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CHANGING THINGS UP A BIT. NEWS WILL BE SORTED BY:
STATE, COUNTRIES, TRIBAL, LEGISLATION, MISC. ECOLOGICAL, FOOD & RECIPES , YELLOWSTONE AND ASSOCIATIONS (as the news comes in)
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TEXAS
No Bison
HPPR
I can't begin to understand, to feel, what Quanah and his band of Comanche and Kiowa felt when they returned to the Texas Panhandle to hunt buffalo ... |
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"Reality is the canvas that we paint our lives upon,
And our imagination is the frame."
Check Out My Music, Cartoons, & Poetry!
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WYOMING
Gillette histories
Gillette News Record
Andy and Hazel are the direct descendants of the great American Bison, who once roamed these plains in vast herds. It is quite a novelty to see these ... |
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IDAHO
Saving animals, but how?
Idaho State Journal
Yellowstone National Park says it has too many bison, and it has started ... But in 2013, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game called for “prompt ...Not so fast, say nearly 40 tribes in western states, who are counting on President Barack Obama to intervene. They consider the president to be one of their own since 2008 |
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Southern Plains Pointers: March 2016
Green-Up
Green-up happens early in the southern plains bringing diversity in the available food for your herd that may not catch your attention. Many become selectable during fleeting successions, while other plants seem to dominate the landscape and by now; look like ‘emerald waves of gain’ [sorry] for those operations blessed with strong cool-season habitats. Another thing that explodes this time of year is parasites. Don’t stress out too much, just keep an eye out and react if need be to the onset of parasite loads. Personally I watch the front end or ‘hump’ for signs of waning body scores as a way to get out in front of a bad worm-year. There are many plants common to the south that also emerges this time of year that has anthelmintic qualities. Learning about them may be to your benefit in managing herd health.
 Frasier Bison L.L.C.
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OKLAHOMA
10 essentials facts to know about Bartlesville
Examiner Enterprise
Mary Martha Buffalo
Call them buffalo or bison, they’re all over town, and you can impress your friends by tracking down all these roadside art pieces created as a fundraiser for local charity Mary Martha Outreach. The buffalo stampede kicked off in 1998 as a senior gold project for Girl Scout Troop 208, and today, there are more than 30 bison “roaming” on street corners and near area businesses. Mary Martha Outreach provides thousands of clothing and household items, millions of pounds of food and aid to those in need.
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MONTANA
Bison Coming 'Home' to Montana Indian Reservation
ABC News
Descendants of a bison herd captured and sent to Canada more than 140 years ... are in commercial herds, raised for their meat and typically interbred with cattle. The Blackfeet have a commercial bison herd established in 1972 that ... |
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Europe
Number of European bisons in Belarus on the rise
Belarus News (BelTA)
At present there are ten micropopulations of the European bison in Belarus. Eight bisons have been
relocated to Kazakhstan for the sake of creating ...
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Tribal
The buffalo hunt
The Guardian
The American bison once faced extinction – now they're being culled. Native American photographer Joe Whittle attends a hunt held by tribal ... |
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Ecological
Company markets bison compost tea for plants
AG Week
(Sexhus is a former CEO of the North American Bison Cooperative of New ... Nobody else Duenow knows is packaging the tea product like Bison ... with a distributor who markets compost in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, ... |
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Bison Market and Supply Update
Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada publishes a monthly Bison Market and Supply Update showing recent statistics on
- Bison slaughter (CDA/USA)
- Export data
- Prices on bison carcasses & key cuts (CDA/USA)
- Live auction results and more
Go to CBA Website for the March 4th report: www.canadianbison.ca
Click for previous months' / years' reports
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 National Bison Association
http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/county-bison-ordinances-rile-commercial-producer-group/article_6e013bb7-5ff8-5bee-8296-268cfa61e684.html
March 23, 2016
To: The Fergus Conservation District From: Montana Bison Association and the National Bison Association Re: Proposed Ordinance for the Protection of Soil and Water from Wild, Free Roaming or Domestic Bison Grazing in Fergus Conservation District
The Montana Bison Association, with the support of the National Bison Association are submitting these comments to express our deep concern about this proposed ordinance, and the process through which it is being considered.
Please understand that these comments are somewhat rough because we only learned of this proposed ordinance earlier today. However, the Board of Directors of the Montana Bison Association feel that it is imperative to be on the record in opposition to this proposed ordinance, as written.
We fully support the District’s intent to protect he fragile soil and water resources in Northeastern Montana. And, we recognize that any livestock—including bison—can have a detrimental impact on those resources if improperly managed.
But we take strong exception to the ordinance’s initial and overriding assumption that, “due to the migratory behavior of bison to search grazing forage, their social and other innate behaviors, bison grazing can create negative and lasting impacts on soil and water resources.”
This statement implies that negative impacts are something unique to bison. That statement is certainly puzzling, particularly in light of the fact that the ecosystem of Northeastern Montana and most of the North American prairie evolved under thousands of years of grazing by bison. Today, rotational grazing and other holistic management techniques employed by commercial livestock producers are intended to largely replicate the natural instincts of bison and other indigenous grazing animals. That is one reason that producers use the term “commercially produced” (not “domestic”) bison; we have deliberately not domesticated bison because we do not want to mitigate their natural, beneficial interaction with the ecosystem.
We are also troubled that this proposed ordinance casts a broad brush that fails to distinguish between commercial bison production, and free-roaming bison. Commercial bison ranchers— including some in the Ferguson Conservation District—adhere to the same conservation ethic as their neighbors in the cattle and sheep business. The members of the Montana Bison Association consistently strive to act as good neighbors, and to build our herds in a manner that does not interfere with other livestock production. This ordinance, however, would single out bison producers for extremely restrictive oversight that would be more onerous than regulations regarding other commercial livestock species that can have equal negative impacts on land and water resources. We are also concerned that this ordinance represents a regulatory overreach by the Conservation District, and could set a precedent that would establish the Districts authority to impose new restrictions on all private landowners.
Again, we support the overall goal to assure than any livestock production is conducted under a sound management and conservation plan. But we also find that the restrictions contained in Section 6(3) impose a prejudicial approach to bison production in comparison to other livestock species. We encourage the Conservation District to withdraw this proposed ordinance, and to instead involve private bison producers and other bison stakeholders in the development of any future proposal.
Sincerely,
Montana Bison Association and the National Bison Association
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