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Yellowstone Bison Face Imminent Slaughter

Junkman

Extra Super Moderator
I rarely repost emails that I recieve, but this one caught my attention and think that it deserves some publicity.
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Save Yellowstone Bison

Federal officials could slaughter hundreds of America’s last true, wild bison: the Yellowstone herd.

Urge Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to stop the slaughter of Yellowstone bison.

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Dear xxxxx,

All they wanted was some food. Now some of the last true, wild bison in America face slaughter simply for leaving Yellowstone National Park.

These majestic animals – some of the only pure descendants of America’s original bison herds – are leaving the Park for lower elevations due to harsh winter conditions that have buried vegetation deep under snow. Now it’s up to federal officials to determine whether they will live or die.

Urge U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to find an alternative to killing these amazing animals.

Nearly 400 Yellowstone bison are now being held in corrals near Gardiner, Montana where they await their fate.

The Montana Department of Livestock claims that the bison will spread the disease brucellosis to their livestock and eat grass that ranchers want for their cows; however, no bison-to-cattle transmission of brucellosis has ever been documented. And the ranchers closest to Yellowstone, and most likely affected, support the bison.

All of these bison are now being tested for the disease brucellosis, and those bison that test positive will be slaughtered… soon.

Brucellosis-free bison may be killed as well, since the corrals are only designed to hold 400 bison and federal agents have been aggressively rounding up all the animals that stray from Yellowstone National Park.

Help stop the bison slaughter. Send your message now.

These incredibly important animals are among the only bison to carry the bloodlines of our historic herds! They should be allowed to roam free beyond Yellowstone, not executed over exaggerated fears.

Federal officials could easily allow them to roam parts of the 1.8 million-acre Gallatin National Forest. And some Montana tribes stand ready to restore bison – and their historical relationship with them – to their reservations. Defenders has been working closely with the tribes of the Fort Peck and Belknap Reservations in northeast Montana to prepare suitable habitat for these amazing animals.

Help save these bison. Please take action now.

America’s wild bison can play an important role in balanced, natural ecosystems. They once numbered in the millions, but now only a few thousand true bison remain – mainly confined to Yellowstone.

Bison scientists tell us we need multiple herds of at least 1,000 bison to assure their long term survival, and larger herds to resume their role in nature. The Yellowstone area is one of the only places we can accomplish this, yet our own National Park Service and Forest Service are partners in hazing – and often killing – bison whenever they leave the park.

Without additional habitat, the terrible cycle of corralling and slaughter will continue. Our bison need more places to roam free.

Send your message to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and urge them to stop the slaughter and give our bison the space they need to survive.

For the Wild Ones,

Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife
 

muleman

Gone But Not Forgotten
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Not really. I have more meat than we need already in the freezer. I did not even kill a deer this year since we did not need the meat. They have taken so much of their habitat away from the the bison it is no wonder they move to where they can survive. Winter around here has gotten tough on the wildlife as well. If they leave them alone they will go back in the spring.
 

fubar

New member
As I undrstand, the bison are not just shot because they left the reservation, that are harvested because they are a danger. If that is the case then I support the harvest.
It is not as if someone is going into the park, and opening fire on everything that moves with horns.

A large bunch of the Yellowstone bison were transplanted to Delta Junction. They are harvested annually to try to keep the herd in check but it is still growing. You should see what is left of a Pickup after it hits a bison!! That herd has had some transplanted to the Copper River Basin and they are doing very very well.

I'm not sure that message is telling the whole story.
 

mak2

Active member
As I undrstand, the bison are not just shot because they left the reservation, that are harvested because they are a danger. If that is the case then I support the harvest.
It is not as if someone is going into the park, and opening fire on everything that moves with horns.

A large bunch of the Yellowstone bison were transplanted to Delta Junction. They are harvested annually to try to keep the herd in check but it is still growing. You should see what is left of a Pickup after it hits a bison!! That herd has had some transplanted to the Copper River Basin and they are doing very very well.

I'm not sure that message is telling the whole story.

IN that case I hear buffalo is good eatin'. :smile:
 
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