Please sign this petition asking Yellowstone National Park and the US Forest Service to end the bison hunt that happens at Beattie Gulch, Montana. This “killing field” of Yellowstone bison has been happening for the past several years right outside the northwestern boundary of Yellowstone National Park, without the knowledge of most Americans.

Go to this web site and watch two movies that provide details and footage concerning this hunt:
https://thesecretofbeattiegulch.com/

How can the bison who linger on the roads of Yellowstone National Park in front of tourists all summer long get gunned down in the winter? Bison from Yellowstone National Park migrate to lower elevations to forage on grass during the winter months and end up at the northwestern boundary of the park. While federal law prohibits hunting in all our national parks, when the bison cross Yellowstone’s boundary, they are no longer protected by the National Park Service.

Gunners wait for the hapless bison to pass over the boundary. Neighbors who have witnessed this hunt call this area “The Killing Fields” because of the manner in which the bison are slaughtered:

• The road is clogged with people and cars.
• Baby bison are shot grazing next to their mothers. 
• Pregnant cows are killed, their fetuses left in the field to rot along with the hooves and other detritus.
• Hundreds of gut piles are left in the field for months, endangering other wildlife and humans.
• Wounded bison return to the park, knowing that there is safety over that boundary, only to have park rangers try to find them to kill them to keep them from suffering or they continue to suffer with bullet-laden injuries.   

The intense hunt endangers property owners, neighbors, and visitors in residences only hundreds of yards away. Even Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks has concluded that the hunt is not safe because it concentrates too many hunters in too small of an area.

Bison are our national mammal and the symbol of our National Parks. Killing herds of habituated bison in Beattie Gulch is like shooting fish in a barrel. The US Forest Service owns Beattie Gulch. And the National Park Service can stop the hunt by keeping the bison in Yellowstone. Please help us stop this hunt by signing this petition asking the two federal agencies to end this slaughter.