Tag Archives: Interagency Bison Management Plan

After years of study and maneuvering through red tape at the federal and state levels, the first transfer of quarantined Yellowstone bison to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana is now in the books.

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

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

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.

Over 1,100 Yellowstone bison have been hunted and slaughtered this winter, far above the goal set for this year’s Interagency Bison Management Plan.

One of the Yellowstone bison protesters arrested last Friday in Yellowstone National Park has plead guilty to misdemeanor charges.

A pair of bison protesters were arrested after chaining themselves to cement-filled barrels, in an attempt to prevent bison from being shipped to slaughter.

Three Park County, Montana men plead guilty to poaching bison outside of Yellowstone National Park earlier this year.