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SEP 16 1858 RICHMOND DISPATCH, VIRGINIA
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CHANGING THINGS UP A BIT. NEWS WILL BE SORTED BY:
STATE, COUNTRIES, LEGISLATION, MISC. ECOLOGICAL, FOOD & RECIPES , YELLOWSTONE AND ASSOCIATIONS (as the news comes in)
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JUST PLAINS FUNNY

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MONTANA
Indian students bless bison at federal courthouse
More than 100 Native American students and their parents gathered with legal officials in the Great Falls Federal Courthouse on Monday morning for a ...
Brucellosis battle
“We worry about the wild elk and bison in Yellowstone and Teton and within our surveillance area in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.” Northwestern ...
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Southern Plains Pointers: Nov 2015
Checking boxes:
Tis the season to check boxes as you make plans for addressing the health, both financial and physical, of your herd and their habitat. If you would rather refer to their habitat as a farm or ranch, I’m fine with that, but at the end of the day it’s a habitat for many living things, including your bison.
One of the most important box checking exercises should happen before you ‘work’ the herd. If you have self-audited the functionality of your handling system in past works, it serves you well to re-visit what you’ve documented and leave enough time to make improvements. Don’t get hung up on the word audit, you can call it a list-of-problems or anything that means: documentation. If you do not self-audit, you might consider it, because you will be amazed what you see and how easy it is to improve. An example of this might be a place in the handling system that the bison consistently make contact with, or hit when they are being worked. Addressing this can be as easy as using cardboard and zip ties to experiment with, to tarp or other ‘opaque’ materials secured to that location. I contend that humane-function serves the business-end of animal operations of any kind, but even more so in bison operations. When addressed and achieved, the efficiency of the operation is upgraded on all levels. Here’s the punch-line - it’s unbelievably easy to do…
Another box to check is feed inventories. This correlates directly with culling decisions, selling decisions and the advantage of resources being ‘bought right’, or conserved, as opposed to being caught short and costing too much. With our extreme weather realities this year, meaning water, there is a trick to considering what hay may actually be worth this year in the southern plains more than in normal years. Feed inventories can also mean standing forage, either cool-season and green, or warm season standing hay depending on your situation. Personally; I am likely to examine my feed value and shoot for a functional level of nutrition that fits my objective. For example; if I am over-wintering bred females, my herd requirements are different than growing young bison. If my objective is to create a perfect environment in which every year is a good year, I need to know what I have, this year, and balance it. The objectives of the model dictate the management and the bison will respond perfectly, as bison, if their needs, as animals, are met. Therefore; another good box to check as you head into winter, is establishing or identifying what your model objectives are.
Your bison are getting ready to over-winter. Their health and your business plan are connected. The boxes you check will have everything to do with success, both theirs and yours.
Frasier Bison L.L.C.
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IDAHO
12-Foot Mammoth Tusk Unearthed in Idaho; Skeleton Sought
A 12-foot Columbian mammoth tusk has been unearthed in Idaho and ... She said the most recent discovery is a prehistoric giant bison, and is ...
Teton Geotourism Center to feature BYU-Idaho Wildlife and Geology exhibit
Taxidermy animals such as a Gray Wolf, Cougar, Porcupine, American Bison, North American Moose, and Rocky Mountain Goat will be featured.
Wildlife Preservation
Since the 1850s, wildlife has survived in good numbers, but some species, such as grizzly bear, salmon and bison, have been wiped out while others ...
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ARIZONA
Kingman: Bison plan out of committee
If approved, the Grand Canyon Bison Management Act would require that the U.S. Dept. of the Interior and the Arizona Game & Fish Commission to ...
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MASSACHUSETTS
Trees tell stories in Berkshire Museum's 2015 Festival of Trees
Nearby, a visitor walking quietly past the bison and the Conestoga wagon can find voices: "I am poor and naked, but I am chief of a nation " says Red ...
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IOWA
Worker Bison come to La Porte City
You've heard of worker bees, but what about a herd of worker bison? It's a new reality at Hickory Hills Park Wildlife Sanctuary near La Porte City.
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For the love of Texas Bison and Texas Wine
by Dan Humphries ~ Bull Dancer Bison Ranch
As a bison rancher that sells grass fed bison meat and also products in the wine industry I just want to share the excitement in the Texas Wine industry about the paring of Texas Bison Meat and Texas Wines. I have worked with many Texas Wineries in supplying bison meat with wine parings for special events. I now am excited to share with Bison Ranchers some of the Texas Wines recommended with your favorite Bison Meat recipes.
