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Dear friends and supporters...

It has been a peaceful, yet cold, week for the buffalo. Temperatures have dropped to -30 degrees Fahrenheit several mornings this week. Volunteers along the Madison River have recounted stories of the river freezing over and then cracking and thawing with the mid-day sun - a truly rare event, even in these chilly parts. Perhaps the cold has kept the whole Department of Livestock entourage away for the week, since only a few agents showed up for brief errands and snowmobile rides in the area.

Meanwhile, the buffalo continue to seek winter forage to survive the extreme cold of winter. We have observed some of the tagged buffalo in the field, having survived the harassment of last week: being hazed over 9 miles, captured and confined, put in a headlock for testing, transported to Horse Butte where they were released and hazed another few miles to the end of the peninsula. Even the brucellosis free bison have to endure harassment at the hands of the DOL.

For the buffalo,

Ted Fellman
Media Coordinator
Buffalo Field Campaign