On May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act (PDF) designating American bison our country’s National Mammal.

In passing the Act, Congress inserted an amendment directing the federal government to do nothing for American bison held in sacred public trust as wildlife: “Nothing in this Act or the adoption of the North American bison as the national mammal of the United States shall be construed or used as a reason to alter, change, modify, or otherwise affect any plan, policy, management decision, regulation, or other action by the Federal Government.”

Sec. 3(b) sanctions Montana’s and Yellowstone National Park’s mismanagement plan that is destroying Yellowstone bison, America’s last wild herds.

We cannot honor our National Mammal by sanctioning the indiscriminate slaughter of American bison in the one place the migratory species still roams their native habitat in the United States.

Congress needs to strengthen the National Bison Legacy Act by repealing Sec. 3(b) and directing federal action protecting American bison’s freedom to roam National Trust lands.  

TAKE ACTION NOW! Ask Congress to strengthen the National Bison Legacy Act by repealing Sec. 3 (b).  Remind them that the national policy of Congress is to conserve North American bison in the wild as a sacred public trust for future generations.