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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!

# 200:

7:37 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Ohio

# 199:

7:37 am PDT, Mar 10, Heather Luis, Nevada

# 198:

7:36 am PDT, Mar 10, Mary Free-Phelps, Kentucky
Dont kill the bison.

# 197:

7:36 am PDT, Mar 10, Michel Boulware, North Dakota

# 196:

7:36 am PDT, Mar 10, Sam Shone, Colorado

# 195:

7:36 am PDT, Mar 10, John Daly, Vermont

# 194:

7:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Grace Blydenburgh, Massachusetts
Please pay attention to what is actually happening, review existing laws and adjust. Save the taxpayer's money and let the buffalo roam.

# 193:

7:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Donna Hall, Oklahoma
There no need to kill the Bison.They have been here way be for we have.They are part of our history.

# 192:

7:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Jessica Brown, Pennsylvania

# 191:

7:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Herman A, Pennsylvania
What did the bison ever do to the government. One of them must have made someone angry. Stop this slaughter!!

# 190:

7:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Amber Camio, Massachusetts

# 189:

7:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Tina Stratton, Wisconsin
We were out West and were so impressed with the beauty of the bison. We should be doing everything in our power to save and protect them not kill them. Please stop the killing of these treasured animals now!

# 188:

7:35 am PDT, Mar 10, Gail Gifford, California
Boundaries are for people, not wildlife, hence the the name wildlife! When will our government ever learn? When all life on earth is obliderated? Shame on them!

# 187:

7:34 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, California

# 186:

7:34 am PDT, Mar 10, John D. Razan, Michigan
We should have learned our lesson the first time around.

# 185:

7:34 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Canada

# 184:

7:34 am PDT, Mar 10, DEAN ESCUE, New Jersey

# 183:

7:34 am PDT, Mar 10, John Bigger, Colorado

# 182:

7:34 am PDT, Mar 10, Erika Debreczeni, Israel

# 181:

7:34 am PDT, Mar 10, Michael Collins, Massachusetts

# 180:

7:33 am PDT, Mar 10, Jordana M, Massachusetts
Please stop the senseless killing of bison in our national park!

# 179:

7:33 am PDT, Mar 10, M TOLER, Georgia

# 178:

7:33 am PDT, Mar 10, Darcy Bronersky, Michigan
All God's Creatures should be left unharmed unless they are a danger to humans.

# 177:

7:32 am PDT, Mar 10, Dawn Bolin, Ohio

# 176:

7:32 am PDT, Mar 10, San Rucker, Tennessee
oh, give me a home where the big bison roam, where the sky is not polluted all day........

# 175:

7:32 am PDT, Mar 10, Greg Cortopassi, Colorado

# 174:

7:32 am PDT, Mar 10, Miia Taivainen, United Kingdom

# 173:

7:32 am PDT, Mar 10, Cori Hoffman, Texas

# 172:

7:31 am PDT, Mar 10, Anne V. Abbott, New York
This is disgusting. What is wrong with us that we have to make excuses up to kill animals who have done nothing but cross a road or field? Stop this senseless killing now!

# 171:

7:31 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

# 170:

7:30 am PDT, Mar 10, Shelly Mumma, Wisconsin

# 169:

7:30 am PDT, Mar 10, Shelly Sisk, Texas

# 168:

7:30 am PDT, Mar 10, Phillips J McFaul, Minnesota
It looks like the Department of the Interior is acting like the Cattle Barons of the old west. If the land where the buffalo are migrating to is Federal land the buffalo should be allowed to stay and let the herds grow. When the buffalo has reached about 80% of the maxi-mum that the range can support then have an organized hunt. The proceeds from licenses would probably offset more than the cost of the hunt.

# 167:

7:30 am PDT, Mar 10, Fred Louis, Connecticut

# 166:

7:30 am PDT, Mar 10, Maggie Cohen, Virginia
These are God's creatures and are harming no one.

# 165:

7:29 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Ohio
MUST YOU KILL EVERYTHING?????????????

# 164:

7:29 am PDT, Mar 10, Lora Lease, Nebraska

# 163:

7:29 am PDT, Mar 10, Jane Kristof, Oregon

# 162:

7:29 am PDT, Mar 10, Karen VDay, Indiana

# 161:

7:28 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, New York

# 160:

7:28 am PDT, Mar 10, Catherine Jones, Massachusetts

# 159:

7:28 am PDT, Mar 10, Delores Lowis, Michigan

# 158:

7:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Lucy Lamanna, Virginia

# 157:

7:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Howard Hunt, Iowa
It is time the Northern European mentality of the government gives way to the long-standing agreements with American Indians. Protect the animals that provided for them - a symbol every bit as powerful and majestic as the eagle! The bison were here before cattle and the ranchers are the ones encroaching on them!!

# 156:

7:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Sweden
A feasible solution must be found to this problem, that does not entail the needless slaughter of protected animals. We all need to learn to think outside the box, government and individuals alike.

# 155:

7:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Texas

# 154:

7:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Diane Sadowski, Pennsylvania
Ridiculous! Killing these creatures to satisfy a few land owners unfounded fears. Stop this now.

# 153:

7:27 am PDT, Mar 10, Allison Russell, Texas

# 152:

7:26 am PDT, Mar 10, Richard Otto, Michigan

# 151:

7:26 am PDT, Mar 10, Lezlie Stephens, Kansas
Stop!!!!!!

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