User: Marilyn The Deer

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Any one of these should be able to answer your question of why Horse Butte is an important place in the cause to save the Yellowstone Buffalo.

I hope this has helped you and thank you for your interest.

Some of you voting in the poll are asking if snowcoaches are better than snowmobiles.

Yes, snowcoaches are definitely better than snowmobiles for several reasons:

First of all, they are safer. There is much less air pollution from snowcoaches and if all snowcoaches and snowbuses went into the park instead of snowmobiles, it would cut down on fuel emissions considerably because there would also be fewer vehicles entering the Parks in the wintertime.

Snowcoaches are safer for both wildlife and humans. If, for, instance, there were fewer snowcoaches, then there would be less fumes for wildlife to breathe. Some wildlife, such as bears, are hibernating and are asleep in their dens in the wintertime. This cannot be too good for hibernating animals and wildlife winter sleepers.

Also, with snowmobiles entering the Parks the rangers at the gates and on duty are forced to breathe the fumes from the many snowmobiles that enter the Park every day; therefore, they have to wear gas masks to keep from breathing the fumes and getting sick. The smog is terrible in the Park and it can't be good for people who want a quiet winter experience without the excessive noise and air pollution.

Snowcoaches are also much less dangerous than snowmobiles There is less likely to be an accident and people and wildlife are less likely to get run over.

Thus, safety wise, it would make it much better for everybody if there were only snowcoaches in the park and no snowmobiles.

Snowcoaches are more comfortable. I haven't been on one yet. I would like to go on one, but I have been told by people who have been on a snowcoach, that they are heated and comfortable.

And you see just as much or more in a snowcoach, because there is a trained guide on the snowcoach who tells you where you are going and what you are seeing.

Yellowstone, without all the noise and pollution of snowcoaches is a very pristine place in the winter time. It is beautiful all year around, of course, but I've been told there is no experience like going to Yellowstone in the wintertime.

You can also take a sleigh ride out to see the elk at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, so there are several ways to enjoy winter in Yellowstone without snowmobiles.

If you still want to ride on a snowmobile, there are many places you can go outside of the national parks where it is acceptible to ride them.

There are places in the gateway communities where you can pay for a ride on a snowcoach. West Yellowstone, for instance, has some very good places where you can take a snowcoach into the Park.

I hope I have helped to answer your questions.

Thank you for your interest.

The decision of whether or not to join Buffalo Field Campaign or any other effort to save the Yellowstone buffalo is of course entirely up to you and I respect that.

If this is something that you might like to do you can contact Buffalo Field Campaign for more information.

(1)You can contact: buffalo@wildrockies.org

For more imformation and ask about their web site or ask them to send you some information by postal mail.

(2) When the author's book comes out, you can buy her book that will be for children 7 and up, for teachers and educators, or for any adult that would like a non-complicated answer to how they might be able to help.

The amount of help you give is entirely up to you and you are not obligated in any way. How you choose to help or how much time you put into it, after reading the information, will be entirely up to you.

I hope my answer has been helpful.

Thank you for your interest.

I am asking if you would buy the author's book, because if you decide to do it, it will help the efforts of Buffalo Field Campaign by raising the awareness of the public of the plight of the Yellowstone bison and what can be done to save them.

I am asking the question because the book will contain contact information to the Buffalo Field Campaign and information of how you can get involved. You can take the book with you, if you buy it, and you will always have the information at your fingertips, if you do decide to become involved.

I am also asking the question because a writer has to make a successful living too, in order to be able to continue her work to help save the buffalo. First you have to support yourself, and then what you have left, you can help others. That is the author's goal to be able to help the people and places she loves.

She is an excellent writer and has fire for the deed of what she does and people need to make a living to be able to help others and to help the advocacy causes they believe in.

But above all, the more people who read the book and spread the word, the more people there will be to help.

Not enough people are aware that the Yellowstone buffalo needs our help and the purpose of the book is to educate the public.

I hope I have adequately answered your question.

Thank you for your interest.

In the event of publication, the author would like the books to be sold in the Yellowstone area -- the two national parks and their visitor centers, Teton Science School book store, the book stores in the gateway communities such as in West Yellowstone and Jackson and the other gateway communities with bookstores, and perhaps other national parks far away from Yellowstone.

The author has asked that some of the books be sold at the Buffalo Field Campaign tabling events in Yellowstone National Park in the summertime, if there is room to sell some of them there.

The author would also suggest that a certain percentage of the procedes from the books sold at the tabling events would go to help the efforts of Buffalo Field Campaign.

The author would also suggest that the Yellowstone Association consider selling some of the books.

There are many excellent places to buy nature books in and around Yellowstone National Park including the the Grizzly Bear Discovery Center and the Museum of the Yellowstone in West Yellowstone, Montana.

I hope this will help you to locate the author's book upon publication.

Thank yor for your interest.