Animal Rescue in Yellowstone Park: Save the Bison!

One of my favorite childhood memories is a 2-week family trip in our motor home through most of the western states. How my parents made it with six girls, including an infant, crammed into a motor home for 2 weeks, roaming around the country still stumps me, but it really is a great memory for me!

We had one ER room stop for the baby (it turned out to be nothing), a flat tire in the middle of Nowheresville, Nebraska, on an endless stretch of flat highway, with 1/2 box of Ritz crackers for all of us, and, I can't think of a third catastrophe to add to the mix, but maybe that's a good thing.

Yellowstone National Park with all of the animals roaming around is a very vivid memory for me. I look forward to my children getting a bit older so that we too can take some of these memorable and educational family trips.

However, if there are no animals to see, Yellowstone will be a completely different experience.

This winter, more than 1,300 American bison have been needlessly killed just for leaving the borders of Yellowstone National Park. This is no way to manage one of the icons of the American West... especially in a state that markets images to tourists of bison roaming free, like they did in days gone by.

Tell Montana's tourism officials that the state needs sensible management of American bison»

The truth is that these bison are by no means free. Yellowstone Park is being treated like a zoo: bison are not allowed outside the park's borders, and those that leave the park in search of food are either chased back in or shot for fear that they will spread brucellosis to cattle -- even though there has never been a case of a wild buffalo spreading the disease to cattle.

Faulty science and biased politics have led to regular harassment and killing of bison. Montana needs to stop this needless slaughter of bison the moment they leave Yellowstone park »

Help to support the preservation of some of the last pure descendants of the tens of millions of bison that once thundered through the American landscape.

Have a beautiful day,

Colleen