Many Yellowstone Bison Killed Each Year As Part Of Controversial Program

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Yellowstone National Park is home to thousands of wild bison in the United States. A controversial govermment program results in hundreds of bison being removed and slaughtered from Yellowstone each year.

Since January, over 700 bison from Yellowstone National Park have been killed. The majority were gathered and taken to slaughterhouses, while others were hunted outside the park grounds as part of a controversial bison-culling initiative.   


The current agreement signed by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior and the Governor of Montana in 2000 is supposed to limit the number of bison in Yellowstone to arou