Yellowstone News and Information

  NEWS RELEASE National Park Service announces decision on future management of bison at Yellowstone National Park Bison grazing in Round Prairie near Pebble Creek Campground NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date:  July 24, 2024 Contact:   Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY –  Today, July 24, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a decision about the  future management of bison  at Yellowstone National Park. The  Record of Decision , a culmination of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and National Environmental Policy Act process that began in 2022, will allow the NPS to manage bison based on new scientific information and circumstances that have changed since the previous EIS, completed in 2000. The NPS is implementing this decision because of new scientific information about bison and brucellosis transmission and changed circumstances that include fewer cattle near the park, brucellosis regulations, and Tribal hunting. The NPS was also under court overs

  NEWS RELEASE 116 Yellowstone bison transferred to Fort Peck Tribes Bison leaving Stephens Creek, headed to Fort Peck as part of the Bison Conservation Transfer Program NPS / Jacob W. Frank News Release Date:  February 14, 2024 Contact:   Morgan Warthin , (307) 344-2015 MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – During the week of Feb. 5, the National Park Service (NPS) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) moved 116 Yellowstone National Park bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana. The  Bison Conservation Transfer Program  continues to make history, having relocated the largest number of live Yellowstone bison to American Indian Tribes in the world. The bison transferred to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation included 108 males, four females and four calves.   Since 2019, a total of 414 Yellowstone bison have been transferred to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes at Fort Peck. Nearly all of those bison and their offspring have then been further distributed to 26 T

Activists decry bison 'hunt' north of Yellowstone National Park

112 Yellowstone bison transferred to Fort Peck Tribes      Group of bison standing in the dark with light behind them. Yellowstone bison cows wait to be reunited with their calves at the Fort Peck Reservation.           Greater Yellowstone Coalition/Emmy Reed                                                                                                                         MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY – During the week of January 10, the National Park Service (NPS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) completed the transfer of 112 Yellowstone bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana. The movement of these animals constitutes the single largest transfer to date under the park’s Bison Conservation Transfer Program. The program has led to the largest relocation of live Yellowstone bison to American Indian Tribes in history. Since 2019, a total of 294 bison have been transferred from Yellowstone to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes at Fort Peck. Approxim