Wine paring recommendations for the Bison Tenderloin Filet recipe below from the National Bison Association Food Insert from the July 2016 Bison World magazine and wine is from the Pelle Legna Vineyards in Tyler, TX.
Dawn Leatherwood is the Proprietor & Wine Maker and her 2011Bilancia will pair beautifully with this recipe. It may not be available in your area but you can order at http://pellelegna.com/products/2011-bilancia .
Bilancia (Bee - lahn' - cha) is Italian for "balance". This estate wine is aged for 22 months in new French and American oak to create a fusion of black cherry, violets, cracked pepper and crushed blueberries.
Bilancia is ~ 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Syrah, 9% Merlot, Zinfandel and Sangiovese.
Bison Fillet with Maple Nut Brown Beer Mushroom Demi Glace
and Potato Purée with Roasted Anaheim Chilies

Serves 2
Ingredients-Potato Puree: 1 pound baking potatoes, medium starch and mealy like Idaho ¾ cup cream or milk, hot ¼ cup butter (cut into ½ inch cubes, left at room temperature) salt and pepper to taste 2 ounces (1/3 cup) roasted Anaheim or poblano chilies or a blend, small diced
Ingredients-Roux & Bison: ¼ cup flour 2 tablespoons butter 2 8-ounce bison fillets
Ingredients-Sauce: 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 shallot or equivalent size onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1¾ cups Cremimi mushrooms, thinly sliced
¼ cup Tommyknockers Maple Nut Brown Ale 1 cup bison or beef stock (more if needed) 1 tablespoon heavy cream or cold butter chunks salt and pepper to taste
Directions-Purée: • Peel and cut potatoes into 1” cubes. Place in a pot of cold water. • Bring water and potatoes to a boil, then add salt. Reduce to simmer and cook until tender. Be careful not to hydrolyze (saturate with water) the product by over cooking. • Drain the potatoes; then place on a baking sheet. Dry in a 350º oven for a few minutes. • Purée potato cubes in a food mill or ricer. If available, pass through a tamis for a super fine purée. • Flavor with hot cream or milk, room temperature butter, and roasted chiles. • Season with salt and pepper.
Directions-Roux & Bison: • Combine flour and
butter in a pan. Melt. Cook to blonde and set aside. • Season both sides of bison fillets with salt and pepper. • In a medium saucepan, heat the olive oil for the sauce over high heat. Once hot, add the bison and sear until golden brown, about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Remove from the pan and finish cooking bison in oven until internal temperature reaches 130˚F.
Directions-Sauce: • Reduce the heat in the pan to medium and melt the butter. Add shallots and garlic and sauté until translucent. • Add mushrooms and sauté until the liquid is evaporated and the mushrooms are tender, about 8 minutes. • Deglaze the pan with the beer by adding it to the pan while scraping pan bottom and sides of the browned bits. Simmer to reduce the beer by half. • Add the bison stock to the pan and simmer on low. • Add ½ of the roux and bring sauce to a boil. • Finish with cream or cold butter. • Adjust seasoning if needed. • Serve potato puree and bison fillets with the sauce.
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NEW YORK
Horse rescue farm established near Lake George
Horses now roam 40 acres east of Lake George, once home to Daryl Bessler's elk, bison and yak. This week, eight yak set off for new territory, with the ...
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MONTANA
Bison hunt to open Nov. 15
Montana's bison hunt is set to open Nov. 15 in areas in southwestern Montana near Yellowstone National Park. The annual hunt attracted more than ...
Outdoor Briefs
More than 10,000 individual applicants applied for a limited number of either-sex bison licenses, but only 69 residents and three non-residents were ...
Taking the Kids -- to Montana for outdoor fun all year 'round
We were a lot more interested in her than she was in us, I'm afraid. Gertrude was one of the 1,800-pound bison we encountered on a snowshoe trek ...
How roads tamed Montana
The road system began with trails worn by Natives following bison herds, improved by Montana's first road engineer, John Mullan of Mullan Trail fame, ...
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Ecological
Senate Passes National Bison Day Resolution
National Bison Day is an annual celebration of the ecological, cultural, ... by train from the Bronx Zoo to Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
Worker Bison come to La Porte City
You've heard of worker bees, but what about a herd of worker bison? It's a new reality at Hickory Hills Park Wildlife Sanctuary near La Porte City.
