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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!

# 100:

7:11 am PDT, Mar 10, Robert Bruce, New Jersey

# 99:

7:11 am PDT, Mar 10, LOUIS LOPEZ, Illinois
THERE IS NO NEED TO KILL ANY MORE ANIMALS. Not 1 case has been found and theses creatures wonder by nature. Leave them alone

# 98:

7:10 am PDT, Mar 10, Gloria Porter, Texas
Stop the killing

# 97:

7:10 am PDT, Mar 10, Mike Moreira, Massachusetts

# 96:

7:10 am PDT, Mar 10, Kelly McCook, Colorado

# 95:

7:10 am PDT, Mar 10, Allee C, Oregon

# 94:

7:08 am PDT, Mar 10, David Potts, Florida

# 93:

7:08 am PDT, Mar 10, CHRIS EDERER, Wisconsin
Not only is this useless killing but a waste of money!!! My son just finished 1 year of chemo & radiation. STick that money towards a cure for cancer and let the Bison alone!!!

# 92:

7:08 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Louisiana

# 91:

7:08 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, California

# 90:

7:08 am PDT, Mar 10, Joe Russell, Illinois

# 89:

7:08 am PDT, Mar 10, Pete Panos, Texas

# 88:

7:07 am PDT, Mar 10, Nancy Labovitz, California

# 87:

7:06 am PDT, Mar 10, Gloria Cole, Texas

# 86:

7:06 am PDT, Mar 10, Kyle Miller, New York
This is absurd.

# 85:

7:06 am PDT, Mar 10, George Brown, New Jersey
Surely there must be an alternative than to kill these magnificent creatures and that is where the focus should be.

# 84:

7:05 am PDT, Mar 10, Jen Signorella, Illinois

# 83:

7:05 am PDT, Mar 10, Linda Brown, North Carolina
These animals are beautiful. We have killed too many already and taken away most of their land. We must protect and save those remaining.

# 82:

7:04 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, New Hampshire
Stop killing earthlife!

# 81:

7:04 am PDT, Mar 10, Donna Carroll, Florida
These animals have been roaming the western plains since before we were a country. They were almost extinct at one time. Let them be free and stop murdering them in Yellowstone Park.

# 80:

7:03 am PDT, Mar 10, Melanie Longano, Ohio

# 79:

7:02 am PDT, Mar 10, Emmy Undem, Austria

# 78:

7:02 am PDT, Mar 10, Adelheid Kresse, California

# 77:

7:01 am PDT, Mar 10, Jane Gofl, Maryland

# 76:

7:00 am PDT, Mar 10, Sandra Stubbs, Delaware

# 75:

6:59 am PDT, Mar 10, Marjo Luoma, Finland

# 74:

6:59 am PDT, Mar 10, Sirke Hesenius, Finland

# 73:

6:58 am PDT, Mar 10, Sofia Natsis, New York

# 72:

6:51 am PDT, Mar 10, Leslie Wingate, Florida
The bison were here long before us. They don't know where the boundaries of the park are! The government can fine people when they are late on updating records and land use plans. So when do we get to start fining the govt for spending our tax dollars on outdated plans? We need to stop killing the bison and let the cattle go extinct!

# 71:

6:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Sherielle Cleere, West Virginia

# 70:

6:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Martina Roski, Germany
These animals are holy!!!

# 69:

6:36 am PDT, Mar 10, Lorena Drajneanu, Romania

# 68:

6:31 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, United Kingdom

# 67:

6:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Zena Brandreth, South Africa
Why restore these beautiful animals from near extinction - only to kill them again? Looks very strange - one needs to look at who's selling hunting licences uder the table.

# 66:

6:26 am PDT, Mar 10, Clair Leary, South Africa

# 65:

6:17 am PDT, Mar 10, ALPHA WI, Germany

# 64:

6:16 am PDT, Mar 10, Vera Nikolajew, Canada

# 63:

6:14 am PDT, Mar 10, Jennifer Chiralo, Maryland

# 62:

6:09 am PDT, Mar 10, Lisa Finkenbine, Ohio

# 61:

6:01 am PDT, Mar 10, Priscila R., Portugal

# 60:

5:59 am PDT, Mar 10, Fred Fall, New Jersey

# 59:

5:57 am PDT, Mar 10, Piers Goodwin, South Africa

# 58:

5:55 am PDT, Mar 10, SJ SC, Ohio

# 57:

5:54 am PDT, Mar 10, Alessandro Barracciu, Italy

# 56:

5:53 am PDT, Mar 10, Laura Tatti, Italy

# 55:

5:51 am PDT, Mar 10, Bobbie Isbell, United Kingdom

# 54:

5:47 am PDT, Mar 10, Lynn Cook, Rhode Island

# 53:

5:38 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

# 52:

5:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Aaron Chia, Singapore

# 51:

5:28 am PDT, Mar 10, Animal Lover Claudia P, Netherlands

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