Evidently, the holding facility for Yellowstone Buffalo is full, so the NPS will be sending trapped buffalo to slaughter without testing them for Brucellosis.
From the Buffalo Field Campaign: Gardiner, MT - The National Park Service (NPS) will send another 50 wild buffalo to slaughter today, bringing the total number of buffalo killed in the past month on the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park to 267. These last 50 buffalo were not tested for exposure to brucellosis. Last March the Park Service killed 231 wild Yellowstone buffalo without testing for exposure to brucellosis. There has never been a documented case of brucellosis transmission from wild buffalo to livestock.
"Buffalo slaughter is becoming an almost daily routine in Yellowstone," said Dan Brister of the BFC. "With rangers luring buffalo into traps with trails of hay, handing them over to stock inspectors who ship them to slaughter, and inoculating them with cattle vaccines and ear tagging them, we should start calling it Yellowstone National Ranch."
In the past ten years the Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) and NPS have slaughtered 2,786 buffalo in and around Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone buffalo slaughter is slated to cost taxpayers nearly $3 million a year until 2015.
If you want to let the Park Service know what you think of them wasting our tax dollars and abdicating their responsibility to conserve wildlife by killing 267 native buffalo, here's the contact information.
Suzanne Lewis
Superintendent
Yellowstone National Park
PO Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
(307) 344-2002
yell_superintendent@nps.gov
suzanne_lewis@nps.gov
As somebody said earlier today: Where is Teddy Roosevelt in the Republican Party?