Buffalo Dance

With an apology for the amoral industrial genocide that piled in desecrated hillocks the sacred horned skulls.

Step 1:

1. Take down the fences.

2. Fire the grass range several times, to weaken non-native species and give nutritious plant species a fighting chance.

3. Clear all the foreign breeds of cattle from the grasslands.

Advantages: No need for antibiotics, babysitting of calving cows, no branding or herding, no enclosure diseases. Free movement of all species, to maintain the health of the grasslands.

4. Let the Buffalo Herds migrate at will. Get out of their way.

Advantages: Combining the American and Canadian herds will widen and strengthen the remaining gene pool. No longer needed: branding or herding.

5. Let the Great Combined Herd grow.

Advantages ( over foreign imported cattle):

a. A buffalo cow can have thirty calves in her lifetime.

b. Cows can stop calving during a blizzard.

6. Replace predator species.

Advantage: Maintains overall health of the Herd without added inspection or controls.

7. Grandfather in the tribes and the ranchers. Be fair. Recognize that the Great Herd needs all its relatives.

8. As the Herd migrates through specific regions, the grandfathered licensees may take a specific
yearly cull (lower costs for care of animals should offset seasonal hunt).

9. Replace the feed-lots with mobile butchering units and refrigerator trucks. Retrain the workers.

Advantage: Re-direction of corn stocks to human food or fuel. No need to protect against enclosure diseases.

10. Sell lean, sweet meat with no antibiotic content.

Advantages:

a. Appeal to the diet industry.

b. Building a cookbook and training business for the special requirements of this most American of meats.

Step II:

1. Build tourist trade based on the Herd, and Natural Predation.

a. Without foreign cattle to be protected, wolves and grizzlies can roam free.

b. An entire secondary industry can develop, teaching city people how to use their heads when around large predators. Anybody who still insists on feeding a grizzly by hand shall be exposed to his own folly.

c. Ranch hands act as guides and cooks to riding tourists.

2. Every tourist pays an extra fee --(example: $500.00 for wolves, $1000.00 for a grizzly,
Package deal for $1400). in hopes of seeing dramatic predation.)

3. If tourists see wolves take a buffalo, their wolf predation fee is returned. If they see a grizzly take a buffalo, the grizzly predation fee is returned.

(Since buffalo is only one of the many food-sources of the wolf and the grizzly, grandfathered licensees could make a very nice living from the non-returned fees.)

SHEEP: Move them to the deserts, where they belong. Give every sheep rancher at least two donkeys, or llamas, or European sheepdogs.