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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!

# 2,550:

3:27 am PDT, May 26, Sue Hughes, Bahrain
These wonderful majestic animals deserve to live out their lives in safety and to be respected just as we would like to be. Please closely look into the allegations about them carrying brucellosis - the result should be clear - none has been found in the cattle and now the land has been given over to the bison. Act now - please.

# 2,549:

6:40 pm PDT, May 25, Silpa Solorio, Texas

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5:06 pm PDT, May 25, Natalie A. Carter, Ohio

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9:06 pm PDT, May 24, Cindy Jones, New York

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6:09 pm PDT, May 23, Lisa Perry, Texas
I just spent my tax dollars at YNP and was appalled to learn of their barbaric and cruel hazing methods and bison slaughter. Your park rangers threatened to fine me $5000 for stopping to photograph a bald eagle in a tree. I'M not the one disrupting the natural balance of nature.....YOU ARE!!!

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2:37 pm PDT, May 23, Fran Cannon, California

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1:09 pm PDT, May 23, Jennifer Jenner, Mississippi

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11:06 am PDT, May 23, Katherine Jones, Kentucky

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10:55 am PDT, May 23, Cher Clarke, Canada

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7:02 am PDT, May 23, Name not displayed, Mississippi

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3:57 pm PDT, May 22, Kristy Mitchell, Texas

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8:16 pm PDT, May 21, Moni Anonym, Germany
STOP THE KILLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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3:59 pm PDT, May 16, Laura Gamba, Italy

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1:55 pm PDT, May 16, Judyta Dymkowska, Poland

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12:10 pm PDT, May 14, Janet Parker, California
stop senseless killing

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1:43 am PDT, May 14, Ananska Andrea, Puerto Rico

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10:31 pm PDT, May 13, Ingrid Eiserbeck, Germany

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10:31 pm PDT, May 13, Klaus Eiserbeck, Germany

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10:52 am PDT, May 13, Linda Ronquillo, New Jersey
HUMANKIND KILLS SO MANY ANIMALS ITS SO SHAMEFUL AND IMORTAL.I OPPOSE KILING BISON LEAVING YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.PLEASE HELP THEY WONDERFUL ANIMALS PLEASE DONT KILL THEM HELP THEM PLEASE!!

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8:48 am PDT, May 13, Mary Lemire, Ohio

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7:55 pm PDT, May 12, Mary Lane, Ohio

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6:40 pm PDT, May 12, Kelly Moyer, Nebraska

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3:04 pm PDT, May 11, Frank Walter, Arizona

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11:56 am PDT, May 11, Myriam Aggoun, France

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7:25 am PDT, May 10, Becky Wagar, Canada

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1:01 am PDT, May 10, Perkins Irene, Romania

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6:45 am PDT, May 7, Arnette Auxer, Tennessee

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5:10 am PDT, May 7, Bogdan Kovacev, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of

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1:39 pm PDT, May 6, Alethea Fiscsnaca, South Carolina

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12:22 pm PDT, May 6, Maya Robinson, New York

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8:31 pm PDT, May 5, Victoria Valentine, Kansas

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10:11 am PDT, May 5, Adriana LIPALIT, Romania

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4:16 am PDT, May 5, Takuji Soyama, Japan

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6:34 pm PDT, May 4, Donna Blair, Rhode Island

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9:27 pm PDT, May 3, Name not displayed, Thailand

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7:23 am PDT, May 3, Elizabeth Lyons, Oklahoma

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5:09 am PDT, May 3, Nikoleta Tzenova, Italy

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4:55 am PDT, May 3, Berengere Desprez, France

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3:20 am PDT, May 3, Ben Hillyer, United Kingdom

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7:20 pm PDT, May 2, Lorena Silva, Mexico

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5:47 pm PDT, May 2, Manue Ramirez, Germany

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8:44 am PDT, May 2, Crissy Baker, Florida

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5:35 pm PDT, May 1, Kristen Reed, Massachusetts
Save Yellowstone's Bison: Stop the Senseless Killing.

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4:16 pm PDT, May 1, Name not displayed, Illinois

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1:50 pm PDT, May 1, Jennifer Kemp, Colorado

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7:40 am PDT, May 1, Margo Ryan, New Jersey

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7:34 am PDT, May 1, Name not displayed, New Jersey

# 2,502:

8:15 pm PDT, Apr 30, Carolyn Sherry, Illinois
We should be protecting these animals. We are the ones that are infringing on their homes.

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7:09 pm PDT, Apr 30, Name not displayed, New York

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