Buffalo Nightmare: 3 Days of Taxpayer-Funded Yellowstone Helicopter Hazing

According to the Buffalo Field Campaign, this taxpayer-funded helicopter hazing of wild bison – including pregnant females and new-born calves – took place within the borders of Yellowstone National Park, as well as on the Gallatin National Forest. This picture is from within Yellowstone National Park.
According to the Buffalo Field Campaign, this taxpayer-funded helicopter hazing of wild bison – including pregnant females and new-born calves – took place within the borders of Yellowstone National Park, as well as on the Gallatin National Forest. This picture is from within Yellowstone National Park.

According to my friends at the Buffalo Field Campaign:

May 13, 14 and 15 a tax payer funded helicopter harassed the Yellowstone ecosystem, both within Yellowstone National Park and portions of the Gallatin National Forest just outside the Park.  Flying at times 20 feet above the earth and Madison River the management actions disrupted all in the area. Pregnant buffalo Moms and new born calves where ran up to 12 miles in the hazing operation.

You can watch some “highlights” of this taxpayer-funded torture of America’s last wild bison on public lands in Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin National Forest, but be warned that some of the images are likely to turn your stomach and make you mad.

This baby bison with a broken leg gets no relief or sympathy from the tax-payer funded helicopter hazing operation in Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin National Forest.
This baby bison with a broken leg gets no relief or sympathy from the tax-payer funded helicopter hazing operation in Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin National Forest.

UPDATE:  I just got an email from a family that lives in the Horse Butte area just outside of Yellowstone National Park. This family stated that US Department of Homeland Security agents came onto their private land and removed their “no trespassing” signs, told the family never to put up the “no trespassing” signs again, claiming it was a threat to federal agents.  Yep, that’s right people, the US Department of Homeland Security is spending your tax dollars hazing wild bison with helicopters!