This is a busy time for the politicians who are trying there best to decimate our world heritage "Wild Life".

Here is a toll free number to call on this......I urge you to all use it.....maybe if we waste their buck they will think twice about wasting ours.

Then send an e-mail for back up.....it gets a bit tiresome when these agencies tell us that no one bothers to make a statement......translated into the kings english that means.....they are not hearing what they want to hear from us so we are being ignored. Well I guess its time to make them listen!!

We all have a VOICE and a VOTE......LETS USE IT!!



Thank You Merrie Lindsay for this editorial and research piece.

I never realized how totally corrupt and deceitful those charged with caring for life have become, until I began searching the internet to help with the founding principles of Wolf Alliance. The total disregard for life and the refusal to listen to the majority is absolutely astounding.

This world has become so corrupt by "Love of Money" that there is almost no room left for any living creature on the Face of this Earth. What a sad, sad reality. And if any concern is shown, such as that about the major decline in frogs and salamanders, it is not for the sake of those species, but because there demise is an extremely powerful indicator of the fate that is waiting for us, just around the corner. Sometimes, I guess I just need to "vent" my frustration at the complacency, (Smugness), of Most Humankind.
Linda Porasso_Founder of Wolf Alliance

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General Information,

Please Call 1-800-862-9310 -

BOMBARD them with Phone calls -

There may be only 75 Buffalo but this is an extremely dangerous precedence that is being set here - there is NO EXCUSE for this except MONEY!

Like Canada, the Departments in the United States, who are supposed to protect and preserve our Wildlife are turning more and more to "KILL MANAGEMENT," instead of finding viable options of which many exist. The increasing disregard for the Sacredness of ALL Life is totally repugnant and fast becoming the acceptable norm because most people choose to remain SILENT, thinking that either, "someone else will speak up," or "what can my one voice do" - WELL your voice, your 2 minutes out of your day could be the last voice needed to SAVE a SPECIES from EXTINCTION! Right now 1/3 of ALL the Earth's Natural Resources, (forest, wildlife, water, etc.) is GONE - TOTALLY GONE! EXTINCT! And, we are about to Permit that figure to rise.

Think about this long and hard - not only is the YELLOWSTONE BUFFALO HERD facing another SLAUGHTER - they are facing EXTINCTION after OCT.16th. 1998 - the VERY LAST of the FREE DESCENDENTS of the GREAT PRAIRIE BISON slated for SLAUGHTER this WINTER - and now another small herd is being threatened by Oct 15th. 1998. IS this the SATISFACTORY solution to all WILDLIFE problems any more? WHAT or WHO will be next. OUR DEPARTMENTS that the PUBLIC trusts to CARE FOR ALL WILD CREATURES are instead MANAGING them for TOP DOLLAR" and are in fact very efficient KILLING MACHINES. These Depts. find excuse after excuse to Slaughter, Permit Decimation of a species, Annihilate and much, much more - and it is ALL done for MONEY - absolutely NO OTHER REASON. Well, when the last Free Buffalo is felled, the last Wolf shot, the last Grizzly silenced, the last Wilderness Space overrun with Condominiums, maybe then we will ALL realize what a truly uncompassionate lot of Humanity we are, for in reality, not only have we killed the Wildlife and Wild Spaces, we have indeed Killed ourselves.

UNTIL WE EXTEND THE CIRCLE OF OUR COMPASSION TO ALL LIVING THINGS, WE WILL NOT OURSELVES FIND PEACE! (Albert Schweitzer)

The word "THING" - if looked up in the dictionary is the term used to imply, "ALL LIVING ENTITIES"

Written by_MERRIE

State plans to auction Fort Wingate buffalo
By BEN NEARY
The New Mexican

After years of controversy over what to do with the 75 bison in a herd at Fort Wingate, the state plans to auction them off.

