<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thanks Jeff. <div><br></div><div>Cottonwood believes that wildlife comes with the land in Montana. </div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps MT DOL can haze bison off private land instead of hazing bison off public land? </div><div>Who is against creating new jobs and protecting wildlife?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John Meyer</span></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Executive Director & General Counsel <br class="">Cottonwood Environmental Law Center<br class=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1/1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">P.O. Box 412 Bozeman, MT 59771</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:John@Cottonwoodlaw.org" class="">John@Cottonwoodlaw.org</a><br class=""><a href="tel:(406)%20546-0149" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/3" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">(406) 546-0149</a><br class=""><br class="">The information contained herein is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must delete this email and inform the sender of the error.<br class=""><br class="">Like what we're doing? <a href="http://www.cottonwoodlaw.org/#donate" class="">Click here</a> to donate. </span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 1, 2020, at 11:05 PM, Jeff Juel via Missoula-Community-News <missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>John, your conclusion on the bogus brucellosis issue is of course
not new. I do like the social justice angle of your discussion.
Stewing colonialization, racism, oppression of native peoples and
lands. <br>
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<p>And appropriation of public lands forage for welfare cowboys--all
true. However, an elusive solution to one issue still remains: If
wild bison roam free, the migratory ways of large herds would
obliterate a LOT of private land values. Bison would not respect
fences, highways, land ownership boundaries, etc. etc. etc.
That's the biggest fear, and I think a lot of dialogue needs to
happen.</p>
<p>And <b>congratulations</b><b> </b>on gaining new NEPA analysis
on the bison management plan. The "scope" of that EIS could
address the tricky issues I raise above.</p>
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prepare new NEPA analysis for its Yellowstone bison management
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will decide whether bison can freely roam while the government
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<div class="">Bison are America’s national mammal. Yellowstone is
America’s first National Park. It’s time to let bison freely
roam on public land. The government has been telling us for
decades that bison cannot freely roam because they carry a
disease called brucellosis that could be transmitted to cattle.
Brucellosis causes cattle to abort, but there has never been a
documented case of a bison transmitting brucellosis to cattle.
Meanwhile, elk are free to go wherever they want, and they are
transmitting brucellosis to cattle in places where bison are not
allowed. Adding insult to injury, cattle originally brought
brucellosis to America from Europe and transmitted it to
wildlife.</div>
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<div class="">Imagine if a human had never transmitted COVID to
another human. How long do you think a shelter-in-place order
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<div class="">The real reason bison cannot roam freely is because
the livestock industry does not want to lose enormous federal
subsidies from the federal government. It costs approximately
$1.35 to graze a cow/calf pair for one month on public land. If
you take that same cow/calf pair and put them on private land
next to the public land, it will cost between $20-$30/month. Of
course the rugged individualist cowboys don't want to sound like
they are taking government handouts; thus Brucellosis. </div>
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<div class="">The state of Montana and federal government’s
refusal to allow bison to roam means that Native American Tribes
seeking to exercise their treaty rights are forced to line up on
the boundary of Yellowstone and blast bison as soon at they
leave the Park. The National Park Service has said there are too
many hunters concentrated in too small an area. Montana Fish,
Wildlife, and Parks has said the fear of death is real. </div>
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<div class="">The dangerous bison hunt raises environmental
justice issues. Whites killed bison to put Indigenous peoples on
reservations. Now the state of Montana and federal government
are requiring Indigenous to engage in an unfair and unethical
hunt that puts their own lives at risk. </div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Does anyone think this would be a good
time for Governor Bullock to acknowledge historic injustices
and issue an order that allows Yellowstone bison to roam
freely?</b></div>
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