Comment on the Yellowstone Bison Management Plan

Plans Not Based On Best Available Science
Manage Wild Buffalo Like Wild Elk
Comments due Monday, September 25

Yellowstone National Park recently released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Bison Management that fails wild bison. The premise of Yellowstone’s plan is not founded on the best available science, lacks an appropriate federal nexus, and fails the imperiled Central Herd of bison. The “broad range of actions” involves intense human selection to artificially suppress wild populations and are not founded on the best available science.
 
Yellowstone is now taking public comment on the plan through Monday, September 25. Our goal is to get the public to comment and ask that BFC's alternative, Manage Wild Bison Like Wild Elk, be added to Yellowston'e bison management plan. The final Enivronmental Impact Statement is expected to be released in summer 2024.
 
Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project collaborated in developing joint comments on the Park’s plan which can be downloaded here: BFC and WWP Comments Yellowstone National Park Bison Management Plan Draft EIS (Sept. 20, 2023) (PDF 614kb)
 

Talking Points:

  • The three alternatives are not based on sound science.
  • Add an alternative to manage wild bison like wild elk.
  • All three alternatives exclude bison from millions of acres of National public trust lands adjoining Yellowstone.
  • Use a holistic ecosystem approach for wild bison.
  • Get rid of zones excluding bison from National public trust lands.
  • Protect each distinct herd. The Central herd is in peril.
  • Provide for a minimum of 2,000–3,000 bison in each herd to protect genetic diversity.
  • Protect connectivity to habitat and bison’s freedom to roam National public trust lands.
  • Include the National Forest as a planning partner which expands the potential for tribal involvement in the process.
  • Ask for a 30 day extension of the comment period deadline.
 

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