The second complaint, filed by Lynn and L&W Construction LLC, is seeking $500,000 from the federal government claiming that because predators and birds have sometimes spread the carrion to her property it is a taking of her property rights, physically occupying her land, without just compensation. Bison are known carriers of brucellosis, a disease that can cause undulant fever in humans.

Lynn’s two complaints were filed Tuesday in a District of Columbia federal court. One of the attorneys representing her is former Montana U.S. House candidate Jared Pettinato.

The lawsuits come on the heels of a plea by local conservation groups this past spring to members of the Inter-Agency Bison Management Plan to halt the hunts in Beattie Gulch and to the east at Eagle Creek. Members of the Bear Creek Council — along with officials representing the Forest Service, Park Service, state of Montana and the six tribes with treaty rights to hunt Yellowstone bison — toured both areas as representatives of the group emphasized that the hunts are not safe for the hunters, bison (some are wounded and flee back into the park) or nearby residents like Lynn.