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Yellowstone Bison DEIS Comments

Bison in snowstorm, Blacktail Plateau, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming Photo George Wuerthner Yellowstone National Park has produced an DEIS on bison management. The Park Service is accepting comments until...

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Wild Bison or Hatchery Bison?

Wildness in bison is maintained by evolutionary agents like harsh weather, native predators, competition for forage and mating. Photo George Wuerthner  Many bison advocates assert that bison have been...

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Tribal Rhetoric-Bison Realities

Tribal bison carnage near Yellowstone NP border last winter.  Last week, 11 tribes gathered in Fort Hall, Idaho, to discuss “stewardship” of Yellowstone bison. Representative tribes included Shoshone,...

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Save Wild Bison

Bison and Tetons, Grand Teton NP, Wyoming. Photo George Wuerthner  In a recent New York Times commentary, author Dayton Duncan celebrated what he termed as the ongoing restoration of bison across the...

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Bison Transfer: A Crime Against Wild Bison

Yellowstone bison are part of the global wildlife heritage. Photo George Wuerthner A week ago, 116 bison captured in Yellowstone National Park were transferred to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation as...

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Bison Transfers Threaten Wild Buffalo

  Winter weather frequently drives wild Yellowstone bison out of the park seeking forage, where they are captured or killed at the park border. Photo George Wuerthner  Recently news media announced the...

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Conservation Efforts In The Trump Era

After Donald Trump’s election, many wildlands advocates have become depressed and disheartened and feel that conservation efforts are over. The Trump administration will no doubt try to eliminate,...

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Conservation Transfer Program Degrades Wild Bison

A recent article in the Bozeman Chronicle described the Yellowstone “Bison Conservation” Transfer Program. The federal government is transferring public bison that belong to all American to tribal...

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Gianforte’s Lawsuit Against Yellowstone is a Crybaby Move

Let’s be clear: Gianforte’s lawsuit doesn’t represent Montanans, but rather Montana livestock interests. The vast majority of Montanans want wild, migratory buffalo restored in our state. The...

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Why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies is Taking Yellowstone National Park to...

Tens of millions of wild bison once roamed across western North America. Today, wild bison occupy less than one percent of their former range.  Yet in spite of this, the National Park Service’s new...

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