After many years of battles it is hard to say that management of Yellowstone Park bison by the federal government and the state of Montana has improved. Almost every winter there is a slaughter just north of the Park, and sometimes to the west of the Park and even inside the Park. This winter there is a scheduled “cull” of 900 (1) bison.

We have written many news stories and analyses of the contradictions, the blatant state of Montana falsehoods, and sad results of this management.

An excerpt from a letter to the editor below was published in the Washington Times on Tuesday, Dec. 16 appears below. It is by Stephany J. Seay of the Buffalo Field Campaign. Hopefully some D.C. influentials will read it and well as the Times regular readership. Seay is writing about the new Interagency Bison Plan is supposed to appear in the future. She is less than impressed.

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We’ve been given no other choice but to seek Endangered Species Act protection for the Yellowstone buffalo. This important action has been taken by the Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project.

Not a single Interagency Bison Management Plan affiliate seems to have the courage to defend wild buffalo — not the park, not Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, not even the tribes. The dastardly management schemes that continue to wage war against buffalo must end. There is no cause or evidence to support this brutal treatment, and none of the actions carried out in vile service to Montana’s livestock interests can be justified. The nonsensical abuse and killing of wild buffalo has become a very bad habit that U.S. taxpayers continue to fund.

Read the rest in the Washington Times.