www.buffalofieldcampaign.org A hunter from the Salish-Kootenai tribe speaks to Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers about the current bison hunt on the Montana borders of Yellowstone.

Well over forty moms and babies are rounded up and herded into the capture facility just north of West Yellowtone, Montana. The word is that the bulls will be sent to slaughter after all and the yearlings (immature bison that were born last year) will be sent to quarantine. Yesterday the bison that were captured before noon sat in horse trailers, tightly confined for some six hours, in a situation that bison have been known to react to very badly in the past, i.e. goring one another. They are, after all, wild animals in tight confines. After six hours, finally, the transport began and they were shipped to the Stephens Creek Capture Facility inside Yellowstone National Park, just outside Gardiner, Montana, instead of shipping them deep inside the park as they originally stated they would. They arrived after dark, when neither the BFC nor the park service would have an easy time examining them for injury. After a couple of days of getting the calves re-accustomed to their mothers in the new setting, they will be "set loose." Are we setting them up for further hazing? Will they seek lower elevations again, in this setting, as they are released in a region they are not used to and one that is far sparser in the vegetation they like so much? In a couple of weeks, after more possible hazing, will they be called unmanageable - and killed? Do these magnificent forces of nature ever wonder why they crawled back from extinction? Was it for this? The Buffalo Field Campaign will continue to document this.

For now, the state of Montana and the federal government won't kill these three hundred bison that consist mainly of mamas and calves. It was activism at its best: the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, Suzanne Lewis, was so inundated with emails letting her know where we all stood on the slaughter that her account shut down. On behalf of the Buffalo Field Campaign, myself, and especially on behalf of the buffalo, I thank you.

These newborn bison calves and their families have been sentenced to death. The Montana Board of Livestock decided yesterday to capture and slaughter all Yellowstone bison in Montana, including this herd that we filmed as they frolicked on our National Forest lands. Take a look at this video and then TAKE ACTION, because there is still time to save these bison from Montana's death sentence.

These buffalo babies and their mothers were hazed for upwards of ten miles from public and private lands into Yellowstone National Park. The Department of Livestock helicopter combed the forests and disturbed all wildlife in this sensitive ecosystem.

A buffalo mom and her newborn calf are harrassed by a Yellowstone National Park Ranger earlier this week. The mother protects her calf, who had collapsed after being chased more than six miles by a helicopter and more than 15 agents.

Approximately 400 Yellowstone bison, including newborn calves, were hazed into Yellowstone National Park in an operation led by Montana Department of Livestock. BFC videographers were tackled and arrested as they attempted to document the operation.

Give them the opportunity and they will hang themselves with words, tripping over such inconveniences as facts. That's what happens when you are up against the truth.

After hazing 40+ buffalo a minimum of 7 miles, 3 moms and 2 yearlings break away from being forced into the Duck Creek capture facility. After 30 minutes of relentless attempts to capture the buffalo and being run through both barbed wire and high tension wire fences 10 times, 2 moms escaped back into Yellowstone Park. The last mom and her two yearlings, all cut up and ragged where allowed to return to the Park.

Eight buffalo being transported to slaughter. An injured lead cow buffalo being shot in the field during a hazing operation Wednesday, and then her body dragged to the local dump to be incinerated with the trash.

There are many alternatives to the hazing operations and buffalo slaughter. This clip is just one of many solutions.

Montana Department of Livestock harasses local community and previously captured buffalo. Helicopter flies close to houses in Horse Butte neighborhood.

Newborn Yellowstone buffalo babies and pregnant mothers are chased with a helicopter from their Montana habitat by Department of Livestock

The hazing operations are exhausting to the buffalo and a waste of taxpayers money. See how many agencies (and helicopter) are involved in hazing this one buffalo. Remember there are no cattle in the West Yellowstone area during winter.

Yellowstone National Park is home to over 100,000 Elk. Like the Bison, Elk migrate to lower elevations to milder winter habitat. This amature video taken near West Yellowstone shows thousands of Elk in migration. The Elk carry brucellosis too. What about the elk infected with brucellosis? Elk hunting is a tremendous source of revenue for the State of Montana and there would be tremendous public outry from outfitters and the hunting public if there were a slaughter of the elk. Slaughtering the buffalo makes no sense when there is always the risk of reinfection from the elk. The real issue is the competition between buffalo and cattle foraging on public-lands. The livestock industry has no interest in sharing these public lands with America's largest free-ranging herd of buffalo.

This herd of elk is caught in a hazing operation with some buffalo. One elk gets caught in the fence as it tries to run from the Department of Livestock.

The Department of Livestock show no respect for anything in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Not only are they hazing buffalo but they ride snowmobiles through riparian areas and disturb other wildlife as well.

Bison calves only hours old are forced to run for their lives. Some calves die in the hazing operations as they try to keep up with their mothers. Hazing is unnecessary because there are no cattle in the West Yellowstone area.

This video is from winter 2004 on the north side of Yellowstone National Park near Gardiner Montana. National Park Service employees haze buffalo into the Stephens Creek capture facility. This video is shocking and probably not appropriate for small children. But it is the reality of today's wild buffalo in Yellowstone.

Enjoy the majestic beauty of the Yellowstone Buffalo. Here are some beautiful clips of buffalo with calves.