Bison

When current Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk launched an effort to remain in the post–first via public comments, then from a failed effort to retire in 2019–one of his warnings was that the Park’s bison management policies could come under fire.

Yellowstone Forever funding to the tune of $5.9 million will be used for 53 priority projects in Yellowstone National Park, including the wolf program, trailhead information displays, visitation analysis and black bear research.

The National Park Service has approved the implementation of a Yellowstone bison quarantine program at Stephens Creek.

Following a report in the Washington Post, Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk has reportedly spent more time thinking about his future.

Yellowstone National Park has proposed that bison managers aim to keep the bison population around 4,200 rather than 3,000.

On the afternoon of May 1, 2018, a bison injured a woman at Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk could be reassigned under a potential proposal to “shakeup” management in the National Park Service.

Yellowstone National Park could send bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in eastern Montana by the end of the year.

This spring, Montana undertook a series of elk captures to better understand how brucellosis moves through the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

The other bison protester arrested after chaining himself to a concrete-filled barrel outside Stephens Creek has been sentenced in federal court.