The Yellowstone bison are America’s National Mammal, yet this honorable designation offers no protection for the country’s only continuously wild population – the unique and distinct Yellowstone bison herds.

Numbering fewer than threatened polar bears and having lost more habitat than threatened grizzly bears, wild American bison have no protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Congress is also at fault in expressly directing federal agencies to do nothing for American bison under the National Bison Legacy Act: Nothing in this Act or the adoption of the North American bison as the national mammal of the United States shall be construed or used as a reason to alter, change, modify, or otherwise affect any plan, policy, management decision, regulation, or other action by the Federal Government.

The U.S. government cannot honor our National Mammal by threatening their existence in the one place the wild migratory species still roams their original territory in the United States: Yellowstone National Park.

With one-third of the Yellowstone bison population taken from the wild this season including an unknown number killed by a harsh winter, there is an urgency for action to undo the damage done that was set in motion by the State of Montana decades ago.

Tell the Honorable Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland that it’s time to grant Endangered Species Act protection for recovering wild American bison herds on federal public lands in Yellowstone.

Please sign our petition and spread the word to save the herd.

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