AGRICULTURE SECRETARY DAN GLICKMAN TO VISIT MONTANA
                                            Release No. 0088.97
Media Advisory
                                   Jim Petterson (202) 720-4623

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY DAN GLICKMAN TO VISIT MONTANA

     WASHINGTON, March 19, 1997--Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will
visit Gardiner, Montana on Sunday, March 23 to discuss issues involving
bison and Yellowstone National Park.

     "I am going to Montana to get a first-hand look at the situation
caused by the movement of bison in and around Yellowstone National Park,"
Glickman said.  "This will be a fact-finding trip.  I am coming to learn and
intend to sit down with as many people, with as many points of view, as
possible."

     During his trip to the Yellowstone area, Glickman, accompanied by
Senator Max Baucus, will tour the bison capture facility in Yellowstone and
participate in a town hall meeting with stakeholders in the bison issue. 
The town hall meeting will be held from 2:30 - 4 p.m. in the Gardiner Public
School, 500 Stone Street, Gardiner.

     While in Montana, Glickman will meet with members of the Montana
congressional delegation and Montana Governor Marc Racicot.  Glickman also
will meet with representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Forest Service, the
National Park Service, the State of Montana, Native American tribes and
livestock and environmental groups.

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