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The National Park Service is currently taking public comments on its bison management policy for Yellowstone National Park. The revised plan has the potential to finally end 22 years of government-sanctioned slaughter. If we do not speak out, the status quo of killing will remain in effect. Please join us in urging the National Park Service to protect Yellowstone National Park and the wild bison who call it home.

The current policy is dictated by the 2000 Interagency Bison Management Plan, which was put in place to manage bison and allegedly prevent the transmission of brucellosis to exploited and “privately-owned” cattle. Tragically, it calls for the slaughter of thousands of bison each year. The killing is violent and ugly, whether it is from individuals shot by hunters, or collectively ripped from their families and sent off to a bloody slaughterhouse.

In short, the livestock industry would rather kill wild bison than allow them to share the public lands that ranchers are unfairly, and at tax-payers expense, profiting from exploiting, and that is what has been happening.

The existing policy of slaughter must end, because it is cruel, and also because the National Park Service itself admits the premises that informed this policy “were incorrect or changed over time.”

The National Park Service is working on a new conservation plan for bison through an Environmental Impact Statement that includes three alternatives. Of those, we support the “Food-Limited Carrying Capacity” option, which relies on nature to determine how many bison Yellowstone can support. Under this option, trapping for slaughter would immediately cease.

This alert is no longer active, but here for reference. Animals still need your help.