; = GENERAL George Custer (seated) poses with 7th Cavalry scouts during an expedi- tion to the

Yellowstone River in 1872 — the same year

Yellowstone

. became the first

_ national park.

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Florida tops

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CANADIANS chose Florida -as their top fly-to destination between Oct. and Dec. 1996 “reports — the Canadian -* Auromobile Association. The .. top five destinations were “: Florida, Ontario, Nevada, California and B.C. . The top five overseas fly- * ing destinations also released -show England in top spot for the eighth consecutive quar- ter.

The top overseas flying destinations for Canadian travellers from Oct. to Dec. 1996 were England, Hawaii, France, Australia, and Barbados. .

Discover? Days

Sunday, February 16, 1997 — North Shore News — 27

Activists target Montana

“Sad news... Requie spoke with Mark Heekert from ITBC today ... they’ve put down another 100 TODAYIE”

— internet message posted Feb. 10 at top of TwoEagles ®@ gvocities home page.

By John Goodman Contributing Writer LAST week The Fund for Animals took out an ad in

USA Today calling for tourists to boycott Montana.

ests to unnecessarily slaughter bison in Yellowstone National Park this winter.

At the beginning of the 19th century 30 million bison roamed much of western, North America — today there are approximately 200,000 bred on ranches (such as “Ped Turner's just Yellowstone, near Bozeman) or contained within specified wilderness areas. The 3,000+ in Yellowstone are the only free-roaming, bison left in exis- tence.

north — oof

northern entrances edge into Montana’s cathe country. During winter months the bison wander out of the park in search of food and that’s where the problems start.

Ranchers fear that the bison will wansmit Brucella abortus, a bacteria that causes brucel- Josis in cattle. They have pres- sured the state and park offi- cials into slaughtering wayward bison even though there are no documented cases of transmis-

sion ever having occurred in the wild.

According to observers (such as the InterTribal Bison Cooperative} more than 900 bist have been killsd since Oct ber.

A boycott may be counter- productive but less snowmo- biles would detinitely help the situation — the machines smooth down the snow mak- ing it casier for the bison to make tracks out of the park.

While most of the public parkland set aside for Yellowstone is in Wyoming the

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The conservation group maintains that the state has been allowing ranching inter-

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