Yellowstone to slaughter hundreds more bison

The sadness surrounding our nation's most genetically pure bison continues. Instead of allowing these most American of mammals to roam free, just as we do with deer etc., we kiss them goodbye with rifle shots. Conservationists have long advocated a big bison range that would encompass entire swaths of some Midwest states, like Nebraska, whose human population continues falling in much of its territory.
Read about the pending slaughter.

Hunters kill 250 Bison moving out of Yellowstone

The existence of "political" boundaries - like the line between this town and that one - mean nothing to North American wildlife. Mammals like American Bison are guided by their ecological needs, not whether the ground they set foot on is private ranch land, national forest land, national park land, etc. The failure of those in power to recognize this basic bit of ecology is a national disgrace. As is the killing of even one of the genetically pure American Bison that are Yellowstone National Park ambassadors. Oh, and "harvesting" is the same as "killing." Read about the latest slaughter of Bison.