Wild bison die because of Montana’s livestock industry Late last week we posted an article about Yellowstone National Park’s plan to kill between 300-600… bison. According to the Buffalo Field Campaign, the article failed to mention that the slaughter already began on Friday, February 7, when Yellowstone officials captured 25 bison, confined them in a trap for five days and then shipped the terrified bison to a slaughterhouse in Ronan, MT! The bison slaughter is made possible because of an Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) developed by the USDA-Forest Service, USDA-Animal &amp; Plant Health Inspection Service, Montana Department of Livestock, Montana Fish Wildlife &amp; Parks and the National Park Service/Yellowstone National Park. This plan is archaic, politically motivated and represents the interests, not of bison, but only those of the Montana livestock industry, who has zero tolerance for wild animals such as wolves and bison. They use false threats of bison allegedly posing a risk of brucellosis transfer to cattle though this has never happened, as justification to murder hundreds of bison, whose rightful home is Yellowstone. <br> Tell Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenke’s office that America’s last standing wild buffalo population deserves to be left alone, and that you want to see a new plan that respects the lives of all bison in and outside of Yellowstone National Park! <br> Please call Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenke now at (307) 344-2002 and urge him to stop slaughtering America’s last wild buffalo

(photo: Jim Robertson)