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Dear friends and supporters,

Happy New Year. May 2003 be a year of peace for all, including our wild friends. We have been enjoying some peace up here lately. The days have been calm, with very little activity from the DOL. A few DOL agents have come down for brief money wasting visits. The have conscientiously spent their time on the clock driving back and forth to town and plowing the snow on FS 610, the access road to the site where they put the Horse Butte Capture Facility.

The DOL has shown a stubborn diligence keeping this road that is closed to the public open to their snowplow, even brazing snowstorms to plow at a time that guarantees them more work the next day. Fortunately, the Horse Butte trap has still not been put up and the buffalo are taking advantage of mild weather and remaining safely inside the park.

More volunteers are arriving every day, including a welcome visit from Randall Mark who was released from jail last week. Randall is doing well and expresses his thanks to all who phoned the jail in response to his 38 day hunger strike for vegan food.

For the buffalo,
Ted Fellman & Jonas Ehudin
Media Coordinators

*Speak out for the Buffalo!

Make a New Year's resolution to speak out for the buffalo. People are always asking us what they can do back home for the buffalo. One thing you can do is to spread the word by writing to your congressional representatives. Montana's congressional representatives won't change their minds about the buffalo slaughter until long past when the cows come home. But the Yellowstone bison herd does not belong to Montana; they are a wild herd living in a national park and migrating onto national forest. The Yellowstone bison herd is part of our national heritage, and therefore the slaughter is a national issue. Write your congressional representatives and let them know that you want them to get involved and stop the slaughter of the Yellowstone bison herd. Three different federal agencies are involved in the Yellowstone Bison Management Plan -- the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, and the US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Ask your representatives to direct these agencies to expose the brucellosis myth and stop the slaughter of the last herd of wild buffalo.

You can find more information to help you write a letter to your representative at our web site & find out how to contact your congressional representatives by visiting write rep and senators. And of course, if your correspondence results in anything that you think we should know, please keep us informed.