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- LETTERS, Page 8Big-Game Buffalo
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- I support Montana's decision to allow sportsmen to harvest
- the bison that have roamed outside the bounds of Yellowstone
- National Park (NATION, Feb.20). One reason for instituting the
- hunt is to prevent the spread of brucellosis from buffalo to
- domestic livestock and from livestock to the human population.
- Montana has spent more than $30 million since the 1950s to make
- its livestock brucellosis-free, and an additional $600,000 is
- laid out annually to vaccinate cattle in the state. The bison
- in Yellowstone Park are infected with brucellosis, and those
- animals are posing a threat to one of Montana's leading
- industries.
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- Ron Marlenee, U.S. Representative 2nd District, Montana
- Washington
-
- I am outraged! The photograph of the bison baggers shows
- two murderous hunters rejoicing over the violated carcass of one
- of the world's noblest animals. That picture makes me question
- the belief that man is created in the image of God.
-
- Narasingha P. Sil Monmouth, Ore.
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- The state-sponsored buffalo hunt reminds me of what
- naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch said some time ago: "When a man
- wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal.
- When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him
- a sportsman."
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- Marilyn G. Seyler Mansfield, Ohio
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