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Save Yellowstone's Bison: Stop the Senseless Killing

Target: U.S. Department of the Interior
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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!

# 250:

7:50 am PDT, Mar 10, Danna Williams, Georgia

# 249:

7:50 am PDT, Mar 10, Lori Menken, New Jersey
Ridiculous

# 248:

7:50 am PDT, Mar 10, Jay King, Tennessee
I love bison steaks and burgers, but senseless killings of any kind is wrong. [wolves, bears, whales, or humans] J King

# 247:

7:49 am PDT, Mar 10, Eleni Vagelatos, Washington D.C.

# 246:

7:49 am PDT, Mar 10, Lee Roessler, Pennsylvania

# 245:

7:49 am PDT, Mar 10, Brian Jaccoma, New York

# 244:

7:49 am PDT, Mar 10, Carol Kok, Washington

# 243:

7:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Thomas Robinson, Texas
The killing of these animals because they are on land that one day *might* be used for cattle is further proof that we now have a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.

# 242:

7:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Brenda Yanni, New Jersey

# 241:

7:48 am PDT, Mar 10, William L price jr., Missouri
we haven't killed enough?

# 240:

7:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Paul Geidel, New York

# 239:

7:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Gary Wright, Virginia

# 238:

7:48 am PDT, Mar 10, Anne Faurote, California

# 237:

7:47 am PDT, Mar 10, JR Vasquez, New York
stop senseless killing of the bisons

# 236:

7:47 am PDT, Mar 10, Richard Moore, Oklahoma
Stop the senseless killing of these beautiful creatures..there is no need..to do this.

# 235:

7:47 am PDT, Mar 10, Elaine Criag, Maryland
If there are no cattle to infect, why spend taxpayer dollars to kill animals we have worked so hard to restore?

# 234:

7:46 am PDT, Mar 10, DEE FRITZ, Nebraska

# 233:

7:46 am PDT, Mar 10, Sean Mentus, Virginia
They are as much a symbol of the U.S. as the bald eagle!

# 232:

7:46 am PDT, Mar 10, Betty Berger, Illinois
The animals of this world are so terribly mistreated, it's a despicable crime. Please stop the animal abuse, please.

# 231:

7:45 am PDT, Mar 10, Ashley Kennedy, Virginia

# 230:

7:45 am PDT, Mar 10, H. McConaha, Illinois

# 229:

7:45 am PDT, Mar 10, Sharon Tatlock, Indiana

# 228:

7:45 am PDT, Mar 10, Name not displayed, Virginia

# 227:

7:45 am PDT, Mar 10, Jan Van der Hoeven, California

# 226:

7:44 am PDT, Mar 10, William Deaton, Texas

# 225:

7:44 am PDT, Mar 10, Gabrielle Bertrand, France

# 224:

7:43 am PDT, Mar 10, Zoe Hope, Australia

# 223:

7:43 am PDT, Mar 10, Robert Anger, California

# 222:

7:43 am PDT, Mar 10, Kaileen Alston, New Jersey

# 221:

7:42 am PDT, Mar 10, Brenda Bright, New Jersey

# 220:

7:41 am PDT, Mar 10, Muhammad HAfeez, Pakistan

# 219:

7:41 am PDT, Mar 10, Rob Moore, New York

# 218:

7:41 am PDT, Mar 10, Elsie Trawick, Georgia

# 217:

7:41 am PDT, Mar 10, Denise Yuliano, New Jersey
mankind is not kind to animals - a nation cana be judged by the way its animals are treated - gandhi

# 216:

7:41 am PDT, Mar 10, SONDRA KITCHEN, Pennsylvania
STOP KILLING BISONS. GOD MADE ALL ANIMALS TO LIVE ON EARTH.

# 215:

7:40 am PDT, Mar 10, Art Deco, Maine

# 214:

7:40 am PDT, Mar 10, Amy Schumacher, Ohio

# 213:

7:40 am PDT, Mar 10, Kathy Reilly, Pennsylvania
This is a well known National Park. I thought the wild life was protected. It is bad enough with the global warming and what polution does to our wild life. Please protect these beautiful creatures before they become extinct.

# 212:

7:40 am PDT, Mar 10, Lawrence Georgemannan, Massachusetts
Please stop killing yellow Bison

# 211:

7:40 am PDT, Mar 10, Martine Zundmanis, Maryland
We got to see these incredible animals on a road trip a few years back. If this killing really is as illogical as it seems, I'm sure that lawmakers will have no trouble rectifying the situation to stop the killing. Please consider the petition and the evidence and act promptly and appropriately. thank you...

# 210:

7:39 am PDT, Mar 10, Lucie Savard, Canada
These animals are no threat to anyone or anything and create no damage. Also, there is no cattle in the area. This is a real shame. Be humane and do not kill animals for fun.

# 209:

7:39 am PDT, Mar 10, Anni-Elisabeth Johansen, Denmark
Pure stupidity, why kill an animal that is so closely linked to American history.

# 208:

7:39 am PDT, Mar 10, Kris Sterne, Illinois
It seems a simple enough request, stop the killing of bison. Let's use that excess money and help homeless people in America.

# 207:

7:39 am PDT, Mar 10, Cheryl DeSellier, South Carolina
Perhaps at one time this was a legitmate culling process. Now, however, I find it senseless. Please stop the bison kills outside of Yellowstone. Cheryl DeSellier

# 206:

7:39 am PDT, Mar 10, Tina Begley, Indiana

# 205:

7:38 am PDT, Mar 10, Ronn Rozman, Colorado
This needs to stop. They are not being a threat to any one and they are not a threat to cattle. Please make sure that the killing of bison stops.

# 204:

7:38 am PDT, Mar 10, Claudia D'Arcy, California

# 203:

7:38 am PDT, Mar 10, Susan Eichler, Washington

# 202:

7:38 am PDT, Mar 10, Paul Laursen, Oregon

# 201:

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

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