Stop Using Tax Dollars to Kill Bison
APRIL 9, 2019
by MIKE MEASE
In the last two years the Interagency Bison Management Plan has killed almost 1,200 bison in 2018 and 1,300 in 2017. That is about a quarter of the entire Yellowstone herd each year.
All agencies involved in the slaughter know full well how unique and genetically important these bison are to the world. The impact of these killings of a quarter of all the bison in Yellowstone, two years in a row will only be known by our children.
Of the two herds in Yellowstone, the central herd is now less than 1,000 (down from 3,500 in 2005) and that is a direct result of this management plan. The central herd are the survivors of the millions slaughtered and are our last remnant of this country’s truly wild buffalo.
The bison that are being killed are the ones leaving the park, fulfilling their ancestral memory, which is being lost with every death. Bison have to migrated to lower elevations during winter for their survival. The bison being killed are the ones that dare to be bison and migrate out of the park. This is mad science and shows no concern for the long-term impact of the government’s actions.
More:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/09/stop-using-tax-dollars-to-kill-bison/
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