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* Update from the Field* Wood Cut Week a Huge Success!

* Take Two Important Actions for the Buffalo!* Don't Miss These Two New Films About Buffalo

* In Honor and Memory of Walkin' Jim Stoltz

* Last Words ~ Walkin' Jim Stoltz* Kill Tally

* Useful Links

Download this poster and help spread the word!

Next week, BFC will take the field out to the West Coast for our West Coast Road Show 2010! BFC co-founder M

Mease and our beloved Noah will share stories and footage from the land of the last wild buffalo. For the entire touBFC will be joined by Lakota musician and activist, the powerfully talented Good Shield of 7th Generation Rise, a

well as the incredible Phoenix After Buffalo. 

Please check our Road Show Schedule to see if BFC will be coming to a town near you and please plan to join us f

story-telling, video, and music, and bring lots of friends. For more specific information contact Mike atmease@wildrockies.org. If you are able to help spread the word, please contact the point persons for those specific

events. We also have a new confirmation for our October 7th date in Santa Barbara, CA, which will be at the

Foundation Press at 7pm, 5959 Hollister Avenue. The contact for this event is lumberlungmusic@gmail.com.

BFC will be roaming free, spreading the word to save the herds! We look forward to seeing you soon!

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* BFC Wood Cut Week a Huge Success!

Part of the Wood Cut crew hard at work! Photo by Scott Barclay.

Cooler temperatures are beginning to descend upon the land of the last wild buffalo, and when winter arrives, her g

will be tight and lasting. As Buffalo Field Campaign gears up for the coming field season, our heartfelt thanks go oto all the hard-working folks who came to BFC headquarters to help us during Wood Cut Week. The enthusiastic

crew came from the Yaak region, Bozeman and Gardiner, Montana as well as Los Angeles and Seattle! For over a

week, muscles worked hard to roll the logs in, buck them and stack them, all in preparation for the coming cold.

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Magic was worked in the kitchen once again, as Brandy and barb prepared the delicious, nutritious meals to keep it

going. The wood gathered during this time is essential to our survival here in one the coldest climates in the lower-

With tremendous appreciation we would like to recognize all the hard-working women and men who made i

all happen: Mike Mease, Noah, Brandy, barb, Mike and Dave from the Yaak, Paul and Chris from New Jersey, M

Stan and Lorin from L.A., Scott from Seattle, Amy and Jennifer who have also been tabling with BFC, Jim,

Genevieve and River from Bozeman, Scott from Gardiner. We give thanks to you all for taking the time out of youother lives to help BFC keep the camp fires burning for the volunteers who will stand with the buffalo this coming

winter and spring.

Some of the happy, hard-working Wood Cut bunch. Hey, Mike, nice t-shirt! Photo by Scott Barclay.

Thank you everyone for your help and support!

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* Take Two Important Actions for Wild Buffalo!

A bull buffalo roams the open land. Photo by Jerry and Marsha Newcomb.

1. Tell Yellowstone not to vaccinate wild buffalo! Yellowstone National Park is accepting your comments on themisguided proposal to vaccinate wild buffalo. Encourage Yellowstone to instead support "Wild Buffalo Trust

Alternative D" which addresses the so-called brucellosis risk by removing cattle from wild bison habitat, an

alternative developed by Buffalo Field Campaign and fully endorsed by our strong allies at Western Watersheds

Project. Yellowstone must hear from you by September 24, 2010.

Take action now!

2. Urge Gallatin National Forest to close cattle grazing allotments and open habitat to wild buffalo! Please

contact Gallatin National Forest Supervisor Mary C. Erickson and urge her to perform a suitability analysis to close

the Slip & Slide, the South Fork and Watkins Creek grazing allotments and manage this habitat so it serves the neeof native animals. Learn more and send a letter right now, or contact Supervisor Erickson directly at

mcerickson@fs.fed.us or call her at 406-587-6703.

Take action now!

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* Don't Miss These Two New Films About Wild Bison

Wild buffalo faces the storm. "Snow bison" by Jean Hirsch.

1. Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison. ITVS and Montana PBS have co-produced an "epic account of o

tempestuous relationship with the iconic symbol of wild America." Featuring footage from Buffalo Field CampaignFacing the Storm "explores the visionary quest to protect and restore the bison and details the inextricable relations

of the Plains Indians with the animal." Learn more and check for screenings.

Three curious wisent in the wilds of Poland. Photo courtesey of Gene Bernofsky.

2. WISENT, a new film by Gene Bernofsky. Can Poland help save American bison? The buffalo controversy in

Yellowstone National Park is not being solved in Montana. Montana needs outside help. Missoula filmmaker Gene

Bernofsky went to Poland, with his camera, to find out and ask for help. His new film, WISENT, compares thetreatment of Polish bison and American buffalo. Buffalo Field Campaign is honored to have helped participate in th

making of this film. Watch WISENT and please share this link with everyone you know.

------------------------------* In Honor and Memory of Walkin' Jim Stoltz

Our friend Walkin' Jim Stoltz, age 57, died of cancer on Friday, September 3rd. He walked over 27,000 miles of America's WILD lands over a 35 year period of time, and then gave us all the incredible gift of his music, poems,

paintings and essays reflecting his deeply held beliefs on the importance of saving these WILD lands and all the

WILD critters on them. His very important road trips all over the country helped spread this message, especially tochildren.

Two days before he died, I received a card from Jim; he said he had had some pretty low days in the preceding

months but that he hoped to have more up days in the future because he still had plenty of songs inside to share wit

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Daddy, what ever happened to the big piney forests,

And the prairies that stretched out like seas,Because the schoolbooks they say, these were all in the way,

When the settlers come a-swarmin' like bees,

Now, listen my son, yes, all these have gone,

It's sad, but it's not been in vainTheir life's blood was bought and with the Spirit it brought,

A whole country was born into fame.

(Bridge):

And all that have died or been swept to the side,They still give us hope every one,

They give us dreams of the free, what has been and can be,

And their Spirit is still on the run.

~~~~~~~~~Walkin' Jim Stoltz, an amazing man who touched so many. Listen to a special Montana Public Radio feature which

aired last night, September 8, 2010.

Do you have submissions for Last Words? Send them to bfc-media@wildrockies.org. Thank you all for the poems,

songs and stories you have been sending; you'll see them here!

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* Kill Tally

AMERICAN BUFFALO ELIMINATED from the last wild population in the U.S.

2009-2010 Total: 7

2009-2010 Slaughter: 02009-2010 Hunt: 4

2009-2010 Quarantine: 0

2009-2010 Shot by Agents: 3*2009-2010 Highway Mortality: 0

*Two bulls that were drugged by APHIS on 5/4/10 were shot by DOL

later that evening. One was shot by DOL on 7/13/10 for trying to free his imprisoned relatives at the Corwin Spring

quarantine facility.

2008-2009 Total: 22

2007-2008 Total: 1,631Total Since 2000: 3,709*

*includes lethal government action, quarantine, hunts, highway mortality