of Montana) is populated by bison, buffalo and horses that seem to roam wild and look upon their human guests with gentle curiosity. </blockquote><br />n<br />nFirst off, I though bison and buffalo were the same…
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More Opposition
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/19/news/state/43-bison-livestockgroup.txt">Livestock groups turn up opposition to Schweitzer's bison plans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two of the state's largest livestock groups are turning up their opposition to <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>'s proposals regarding the management of bison that leave Yellowstone National Park each year.<br />n<br />nThe Montana Farm Bureau issued a new study that maintains the threat of…
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It Doesn’t Make Sense
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/10/news/state/30-bison.txt">Governor's bison ideas irk ranchers"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>If Montana continues its current approach to bison that leave Yellowstone National Park, eventually Brucellosis will be transmitted to cattle, according to <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>.<br />n<br />n"I don't want to be the governor of Montana when we lose our Brucellosis-free status," Schweitzer said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, Schweitzer doesn't…
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Duh, No Shit
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/18/news/wyoming/22-brucesslosis-feedgrounds.txt">Wyo. Game department finds more brucellosis on feedgrounds</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A survey by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department suggests that 14 percent of the elk wintering on the National Elk Refuge near Jackson have been exposed to brucellosis, a far higher rate than in areas where the state doesn't feed elk during the winter.</blockquote><br…
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An Idea That is Not Well Thought Out.
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/14/news/wyoming/25-bison.txt">Schweitzer explains bison ideas to ranchers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> is proposing an expanded bison hunt and payments to ranchers who remove their cattle from the Yellowstone National Park area, saying he won't "roll over for the federal government" and let Montana be put at risk of losing its prized brucellosis-free status.</blockquote><br />n<br…
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Montana Governor Out to Destroy the Cattle Industry
Isn't the decision those in power make just wonderful sometimes. The federal government tells ranchers they have to control brucellosis or face severe restrictions on their abilities to move cattle across state lines like our friends in <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1485-Idaho-and-Brucellosis.html">Idaho</a> and <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/83-Brucellosis-in-Wyoming.html">Wyoming</a> recently found out. Yet <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> decides that letting <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/state/40-gov-bison.txt">possibly…
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Idaho and Brucellosis
It's official<br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> CHANGES IDAHO=S CLASS FREE BRUCELLOSIS STATUS<br />n<br />nWASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2006
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Reporting, I Guess
I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…