Last week Mike Mease and Josh Osher of The Buffalo Field Campaign arrived in Berkeley. They are on a west coast tour to call to peoples’ attention the latest atrocity that the state of Montana is about to inflict on the buffalo. It was our privilege to present them with Living Tree Olive Oil, olives and nut butters.

America's last wild buffalo are soon to be become victims of "sport” hunters. That’s right, the state is going to issue licenses to crazies permitting them to shoot buffalo migrating from Yellowstone National Park onto their traditional habitat in Montana.

Buffalo are accustomed to millions of tourists and are not afraid of people. They will not give "fair chase" like deer and elk. Gun-bearers will be able to walk right up to a buffalo and blast it with a high powered rifle right at the Park border. Shooting a buffalo is about as sporting as shooting a parked car. The only time buffalo flee from humans is when the Montana Department of Livestock chases them with snowmobiles, helicopters, and horses.

The Buffalo People have been campaigning for years to bring to national and world attention the plight of the buffalo. In winter they go out before dawn, often at temperatures 50 below zero, to bear witness to the destruction of our heritage.

"Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man."

With these stirring words, John Muir rallied the nation in defense of Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley, the place he called "a grand landscape garden, one of Nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples."

Despite Muir's best efforts and his leading a fierce nationwide debate, Congress passed the Raker Act in 1913 allowing the City of San Francisco to construct a dam and reservoir on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley. The O'Shaughnessy Dam was completed in 1923 and, after the necessary pipelines and power houses were completed, San Francisco began using water from the reservoir for its water supply and electrical power generation.

Mention Hetch Hetchy Valley to visitors to Yosemite National Park and their response is immediate: a heartfelt feeling of deep sadness for what has been lost, and a fervent hope that what has been lost can somehow be regained -- for Park visitors, for the people of the United States, for the people of the world, for the plants and animals, and for the glorious granite walls and booming waterfalls of Hetch Hetchy Valley.

Fortunately, a very active movement is in place to restore Hetch Hetchy Valley. Nationwide media attention has been focuses on Hetch Hetchy with coverage on the Jim Lehrer News Hour, New York Times, Boston Globe, and TIME magazine, and statewide coverage on television and print media in California. Sacramento Bee editor Tom Philp was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his series of editorials supporting Hetch Hetchy's restoration

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