Category: buffer zone
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Life Rope?
<blockquote>"We threw them a life rope," he said. "They said 'We don't want any life ropes.' That's what their position is."</blockquote><br />n<br />nBullshit!!!!! The Governor didn't throw a life rope for God's sake. He threw an unworkable proposal that was designed to take our focus away from the real issue. How to control brucellosis in…
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Split State Concern
<a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2007/10/26/ag_news/local_and_regional_news/local10.txt">Ranchers voice concerns over proposed split-state status</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana cattlemen have a choice to make – to pursue a split-state status in the case of another brucellosis outbreak around the Yellow-stone National Park – or not.<br />n<br />n“The governor is leaving it up to the cattle industry,” said Jan French, Board of Livestock member…
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Buffer Zone
As you may or may not know, <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> has proposed a buffer zone around Yellowstone National Park as an answer to the Brucellosis problem in the Park. I give him credit for trying to do something about the situation but I don't really think a buffer zone is the answer.<br />n<br />nIt…
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Buffer Zone
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/04/news/state/45-buffer.txt" >Officials discuss brucellosis buffer</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Creating a brucellosis buffer zone around Yellowstone National Park is a possibility as state and federal officials look for ways to keep the disease from recurring in Montana.<br />n<br />nTeresa Howes, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said she and the…
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Bad News
I read a couple of stories recently that sound a little bad for our fair haired Governor, Brian Schweitzer.<br />n<br />nFirst off, regional veterinary experts are <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070609/BUSINESS/706090325/1046/rss03">not very keen</a> on his "buffer plan" around Yellowstone National Park for Brucellosis. <br />n<br />n<strong>The veterinary officials said the buffer plan, or regionalization, would be expensive and…