Yellowstone Sends Wild Buffalo to the Slaughterhouse
Gardiner, Montana. Shortly after capturing over 300 wild bison at the Stephen’s Creek Capture facility, Yellowstone has sent two trailer loads to a slaughterhouse in Helena. As of Monday night, the trailers have returned to Gardiner, presumably for another load. Beginning on March 4th, Yellowstone started trapping wild buffalo at the northern end of the Park outside of Gardiner. At first, they simply baited the trap with hay, waited for buffalo to enter, and then closed the gate. On March 8th, they also went into the area surrounding the trap on horseback, hazing, or aggressively chasing, the bison into the trap.
Yellowstone and the other partners of the Interagency Bison Management Plan are not providing information this year on their bison management operations, and are not sharing how many they have captured. Our volunteers in the area, though, estimate that over 300 buffalo have been captured.
“On Saturday morning there were over three hundred buffalo wandering freely between the Roosevelt Arch at the actual northern border of the park,” said Cindy Rosin, a Roam Free Nation volunteer who has been monitoring the area. “By Sunday morning, there were less than fifty. It’s like the Park came out and rounded up every buffalo in the area.”
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