GAO faults feds and states for Yellowstone bison slaughter

The Government Accountability Office said the feds and the various states bordering Yellowstone are at fault for not providing more space outside the park for bison to migrate.

The Department of Livestock and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service have been unwilling to treat bison as wildlife, and instead they continue to manage them like livestock,” said Amy McNamara with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, a group that advocates for more bison habitat outside the park.

This year, more than 1,400 bison have already been killed in the annual ”hunt” slaughter which allegedly keeps bison from infecting cattle with brucellosis. (Actually, ranchers in the area should worry far more about elk passing on infections — the elk whose numbers will explode again if states start hunting wolves; the elk whose numbers already get inflated due to government feeding in the winter.