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  • 2/29/2008 7:49 am - Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service : On 11/17/97, I spoke with Cheryl Mathews, of YNP - she was a PR officer, I believe, and she told me that the Yellowstone bison slaughter started in 1984, 24 years ago. Here's the earlier total, from Cheryl Mathews; year 2000 and beyond are from BFC: 1984: 88 1985: 57 ...
  • 2/28/2008 1:40 pm - Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service : "Do you think that members of the Park Service should be doing more to stop the slaughter of Yellowstone buffalo - at the various levels of the bureaucracy?" Yep. Hard to do so in today's political climate, thanks to Bush, Inc. "Is the IBMP completely independent from the partner agencies ...
  • 2/28/2008 1:38 pm - Park History: Grand Teton National Park : "I don't believe that ends ever justify the means; the ends and the means are inextricably linked." However, you apparantly believe that the ends, the resolution of the bison slaughter situation, justifies the means, the use of some black puppet, as you describe it, hanging in effigy near the west ...
  • 2/26/2008 8:18 pm - Park History: Grand Teton National Park : In some cases the ends DO justify the means. prairiegirl is right; in this case the ends do justify the means. Otherwise, Jackson Hole would be filled with subdivisons, strip centers, malls and the rest of the crap that comes with "progress." Currently, some 97% of the valley is public ...
  • 2/26/2008 7:59 pm - Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service : "If it is not easy for rangers to get out of their situation, then they do deserve our sympathy (which I have already said and which you seem to conveniently ignore)..." Actions speak louder than words and the action of using some black puppet, as you describe it, hanging in ...
  • 2/26/2008 1:27 pm - Park History: Grand Teton National Park : Jim, no offense, but to me, you're coming off as quite the hypocrite. Comparing Rockefeller and his supposed "scamming" which eventually gave us Grand Teton National Park with your defense of hanging a black puppet of Yellowstone National Park in effigy, are you saying the ends justify the means or ...
  • 2/26/2008 1:11 pm - Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service : Jim wrote: "When workers do things simply because that's what they were told to do or because there is material pressure for them to do this, then our sympathy should be with them to the extent that they can't get out of the situation." Therein lies the hypocrisy of your ...
  • 2/25/2008 9:10 pm - Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service : Jim, bringing up the Nuremberg trials and the torture at Abu Ghraib is *not* analogous to criticizing Park Service personnel. Why? Because, besides the fact that you're attempting to compare the murder and torture of humans to the killing of bison, the Nazi committed crimes against humanity and the torture ...
  • 2/24/2008 8:52 am - Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service : Jim MacDonald wrote: "At what point do we hold people culpable who do what they do even though they hate it? Isn't it a horribly cynical world where we will have to depend on lawyers to make things right? And, then, will it? What's really changed? I think all it ...
  • 2/23/2008 6:21 pm - Bison Slaughter In Yellowstone National Park Draws Protest Against Park Service : Randy O. wrote "For the record, I find the current bison management policies antiquated and irrational, and am putting my time and resources toward finding some sort of rational solution..." Will you describe your efforts, or, at least, can you share what you think would have to happen in order ...