by Erik Gillberg | Jan 20, 2025 | bison
Photo by the National Park Service One might think that the National Park Service and the State of Montana, the two entities charged with stewardship of American bison, our national mammal, could do a better job. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Council on...
by Erik Gillberg | Apr 20, 2024 | bison
Image by Daniel Lloyd Blunk-Fernández Pointing to the danger to residents, landowners, other hunters and the public during the bison hunt/cull this year, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies recently sent a letter to Mary Erickson, Supervisor of the Custer Gallatin...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 17, 2023 | bison, buffalo
The images are sickening. More than a thousand huge gut piles litter the landscape just outside the borders of Yellowstone National Park from wild buffalo that were shot with high-powered rifles. Their only sin? They wandered over Yellowstone’s border into Montana...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 8, 2023 | bison
Over 1,600 Yellowstone bison have been killed or removed from the population. GARDINER, MT: Yellowstone National Park released the latest report of bison management operations on the Interagency Bison Management Plan website (IBMP.info) on Friday, March 3rd. The...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 16, 2017 | AWR, bison
We are racing to stop the immediate and unnecessary slaughter of wild bison in Yellowstone National Park. We are putting up billboards and running ads on local television in Montana encouraging people to call Governor Steve Bullock who has the power to fight back...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 22, 2017 | AWR, bison, buffalo
This week billboards went up west of Bozeman on the highway leading to Yellowstone National Park and in Helena near the state capitol building asking Governor Bullock to “Stop the Yellowstone Massacre.” This is the headline message overlaying a stark winter landscape...