Please Send Comments in Support of Endangered Species Act Protection for Yellowstone Bison. Comments are due midnight Sunday, June 4.
With one-third of the Yellowstone bison population taken from the wild this season including an unknown number killed by a harsh winter, there is an urgency for action to undo the damage done that was set in motion by the State of Montana decades ago.
Here’s how you can help:
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is accepting your input on a 12-month species status review to determine if the evidence supports listing Yellowstone bison as threatened or endangered in the wild — and it does.
Learn how and where to comment here:
https://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/endangered-bison-endangered-migration
Why are they endangered?
• Government slaughter has decimated the genetically distinct Central herd and the number of bison in the subpopulation remains dangerously low.
• Human land use has destroyed more than 85% of Yellowstone bison’s range and habitat while the government prohibits and excludes the migratory species from millions of acres of National public trust lands in the bioregion.
• Human developments have destroyed all 14 long distance migration corridors for Yellowstone bison to escape catastrophic events, and an inhospitable environment created by the government.
• Livestock control and veterinary management threaten Yellowstone bison’s wild genome – forged by their ancestors over thousands of years in a wild environment.
• Yellowstone bison may not be able to adapt body size in time to match the rapid change in climate and rising temperatures forecast over the next century.
Send your comments directly to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FWS-R6-ES-2022-0028-0001
Please take action today. We are advocating for as much public involvement as possible through June 4, 2023. Together we can honor, protect, and restore Yellowstone bison in the one place where they still roam wild.
Thanks to everyone who signed and shared the petition. Your voice goes a long way in helping save the Yellowstone bison.
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