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Save Yellowstone's Bison: Stop the Senseless Killing

Target: U.S. Department of the Interior
Sponsored by: Care2.com

Yellowstone National Park is home to America's last free-roaming buffalo herd, a reminder of the great American West. Yet these buffalo are needlessly killed when they leave the borders of the park by state officials who fear the animals will spread brucellosis to cattle, even though there has never been a single case of a buffalo in the wild spreading the disease to cattle. More than 3,000 of these buffalo have been killed in the past 15 years.

Even worse, our government is spending taxpayer money to kill bison that migrate out of Yellowstone to the Horse Butte Peninsula - in the name of protecting cattle even though there are no longer any cattle grazing on the peninsula.

Local landowners and conservation groups are urging the federal government to stop killing bison immediately on the Horse Butte Peninsula and to undertake a new environmental impact study to update the current bison management plan. Please urge the Department of the Interior to stop the slaughter of Yellowstone's bison now!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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I am writing to express my opposition to the trapping and killing of bison on Horse Butte Peninsula. This killing is senseless and a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Cattle no longer graze on the peninsula the last remaining cattle grazing ranch was recently purchased, and the new owners have removed the remaining cattle and declared the land open to Yellowstone bison. Continuing to trap and kill bison under the guise of protecting cattle from brucellosis is wasteful and wrong.

I urge you to stop the killing of Yellowstone's bison on the Horse Butte Peninsula until an environmental impact study is completed to assess necessary changes to the Interagency Bison Management Plan now that there are no longer cattle grazing in this area and the local landowners support grazing bison on their land.

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We signed the “Save Yellowstone's Bison: Stop the Senseless Killing” petition!

# 50:

5:22 am PDT, Mar 10, Lorraine Petro, Connecticut

# 49:

5:20 am PDT, Mar 10, Berenice St, New York

# 48:

5:18 am PDT, Mar 10, Cindy Bushway, Florida

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5:06 am PDT, Mar 10, Margaret Shope, Texas

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5:05 am PDT, Mar 10, Chantale Kanazawa, Japan

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4:41 am PDT, Mar 10, Khalid Baattiyah, Saudi Arabia

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4:26 am PDT, Mar 10, Anne Sophie Brion, France

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4:24 am PDT, Mar 10, Elsie Frazier, Idaho

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4:19 am PDT, Mar 10, Margaret Patrick, United Kingdom

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4:13 am PDT, Mar 10, Perizada Darkstone, North Carolina

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4:12 am PDT, Mar 10, Loreal Edelen, Indiana
WE MUST KEEP THE BISON ALIVE IN THIS COUNTRY. NOT JUST IN A ZOO, BUT IN AREA WHERE THEY ONCED LIVED FREE. KILLING THE BISON MEANS KILLING OUR HISTORY. IT'S SO EASY TO PICK UP A RIFLE AND PULL A TRIGGER, BUT YET WE DON'T STOP AND THINK OF THE END RESULTS UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.

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4:11 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, New York

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4:08 am PDT, Mar 10, Kenneth Fort, Minnesota

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4:04 am PDT, Mar 10, Olaya Garcia, Spain

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4:02 am PDT, Mar 10, Eva Lightfoot, Maryland

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3:45 am PDT, Mar 10, Franziska Eber, Germany

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3:11 am PDT, Mar 10, Kimi McIntosh, Canada

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3:11 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Spain

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2:56 am PDT, Mar 10, Steve Klein, Canada

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2:55 am PDT, Mar 10, Michael Froese, Canada

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2:54 am PDT, Mar 10, Matjaz Bratus, Slovenia

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2:51 am PDT, Mar 10, Tere Magana, Oregon
Why do we humans always try to solve problems with violence and killing? It seems like we never learn.

# 28:

2:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Aelred Glidden, Michigan

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2:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Elizabeth Goldstone, Israel

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2:25 am PDT, Mar 10, Daniela Maroni, Italy

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2:24 am PDT, Mar 10, Maria Pevere, Italy

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2:16 am PDT, Mar 10, Fabio Roccaforte, Italy

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2:06 am PDT, Mar 10, Erika Parker, California

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2:03 am PDT, Mar 10, Sanjoy Banerjee, India

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2:01 am PDT, Mar 10, Joseph Klawiter, Virginia

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1:43 am PDT, Mar 10, Lauren Stone, California

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1:19 am PDT, Mar 10, Timothy Bruck, Ohio

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1:01 am PDT, Mar 10, Jennifer Cribbs, Ohio

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12:55 am PDT, Mar 10, Connie Hansen, Denmark

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12:43 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, India

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12:18 am PDT, Mar 10, Suzanne Bar-Tal, Israel

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12:07 am PDT, Mar 10, Noriko Ehara, Japan

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12:03 am PDT, Mar 10, Glen Venezio, Puerto Rico

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11:59 pm PDT, Mar 9, Jason Bowman, California

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11:58 pm PDT, Mar 9, Candy LeBlanc, California

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11:58 pm PDT, Mar 9, Rebecca Young, California

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11:56 pm PDT, Mar 9, Teresa Fearon, Australia

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11:51 pm PDT, Mar 9, Lynne Sammon, Texas

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11:49 pm PDT, Mar 9, Name not displayed, Australia

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11:41 pm PDT, Mar 9, Eik Knorr, Germany

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11:30 pm PDT, Mar 9, Jess Moon Senour, California

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11:12 pm PDT, Mar 9, Michelle Sharp, Nebraska

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11:05 pm PDT, Mar 9, Amanda Yunker, Canada
Surely there's a more humane way to keep the Bison within Yellowstone's borders? Why kill animals where there's no need to? Stop this practice so that wildlife conservation isn't laced with inhumanity.

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11:03 pm PDT, Mar 9, Name not displayed, California

# 1:

10:58 pm PDT, Mar 9, Melanie Leary, Texas

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