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Stop the Slaughter

Stop the Slaughter
Sign the petition to stop the U.S. National Park Service
from slaughtering wild bison inside Yellowstone National Park.
Let wild bison roam free on America's public lands.
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TO: Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
Mary Bomar, Director, U.S. National Park Service
Suzanne Lewis, Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park
Governor Brian D. Schweitzer

I support the emergency rule petition to stop the U.S. National Park Service from slaughtering wild bison inside Yellowstone National Park, and request that you live up to your responsibility to protect our shared natural heritage by taking urgent measures to conserve America's last wild bison herd in its native habitat. 

To ensure bison's long-term survival and health, a minimum of 2,000 bison for each distinct bison population is needed. That number would ensure that genetic diversity is conserved - allowing bison to naturally evolve and adapt to a changing environment, and retain important survival behaviors like natural migration and selection. 

I strongly urge you to spend taxpayer money that you are now spending to slaughter wild bison - to protect habitat and migration corridors in the Yellowstone ecosystem that will benefit wild bison in perpetuity. 

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WHY SHOULD I CONTACT THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE?
As of April 16, 2008, Yellowstone National Park has trapped over 1,600 wild bison migrating to winter range in the Gardiner Basin, and sent 1,276 bison to slaughterhouses.

Hundreds more bison are trapped inside pens at Stephens Creek operated by the U.S. National Park Service. 7 wild bison died or were killed as a result of injuries suffered in captivity at Stephens Creek. 6 wild bison were shot by livestock inspectors for migrating to Yankee Jim Canyon just beyond the park borders.

112 wild bison have been separated from their mothers and family groups and sent to a quarantine pen near Corwin Springs, Montana operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Montana Department of Livestock has trapped 146 wild bison on Horse Butte on Gallatin National Forest lands, and at Duck Creek on private lands, and shipped them to slaughterhouses.

Another 166 wild bison were killed by hunters.

By the Park Service's own estimate, two-thirds of Yellowstone's bison herd have been slaughtered or perished in the winter kill this season.

The cost of this wanton slaughter of America's last wild bison herd is all paid for by you, the American taxpayer, averaging $3,000,000 a year - now eight years into a fifteen year "plan".

Since the bison "plan" went into effect in 2000, over 3,500 wild bison have been slaughtered or removed from America's last wild bison herd.

Had enough?
CONTACT THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE!

Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary
U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
(202) 208-7351 phone
(202) 208-1481 fax
exsec@ios.doi.gov

Mary Bomar, Director
National Park Service
1849 C Street, NW Room 3312
Washington, DC 20240
(202) 208-4621 phone
(202) 208-7889 fax
Mary_Bomar@nps.gov

Suzanne Lewis, Superintendent
Yellowstone National Park
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190-0168
(307) 344-2002 phone
(307) 344-2014 fax
Yell_Superintendent@nps.gov

Governor Brian D. Schweitzer
Office of the Governor
Montana State Capitol Building
P.O. Box 200801
Helena, MT 59620-0801
(406) 444-3111 phone
(406) 444-5529 fax
governor@mt.gov

CONTACT CONGRESS!
Ask the U.S. Congress to re-direct taxpayer money to buy habitat for wild bison to roam where private cattle now graze. Save the wild bison's native habitat in Yellowstone! 

Find your Representative: http://www.house.gov/
Find your Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

These committee chairs have jurisdiction over Yellowstone National Park:
Senator Jeff Bingaman
Senator Pete V. Domenici
Energy and Natural Resources Committee Office
304 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4971 phone
(202) 224-6163 fax
http://energy.senate.gov/public/

Representative Nick J. Rahall, II
Chairman, House Natural Resources committee
1324 Longworth Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-6065 phone
(202) 225-1931 fax
http://www.rahall.house.gov/
Hazing operations & the Stephens Creek
Capture Facility

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This video is from winter 2004 on the north side of Yellowstone National Park near Gardiner Montana. National Park Service employees haze buffalo into the Stephens Creek capture facility. This video is shocking and probably not approriate for small children. But it is the reality of today's wild buffalo in Yellowstone.
Watch this, spread the word & then contact your politicians.
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