(also under Iowa)
Promoting Bison Compost
Tom Duenow says he started the business 3 years ago when he saw manure piling up on a bison ranch and thought of the idea to compost the ...
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Food and Recipes
The Fort Marks National Bison Day — and Buffalo's Comeback — By Serving Lots of It
Last week, in honor of the return of American bison with distinctive ... "Buffalo (aka American Bison) is still a specialty meat and expensive, as it is ...
Taco No. 98: Ritz-Carlton, where the buffalo roam?
But American bison meat is a low-fat choice for gourmet burgers, and here it is on the menu one of Tucson's finest resort destinations, the Ritz-Carlton ...
Bison Lovers to Stampede Rayburn Tonight
Rayburn's Gold Room hosts the 4th annual Congressional National Bison Day Reception, featuring crowd-pleasing bison sliders, booze and a ...
Native American owned restaurant introduces new menu items
Native American owned restaurant introduces new menu items ... Patrons can choose their meat (ground beef, grilled chicken, ground bison or ...
Tocabe, An American Indian Eatery at Denver Fashion Weekend
Tocabe, an American Indian Eatery will provide food on Sunday, November ... and a frybread cracker topped with shredded bison and green chilies.
Tribal Leaders Propose Reintroduction of Traditional Native American Foods to Reverse Diabetes ...
Traditional foods, such as yucca and bison, are believed to protect against ... To exacerbate the issue, numerous Native American reservations are ...
Feders Opens for Business
Bison is all-American. There are people who refer to it as buffalo, but bison are not related to the Asian or African buffalo. The American Bison only ...
Dining Out: Dishes are delicious, well-crafted at the Pomeroy House
Bison short rib pastrami ($19) could also have been called pastrami-style cured bison short rib, but by any name it was a carnivore's stand-out, ...
Hot Burger: Cowboy Star's Bison Burger
The Burger: This upscale steakhouse specializes in big hunks of meat and wild game, but it also turns out a popular bison burger that's remained ...
Want some bison with that? Exceptions to vegetarianism
Buffalo meat (bison) is available in Riverdale. Stop & Shop always has it, ground, in a one-pound package. The diners have bison burgers. When I ...
New eatery has grand opening in downtown FWB
“The menu will bring in a food concept that nobody has called the bison burger with buffalo chips — it will be our theme dish.” Customers will be able ...
Feders Opens for Business
Your regular meats are offered: beef, pork, chicken, and turkey… but have you tried bison, lamb, rabbit, or duck? Your friends may think you are odd ...
What's the Deal With Game Meat?
And this week, news came out that charred meat is associated with an ... Bison meat, for instance, “is not marbled and that makes it naturally lean,” ...
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Yellowstone
Is it time to cull the herd?
The relationship between FWP and landowners has fallen on hard times. Blame bison management in Montana, foisted on the department by the feds, ...
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There are NEW things happening - our Website has been upgraded with new graphics and format, and our E-Newsletter has a focus on mainly Alberta and BPA information (with the CBA E-Newsletter offering the national perspective).
The BISON SHOW & SALE is "Coming Back" For The 2016 Wildrose
Great Days for the BPA at Red Deer's Agri-Trade
The Bison Producers of Alberta once again had a booth at this mammoth Agricultural Trade Show in Red Deer with nearly 500 other exhibitors - but we have never had so much interest in our industry!
BPA Chair Attends Luncheon with Swiss Ambassador and Alberta AG Minister
Know Your Bottom Line
Ivan Smith of Big Bend Ranch and Big Bend Markets
- Always factor all operating costs into your prices
- Balance passion with profitability
- Don’t make the lowest price your main selling point
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National Bison Association
USDA Denies NBA Request
For Bison Eligibility Under ELAP
National Bison Association Executive Director Dave Carter today expressed "deep disappointment" over the U.S. Department of Agriculture's denial of the association's request to have Mycoplasma bovis death losses in bison herds deemed eligible for compensation under the agency's Emergency Livestock Assistance Program.
The NBA issued the request to USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Val Dolcini during the association's annual legislative Roundup in Washington, D.C. in September.
In a letter received by the NBA this week, the FSA said that two criteria must be met before any disease can be considered eligible for livestock death losses under ELAP:
- Disease is caused or transmitted by vectors; and
- Vaccination or acceptable management practices are not available for the disease, whether or not they were or were not implemented.
The FSA letter said that the agency did not feel that the disease met the eligibility established under ELAP.
Carter said the NBA will be looking to appeal the FSA decision.
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