The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has issued a draft study, called an environmental assessment, that states the agency intends to round up the animals this winter. The state wants the herd off the property before the federal government turns the retired U.S.Army base near Gallup over to the Navajo and Zuni Indians next year.The department found itself in a public relations debacle after it announced plans in 1995 to allow hunters to shoot nine buffalo.

On the eve of the scheduled hunt, a coalition of New Mexico Indian tribes and animal rights activists secured a court order blocking the hunt on the grounds that the department and the federal government had failed to study the environmental consequences. The hunt never went forward.Despite standing requests from New Mexico Indian tribes interested in getting the animals, the state Game Commission - the body that sets game department policy - voted this summer not to give the animals to the tribes.Chris Chadwick, public information officer for the game department in Albuquerque, said Monday that the commissioners decided to sell the animals at auction to get as much money as possible for the state's sportsmen.

The game department brought the herd into the state in the 1960s with the intention of offering bison hunts, but while a number of the animals have been auctioned off over the years,hunts never materialized.Chadwick said the game department plans to sell 15 of the smaller bison separately to give individuals a chance to buy them. He said the remaining 60 or so animals will all be sold together. The minimum bid for the animals will be $250 each, he said.While the smaller animals can probably be herded up, some of the larger bulls - which can reach weights approaching one ton - may have to be drugged to move them, the environmental assessment says.

Interest in bison has increased nationwide in recent years and Chadwick said the department has already heard that some breeders may be interested in acquiring the herd.

While bison once roamed the American Great Plains in untold millions, they were almost exterminated in the last century. Although their numbers have rebounded, Chadwick said breeders are still interested in getting genetic diversity from different herds because somany animals were raised from the small surviving populations.

Anyone interested in bidding on the animals needs to contact the Albuquerque office of the game department for a packet of bidding specifications. Chadwick said the department is considering setting an Oct. 15 deadline for bidders to contact the department but said the final date hasn't been determined. Grove Burnett, the Taos lawyer who represented the coalition in stopping the planned bison hunt a few years ago, said Monday that he's disappointed the Game Commission has opted to sell the bison."It's certainly unfortunate that they couldn't see their way to transfer these buffalo to the tribes that wanted them and for whom the buffalo remains an important part of their culture and history," Burnett said.

Burnett, whose firm specializes in environmental law, said he intends to review the game department's environmental study of the effect of selling the buffalo."We'll certainly review it, particularly in light of the fact that they've made a decision not to transfer the buffalo to the tribes, and the tribes have indicated their complete willingness to take the animals,"Burnett said of the environmental assessment.

Lisa Jennings, with Animal Protection of New Mexico, had participated in the lawsuit to block the buffalo hunt. Now, she says she opposes plans to herd the animals and sell them.

Although Jennings said she hasn't read the environmental assessment, she said, "It sets a very dangerous precedent for other wildlife in the state for the Game Commission or the game department to be rounding up wildlife in the state that's held in the public trust and auctioning them off to the highest bidder," Jennings said. "That could set a very dangerous precedent for wildlife in the state. We don't think that's how wildlife should be managed. It should be managed for all the people in New Mexico and the United States."Picuris Pueblo was among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit to stop the hunt a few years ago. The pueblo has its own herd of about 15 bison.

Eagle Rael, a councilman at Picuris Pueblo, said Monday that the pueblo would be interested in taking some of the bison from Fort Wingate but said that because the Indians have a spiritual relationship with the animals, that the pueblo would not pay for them."That's the way it usually is, they're trying to make money on them,"Rael said of the department's plan to auction off the animals.

Chadwick, spokesman for the game department, noted that the department lent 23 bison to various Indian pueblos a few years ago in response to a nonbinding resolution passed by the Legislature in the aftermath of the aborted hunt. "I think that the thought process was that we had met the spirit of the legislative proposal," Chadwick said of the Game Commission's position on the matter.The game department is collecting public comments on the environmental assessment through Oct. 15, Chadwick said Monday.

For a copy of the document, contact the department's Albuquerque office at 841-8881.

Published in The New Mexican on 10/07/1998